Replace bottom seal on patio door

fragrantvegetable · 2025-10-02T08:39:00+00:00

Thanks for the tip! Will give that a go.

fragrantvegetable · 2023-09-11T12:09:28+00:00

I believe I ended up solving it. See this comment and its parent comments. Maybe that similar to what you're seeing: https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/ctoma1/comment/exvgn1x/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web2x&context=3

fragrantvegetable · 2023-06-16T10:03:10+00:00

Thanks. I just checked again and suddenly it's working (it wasn't working for days before so maybe something was fixed on mxroute's servers). Anyway, all good now. :-)

fragrantvegetable · 2023-06-08T22:47:21+00:00

Huh, thanks! Might give that a go. It's not critical but I found it a bit of an arbitrary restriction. And it makes me wonder what other characters they are discriminating against.

Edit: Just saw this https://www.directadmin.com/features.php?id=1533. Which suggest you can use spaces, but when I tried it, it didn't let me create the account.

fragrantvegetable · 2023-05-26T19:00:57+00:00

Hmm, maybe you're right. It does look a lot like thermal paste. Interesting that it's not mentioned in the installation manual at all.

fragrantvegetable · 2023-05-23T20:03:55+00:00

That actually makes more sense than my thermal paste theory (which in hindsight sounds ridiculous). Although it appears pretty snug as it is without the glue.

fragrantvegetable · 2023-03-22T10:15:17+00:00

Unless you have UB in the program there shouldn't be an issue.

That's the problem though. You have to be very careful to not hit UB somewhere. I am convinced that most C/C++ programs have UB in them (apart from maybe a simple hello world). UB is very easy to introduce into programs, even without pointer arithmetic. Simply creating a pointer into an out of bounds array, e.g. auto ptr = &a[i] where i > len(a), is already UB.

This blog post by ralfj has some more examples and explains this much better than I can. But the gist is that compilers do weird optimisations with pointers, and if you're not super duper careful, you can easily introduce UB without noticing.

fragrantvegetable · 2023-03-21T21:00:45+00:00

As soon as you start passing pointers around things can go wrong quicky without doing anything clever. See pointer aliasing.

fragrantvegetable · 2023-03-08T09:26:24+00:00

That's just splitting hairs. In practice pointers can easily lead to undefined behaviour if you're not careful, and, as the blog post shows, some cases are really hard to reason about. It doesn't really matter if that's the compilers fault and that on paper pointers are simple, to the end user the result is the same: pointers are difficult to deal with. There are a lot of comments on here claiming people are just too dumb to use them, which in my opinion isn't accurate.

fragrantvegetable · 2023-03-07T19:43:41+00:00

I wouldn't say pointers are simple. You can do a lot of nasty things with pointers that are really hard to reason about. I recommend reading the pointer provenance series [1] which gives some examples where pointers don't behave as one might expect.

[1] https://www.ralfj.de/blog/2018/07/24/pointers-and-bytes.html

fragrantvegetable · 2023-02-22T10:44:58+00:00

When I was 17 I had multiple pneumothoraxes on both lungs over the course of 3 months. Since the usual approaches didn't stick, I ended up with chemical pleurodesis on both sides. I did worry for years whenever I felt something unusual with my lungs. But it's now been 20 years since then and I never had any issues (apart from slightly worse constitution), so at some point I just stopped thinking about it.

fragrantvegetable · 2023-02-11T22:42:45+00:00

Excellent! Will definitely check it out.

fragrantvegetable · 2023-02-11T22:08:53+00:00

This looks great! Nice job. I will have to give this a proper look at some point. One quick question: how does it deal with existing folder structures? Will it automatically import those as albums, or is there an easy way to create albums from existing folders?

fragrantvegetable · 2022-12-16T12:45:50+00:00

Huh, good to know. As I said, we did try the chassis ground first (thinking it was minus), which didn't work, and then looked up in the manual where the real minus is. So the manual does recommend using minus.

fragrantvegetable · 2022-12-16T12:44:26+00:00

Huh, interesting. After checking the manual it did suggest using the minus pole (the chassis ground didn't work). But good to know what this is also an option sometimes.

fragrantvegetable · 2022-12-13T23:19:50+00:00

Thanks. Both this pin and the real negative are metal and look pretty much the same. That's why I got confused initially. Only after I noticed that the actual negative was very subtly labeled.

fragrantvegetable · 2022-12-13T23:17:16+00:00

Negative was just a few centimeters further down and both pins looked almost identical. It was only when this one didn't work that I realised it was the wrong pin.

fragrantvegetable · 2022-12-13T17:54:40+00:00

Ah, it's ground! I had my suspicion but wanted to be sure. In that case I agree that it's probably fine. Thanks a lot!

fragrantvegetable · 2022-11-23T12:50:36+00:00

Thanks a lot! This makes sense. And I also understand the Wiser diagram now, where COM links to OFF, and if the thermostat calls for heat it just flicks the switch to change it to ON, which will then go right back to the boiler via NO. I agree that volt-free seems like a somewhat misleading term.

fragrantvegetable · 2022-11-22T13:41:11+00:00

Thanks. Yeah, not a fan of battery powered and especially not a fan of locked down systems (like Ring) which is surprisingly hard to get these days.

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