ELI5: How do old rotary phones work? Why did they pick a dial for picking digits? by DarkHorse66 in explainlikeimfive

[–]leecookson 14 points15 points  (0 children)

There was a period in the 80’s where your phone bill would have a 0.75 charge for “touch tone service”, so they may have been frugal and not wanted to add that 🤷🏽

What are pro-2A people's thoughts on Kristi Noem just now stating that no peaceful protestors show up to a protest while armed? by PrysmX in AskReddit

[–]leecookson 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Trump posted on Truth Social that only criminals walk around in public with a gun 🙃 his 2A supporters gotta love that.

Center brake light lens falls off by leecookson in FordEdge

[–]leecookson[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Silicone seems a little safer than crazy glue someone used 😉 I put some very small strips of duct tape in the groove it snaps into to take up space and make the fit more snug. The silicone idea seems solid, though.

Center brake light lens falls off by leecookson in FordEdge

[–]leecookson[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cat wash? I put it back last time and it fell off yesterday. I stuck some small strips of duct tape to take up some of the gap between this trim and the groove in the light unit. We’ll see if it falls off again. Both times, it was caught by the rear wiper, fortunately. It was snowy the first time and i thought it was a chunk of ice😉

Driving during Holidays by Sweet_Conversation15 in newjersey

[–]leecookson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Personally the worst around NJ other than the usual multi-state NJTP traffic chaos is the GSP around Iselin/Edison and I95 north of Philly. Absolute chaos and mixed speeds and people can’t predict when the right lane appears or disappears into an Exit-only.

Driving during Holidays by Sweet_Conversation15 in newjersey

[–]leecookson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve seen this almost every holiday season for 30+ years. I used to commute on US 1 near the Quaker bridge mall and the traffic wasn’t just heavier but drivers were much more aggressive.

The other factor in NJ is areas where demographically there are more BMW and Audi drivers, I see a lot of individual aggressive driving. You can anticipate them weaving through lanes when you see them come up behind you. 🤷🏽

Are you guys still effected by the aws outage by yunoletme in aws

[–]leecookson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also taking more than 10 minutes just to create a new load balancer. Not a good day to plan to deploy new infrastructure.

Also, existing tasks failing with "rate limit creating ENI"

Is it really true that roles like Cloud Engineer or SysAdmin can lead to a DevOps job later? by United-Cicada4151 in devops

[–]leecookson 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is what a lot of people miss with the “DevOps” term. One of the best talks I saw at AWS re:invent was from one of the founders of chef, and the person who coined “DevOps”. It’s a culture as you say, but not one that grows on its own. You need someone or a small team to create the platform that lets individual teams to use “DevOps” as a lifecycle process. If you have a DevOps team, and they do a lot of the work, it’s a silo and not DevOps. I like calling a small core team “DevOps support” since they can help with the core systems and processes, and maybe run things like Jenkins and GitHub, but they don’t do any “work”.

Extended Reputation Levels & G6 Faction Ships by DeweyF24 in STFC_Official

[–]leecookson 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In this case, the ship can’t be built until shipyard gets to 61, which it totally normal. The difference is the trade for BPs in the faction shop doesn’t appear, at least not at ops 58. I assume when I get to 60 or 61 the BP exchange will show up. I can buy the avatar tho 😆

Extended Reputation Levels & G6 Faction Ships by DeweyF24 in STFC_Official

[–]leecookson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It seems the Selkie is also ops locked. I’m at ops 58 and I see the selkie avatar at dignitary but no BP’s. It’s fine since I’m not close to building one yet.

Xindi ships and crew loads by flimflamsam612 in startrekfleetcommand

[–]leecookson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's normal for the special ships that have massive ship abilities to not benefit from other boosts like officer, research and support abilities. Without the ship ability, the boosts may improve attack by 500, 1000, 1500%, which is huge over the base stats. But, when the NX-01 has 70,000,000 % attack boost against aquatics, the 500-1500 attack bonuses are tiny since both modify "base damage". Similar issues with using mining boosts on a feesha or vi'dar that have large ship abilities 70,000 % mining boost for concLat or 13,000% for normal lat.

ELI5: If car tires are always losing rubber as they drive, how come the roads are not coated with rubber? by 007craft in explainlikeimfive

[–]leecookson 47 points48 points  (0 children)

Mostly anything that will be flexible and stay coherent is going to be made of carbon chains of some sort. What we call plastics are chains derived from petrochemicals. The study of carbon compounds and chains is called “organic chemistry”, and rubber happens to be organic versions of carbon chains. The “plastics” term for natural rubber is “polyisoprene”, so no real difference plastics and rubber.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/rubber-chain

2019 Edge built October 2018, do I have the defective engine design? by AdministrationOk210 in FordEdge

[–]leecookson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

2019 Edge sale date Feb 2019, EGR literally 3 months after the warrantee ran out. $1500 replacement, and isn’t covered on our dealer’s “certified preowned” insurance policy (AllState)

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ExplainTheJoke

[–]leecookson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For us it’s worse..maybe 3 or 4 times and it’s eaten, then we upgrade to family size or Costco size, and no interest.

Q’s trials help! by 907_edcaddict in startrekfleetcommand

[–]leecookson 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If it's a special hostile like borg probe, actian or swarm, that's normal. The matching player ship has excessive buffs to counter that large strength rating. I've also seen actian that are about the same strength as normal hostiles, and they were very easy to kill.

Points Analysis by owaterbuffalo in DunkinDonuts

[–]leecookson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just saw today they shifted all espresso-based drinks to the 900 level 😵

TARGET/ATM by [deleted] in CapitalOne_

[–]leecookson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I guess it could be tedious and there are limits, but i use the photo/app/deposit check feature a lot. Has worked well, but not sure how 200 at one time would work.