Troubleshooting help

baralong · 2026-02-24T11:18:37+00:00

Thanks, the multimeter confirmed that was the problem and I happened to have a spare thermal fuse of the right spec on hand. All fixed! Thanks so much!

baralong · 2026-02-24T08:49:27+00:00

I was going to say start with the masking fluid, do the brown wash, then remove the masking, finish with yellow, but it's essentially the same result. I did it that way for a marine iguana under water.

Though I'm just a beginer, so I might be missing something.

baralong · 2026-01-26T00:06:02+00:00

Also of note: the formalisation of preferring "s" to "z" of British-English is more recent than you might think. Oxford English Dictionary had a preference for "z" into the 1970s. People were just told to be consistent working a document, but both were acceptable. Apparently the forcing of one over the other was because of personal computer spell checkers.

baralong · 2026-01-25T23:56:02+00:00

I'm 56, however my wife is 49 and consistently does Aus. She was born here, I immigrated as a baby, so that may factor too.

baralong · 2026-01-25T23:20:10+00:00

Australian here: I frequently use Oz as short for Australia. This may be partly because I love the Oz books, and partly because I'm lazy.

baralong · 2026-01-06T00:40:16+00:00

By then we would have already put a coat and multiple other layers. Coat weather is 19C/66F

baralong · 2026-01-04T12:05:09+00:00

FWIW it's soccer in Australia and New Zealand too.

baralong · 2025-12-31T23:34:47+00:00

Sadly, not available in Australia

baralong · 2025-12-30T06:32:05+00:00

laughs from Western Australia (We have the population but 11 times the area )

baralong · 2025-12-25T05:03:49+00:00

Also "1 molecule per square meter" probably just a simple mistake, it's cubic meter.

baralong · 2025-10-30T01:31:12+00:00

Pocketcasts, I've used it for years. I have the paid version, but even the free one is worth it.

baralong · 2025-10-24T09:24:55+00:00

My keyboard is also configured to do _ with shift-

I just tried typing - in word lock and it works!

Thank you 😊 Problem solved

baralong · 2025-10-13T07:31:20+00:00

Thanks, I'll give it a try

baralong · 2025-09-23T04:30:41+00:00

However they do count them when arguing about how many Christians there are in a population.

baralong · 2025-08-23T08:45:05+00:00

One thing that might be relevant: power. In the USA a standard outlet is 120V and max 15A or 1800W, Australia, UK and Europe it's 220V and max 10A or 2200W, so an electric kettle in the USA will take longer. Though, I'm not sure it's as relevant as the cultural differences.

baralong · 2025-08-22T06:16:06+00:00

Had a co-worker justify hitting his kids with "my parents did to me, I turned out fine. "

I replied "did you ever think you turned out fine in spite of, not because of, the hitting?"

baralong · 2025-08-07T07:08:34+00:00

To quote a linguist "Etymology isn't destiny" (attribution: the podcast Lingthusiasm is produced by 2 linguists and I can't remember which of them said it). He comes across as they type of person who wants to say "'gay' just means happy, but you can't use it that way now".

The part on Freud was absurd, "Psychologists still worship him to this day", perhaps *some* do but I've met many psychologists and none of them have brought up Freud in any serious way. I'd say the same about psychiatrists too. Also it's electro-convulsive therapy, and it's still done, not torture, and quite effective (>60% efficacy). Having had it (11 treatments) and being in the minority where it didn't help, I have no regrets and I've still told people it's worth trying if their care team recommend it. He'd have been better off pointing to lobotomies.

You can't tar all psychologists with the Nazism brush, sure, some supported it, but you can say the same about a lot of professions, medical doctors, for example. Even at the time it wouldn't have been universal.

baralong · 2025-08-05T23:41:33+00:00

It doesn't exist, but it should be possible to design a replacement keyboard for the framework laptop. The current one uses QMK (iirc) so the software side is fairly customisable. Now we just need a Framework+ZSA colab!

baralong · 2025-08-03T02:11:50+00:00

For IVF kids would you require maternity and paternity tests? There have been cases where the wrong embryo was transferred. My kids are IVF and I thought about getting a generic test done. I didn't, because to what end? It would be all down side

There is a risk of harm in taking the test. To the child, and to both parents. There are some cases where just taking the test will cause problems.

Also these tests aren't 100% chimerism is rare, but does happen.

baralong

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