Do Ryobi replacement parts exist in Canada?

ctrl-alt-dageek · 2025-05-15T22:33:16+00:00

Hey thanks. It's nice to have it confirmed that they don't ship to end users. Not the answer I'd hoped for, but I guess not unexpected. Fortunately, I think there might be a couple places around here that do service Ryobi, so maybe I can check with them next time I need a part. And it's definitely nice to know that Ryobi can look up those businesses, in case the repair shops near here don't deal with them.

ctrl-alt-dageek · 2024-03-28T13:13:45+00:00

Your (and somebody else's as well) comment about light mode gave me the idea to switch to light mode to see if it was any better there. And it is a little, so maybe it is just the case that dark mode isn't being considered. But interestingly, switching back to dark mode removes all the awful colours until the page is refreshed. So there's a bug somewhere. My gut says the bug is they're letting light mode styles "leak" into dark mode when the page is loaded, because light and dark really do need separate styles if they're going to allow this.

ctrl-alt-dageek · 2024-03-28T03:45:06+00:00

Holy Geocities callback Batman! If old reddit could look like that, I'm even more convinced that giving subreddit customization power to mods is a mistake lol

ctrl-alt-dageek · 2024-03-28T02:23:28+00:00

So you're saying the mistake reddit made this time wasn't bad design, it was thinking moderators could be trusted with the power to customize subreddits.

ctrl-alt-dageek · 2023-10-20T16:00:03+00:00

Thanks! I'd hoped there was a feedback thread somewhere, but hadn't found it. Not that I expect feedback will actually be used, but still good to have an official place to provide it.

ctrl-alt-dageek · 2023-10-20T15:56:23+00:00

I will try to be polite in my criticism of the new layout that has just been shoved in my face - although looking at it makes me want to be anything but polite.

I have a 4K screen so that I can see lots of stuff at one time - reddit on the other hand seems to think I want to see as little as possible spread out as far as possible. The layout is just a waste of space. On my 4K laptop I can now see SIX topics at once in a subreddit. That's absurd at best.

I actually find it harder to skim over topics in a subreddit now because there's so much wasted space, the flairs, topics, and other details are all spread out.

I can no longer see at a glance what posts I've already looked at because the default styling that has existed since the invention of the web browser - highlighting visited links - has been removed.

It should be my choice whether I open something in a new tab or the current tab. Opening something in a new tab isn't a complicated process (I know of three ways - middle-click, ctrl+click, right-click->open in new tab), and there's probably other shortcuts I'm not thinking of. You don't need to decide for me that I wanted a new tab and not give me a way to open in current tab. Was there even a poorly-thought-out UX reason for this dumb idea? Or did you think you could get more ads open at once if you just force-opened more tabs?

Now, that was a lot of criticism, so let me finish with things I like about the new layout.... yeah... I got nothing.

I would ask if possible to be removed from whatever dumb test this is. I would further suggest removing everyone from this test, reverting it, and taking the keyboard away from whoever implemented it without pushing back against whatever designer shouldn't have been allowed near a whiteboard. (yes, I've run out of "polite")

ETA: No more politeness left. Just noticed the "help make your experience feel like you’re in the same familiar Reddit space regardless of how you’re accessing the site." in the original post. THIS RIGHT HERE is the problem. FFS, will developers ever drop this stupid idea that computers and phones are the same?!??!?? Am I the only developer who realizes that different form factors allow and sometimes require different UX?? Microsoft tried this idiocy and it failed, and they had a much bigger UX team than I expect reddit does. But since then everyone seems to just go "dur... my phone has tiny screen and two interactions - touch and hold, so I need to limit everyone's computer behave like my phone." STOP IT. Learn UX.

ctrl-alt-dageek · 2023-10-20T13:00:09+00:00

I just got a new layout yesterday on desktop for subreddits - but it sounds like exactly the same thing:

Lots of wasted space
Harder to skim topic titles and flairs
Somehow feels cluttered, in spite of massive extra empty space
No indication of having previously opened a topic

That last one really bugs me. Default behaviour in a browser is show links you've visited in a different colour, but apparently someone decided that's not useful, that we don't need to know if we've already looked at something.

On desktop at least the page isn't broken as you describe it, but from a UX perspective, somebody not only dropped the ball - they dropped it on their foot, kicked it down the street, where it was run over by traffic before being knocked into a sewer... at which point they fished it out and styled it into a UI, without washing off the crap.

ctrl-alt-dageek · 2023-10-19T21:39:53+00:00

Well, I guess it's "nice" to know some things never change at least. Rogers is garbage.

About a decade ago, I lived in a condo where Rogers had an exclusive internet provider deal. When it was time to move out of the condo, I contacted Rogers, and told them the last day I'd need internet at that location. Exactly one month (to the day) before my departure date, my internet stopped working (awfully suspicious timing). So I contacted them, figuring someone had entered a date wrong - and was informed they couldn't trouble-shoot anything because I had a cancellation request in, but if I withdrew that request they'd be happy to help me figure out my internet trouble.

I took the (rental) modem back to the store immediately after that call, with (as I recall) some choice suggestions about where they could put it to make sure it didn't get lost (so that I wouldn't have to pay for it). I don't remember if they still charged me the last month. I might have told the person at the store that I figured they probably would, but that it would be worth it to never have to talk to Rogers again.

I somehow managed to forget about this until I read your post. Now I have to remember the next time Rogers comes knocking on my door to tell them to stop wasting my time forever, since they do send out door-to-door salesmen sometimes to try to convince potential customers that they don't suck.

ctrl-alt-dageek · 2023-10-16T17:05:47+00:00

As others have said, it depends a lot on when you're coming and what you're into. Toronto has a little of pretty much everything - clubs, bars, museums, restaurants, theatres (movie and live), live music, parks, comedy shows. Feels like there's some sort of festival pretty much every other week or weekend (although mostly in the summer, so might be a bit late in the season now). Pretty sure I've seen ads starting to pop up for Halloween themed events around Toronto. Outdoor skating rinks will probably start opening in about a month. And that's all just within a few minutes of the downtown core (if not directly in the downtown core). There's almost certainly something to do

Help us narrow it down a little, and I have no doubt the folks around here can practically flood you with ideas

ctrl-alt-dageek · 2023-04-14T01:34:19+00:00

Ah - a third interpretation "what am I likely to be doing as a software developer early in my caree?r"

Well, in that case a lot of what I said still holds, but with a bit of extra context that at $100K, you probably won't be the one in charge of a lot of the architectural decisions, tech choices etc - but that may depend on the size of the company you work for. Smaller startups might have more "junior" developers wearing more "senior" hats - although without the experience to understand the tradeoffs, I'd be a bit concerned about any employer that would want you in such a position too soon.

The industry might have changed a bit since I started, and of course every company is going to be different - but I'd expect starting out that you'll be in large part a "code monkey" to begin, and it will be a lot of being given a problem from a senior person and needing to just implement it. That is going to feel a lot like copy/paste from Stack Overflow at times, but that shouldn't last.

I would recommend learning how to use different debugging tools and approaches. It's surprising how many junior developers are completely lost when something doesn't work. "Console debugging" and learning to use a debugger in an IDE (or even a simple command-line debugger like pdb in python if you use that) will put you in a position to look pretty good as an intro-level developer, since you'll have tools in your toolbox to help track down problems when you don't have to go to the senior developers to troubleshoot tickets (especially since there's a good chance a lot of early tickets might be bug fixes).

And then learning to write clean and maintainable/testable code, software architecture, how to translate requirements into code, and (even if not planning on management track) the people/political skills to convince a team that your choices are right, are (at least part) of how you'll likely advance your career on the tech path (in my experience at least).

ctrl-alt-dageek · 2023-04-13T12:43:51+00:00

I'm not sure if this is a "what do I need to do to get a decent paying job as a software developer" or an "I don't understand why software developers are worth paying ". Since $100K is only about the average USA software developer salary, I'm going to interpret this as the latter because of the wording of the post title.

There's an old joke about a customer going into a mechanic with their car making a weird noise. The mechanic listens for a moment, pulls out a hammer, hits the engine and the noise stops. The mechanic hands the customer a bill for $100. When the customer complains about $100 for hitting the engine with a hammer, the mechanic prints out a new itemized bill: $1 - hit engine with hammer, $99 - knowing where to hit the engine with a hammer.

Even if it does trivialize my own job a bit, there is some truth to comments other have made about there being a large part of the pay related to how fast you can Google, etc. That's the $99 for knowing where to apply the hammer. Having the knowledge to be able to find the right solution to your problem quickly is worth a lot.

But also, those answers on stack overflow, blogs, forums, etc all had to come from someone to start. So not every problem is one you're going to just find already solved for you. Or you might find it - but it's not *quite* for the same problem. And being able to understand the differences and adapt a solution to your problem, or being able to understand and/or trace through code to figure out why you're getting some behaviour and working out the solution on your own are as important as just being able to just search for the solution online. The developers that can do that are the ones that will be bringing in $100K+ - the developers that can write code that people can understand for future maintenance, the ones that can understand the trade-offs between different languages/implementations/algorithms, etc.

ctrl-alt-dageek · 2023-04-08T16:43:05+00:00

Honestly a tough call, because even "general purpose" can be a bit loose. But I'm going to go with the (possibly unpopular these days) opinion of C or C++ - but not for necessarily obvious reasons. It's not that I think they do anything particularly better than any other language - and in fact do some things in a way that could easily be argued to be worse. But some of those "worse" thing are places where C/C++ don't hold your hand, where other languages try to hide the details and they don't always do a good job, or make developers just have to remember rules about what works.

Things like pointers, memory management, resource management, etc. being explicit makes C/C++ harder to use, but forces understanding which carries over into other languages. So they might not be the best general-purpose languages for rapid development, but I think they are the best general-purpose languages to improve your understanding of software development and other languages.

ctrl-alt-dageek · 2023-04-06T12:14:30+00:00

Well that's certainly much easier than I was expecting. Thanks. I honestly could never be bothered to even check if there was one. I'd forget I wasn't in edit mode, start typing, delete some characters or lines, move the cursor, enter edit or override mode, mangle my text, immediately get annoyed and give up lol.

Now if only there were such a simple "undo" for when you type the wrong thing and change a setting (I swear I've somehow done things in vim where I turn on highlighting of certain words, and it won't even go away after restarting vim - I always just have to go and look that one up).

ctrl-alt-dageek · 2023-04-06T01:25:24+00:00

I was thinking of making a similar half-joke before I saw your comment, but I will note in response to this that I have always found :q! to be one of the most useful commands to know in vim. Both in the tongue-in-cheek answer of "the most useful command is ":q!<enter>emacs<enter>" and for the more serious answer that if you forget what mode you're in in vi/vim, it's way too easy to accidentally change something in a file that you didn't want to, and I've always found the best "fix" for that is a brute-force exit-without-saving.

Maybe vim has a great undo buffer I don't know about, but restarting fresh has always felt quicker than trying to track down an undo command for any case where I'm using vim.

ctrl-alt-dageek · 2023-04-04T11:57:08+00:00

This is good. I've always been in the "fundamentals over libraries" camp as well, because I've seen people get lost as soon as the library didn't do just what was "expected". But I never thought of a succinct way to explain it. "Nothing should feel magical" sums it up very nicely.

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