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Car allergic to vanilla ice cream (2000)
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Re: Car allergic to vanilla ice cream (2000)
#312I was trying to fix the flaky Bluetooth connectivity on my Subaru. There was one post on the forums that said "Just slam the glove compartment closed really hard."
Knowing that this was bullshit, I tried everything else to no avail. I finally caved and slammed the glove compartment. To my surprise, Bluetooth has been solid ever since...
Re: Car allergic to vanilla ice cream (2000)
#313Earlier quoted context omitted.
got a link to the whitepaper? or name?
woops, yeah I should have linked the DisplayLink article and whitepaper both probably, was just going quickly DisplayLink Article: https://support.displaylink.com/knowledgebase/articles/73861... Direct whitepaper link (warning: PDF): http://www.emcesd.com/pdf/eos93.pdf - if people prefer to search themselves and not use my direct PDF link - it is entitled "A New Type of Furniture ESD and Its Implications" by Douglas…
much appreciated!
Re: Car allergic to vanilla ice cream (2000)
#314We had a similar problem at work in the late 90s. A member of staff reported that their mouse would stop working between certain hours of the day. It had apparently been okay in the morning, stopped working over lunchtime then started again later. On some days it would work perfectly all day long, but on others it would stop working between those hours. The biggest clue was it would always work perfectly on overcast…
I'm amazed an IT department would troubleshoot deeply enough to figure out it was the thin plastic letting in interfering light on sunny days.
I would have guessed they'd shrug at the first sign of trouble, swap it out with a known-working mouse and mark the ticket resolved... unless all the replacement mice were thin plastic too, I suppose.
Re: Car allergic to vanilla ice cream (2000)
#315Yeah, that isn't how this works. Popular things are closer to the back of the grocery store -- milk, eggs, meat, produce, higher-volume soft drinks -- in order to force you to walk past everything else to reach them. Ice cream is not that popular, so it could reasonably be stocked near the front of the store. But all the flavors are stored together, as you'd expect. Engineers who make house calls are also not a thing…
> Popular things are closer to the back of the grocery store -- milk, eggs, meat, produce, higher-volume soft drinks -- in order to force you to walk past everything else to reach them. > Ice cream is not that popular, so it could reasonably be stocked near the front of the store. But all the flavors are stored together, as you'd expect. This part is actually more plausible than you'd expect, especially if you assume…
Yep, same with the grocery stores around here, they all have last-minute snacks and drinks at the checkout stands.
Ice cream tends to be somewhere close to the middle of the store. But if you're after staple foods in larger-than-snack-size quantities, you'll be doing some walking.
Re: Car allergic to vanilla ice cream (2000)
#316Earlier quoted context omitted.
Or that a store would put it's vanilla ice cream in a separate case in the front and all it's other flavors in another in the back, instead of putting all it's frozen foods together in the same area for logistical reasons.
all (and i mean all 6) convenience stores around me have a separate "good humor" chest freezer in the front, directly adjacent to the entrance, and the rest of the ice cream (here it's blue bell invariably) is in a vertical case in the rear of the store. I can go take pictures, if HN doesn't believe the pervasiveness of this sort of thing!
the good humor company pays the convenience store to have their freezer in that location in the store, and are the ones responsible for keeping it stocked, unlike the rest of the store.
Re: Car allergic to vanilla ice cream (2000)
#317We had a similar problem at work in the late 90s. A member of staff reported that their mouse would stop working between certain hours of the day. It had apparently been okay in the morning, stopped working over lunchtime then started again later. On some days it would work perfectly all day long, but on others it would stop working between those hours. The biggest clue was it would always work perfectly on overcast…
Reminds me of a problem that I had (many years ago) with my iPhone 4 - if I tried to boot it in a dark place, it would get stuck on the Apple logo in an infinite boot loop. Turns out some versions of the Pangu jailbreak for iOS 7.1.x would crash during boot if the reading from the ambient light sensor was below some threshold. To this day I don't know the exact explanation of this bug, but it seems that Pangu include…
Engineers love problem solving. I always see it as a challenge. No matter how unimportant.
Re: Car allergic to vanilla ice cream (2000)
#318I can't vouch for the veracity of this story, but an older engineer who worked on a particle accelerator once told me this story from the 1980s:
The particle accelerator would start overheating every day right after lunch time. They eventually figured out that enough people were using the bathroom after lunch that it was affecting the water pressure in the cooling system!
I'm not very good at retelling stories.
Re: Car allergic to vanilla ice cream (2000)
#319Earlier quoted context omitted.
My parents have some old Gateway amplified computer speakers. Came with the 386! They still work perfectly... except for a regular pop of noise every few seconds that would intermittently show up, that scaled with the volume setting. It turned out, their portable phone (read: landline with short-distance wireless RF handset) would ping from the base station to the handset, if it were off the cradle, which was being p…
Remember how old speakers would let you know if you were about to get a cellphone call. It was like digital precognition haha
Speakers haven't really changed in 50-60 years, it's the phones that changed there. If you got a call on 2G today it'd still happen.
Re: Car allergic to vanilla ice cream (2000)
#320Earlier quoted context omitted.
We have a countertop ice maker that gets jammed up and overloaded with ice on sunny days for a similar reason. There's an infrared beam and sensor. When the ice tray is full, it is supposed to block the beam, and then the machine stops making ice. On a sunny day, there's enough bright light in our kitchen to fool the sensor so it keeps making ice. We have a random magazine that we put on top of it to make it work cor…
I have a garage door that will not close on sunny days. Same sort of problem. The obstruction sensor at the bottom of the door is confused by the strong sunlight and the door stops closing part way and re-opens. I've tried a toilet-paper tube around the sensor but that isn't always successful. I really wish there was a laser sensor to replace it with.
What sucks is those sensors are designed so you can't just jump a wire to permanently defeat them.
You can, however, tape the sender and receiver together.