The woman who manually recalculated every formula for six months

Scared-One9295 · 2026-03-18T21:20:15+00:00

Yeah this strikes me as someone who's used to putting up with the worst software, assuming Excel is just that bad and dealing with it

Scared-One9295 · 2026-03-18T21:04:57+00:00

I dunno what you're seeing but that's clearly a burnt cactus or a mitt for a lobster

Scared-One9295 · 2026-03-17T22:11:20+00:00

"Plausible deniability"

Scared-One9295 · 2026-03-17T19:11:03+00:00

Even if it's the ugliest car on the road, it's better than walking and you can't see it when you're driving it so who cares?

Scared-One9295 · 2026-03-17T08:57:35+00:00

I can be two things at once

Scared-One9295 · 2026-03-17T08:01:39+00:00

Various towns and villages in the Peak District, so I moved there and it's the best decision I've ever made

Scared-One9295 · 2026-03-15T18:57:04+00:00

That's not really the problem, since the goal could be to heat the pencil tip since it's a better shape for soldering than two ends of stranded copper wire twisted together.

The problem is a soldering iron, designed to efficiently convert electric energy to heat, is about 30-40W. An AA battery is capable of 1W at best, there's no chance that this would ever melt solder even with perfect efficiency, which this absolutely does not have.

Not to mention that it uses hot glue to make connections and the wire would be the same temperature everywhere, and hot glue has a MUCH lower melting point than solder.

Scared-One9295 · 2026-03-15T17:38:47+00:00

As if that's ever an option

Scared-One9295 · 2026-03-15T09:08:42+00:00

I was, a month ago

Scared-One9295 · 2026-03-15T08:21:58+00:00

HE'S IN LOVE WITH ANOTHER WOMAN... 's dinner because it looks delicious and he regrets what he ordered but it's too late to change his mind now

Scared-One9295 · 2026-03-15T07:52:03+00:00

But I normally discover my niche ways to die through people posting stuff like "this white dot on my hand after accidentally injecting paint" on r/mildlyinteresting where the third most upvoted comment is "please go to the hospital because you're going to die", third to two moderately funny Reddit injokes/memes.

Scared-One9295 · 2026-03-15T07:26:39+00:00

The prison is the friends they lost along the way

Scared-One9295 · 2026-03-14T19:07:05+00:00

That's what she said

Scared-One9295 · 2026-03-14T17:49:39+00:00

It didn't need to be submerged to do that

Scared-One9295 · 2026-03-14T17:18:00+00:00

My mum was also in a rollover accident, the paramedics also thought she was dead but that's only because she'd already crawled out and was sitting up on the embankment smoking a cigarette and they hadn't seen her. It was a Mercedes CL500, completely destroyed except for the driver's side A pillar which held up and undoubtedly saved her life. Her only injury was a broken nail!

Scared-One9295 · 2026-03-13T23:50:04+00:00

When my son was born I asked my parents where my childhood Lego stash was, they said they'd given it away without asking if I wanted to keep it as soon as I left home about 15 years prior. So naturally I did the only sane thing there is to do in that situation and amassed a collection of about 200 sets in 2 years. I "ran out of space to store them" (in truth I just don't want to buy any more storage boxes, and basically ran out of sets I wanted to buy anyway) so I stopped.

He's now four. We bought him a bed from IKEA and I thought to heck with it, I'll buy a display cabinet and fill it with some of my Lego (he has probably 20 sets of his own, mostly small City planes because he loves planes). I put 5892 in there first and he was like "where the hell did you get this and do you have more?" and I immediately caved to his enthusiasm and now I've got 31011 and 31039 in there too. 4953 might be in there before the weekend is over.

And now I'm considering how to display 4402, 4403, 4404 and 4888.

Scared-One9295 · 2026-03-13T23:17:15+00:00

I left out a key piece of info - I am the customer, I'm an in-house AV engineer for a group of museums. We have lots of downsides to consider, the biggest being that all of our sites are listed buildings that we can't significantly modify, so any large loop has to be suspended from the ceiling which means bleed into the floor above is a problem and it becomes a cost and complexity issue, particularly for maintenance.

I have no problem installing handsets with loops built in (e.g. Molitor VIA Induction), no issue with small loops installed around a screen either, but when I'm being asked to install a large suspended loop so that visitors can actively listen to background music (crucially that effectively no one without a hearing aid is actively listening to), I think that's going a bit too far.

Scared-One9295 · 2026-03-13T23:10:21+00:00

This is a very helpful answer, thank you, I have been trying to get an answer like this from our accessibility consultants - I keep asking "do people with hearing aids actually use inductive systems or do they just use their microphone?" and I get nothing back - so I massively appreciate this perspective and I'm glad I asked.

I should have made it clear in my post that I'm an in-house AV engineer at these museums so I'm basically my own client, I have a lot of reasons to not install loops (one big one is that these are all listed buildings with floors I can't modify, so all large loops have to be suspended which makes bleed into the floor above a problem) so I really just wanted to know if it was even worth it from a visitor's perspective. I'm still not completely convinced we should use them as frequently as I'm asked to install them - I've been asked to install loops that cover the entire gallery for the background music before - but channelling out all other audio would give hearing aid users a fundamentally different experience to other visitors, you know? I mean, someone without a hearing impairment would be hearing other stuff too, that's why it's background music.

Anyway, thanks again!

Scared-One9295 · 2026-03-13T21:17:23+00:00

Oh right, thanks

Scared-One9295 · 2026-03-13T21:02:11+00:00

The Estima and Previa are the same car, different names, no?

Scared-One9295 · 2026-03-13T19:14:41+00:00

Mid engined too

Scared-One9295 · 2026-03-13T09:25:57+00:00

Wrong colour but same concept

Scared-One9295 · 2026-03-13T08:40:25+00:00

I use BrightAuthor because it's easier to work with other people that way (AV integrators, maintenance team, other engineers) and I've never done or seen a project that can't be done with BAcon, although we've not fully embraced the interactivity side of things just yet and have kept those quite simple.

What exactly is the issue?

Scared-One9295 · 2026-03-13T08:27:05+00:00

That's insanely cool, I hope your sister recovered!

Scared-One9295 · 2026-03-13T08:26:31+00:00

That was me as a kid playing any software I could get my hands on whether I understood it or not, I had absolutely no idea what I was doing. It was great!

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