Randomness: the 18th sequel

[Pezler the Polychromatic]

1 hour ago, haldir said:

DNDBeyond has a adventure calendar going right now, nothing too exciting, as it's mainly just been discount codes of things I have or don't want but this was todays:

 

For a second there it looked like an owlbear rug.

[kristof65]

Just hung with a guy who gave me one anxiety attack, and tried to give me another. 

When he first called, he had his phone on some sort of speaker phone that was creating an echo so bad that I couldn't concentrate. I would get about five words into my sentence and have my words bombarded back at me.  I tried taking a deep breath, composing what I needed to say and just belt it out without stopping, but it became too intense.   I asked him several times if he could do something about it, but he "he couldn't" - I finally wound up hanging up. 

Dispatcher told him I wouldn't talk to him with the echo still in place, so he finally did something about it.  Then came the argument. He's a a new car wash owner of a long existing site.  His probably was very simple - there was a circuit board in his equipment room that needed to be reset, but he couldn't find it.   Then he started arguing that he must not have those boards at his wash because he couldn't find them anywhere.  I kept trying to explain that since he has product X, then yes, he has that circuit board - in fact, he has one for every bay, and that product X will not work without those boards, so keep looking.  He kept insisting there must be another way to reset the bay - there usually is, but that's entirely dependent upon how the system was installed, and since I wasn't the installer, I couldn't tell him that. 

He finally found the boards, and after a half hour, his problem was resolved in 15 seconds.  Then he hung up on me. 

Anyway, I think I completely understand how this Navy weapon works now:
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/a-new-navy-weapon-actually-stops-you-from-talking

 

[sumbloke]

11 hours ago, Chaoswolf said:

I don't think I'll ever get used to living in Texas.  The temperature being 66 degrees f  two weeks before Christmas is unnatural.

We've got even lower temps at the moment (16°C) and it's way too cold. This is supposed to be summer.

[ratsmitglied]

20 minutes ago, sumbloke said:

We've got even lower temps at the moment (16°C) and it's way too cold. This is supposed to be summer.

Move North

It's 33°C here today☺️

[Green Eyed Monsty]

2 hours ago, kristof65 said:

Just hung with a guy who gave me one anxiety attack, and tried to give me another. 

When he first called, he had his phone on some sort of speaker phone that was creating an echo so bad that I couldn't concentrate. I would get about five words into my sentence and have my words bombarded back at me.  I tried taking a deep breath, composing what I needed to say and just belt it out without stopping, but it became too intense.   I asked him several times if he could do something about it, but he "he couldn't" - I finally wound up hanging up. 

Dispatcher told him I wouldn't talk to him with the echo still in place, so he finally did something about it.  Then came the argument. He's a a new car wash owner of a long existing site.  His probably was very simple - there was a circuit board in his equipment room that needed to be reset, but he couldn't find it.   Then he started arguing that he must not have those boards at his wash because he couldn't find them anywhere.  I kept trying to explain that since he has product X, then yes, he has that circuit board - in fact, he has one for every bay, and that product X will not work without those boards, so keep looking.  He kept insisting there must be another way to reset the bay - there usually is, but that's entirely dependent upon how the system was installed, and since I wasn't the installer, I couldn't tell him that. 

He finally found the boards, and after a half hour, his problem was resolved in 15 seconds.  Then he hung up on me. 

Anyway, I think I completely understand how this Navy weapon works now:
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/a-new-navy-weapon-actually-stops-you-from-talking

 

 

 

 

Re: Reset.  There is, but it involved incendiaries or explosives and the "reset" takes however long is required to completely rebuild the facility.

 

Navy Weapon: At a guess, without looking at the link,  I will state that the US Navy has had these for decades, it's called a Master Chief Petty Officer, the kind with gold braid and an ever present coffee cup.  The specification also used to include a cigarette.

 

GEM

[Cranky Dog]

1 hour ago, sumbloke said:

We've got even lower temps at the moment (16°C) and it's way too cold. This is supposed to be summer.

Strangely, I keep my apartment colder than that.

 

Outside it's been in the sub-zero temperatures for a few weeks now.

[TGP]

51 minutes ago, Green Eyed Monsty said:

Navy Weapon: At a guess, without looking at the link,  I will state that the US Navy has had these for decades

The one in the article uses sound waves as a (non-lethal) weapon. 

[sumbloke]

3 hours ago, kristof65 said:

Just hung with a guy who gave me one anxiety attack, and tried to give me another. 

When he first called, he had his phone on some sort of speaker phone that was creating an echo so bad that I couldn't concentrate. I would get about five words into my sentence and have my words bombarded back at me.  I tried taking a deep breath, composing what I needed to say and just belt it out without stopping, but it became too intense.   I asked him several times if he could do something about it, but he "he couldn't" - I finally wound up hanging up. 

Dispatcher told him I wouldn't talk to him with the echo still in place, so he finally did something about it.  Then came the argument. He's a a new car wash owner of a long existing site.  His probably was very simple - there was a circuit board in his equipment room that needed to be reset, but he couldn't find it.   Then he started arguing that he must not have those boards at his wash because he couldn't find them anywhere.  I kept trying to explain that since he has product X, then yes, he has that circuit board - in fact, he has one for every bay, and that product X will not work without those boards, so keep looking.  He kept insisting there must be another way to reset the bay - there usually is, but that's entirely dependent upon how the system was installed, and since I wasn't the installer, I couldn't tell him that. 

He finally found the boards, and after a half hour, his problem was resolved in 15 seconds.  Then he hung up on me. 

Anyway, I think I completely understand how this Navy weapon works now:
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/a-new-navy-weapon-actually-stops-you-from-talking

 

"If you want to see the thing in action, the patent filing handily also includes a sort of promotional video of another device that works in a similar way."

 

So it's not a new innovation and thus not patentable? And they admitted as much within their parent filing?

Edited December 14, 2022 by sumbloke

[Green Eyed Monsty]

13 minutes ago, TGP said:

The one in the article uses sound waves as a (non-lethal) weapon. 

So do Navy Chiefs. 

 

Which are no where near as deadly as the "Gimlet Stare" from a Mark One Eyeball.

 

GEM

[Green Eyed Monsty]

8 minutes ago, sumbloke said:

"If you want to see the thing in action, the patent filing handily also includes a sort of promotional video of another device that works in a similar way."

 

So it's not a new innovation and thus not patentable? And they admitted as much within their parent filing?

There are multiple ways to accomplish the same end effect.  It's the way it is accomplished that is patent-able, not the effect.

GEM

Sign of the times:

 

 

GEM

[TGP]

This Tuesday, 13 Dec, was one of the worst Mondays ever. 
 

My power was knocked out for five hours.
 

Other people got attacked by 5 to 12 tornados. (The National Weather Service is sure of 5 but there are 7 other damage zones to assess.)

[TGP]

On 12/12/2022 at 8:05 PM, ratsmitglied said:

even better when the error is in the library that line 16 is referring to and you don't have access to fix it..

You are so close, so very close. 
 

Line 16 had a lengthy (UNIX operating system) pathname in it. 
 

The Admins of the UNIX network had changed and reorganized a great deal of the network. So that pathname was gone and no longer valid…

 

 

[ratsmitglied]

43 minutes ago, TGP said:

You are so close, so very close. 
 

Line 16 had a lengthy (UNIX operating system) pathname in it. 
 

The Admins of the UNIX network had changed and reorganized a great deal of the network. So that pathname was gone and no longer valid…

 

 

and this is why it's generally better to have those sort of things stored in a config file

 

Of course, that isn't always possible...because the admins then move the config file

[haldir]

Well, at least the load is actually here tonight....

 

Night manager unloaded & like his usual, splattered one of the pallets, this time the soap/chemical board. Dock looks like a murder scene too as he broke a spaghetti sauce case & left that.

 

I was wondering why he left 10 mins early & was kinda quiet when he walked past me heading to his car.

 

Also found out that a friend of mine died yesterday. One of the Reapercon forum originals. 😢

 

Fun night ahead. .

[Glitterwolf]

On 12/13/2022 at 1:03 PM, Chaoswolf said:

I don't think I'll ever get used to living in Texas.  The temperature being 66 degrees f  two weeks before Christmas is unnatural.

 

I wouldn't mind swapping temperatures/weather ...

I just hate Winter.