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Is That Ship Still Stuck?[^]
I usually do not forward facebook-like nonsense like this, but this one had me really laugh - I wondered this morning if they could move the vessel, googled it and came across the website, and was like, wow, others also wondered. 
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a very famous ship, the whole world is talking about them...  . I did not believe it until I saw pictures ...
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So is that the ship carrying the worlds supply of video cards?
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yes, and supposedly the world is going to run out of toilet paper because of it.
we will all be wiping our asses with tree leaves and grass.
what is man's fascination with interrupting the supply chain for TP? 
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Slacker007 wrote: what is man's fascination with interrupting the supply chain for TP?
It's a conspiracy by farmers, in particular, those that grow corn and wish to drive the price up because of the (soon-to-be) invaluable corn-cobs.
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Two thoughts on the stuck ship:
1) Its somewhat surprising this doesn't happen more often
2) Has anyone considered unloading/relaoding? Float in a crane barge, unload the containers onto the shore or other barges - at some point, hopefully, there's enough mass removed the ship floats clear, then reload elsewhere. Seems simple enough to me. But maybe the logistics of unloading in the canal aren't viable.
Keep Calm and Carry On
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k5054 wrote: Has anyone considered unloading/relaoding?
Yes, I heard on the news that this is being considered.
Of course, if it doesn't work then it will just have extended the delay. But I guess that there are calculations to be done that will show whether or not it will work.
I also wonder how long it would take to dig a bypass channel. With modern equipment this might be doable in desert sand quite quickly. Maybe.
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It's all the fault of Docker and the containerization hype!
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Apparently the crew were playing silly buggers[^] shortly before the ship got stuck, although it doesn't seem to have been a contributing factor.
modified 26-Mar-21 17:05pm.
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Additionally, I doubt this is the first time a ship has done that while waiting.
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I guess it's the maritime equivalent of deleting a database in production.
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So I have BritBox for streaming (via RoKu). I discovered that there seemed to be no way to remove a show that one no longer wishes to watch from the "Continue Watching" list. A horizontal list that is at the top of all significant sets of selectors. Not via Roku. I went online to my account to try there - nope. So I contacted customer support and here's what they replied:
Quote: We did previously offer the option to delete items off of your continue watching list by clicking the X on the bottom right hand corner of the show, although I did receive word from our tech team that the option has been taken down until further notice to make background improvements, I do apologize.
We do hope to implement the feature back into our service in the future but are unsure of a timeframe for this. While it is not a permanent solution we do recommend accessing shows and movies through your watchlist to better manage what has been watched or what you would like to keep/delete. When accessing shows through the watchlist, any shows you have watched will have a line on the bottom to help determine where you are at in a series.
- First, of course, there's modifications made in the live production version of software.
- Secondly, there's apparently no horizon whatsoever as to if and when it will be restored.
- Third, there solution does nothing to address the problem whatsoever - as the "watchlist" will put anything one watches irrevocably on the 'continue watching' list. If you go to a new episode it will update that but it will remain - the list just keeps on growing.
- This cavalier neglect of the user is the same as I experienced decades ago where the O/S and software for an HP-FTIR Spectrometer was made in UK. Version 7 still with the same bugs*
- If one browsed a full list of choices (2D matrix) and request to see more info on one, when one goes back they end up at the top of a very long list and must find their place, again
The tradition of badly written software (there's much more wrong with it) with no real thought to debugging lives on!
Rue Britannia!
* Did MicroSloth hire all of their dev team? Seems like it
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I will be grateful all day, to such powers that be, that the video didn't start automatically.
(I'm going to wash my screen and glasses)
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A complete disregard for what the customer wants/needs is traditional here in the UK. Closely followed by no interest, whatsoever, in listening to customers when they suggest that it doesn't work.
At least BritBox didn't waste £30+ billion, (like Track & Trace), providing a useless service! Or £80+ billion, (like HS2) carving through the countryside for something that is going to bring zero benefits.
I guess we are used to the bar being set pretty low here! 
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5teveH wrote: I guess we are used to the bar being set pretty low here!
Well, having been in the UK and seeing what passes for the indigenous repast, yeah - that bar's set pretty low.
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Clearly you have been brought up on McCraponalds and have no idea of the taste of real food unless it is spiced to oblivion and fried until "extra crispy". Don't get me started on American Cheese...
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Like the rest of your anti-US BS:* you bitch about fried? ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) ing Fish'n'Chips, to start.
The other crap I observered, first person, is something that I'd not consider KSS.
* BS, fresh or fired, probably a shade better than you're used to, 'eh lad?
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I applaud the dad on raising a TRUE Sociopath.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
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Proof that boys and girls are wired differently.
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OK - suppose that kid were your cat.
Furthermore, suppose that was you on the track.
Which way would the cat . . . umm. urrr. oh.
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Kid's future has HR Manager written all over 
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RogelioP / EX DE,HL wrote: Kid's future has HR Manager written all over
I presume that you mean the boy... 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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