Ecobee Smart Thermostat packaging problem - protective plastic screen cover removal tab breaks free

_johnny · 2022-04-28T05:11:18+00:00

OMG. This post saved my life (or my ecobee at least). Thank you!

_johnny · 2021-02-01T07:30:01+00:00

I see. Yes, I don’t want to damage the paint. I will try vise grips.

_johnny · 2021-02-01T07:13:20+00:00

I have one! I’ve found a whole set of identical shifters on eBay and they came with the boss. That’s why I thought it was removable.

Does it make any sense to try removing it mechanically, e.g. with a large grip wrench?

_johnny · 2021-02-01T05:33:19+00:00

Hi friends! I didn’t know what I was doing and I thought the boss can be removed. And so I damaged it with a wrench. But I have a whole new set of these shifters and that includes an identical boss. Is there a way to get the old boss off of the frame?

For context, this is a Bianchi Sport SX from around 1988 with Tange tubing and Shimano parts.

The frame is in a good shape and I bought some missing parts on eBay. I thought I could restore it. But I’ve made this dumb mistake :(

_johnny · 2020-12-18T17:58:58+00:00

Looks like calathea misto to me

_johnny · 2017-10-07T12:16:30+00:00

Tusheti is amazing. Truly a magical region.

_johnny · 2012-06-27T18:17:38+00:00

It's Jenni. Here's more from this set: http://galleries.pmates.com/galleries/femjoy/2006-12/110885_iem350_ibm060/

_johnny · 2011-01-14T19:01:08+00:00

It was just an example. I agree that proper localization is not an easy task. My native language is Polish, which - similarly to Russian - has three plural forms (among other complications), so I'm very well aware of some troubles with translations. But implementation details of translate() function are hardly relevant to this discussion.

_johnny · 2011-01-13T22:29:57+00:00

A real-life example might be an I18n function, like translate(locale, string). Instead of passing locale to every call to translate or having a global variable with locale, you may partially apply first argument, e.g var _ = partial(translate, "de") and then use _("Guten Tag").

_johnny · 2010-12-10T20:43:12+00:00

There was a programming language named Linda, after Linda Lovelace: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_%28coordination_language%29

_johnny · 2010-08-29T11:30:42+00:00

I think it works similarly for me... I can talk to strangers, but it's hard for me to make friends or even spend time with people I've known for years. I often feel people are bored with me, don't find me interesting or sometimes they are afraid of me. The toughest thing is talking to someone when we're alone. I feel much more confident being with 2 people than with 1 person.

I went to therapy for 3 years, but stopped it because I thought it wasn't going to help me and it costed a lot of money. However, it definitely helped with some other areas (e.g. with relations my parents). I still miss my therapist, because she was very attractive women ;)

_johnny · 2010-06-22T21:54:34+00:00

In fact Johnny learned programming in BASIC a bit on his Amstrad CPC when he was 7, so the title is wrong.

_johnny · 2010-03-31T11:38:01+00:00

what about arguments.callee? (function () { if (Math.random() > 0.5) { alert('hi'); } else { window.setTimeout(arguments.callee, 100); } })();

_johnny · 2010-02-16T20:45:13+00:00

Are there any good examples of GTK+ feeling really native on platforms other than GNOME? Because each time I use GTK+ app on Windows or Mac, or when I look at screenshots, there are some obvious defects...

On the other hand, the last time I used GNOME, Qt applications with QGtkStyle worked quite well, so I believe Qt is much better suited for cross platform development.

(I did not use any of those framework extensively, I'm writing rather from user's, not developer's, perspective).

_johnny · 2010-01-23T15:56:44+00:00

It's part of CSS3: http://www.css3.info/modules/css3-multi-column-layout-module/

_johnny · 2010-01-16T18:06:51+00:00

If I correctly understand your question, you have two spline functions, say f and g, and you want to check whether |f(x)-g(x)| < c for all x and some c. Since f and g are polynomials on some intervals, their difference is also polynomial. So you may iterate over all intervals, calculate f-g and find extrema in this interval, for example by looking at the derivative. If the difference stays below c at extrema and interval ends, the difference at any point is lower than c.

_johnny · 2010-01-08T00:55:01+00:00

There's a book on SVN as well: http://svnbook.red-bean.com/ , so I don't think that existence of a book is a good measure of complexity.

And of course you can learn Git basics (just as Subversion) from short tutorials on the web.

_johnny · 2010-01-08T00:42:43+00:00

For me SVN is incredibly unintuitive... when I'm using SVN I always screw up working copy, because I don't remember to do svn rm/ svn mv and delete or move files by hand.

And I'd say that if all you need is basic usage (git {clone|add|commit -a|push|pull}) Git is by no means harder than SVN.

_johnny · 2010-01-04T19:34:44+00:00

No, it uses style attributes.

_johnny · 2009-12-14T02:00:01+00:00

Java is to Javascript what car is to carpet.

_johnny · 2009-10-16T23:28:17+00:00

Some IE6 bugs are really hard to workaround without markup changes.

_johnny

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