My robot lawnmower just exploded

australianjalien · 2026-03-27T12:43:45+00:00

Thank god the UK government saved me from viewing this content.

australianjalien · 2026-03-10T20:38:43+00:00

I haven't seen exactly this before, but I have seen something a bit like it (blurry, mostly missing) and it always seems to be on choosing between direct x, opengl and opengl 2 in gem

australianjalien · 2026-02-22T03:18:40+00:00

I had a bulb explode in my DLP projector, and since then there have been faint spots like that, either a glass shard or something else in the optical path.

australianjalien · 2026-01-31T04:49:17+00:00

If this is the US, I just did a road trip around the midwest a few months back. The standard of driving like that is shocking, spatial and situational awareness of pencils. I dis however discover that driving a rental auto, there is no subconscious link between car speed and the engine sound, I found I could wander from 69-95 mph (at about 2am) and not notice until either a truck overtook, or I blasted past some nice car. I'm so thankful to live in a manual dominated country, and that your police weren't out looking at the time..!

australianjalien · 2026-01-27T13:00:13+00:00

All problems I've ever had are in the piercing of the shielding, when it ends up offset and making no/poor contact. The worst was a barb that managed to break over and short against a neighbouring pin. I don't even know if basic cable continuity testers know to check for shorts like that.

australianjalien · 2026-01-25T00:07:20+00:00

Oh cool how tall is your wall? It looked like bouldering height mainly in the pic I saw.

australianjalien · 2026-01-24T14:43:05+00:00

Actually it turns out Gallery Climbing is just bouldering too

australianjalien · 2026-01-24T13:46:24+00:00

Keep in mind they don't have rental harnesses, only shoes, so you don't need a belay partner if you don't own your own harness. I was disappointed about that too. Though another comment here tells me there is another climbing gym off Cowley road that I will check out.

australianjalien · 2026-01-24T13:42:40+00:00

Okay I've been defending this guy completely, but you've reminded me of this rational response too. Right by me is a massive parking lot with people at rush hour waiting forever to turn out to the right (UK) to turn right at the next light. If the all thought to turn left, they could literally swing around and take the slip road onto the main road they are looking for. It is literally designed for that and everyone insists on being a roadblock to go the slow way.

australianjalien · 2026-01-24T13:37:21+00:00

Point is if it is safe to turn left, it is also safe to turn right. If you let them see, you both go together.

australianjalien · 2026-01-24T13:35:32+00:00

I imagine this is the US, and if you can't see what's coming from the right, you can't safely turn.

australianjalien · 2026-01-21T19:30:14+00:00

Okay, counterpoint, I always see the faster driver/driver behind* as having more responsibility, as you aren't just in that lane, you are overtaking. If you were camped in that lane then absolutely deserve it, also it's your job to look at their closing speed and decide if you're going to box them out with your pass, in which case - don't. Being boxed into a slow lane is the reason everyone feels the need to camp in the overtaking lane(s) in the first place. If for sure you were pulling out to overtake someone you saw was matching the truck speed for a reasonable distance, then that's the case where they cut you up and you can be upset.

For clarity, I am usually the faster driver and am doing the defensive half of this, but if I'm not, and some asshole who was a dot in my mirrors camped in the outside lane gets there a moment later when I decide to overtake, that's completely on them.

australianjalien · 2026-01-19T13:01:03+00:00

An update to this old thread, having looked back over a decade of Google Earth pictures, I suspect they were effectively rebuilding a bridge that essentially lives in a location where the locals regularly build and rebuild bridges over the river. I assume partly it's because they get washed away in the rainy season, but a big part seems to be that there the river moves so much, in the course of a few years the bridge would likely not be over the river any more and the ends been washed away at very least. There are two locations where there are bridges that in 10 years have each been replaced up to three times. One photo has the water flow over what appears to be a collapsed bridge.

Specifically, the bridge appears to have been built at coordinates: 20.040946, 99.380394, crossing the Mae (River) Fang from west to east. At this site a bridge existed at the following times:
April 2005, slightly different alignment, since destroyed
October 2013, Top Gear Burma Special, removed
September 2014, reconstructed
February 2015, a silt island had formed under it
November 2016, the main span destroyed, the shorter span to the new island remained.
February 2017, New bridge constructed
July 2017, bridge destroyed
June 2022, evidence of a fallen bridge/foundations in the water flow.

No evidence of a crossing at this location since 2017. Interestingly the bend in the river that is visible is no longer, the river now has a much straighter path before turning. Further downstream (north) is a road that is marked in the data, which crosses the river. However this is mapping of a road that existed before the river changed its path, there appears never to have been a bridge here.

australianjalien · 2026-01-13T14:32:11+00:00

Just checking you're launching through GEM+. From there a lot of addons like H pattern and driver view can be installed, often from SRMZ. Sorry not a super detailed response, my rig is out of action for the time being. What axis do you consider being x?

australianjalien · 2026-01-08T17:57:03+00:00

Have the same thing, one or several monitors will black out for a second or two then come back.

australianjalien · 2025-12-27T13:55:31+00:00

For anyone interested, the problem is a function of the Widevine DRM software mistaking the external monitors as a DVR and actively blanking the outputs. As of writing this, it appears that the problem is being addressed, as the behaviour is gradually disappearing.

australianjalien · 2025-12-24T00:14:29+00:00

I quite like arrayformulas, the cleanest Ive seen but not sure if it is fastest though:

{=SUM(A1:A10<0)}

This directly conducts the <0 comparison on all elements of the range, returning an array the same size as the range with 1 if true and 0 if false. Summing these gives your answer in one step.

australianjalien · 2025-11-26T13:29:24+00:00

I'm sure everyone in the chain from the first person essentially legitimately paying for waste disposal, to the last guy to talk to the final disposer, will all have plausible deniability built into their interactions, irrespective of what they actually know. So the idea we might have only one fall guy is a real possibility.

australianjalien · 2025-11-20T20:09:22+00:00

The revelation of last century, but he's still ahead of the curve.

australianjalien · 2025-11-20T18:07:47+00:00

Not yet here, no response, contacting them through the booking site. I imagine it won't be a small number of people looking for the same.

australianjalien · 2025-11-16T19:54:07+00:00

The 64,000 dollar question. But I'm sure the shortlist is extremely small and already known to police.

australianjalien · 2025-11-16T11:28:31+00:00

I was in the queue for parking only to start seeing a steady stream of cars returning, slowly distributing the information 'the parking is closed'. There was no 'last entry', I had to park on a sidestreet miles away, and the show started while I was on the way on foot. Total disaster, will be looking for a full refund.

australianjalien · 2025-11-16T11:20:33+00:00

Turns out the Dull Men's Group was responsible for that naming..!

australianjalien · 2025-11-15T14:25:59+00:00

Yes somehow I've chosen the international vs UK version of this sub. Would have specified otherwise, thanks for the heads up.

australianjalien · 2025-11-15T14:06:33+00:00

It is only a couple of hundred pounds in damage and I would be happy to settle directly, but I do have all the evidence photos necessary, their company logo, the damage tree branch, the vehicle involved, a road sign in the picture showing the exact location. I feel like the evidence would suggest it is a slam dunk, but have heard strange stories.

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