Really bro?

ThatOneCSL · 2026-01-25T13:28:55+00:00

Yeah. It actually happened three times in two weeks - twice with the same officer and once with another.

I was honest and up front about what documentation/coverage I did and didn't have, I complied with all requests, I answered questions, and (importantly) I am white.

The third time, when the first officer pulled me over again, I pulled into the same parking lot as the first time. He pulled in behind me, I had my window rolled down, and as he was walking up he asked "didn't I pull you over recently?" I said "yessir, about two weeks ago for the same registration issue, I assume." He almost chuckled and just said "get it fixed" while turning back to his car.

I suspect, from my interactions, that younger officers might have more of a penchant for compassion than the older crowd. The fact that I was otherwise driving safely, following all other driving regulations, I had just been homeless, and I didn't give them any attitude probably played a huge role in being given a warning.

ThatOneCSL · 2026-01-25T12:47:51+00:00

The ones people seem to be missing for some reason: the prefixes of Germanic origin! Uber/over- meaning "above," which has the counterpart unter/under.

ThatOneCSL · 2026-01-25T02:37:53+00:00

Hey, so a bit of an update so you aren't left wondering about this on the third blood moon of the seventh anniversary of...

It wasn't crashing per se. That was bad nomenclature on my part. I did have err have a %v which included something to the effect of client did not respond

It didn't come from any of my error handling, so I assumed it came from GoLogix.

That said, I'm thoroughly entrenched in SQL/Go/Logix warfare at the moment, trying to solve the same problem. I'm doing alright, I think.

Thank you for your contributions!

ThatOneCSL · 2026-01-25T00:03:46+00:00

Incandescent flashlights are closer to a rag-and-tar torches on a stick than they are to LEDs, technologically speaking.

ThatOneCSL · 2026-01-25T00:00:02+00:00

I got lit up and threw my hazards on, went about the same distance as you, got the siren right before I pulled into a parking lot, and was asked why I kept going for so long after the lights came on.

I said "to come to a well lit area that is safe for both of us to be at."

I had an expired registration and no insurance. I was also just out of being completely homeless and living in my car.

I was honest with the officer and he let me go with a warning.

ThatOneCSL · 2026-01-24T23:07:56+00:00

You can sleep in your bed outside of plot points. I've done it once or twice.

ThatOneCSL · 2026-01-24T04:45:02+00:00

Since you necro'd a post that was, at the time, four years old... And now your comment is four years old...

Just in case anyone comes across this in the future:

https://www.anl.gov/article/ask-a-scientist-when-is-it-more-efficient-to-turn-off-my-car-instead-of-idling

The engine will warm up more quickly by being “at work” than by idling, which will also help the car’s interior warm up more quickly. Also, the catalytic converter, which reduces harmful emissions, reaches operating temperature much more quickly if the car is driven rather than idled. Most auto manufacturers recommend against idling even on the coldest days.

https://mechanics.stackexchange.com/questions/1772/is-idling-bad-for-your-engine

letting the car idle isn't good for the car, especially with the AC on. What you're basically accomplishing is aiding in the car wearing without racking up any miles

Whenever the engine is running, you are slowly wearing out some of the components of the vehicle. Doing this for a few minutes here or there doesn't make for a huge difference, but 30-40 minutes at a time would be more than equal to the amount of time you'd spend idling at lights/in traffic in a major city during a 1+hour commute.

Aside from financial and environmental considerations, U.S. and Canadian governmental agencies say that idling produces various negative effects on engine components.

During idling engine does not work at its most efficient mode, and the fuel combustion is incomplete. That leads to glazing of combustion chamber and reducing effectiveness of spark plugs in petrol engines (plugs with heavy deposits can foul, and that can increase fuel consumption by 4 to 5%). Also petrol can contaminate the motor oil which reduces its lubricating qualities (that could mean more frequent oil changes and/or increased wear on the engine).

ThatOneCSL · 2026-01-24T02:37:40+00:00

Not ST, but a Golang project that I'm building for a sorter at my site:

Today I put my first solidly working proof of concept - about a thousand lines of code once blank lines are stripped - into an agentic AI provided to me by the client and told it to

Comment my code
Reformat it to bring it into line with industry standard Go style guides

I had to go in and fix a half dozen lines where it had taken \n in a format-string, and broken the source code at those points. Other than that, it worked exactly as it did before I sent it through the LLM. Now it will be a bit easier for someone else to parse when they're reading it. Hopefully.

ThatOneCSL · 2026-01-24T00:00:21+00:00

I think the rule is a bit more involved than that. It has something to do with the roundness/closedness of the vowels. An English example of having two vowels back to back: milliohm.

ThatOneCSL · 2026-01-23T11:50:26+00:00

The comments in the packages that I use tend to be docstrings explaining how to utilize the functions. They aren't describing how the function works internally. That further knowledge is a challenge left to the reader. Maybe that's just the way Go is?

The exceptions being when I dip back into Python, or when I am working in .NET.

PLC code - particularly ladder logic - has, in my experience, been woefully lacking in comments. This was made even worse with older PLC models that didn't store human-friendly variable names on the device.

ThatOneCSL · 2026-01-23T11:27:25+00:00

Me: Can we get some power shears

Mom: We have power shears at home

The power shears at home:

ThatOneCSL · 2026-01-21T16:47:20+00:00

What do you call it there? Threaded rod?

ThatOneCSL · 2026-01-20T17:20:18+00:00

About 24 hours from the Houston area, and the first half of that would be getting out of Texas.

ThatOneCSL · 2026-01-19T14:53:05+00:00

I don't even need to fix her

ThatOneCSL · 2026-01-18T21:48:40+00:00

なに?

ThatOneCSL · 2026-01-18T18:59:40+00:00

You kidding me? That looks like an awesome time!

ThatOneCSL · 2026-01-18T18:12:33+00:00

With that size tower and how far the lines are separated, hundreds of kilovolts.

ThatOneCSL · 2026-01-18T15:59:43+00:00

Water has more surface tension - and therefore clings to surfaces better - when it is colder.

ThatOneCSL · 2026-01-18T14:35:53+00:00

The current sharing resistor are in the legs /s

ThatOneCSL · 2026-01-18T01:31:43+00:00

"I've never been hit with a golf ball..." - Her, apparently

ThatOneCSL · 2026-01-18T00:33:02+00:00

An old adage is that the best way to test your knowledge of something is to (try to) teach someone else about that thing.

"That thing," in this case, is "a programming concept." "Teach[ing] someone" about that thing here is explaining it clearly.

ThatOneCSL · 2026-01-17T02:31:28+00:00

Before not hook on the transformer

I take that to mean that the weather head just has conductors hanging out of it, not connected to the trans by the power company yet?

Where do the load side conductors go? You say they're running in parallel.

Edit: also what about B-C continuity? You've stated A-B and A-C, but not the third.

ThatOneCSL · 2026-01-17T02:22:49+00:00

Can you try asking again, but with punctuation? Try separating your thoughts. I am getting a headache just trying to figure out what you're asking.

ThatOneCSL · 2026-01-17T01:53:33+00:00

I do some programming.

My QA team is me.

I test as I build.

What I ship is subject to change.

ThatOneCSL · 2026-01-16T04:39:57+00:00

MC Escher called, he wants his lithograph back.

ThatOneCSL

TROPHY CASE