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I just bought myself a universal remote control - I thought to myself "This changes everything!"
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RF you think so, fine. Now that you've channeled our energies by joining the power-mad click, AA battery of decisions will be coming your way.
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Is life without the universal control like having rabbit ears without younguns?
When you talk, you are only repeating what you already know.
But if you listen, you may learn something new.
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Mike Hankey wrote: having rabbit ears without younguns?
I wonder how many folks here get that reference? Yes, I was a biological remote as a youngun. 
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
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I'm certainly old enough to remember rabbit ears, and old enough to also remember the family's first VCR came with a wired remote control.
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Our first remote was an RCA 4 button ultrasonic type. I never remember having any issues with it, built like a tank if I recall.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Also bought my first unit - an RCA - back when the remote was wired. It was a demo model so I could afford it.
The remote was only for the physical control, like stop/start/record. Do you remember the channel knob? All of those click-stops on a single nob. Three speeds to choose from, as well. SP, LP, and SLP.
One of those things where the price of it and all relevant components (like tape) kept going down. Video tape from $15 to may a buck or so.
VHS ! No wussies BetaMax in the family.
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I have a very distinct memory of a friend chastising me for buying VHS tapes, 'they're going dodo' he said, 'betamax is THE thing....blah blah blah'. 
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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So your friend was not as much into porr movies as you were ...
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Hey, everyone needs a hobby!
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Several years ago, I saw a very heated discussion whether a wired remot classified as a remote.
A couple years from now we'll see the discussions repeated: If you don't do it through an app, but require a separate unit, can it then classify as a remote control?
Maybe not. Maybe the next definition of "remote" requires an app.
I never loved manipulating seven different remotes to manage my media world. But then: I also dislike my selection of another TV channel being sent to California to be effectuated. So I have mixed feelings, to say the least.
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OriginalGriff wrote: I just bought myself a universal remote control
... or, you were the first thing IT controlled!
pestilence [ pes-tl-uh ns ] noun
1. a deadly or virulent epidemic disease. especially bubonic plague.
2. something that is considered harmful, destructive, or evil.
Synonyms: pest, plague, CCP
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The question is - did you take the Red Pill, or the Blue Pill?
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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Might be universal, but will still be lost in the couch cushion black hole.
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I mentioned (via email) to a couple of colleagues that I was playing around with CSS transition and gave them a link to an example. Silly stuff: fading, spinning, rotating around coordinates. To this I added the comment that maybe Senior Management would appreciate me if I worked like a contractor and gave the useless eye-candy instead of quality software. Maybe they'd appreciate me.
A reply came back from the one who's a bit of an insider on things: "They appreciate you ...they tried replacing you and you are still here."
Since this appreciation hasn't been manifest in their behavior (i.e., $$$, more paid vacations, etc.) I'm wondering if I should exploit the knowledge? Even if the "call my bluff" - I don't have to care as (at this point) the major parts of my income is sourced from five other external sources.
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W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: A reply came back from the one who's a bit of an insider on things: "They appreciate you ...they tried replacing you and you are still here."
Since this appreciation hasn't been manifest in their behavior (i.e., $$$, more paid vacations, etc.) I'm wondering if I should exploit the knowledge?
... or maybe you're so underpaid they can't even find monkeys that'll take less
... definitely exploit it.
Suggesting you're "considering part-time" is one way to shake the bridge without setting it on fire - and what's the worst that could come of that if they accept it?
(at very least more time to look elsewhere or pull some contracts, but even better more time to prepare some pre-winter crops and a mid winter vacation.)
pestilence [ pes-tl-uh ns ] noun
1. a deadly or virulent epidemic disease. especially bubonic plague.
2. something that is considered harmful, destructive, or evil.
Synonyms: pest, plague, CCP
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lopatir wrote: maybe you're so underpaid they can't even find monkeys that'll take less
Came here to say exactly this. "They tried replacing you and you are still here" could mean "nobody else is willing to do this at this price.
Which, I suppose, works out in his favor.
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lopatir wrote: Suggesting you're "considering part-time" is one way to shake the bridge without setting it on fire
Normally, this would be a good idea. However,
As my boss said, I already got the golden ticket. They didn't give me the raise I wanted but they did more or less say (more, in fact) that as long as I get my work done I can be anywhere I want. No clock at all (as it should be since I'm and "exempt employee". An exempt employee is like one on salary (vs. hourly) in that you don't get overtime. Here, however, the concept is exploited. They still run the hourly clock on exempts. Even with the preceding, I only earn one day of paid leave/month and that includes use for vacation, personal needs and sick leave. The USA is rather sh*tty in terms of how employees are treated with respect to time off.
Lucky for them it's not France or we'd all just go on strike.
So, as it turns out, going "part time" would just mean they pay me even less. I need an alternative form of pressure - at a time when they're a bit more desperate.
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So I went shopping yesterday. I got a very few other things but my first purchase on the route were four 10oz (284g) packages of Cafe Caribe[^]*. At my main stop (a store with the suggestive name "BJ's", I got three items - one of which was a 40oz (do the math) bag of Starbucks Veranda.
Now, cup in hand, I can wait it out.
(other horded staples include: 25lbs of Thai Jasmine Rice, three 32oz containers of Humus, dried beans of various types, and a garden full of hot peppers and eggplants awaiting their mating season).
Not as though anyone really cares, but I felt like posting. Oh, yeah, the coffee is goooooood.
*These cost ca. $2 each on special, here, in NY. (sometimes even less, but not these days). Amazon's prices, as what's become the usual, are ridiculous.
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I buy Jasmine Rice in 10Kg bags anyway, and I still have 4.5Kg of coffee beans that I bought before lockdown. I have pasta (I keep 5 or 6 varieties of dried pasta, and have a machine if I want to make fresh), I have bread flour & yeast, I have a freezer full of meat.
I'm pretty sorted. 
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Normally, my pasta horde is considerable. Mrs. doesn't tell me when the back stash of pasta (or anything else) is running low until it's near critical. We're down to a mixed assortment of not too much. The pasta machine I bought (manual) hasn't been put to use in 20-30 years.
You wasted good freezer space that could have been used for frozen vegetables, ice cream, and storing other safely freezables like Humus and many cheeses.
One thing I left off my list was what Mrs. thinks is an excess of Single Malts. I don't understand about applying the term excess to that particular commodity.
Still, you are moving in the direction of civilization and thus I acknowledge you for your foresight.
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...and I have enough SPAM to last to the end of next year! It doesn't need to be refrigerated and it's the lower sodium version that won't kill me as fast.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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I have enough SPAM to last me to the end of the century ... none whatsoever.
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If you're stuck with eating SPAM you'd better hope it kills you fast.
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my missus bought a jumbo pack of toilet paper a couple of weeks before the stupidity hit,
that's the way she's always bought it when it gets low.
we're still on that same pack, and still have not bought anymore since that one.
you'd expect in Singapore where everything is imported, almost zero local production of anything (because there is no place to grow / make stuff, certainly no trees to pulp.)
nothing has run out, we still get beef and milk from Australia, we still get vegetables, fruit and pork from Malaysia, fruit from places as far away as NZ and Denmark, coffee and paper (toilet included) from Indonesia, even iphones from USA ...even when there was a bit of a run, such as happened with rice, the shops simply replied by restocking even faster than it sold.
it's not war, supply chains weren't artificially/forcibly cut, what's the worry?
me & the missus ain't stocking up nothing. not interested in eating stale crap for the rest of the year because we panic bought anything in a tin.
pestilence [ pes-tl-uh ns ] noun
1. a deadly or virulent epidemic disease. especially bubonic plague.
2. something that is considered harmful, destructive, or evil.
Synonyms: pest, plague, CCP
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