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Car allergic to vanilla ice cream (2000)

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Re: Car allergic to vanilla ice cream (2000)

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addaon wrote: post #40
bell-cot wrote: post #2

This reminds me of a GM minivan that my youngest brother-in-law drove, back in the '80's. He'd gotten it from his father, who was a career GM automotive engineer - and complained that, occasionally & randomly, it would not start. It seemed like the minivan's whole electrical system was dead... Brother-in-law was known to be "not so good" with cars - so his automotive engineer father didn't take the complaints serious…

I have a 2009 Mercedes SLK that had the same symptom. It was absolutely fine 99.9% of the time, but one time in a thousand it wouldn't even try to start. No clicks, no indication that it even knew I was in there turning the key. Just dead. And then seven or eight hours later... it would start fine, as if nothing ever happened. Couldn't correlate it to anything. Had it towed to a service center a few times when this h…

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Re: Car allergic to vanilla ice cream (2000)

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Post by TeMPOraL »

thaumasiotes wrote: post #494
kawhah wrote: post #485

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So you think Vanilla Inc, the company that only makes vanilla flavor ice cream, is paying for a whole chiller that they fill with vanilla, since all the other flavors are not as popular? Or perhaps, unbeknownst to everyone in the world who uses the word 'vanilla' to mean 'mundane', vanilla ice cream actually enjoys far higher profit margins than all other ice cream.

No, I think Dreyers, the company that makes ice cream, uses the limited space available in the aisle cap to showcase one or two of their most popular flavors. (Or one or two flavors that are seasonally relevant.) That's a totally normal use of the aisle cap, just like how a Triscuits aisle cap is all original Triscuits and the many secondary flavors that Triscuits come in have to be found in the crackers aisle. It wo…

> At that point, you're paying a bunch of extra money to send the message "check out our least popular flavors".

That's what I expect them to do, though. The most popular flavors, by definition, needs advertising the least.

Re: Car allergic to vanilla ice cream (2000)

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Post by TeMPOraL »

staticfish wrote: post #488
TeMPOraL wrote: post #452

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If they had a HAM in direct neighborhood, I imagine said HAM would already pay them a visit - the interference from the inverter is likely not constrained to the ISM band.

Not to be a pedant, but just for your info, Ham is not an acronym :)

I always saw it written as either "HAM" or "ham", and I assumed the latter is the "young generation doesn't give a damn about spelling or punctuation" spelling, and therefore that the former is the correct one.

Re: Car allergic to vanilla ice cream (2000)

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Post by kawhah »

thaumasiotes wrote: post #494
kawhah wrote: post #485

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So you think Vanilla Inc, the company that only makes vanilla flavor ice cream, is paying for a whole chiller that they fill with vanilla, since all the other flavors are not as popular? Or perhaps, unbeknownst to everyone in the world who uses the word 'vanilla' to mean 'mundane', vanilla ice cream actually enjoys far higher profit margins than all other ice cream.

No, I think Dreyers, the company that makes ice cream, uses the limited space available in the aisle cap to showcase one or two of their most popular flavors. (Or one or two flavors that are seasonally relevant.) That's a totally normal use of the aisle cap, just like how a Triscuits aisle cap is all original Triscuits and the many secondary flavors that Triscuits come in have to be found in the crackers aisle. It wo…

It's unclear whether you're claiming 1. the vanilla ice cream is sometimes kept in a separate chiller must nearer the entrance and this obviously made-up story is perfectly true, 2. at least some stores exist where the vanilla ice cream (and only the vanilla) is kept in a separate chiller must nearer the entrance, or 3. the vanilla being kept by itself in a separate chiller has elements of plausibility, and can not be dismissed out of hand, even though it's possible that this specific set-up has never existed in any actual store in real life, ever. Which is it?

Re: Car allergic to vanilla ice cream (2000)

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Post by thaumasiotes »

kawhah wrote: post #504
thaumasiotes wrote: post #494

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, I think Dreyers, the company that makes ice cream, uses the limited space available in the aisle cap to showcase one or two of their most popular flavors. (Or one or two flavors that are seasonally relevant.) That's a totally normal use of the aisle cap, just like how a Triscuits aisle cap is all original Triscuits and the many secondary flavors that Triscuits come in have to be found in the crackers aisle. It wo…

It's unclear whether you're claiming 1. the vanilla ice cream is sometimes kept in a separate chiller must nearer the entrance and this obviously made-up story is perfectly true , 2. at least some stores exist where the vanilla ice cream (and only the vanilla) is kept in a separate chiller must nearer the entrance, or 3. the vanilla being kept by itself in a separate chiller has elements of plausibility, and can not…

If you read my comments before deciding you needed to respond to them, it would be pretty apparent that I am claiming none of those things. I specifically noted that a refrigerated aisle cap is implausible.

What's not implausible is the idea that one flavor of a product with several flavors might be located far away from all the other flavors. That happens all the time.

Re: Car allergic to vanilla ice cream (2000)

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Post by thaumasiotes »

TeMPOraL wrote: post #502
thaumasiotes wrote: post #494

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, I think Dreyers, the company that makes ice cream, uses the limited space available in the aisle cap to showcase one or two of their most popular flavors. (Or one or two flavors that are seasonally relevant.) That's a totally normal use of the aisle cap, just like how a Triscuits aisle cap is all original Triscuits and the many secondary flavors that Triscuits come in have to be found in the crackers aisle. It wo…

> At that point, you're paying a bunch of extra money to send the message "check out our least popular flavors". That's what I expect them to do, though. The most popular flavors, by definition, needs advertising the least.

The most popular flavors, by definition, benefit from advertising the most. The goal isn't to achieve equality of popularity between every product you sell. It's to sell the greatest number of products!

The advertising costs the same whether you advertise popular flavors or unpopular ones, but you'll get a lot more sales by advertising the popular ones.

Go check out a grocery store, see whether the aisle caps slant towards popular or unpopular product varieties.

Re: Car allergic to vanilla ice cream (2000)

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Post by Paul-Craft »

mrguyorama wrote: post #492
Paul-Craft wrote: post #490

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I get that that could work and might solve the problem entirely. What I don't get is why you'd ever have to do that every few months.

Laser printers have parts that can get very hot. If their "baking" reflowed the parts, but just barely, maybe those hot parts would just cause the exact same problem all over again.

Ah! There we go! That was what I was missing. Thanks. It all makes sense now.

Re: Car allergic to vanilla ice cream (2000)

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Post by joeig »

This reminds me of a problem I had a few years ago. Whenever I sat down on my office chair, my monitor turned black for a few seconds.

One day I started to understand what’s happening when I touched the aluminum Apple keyboard while being electrically charged. I was wondering how it was possible to get an electric shock since my Mac Mini had no connection to ground via its IEC-60320 C7/C8 connector. I learned that the Mac Mini grounds itself via DVI.

Turned out the pressure cylinder of the chair caused some kind of electromagnetic pulse, which interfered with the DVI signal and forced the monitor to resync every time I sat down.

Re: Car allergic to vanilla ice cream (2000)

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Post by heywhatupboys »

smcl wrote: post #416
heywhatupboys wrote: post #187

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this is why denmark has an additional slanted plug for IT equipment and a winky one for hospitals

How can, say, a cleaner tell the prong configuration on a plug when it's plugged in and not visible?

none, but they sure cant plug in their vacuum.

hispital ones are red wires

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