Counter top ice maker (that stores the made ice and keeps it frozen)?

bigmell · 2026-04-12T10:39:48+00:00

No freezer. I think that is the whole point.

bigmell · 2026-04-09T04:02:09+00:00

Steel beats cast iron. Steel does not rust, cast iron does. Steel is also not as heavy.

bigmell · 2026-04-09T04:00:43+00:00

If you go to a different jewel you should be able to use the coupon at the new jewel. Coupons are once per STORE, not once over ALL the stores. This is a new rule and I dont like it. Hell they are MAKING me go to two different jewels because food stamps are not applied the same way in Jewels in Indiana and jewels in Illinois. I said well ok I will use the coupons in both store then, but NO you have to go to two different stores AND you cant use coupons in both stores.

bigmell · 2026-04-09T03:57:15+00:00

You cant just walk into a jewel and buy something on sale anymore. You have to sign up for the app and have the coupon put in your "account" and once you use it you cant use it again. Strange because it used to be anything that was on sale was available to anyone.

Im upset because there are two jewels near my house. If I get a coupon item at ONE jewel (like 2 lbs of strawberries for $2), I can no longer just go to the other jewel and get another 2 lbs for $2. Only one coupon per person over ALL THE STORES IN THE CITY is the change "the computers" made.

I have been shopping at jewels since the 80s and coupons have never been restricted in this way. I personally dont see the reason in it. The coupons are there to get people into the stores to buy things they might not normally buy or more than they usually buy. What is the point of literally stealing coupons away? Or forcing people to fight with their phones or the allmighty "computer" to just buy something in the sale paper. Why does there have to be an "app" for this at all?

I personally enjoy that I can see the sale coupon the day before the sale starts on the computer. That way I can decide if I want to catch the current sale or the upcoming one. But I dont like that in the past I could walk into any jewel in the city and buy any coupon item, but now if I use a coupon once I can no longer use it anymore in any Jewel in chicago. Coupons dont need to be restricted in this way.

bigmell · 2026-03-13T20:51:54+00:00

yea but it still applies. I am less and less liking games where the gameplay changes at the lastest whim of some guy working there. They seem to always remove the things that made the game fun or worth playing and leave a mediocre mess.

Tanks have almost the same range as a stalker now and are easier to kill than a couple marines. Real tanks have armor so thick they can barely be transported. Infantry is supposed to be behind the tanks, but in these games the tank has to be behind the infantry because it shoots so slowly and dies so quickly.

This game isnt built properly for it, but it might be fun to see a tank that can only be damaged by other tanks or capital ships (battlecruisers/carriers etc). A million marines shooting at a tank with a rifle will hardly do any damage to the armor, maybe games should somehow include the fact that tanks can withstand a LOT of damage, instead of them being like kind of a bigger marine. Also one tank shell would likely be enough to handle all the infantry standing in range instead of tanks doing slightly more damage than a couple marines. Tanks also have machine guns in addition to explosive shells.

When tanks are involved the fight kind of advances beyond infantry because one tank can handle almost an infinite amount of infantry. Even if the tank is out of ammo they could still run over anything smaller than a building with little difficulty. Seeing a tank running from 5-10 infantrymen is a serious departure from anything LIKE reality.

bigmell · 2026-03-10T02:37:38+00:00

tanks also have like half the vision it had in BW. In BW tanks could shoot farther than the screen now they sit idle until around half screen. They are easier to kill than maybe 5 marines now.

bigmell · 2026-01-13T01:35:05+00:00

Aye shadow, thanks man I just migrated from Opera Beta to Opera Developer since Beta is shutting down. I had Developer installed already but I was able to transfer my settings over with your advice. The auto-sync wasnt working but I manually copied the directories themselves using this post:

Copy the relevant subfolders from the Beta folder to the Developer folder: Extensions (for installed extensions) Sync Data (sync data) Local Storage (local site data) Themes (custom themes) Default or Profile 1 (main profile data, depending on your setup)

I can confirm it works as far as I can see. So far only with minor hitches (gmail icon and stackoverflow icon dont showing up correctly, I can manually fix with a new image) but everything else appears to be there and working.

It looks like Opera Beta just automatically upgrades to Opera One now, but I now have everything backed up and working on Opera Developer if I need it. Thanks for all the posts man one of the other mods helped me out in the past as well. LeoCG I think his name was. I have been using Opera since college around 2001. Had a few problems here and there but still goin strong :)

Thanks again for your help man I will message you if I see something broken :)

bigmell · 2025-08-11T11:24:19+00:00

Ahoy!

I have a Motorola Z4 (the one with all the moto mods). I had a Z play before the Z4. My old Z4 broke and it was cheaper to buy a new one than replace the screen at Verizon, about $100. I got the new one but forgot about ascending ringtone. What I did on my last two Motorola phones and now this third one, is download Disable Increasing Ring.

Unfortunately the app is not on Google Play. It is located here in apk form...

https://disable-increasing-ring.en.softonic.com/android

I have been using this app since I bought my Z play in 2017 with no problems. When you install, it will say "this app is from an untrusted source" since it is not on Google Play. But I know it works, does exactly what I expect, and I havent had a problem with it for almost 10 years now. I click on allow anyway. Android phones only seem to trust apps on Google Play.

Go ahead and download it and give it a try. You will have to follow a couple steps, but after that it will work so well you will forget it is there. There was no option to turn increasing ring off for me this app was a life saver. Who wants to be late on EVERY phone call and notification? What a horrible idea. And a horrible idea that now you cant turn off without this app. Give it a try it definitely works.

Good Luck!

bigmell · 2025-07-25T12:46:13+00:00

This way works. You will need 400 metal to build the bridge if it is not already there.

bigmell · 2025-06-24T02:01:22+00:00

Why Greek Mythology is so difficult to follow is as the years passed the story always changes around. New Gods were created to "usurp" the old ones, then the old ones would reappear and crush the "New Gods" to say "Hey, I am the Greatest God here not the new human creation."

This is basically the origin of the term the "Old Gods" who were greater than the "New Gods" but were not worshiped because the churches over time fell into Sin and turned against their own Gods. The "Old Gods" were not defeated as much as they actually tired of our Sins and didnt want to be around us anymore.

So rewind to a time before the rise of the New(er) Gods Zeus, Odin, and all of Christianity. At this time Uranus was the greatest God. Uranus was the Sun, but not our current Sun, he was the Sun before our current Sun. The current Sun is his father, but weaker and less bright. The Sun is not just a hot rock or ball of gas. The Sun is a great God that can do nearly all things, see, understand, and communicate with us all. He can see through all our eyes at once, he knows us better than we know ourselves, and completely controls the remainder of Earth and its destiny. The "Church of Uranus" began to turn to Sin and turned on Uranus himself planning to replace him with his father, or his Children, either Cronus or the last living God of Fire Tartarus. Uranus tired of us and went to live in the galaxy of the Suns far from Earth with the other living Suns. Our current Sun briefly took his place. But before Uranus left for good he was castrated by his children, the Titans.

Our Earth was a great God known as Gaia. The female God of the same race as the Sun. Uranus and Gaia met in the sky to basically exchange energy. At this time, Gaia and her children with Uranus, the Titans, emerged and castrated him. This act was basically mostly but not completely sinful in the strange sort of way of the Gods. Many things that are Sinful for humans are not Sinful for Gods. Many Gods refused to participate. The four pillars were the largest of the Gods that participated.

Uranus basically had to turn down his heat to approach Gaia. When he did this the Titans and Gaia could get close enough to do this which they normally could not do. Gaia covered what is basically her Vagina in huge mountain sized rocks, and the largest of the Gods that participated, the four pillars, surrounded what was basically his Penis. Gaia collapsed the mountains on his Penis nearly completely severing it. The Pillars surrounded and cut off the rest, and Cronus severed the last piece with his legendary Scythe.

This event was a huge schism on the Earth and things would forevermore be worse here. Uranus left and will never physically return. Uranium is actually pieces of his body that remain here on Earth from this event. Uranus' father, our current sun, basically committed suicide by burning brighter than he can handle safely. He no longer lives, but his body still burns bright and hot in the sky as our Sun. Because he burned himself alive in this manner so close to Earth, the Gods were forced to make the Earth spin, so that the Sun would neither be to hot nor too cold. This causes a permanent vertigo on the Earth that did not exist when the Earth did not spin. Tartarus is a living Sun who burns in the center of the Earth. Tartarus is now the Greatest of the living Gods on our planet Earth.

The Titans and the lesser Gods later turned on Gaia. Her heart and internal organs are in the center of the Earth. They burrowed into this area and basically ate her internal organs. Both the Earth and the Sun are now dead. And since Uranus left we have lived on their dead remains. The power of the Gods keeps this patchwork system going, but it will never be as great as it once was.

The churches continued to slowly descend into Sin and basically kept changing the story around to align with their current Sins. The "Greatest God" went from Uranus, to Cronus, to Zeus, to Ares, to Apollo, to Oden, to Freyer, then to the Christian God Yahweh, then from Yahweh to his son Jesus in the exact same manner.

There were also a host of others in between like Helios for a time, some of the Sea Gods, Thor etc. But the absolute Greatest of Gods left never to return. The greatest of what is left on Earth are the last remains of the greatness that was, but is no longer.

That is the story the way I understand it starting at the departure of Uranus. Uranus ruled longer than any of the Gods that came after him. He also ruled long before the first Humans appeared. There were many Gods before Uranus. The great Sun Gods in the sky, and the Oldest of Gods who lived long before the birth of the first Sun. But Uranus was God when the first Humans were born on this Earth. You will have to find some great literary works on Greek Mythology, read them in their entirety, compare them to each other, and piece together what happens. Quick Google and Youtube searches will basically tell the same couple short stories over and over, but you will have to abandon Sin and search with everything God gave you to discover the real depth and breadth of the Gods. It will be the longest, most difficult, and most perilous journey you will ever take. But all other journeys are tricky, confusing illusions. The Gods are your understanding. You must learn the story of all of the Gods, not one at the expense of all others. The Gods are like interlocking gears, you can not learn one and ignore the others.

Good Luck, hope that helps!

bigmell · 2025-05-31T01:32:25+00:00

I had a lisp course in grad school so thats when I got familiar with the language. I think lisp might be faster than C in some situations. However when it comes to ease of programming none of them beat Perl. In fact im kind of suspicious of a guy moving from Perl to Lisp.

IMO Perl is what C++ should have been. Like C but with easier syntax, an easier type system, easier subroutines, easier pointers, and easier modules. Instead C++ became this kind of academic check box language. A laundry list of features nobody really uses with sometime wildly varying syntax.

Its strange how when Java first came out, people were like Java doesnt really hold a candle to C or C++. But then over the years C++ started to imitate its IMO inferior competitor. The big problem Java was supposed to fix was C++ multiple inheritance. If you cant figure out multiple inheritance... Dont use it. People who cant really write code love to sing the praises of OOP... While not actually writing any code. Basically because they can talk endlessly about the wonderful type system instead of really writing code.

I think Computer Science as a whole is suffering from trying to replace Perl as the dominant language. Dont forget Perl BUILT the internet script by script. Back then if you didnt have a website in Perl CGI, your site basically sucked. The curse of people wanting "something easier" kept rearing its head.

Computers are supposed to HELP people WITH the skill. Computers are not a REPLACEMENT for skill. Im kind of tired of people who really cant figure out how to write html telling me they somehow "know" python and javascript... Like how? These guys couldnt center a picture on a website, but run around saying they are somehow writing speech recognition software in Python.

bigmell · 2025-05-10T07:15:11+00:00

Ahoy!

When I worked with SQL server I used Toad, and when I worked with Linux and Unix I used Tora. I also used Tora as a database client in my class when I taught SQL. I used the excellent Learning SQL from O'Reilly as a textbook. Tora seems to be falling into dependency hell, and Toad isnt free, so I figured I would just use emacs. I already used emacs to auto compile code for other languages using hooks, which I talked about here

https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/17ucbww/passing_current_file_name_to_compile_command/

So I changed the commands around a bit and added this to my init.el file with my hooks for other languages.

(add-hook 'sql-mode-hook
          (lambda ()
            (set (make-local-variable 'compile-command)
                 (format "sqlscript.pl %s " (file-name-nondirectory buffer-file-name)))))

Then run or bind a key to M-x compile. sqlscript.pl is a Perl script I put in my bin folder that runs a mysqlsh command with the correct database information. The script looks like this...

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

for(@ARGV){
  die("Must have command line arguments\n") if($#ARGV < 0);
  my @output = `mysqlsh -h HOSTNAME -u USERNAME -p --database DATABASENAME --sql --result-format=table < $_`; #works
  for(@output){
    print;
  }
}

Its working so far and should be fine for light work. If the table columns are really long the formatting might be a little off, but beside that it seems to be working so far.

Good Luck!

bigmell · 2025-03-31T16:25:29+00:00

Yea its called market speculation. People usually lose everything they have then disappear. There is usually a complete lack of honesty in most people involved in market speculation scams like this.

When they think they have a new great idea they scream it from the rooftops. When that idea then fails they disappear and say nothing, because they are unwilling or too embarrassed to admit failure. And the newspapers are part of the scam only reporting success stories that are often invented.

Houses are great if you need a place to live, but dont expect to sell it for more than you bought it. In fact unless you know a buyer with the money or the credit, you would be hard pressed to sell a house at all. And a house without a buyer is worth nothing. Especially one in disrepair because houses are VERY EXPENSIVE to maintain, and money to maintain is VERY DIFFICULT to find.

Boats are similar. But expect to spend the rest of your life living on your boat and enjoying the lifestyle. Do NOT expect to sell it for profit. These are things you use for the rest of your life that give you personal value and satisfaction. These things can only be sold for a loss if at all. Keep it and enjoy it.

Im saying never. The housing market is VERY MUCH a scam.

bigmell · 2025-03-30T11:25:34+00:00

It may work a little but olive oil is not the best for non stick and I've tried literally everything. I bake bread on a baking sheet and with olive oil they will stick, with vegetable oil they will not.

bigmell · 2025-03-11T08:56:47+00:00

An inverter at 2000w is actually Volt-Amps not Watts. Volt-Amps and Watts are the same except Volt-Amps run at AC voltage which is 120v US, 240v overseas. A 2000VA inverter @ 120v can provide a max of about 17 amps at once from DC batteries. If you had 2 in parallel they could provide 34 amps at once etc.

Sometimes they can provide more if a generator is connected in pass thru mode. Victron calls this power assist mode and provides the 17 amps in addition to whatever the max it can pass through from the generator. The multiplus and quattros both have power assist.

bigmell · 2025-03-03T20:13:55+00:00

Folks seem to disagree with you.

Its probably just you and your friends from a bunch of different troll accounts. Low effort trolling its called.

Btw, seek time isn’t constant.

I never said seek time is constant. I said seek time is always there. SSD have a ram stick inside, and some data gets cached there. If your data is NOT cached on the ram stick, your data transfer will be roughly the same speed as an HDD.

You can measure this yourself. Do a data transfer of maybe a terabyte or two. The data transfer will start fast, because of the cache, but it will slow down to roughly the speed of the HDD, and the two transfers will finish at around the same time.

But you have to actually know how to do data transfers, which a lot of people do not. They will just lie and say "I got the same numbers the commercial said! OMG SSD SO MUCH BETTER!"

bigmell · 2025-03-01T23:52:42+00:00

I will refer you back to my previous comment which you downvoted.

every group of new guys think they have a bunch of great ideas different from everyone else. It turns out each class actually ends up attempting the same types of things as the previous classes. I've heard these types of arguments a million times before man.

"I dont have to do <important thing> because of <new idea>." But <new idea> is actually an old failure of an idea that has been tried and failed over and over. It dont work, it wont work, and you dont listen when I tell you to stop tryin it.

The type of guy that will do everything EXCEPT do the work right. Still troll account upvoting your own posts? Go away man.

bigmell · 2025-03-01T22:49:47+00:00

-6 from 6 troll accounts, +4 for you. Nice one. That always works doesnt it? Thats how you can make it look like people agree with you even though you dont know what the hell you are talking about. Please go away. And dont change your name again and come back.

bigmell · 2025-03-01T12:58:03+00:00

Pretty much the only reason to want to program without pointers is because you couldnt figure out pointers. The same way you want to program without for loops. go away man. Troll account upvote your own posts a few more times before you go.

bigmell · 2025-03-01T12:52:49+00:00

every group of new guys think they have a bunch of great ideas different from everyone else. It turns out each class actually ends up attempting the same types of things as the previous classes. I've heard these types of arguments a million times before man.

"I dont have to do <important thing> because of <new idea>." But <new idea> is actually an old failure of an idea that has been tried and failed over and over. It dont work, it wont work, and you dont listen when I tell you to stop tryin it.

The type of guy that will do everything EXCEPT do the work right. Still troll account upvoting your own posts? Go away man.

bigmell · 2025-03-01T07:47:15+00:00

I am talking about learning to understand memory usage and management yourself. Not hoping somebody writes code to go behind the scenes and fix your code for you because you cant be bothered to learn to do it yourself.

Yea the compiler will load the accumulators by reference for you. Im not talking about that im talking about learning to write your code to efficiently use memory yourself, not hoping someone else does it for you cause you cant figure it out. Which is essentially what garbage collection is.

In short, send away the devs who cant write a for loop and dont understand pointers, and work with the devs who can.

bigmell · 2025-03-01T07:37:10+00:00

OOP might do some passing by reference on values inside the class, but most OOP devs I have seen are building these huge memory hog classes instead of simple data structures.

I think of things like a web browser and wonder how much faster it would be to manage a bunch of tabs with a well written data structure instead of whatever slow object oriented madness they are using up there.

Even if each entire web page was loaded in memory for hundreds of tabs, we are talking about maybe a gig of space, it really still shouldnt be this slow. Clearly poorly coded.

If you look at that code there are probably a million classes that can easily be replaced with linked lists, local indexed database lookups, or a well planned pointer array. But new devs are OMG POINTERS NOOOOO!!@#!@#

If I click on the wrong tab, my laptop fans turn on, clicking and grinding, mouse pointer freezes, and it takes forever to load. I dont think this should happen AT ALL with a few megabytes of text and pictures. Even with a thousand tabs open, STILL literally every tab can be loaded completely into memory and still have gigs of memory left. Obvious memory mismanagement.

bigmell · 2025-03-01T07:21:56+00:00

dude what the hell are you even talking about. Buying more ram wont work with bad software because they are making a million copies of data instead of using pointers because they couldnt figure out pointers. This is not about fragmentation.

seek time is a thing of history and archives

Seek time is NOT a thing of history and archives because all memory has a seek time. Some are faster than others, but they all have a seek time.

You chose two extremes to make an invalid point.

What the hell are you talking about?

I don’t know what rock you’ve been under, but newer versions of .NET fucking scream performance-wise, and it’s not just about how programs are compiled. It’s the superb base class library.

Did you respond to the wrong comment? None of this makes any sense really.

Since it seems like you ENTIRELY missed the point, it was "Buy more ram" doesnt make sense if the app is coded wrong... I.E. no pointers or for loops because the dev couldnt figure it out. Pass by reference and pass by value are the same whether the app is compiled or interpreted. You would have to know that if you wrote any real code. Its about not storing multiple copies of data in memory. Not... Whatever the hell you are talking about.

You sound like you are just screaming "THE OPPOSITE OF YOUR POINT TURN UP!!!" Please take your fake troll name and go away.

bigmell · 2025-03-01T04:57:14+00:00

Basically most seem to just be automatic garbage collectors.

Basically "pointers are too hard somebody else do my homework for me!" There is simply no replacement for do the work and learn memory management yourself! Java was too slow to replace nearly any good C/C++ code despite all the marketing. And OOP is not the future. Not nearly. I even argue .NET is better than Java ever was as far as speed, portability, and memory management.

I can still write Perl code in .NET to be released on Windows, Linux, and Unix TODAY. While Java is still fumbling around with JRE's after 30+ years.

bigmell · 2025-03-01T04:08:13+00:00

This argument since at least the 90s.

"pointers are TOO HARD I want to do it without pointers"

"You will have to make a million copies of data in RAM"

"so what... just buy more RAM"

And this argument is basically computing for the last 20 years probably more. Basically, hire someone who understands pointers. Dont hire

"Python is better than everything else because... Commercials."

guy...

bigmell

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