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CodeWraith wrote: Whatever fuel may be left in the cars, it's a joke against the fuel oil in a wreck of this size
About a month ago there was an article in one of our tiny weekly local papers (more like 10 pages, 8 of them ads). The title was all about some oil spill concerns, and there was a picture of an overturned tanker truck that had come a little too close to a ditch alongside a rural road.
Then the article itself went on to mention the tank itself was fine; the concern they raised had to do with the amount of oil that had come out of the engine...
[Edit]
Here it is...
Quote:
"Its oil tank was not ruptured" [...] "A call to the oil company confirmed that a small amount of motor oil had leaked out of the truck’s engine when it toppled over into the ditch."
Clickbait much?
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Not so much. The big difference is that the truck will not lie at the side of the road until the tank is rusted through. The motor oil is the only damage that actually has happened. A sunken ship is not recovered easily and will stay right where it is now and corrode. It's only a question of time until it releases an amount of fuel against which whatever may be in the cars is a joke.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Very important to fix your Twitter feed:
- Tap home button.
- Tap stars on upper right of screen.
- Select “Latest tweets”.
You are being manipulated by the algorithm in ways you don’t realize.
Easy to switch back & forth to see the difference.
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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Who? What? 
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abmv wrote: You are being manipulated by the algorithm in ways you don’t realize
Nope. Never signed up ... 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Same here.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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ditto.
"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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You were faster... but you are not alone 
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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 Faster at not signing-up?
Ohhw. Faster to admit (declare) it
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enhzflep wrote: Ohhw. Faster to admit (declare) it
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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What's Twitter?
The less you need, the more you have.
Even a blind squirrel gets a nut...occasionally.
JaxCoder.com
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Just wondering if I need to do that on all 54K of my accounts or just the primary one?
Just joking, I've never seen the point. 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
"Hope is contagious"
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What's "Twitter"???
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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Place for twits.
>64
Some days the dragon wins. Suck it up.
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... but right now we still have a chip shortage. It's not like I plan to invade another country and have to scrape together tons of components to keep my tanks rolling. I only need a single 74HC30. That's a very basic part that has been around since the early 1970s (if you count in the early TTL series). Just a tiny grain of silicon in a 14 pin package. Three of these pins are not even really used. It's also one of the fundamental parts of my DIY MMU.
Well, like the guy who wants to keep his tanks rolling, I have now scraped a 40+ years old TTL version (a 7430) out of some junk. Lets pray that all my fancy modern CMOS does not tell this relic to go climb a tree.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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If not I have 19 CD74HCT30E PDIP-14 package
The less you need, the more you have.
Even a blind squirrel gets a nut...occasionally.
JaxCoder.com
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Much better already. HC and HCT should not be mixed as well, but it's certainly better than an ancient TTL version.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Digikey.com has stock, CD74HC30 dip. Also I use findchips.com. Really problem is some of these parts are obsolete, not in production anymore.
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I use the standard win10/win11 mail client because I hate installing software, and I like things that are minimalist.
In Win11 however, they've "added features." You know what that means, particularly where it concerns microsoft - it means the new feature is awful and would be awful even if it worked, which it doesn't, of course.
The feature I'm talking about is the "Focused|Other" split in the Inbox now. Windows uses magic to decide which emails should be "focused" and which ones "shouldn't". Because somebody at MS thought that sorting your email through some means they didn't tell you about would be fantastic. There's a reason I don't own a firearm.
The not working part? Well, when you click on Focused or Other, windows makes a dice roll, and if you roll too low, it fails to respond to your click and you have to close the mail client and open it again.
I can't be the only one experiencing this.
Yet, no matter how I try to describe the problem to google, I get those cookie cutter "fix your computer by restarting it. if that doesn't work buy a new computer" websites that are thoroughly unhelpful.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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I hate that app. It's typical UWP "no-think" development.
One handy windows feature was right click, then "Send to email recipient". You could directly send a picture by email if you had a client installed. Output Express, say. But ... along comes the new improved Mail app and "sod that - I don't talk to no-one, bitches".
Minimalist is OK ... but it has to be balanced against functionality. That's one reason I dislike Teslas* - in the name of minimalism (and probably cost cutting) everything is done via the tablet.
Including the air con / heating. So you have to look at the tablet while you navigate to the right screen, find the right control on that screen, and tap it. And hope you survive your trip into the ditch. Separate physical controls make it a lot easier sometimes!
* Another is the "fart jokes". OK, I'm still a child, I laugh when the ketchup bottle farts. But in a car? That's just puerile, not funny.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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honey the codewitch wrote: There's a reason I don't own a firearm.
I literally laughed out loud at that.
I do own a firearm or two, but not for reasons involving my frustrations with software. Microsoft lost me in the email client game when they dropped the one that came with 7 (or Vista or XP, I don't remember). I only use gmail (though I hate the goog and refuse to use their search engine) or a web client provided by my ISP.
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP.
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My hubby is pretty serious about his firearms. I try not to make too much fun of him for his "tactical" gear.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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If you really want secure and easy to use
No Firearm Needed
Try Proton Mail FREE
I have used this product for 3 years and never one spam email
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They have it in Outlook as well. First thing I do is turn that crap off, so luckily I never found out how buggy it is.
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