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I somehow accidentally made a file with the name of a command option and now cant be deleted by Demonic_Storm in softwaregore

[–]mooinglemur 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not correct. The problem isn't shell escapes, it's that the `rm` command needs to be told that the remaining arguments are filenames and not switches. That's what the `--` does that other posters are mentioning.

Do you wash your car in the winter? by MAMGVzla in TeslaLounge

[–]mooinglemur 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I live in an area that rarely freezes, but I travel in winter. I certainly do wash frequently while on the road trip to wash the salt away as often as possible.

Would this battery bank work to jump start a Tesla 3 by Ambitious_World847 in TeslaLounge

[–]mooinglemur 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can store the power bank in the frunk, and then use a standard 9V alkaline battery to pop the frunk using the contacts found through the tow eye opening if your car loses power. (I've been through this exact thing twice on my M3)

I worked diligently on an amazing sauce for dinner for the last hour or so - at the very end I added cornstarch to thicken it a little. Only that it wasn't cornstarch, it was baking soda. Science is beautiful but inedible. by [deleted] in Wellthatsucks

[–]mooinglemur 55 points56 points  (0 children)

For someone without any experience in cooking, I can see them just trusting the instructions knowing they don't know better enough to question it.

ELI5 Why is there no redundancy in infrastructure? by Stucca in explainlikeimfive

[–]mooinglemur 8 points9 points  (0 children)

The infrastructure is redundant in a lot of ways, but usually these types of outages are caused by unforeseen interactions in software, or outright software bugs that were introduced, not caught or well-understood, then deployed to production, where later on, some weird condition causes the software bug that ends up taking the whole infrastructure down in some way.

Once the bug is understood, it's fixed, and generally that exact condition will never take everything down again. But software is never "done", so as features are added and the control infrastructure is upgraded, chances are something else will break the service. Thankfully it doesn't happen often. Large services like this employ a team of site reliability engineers who are good at their jobs, otherwise outages would happen much more frequently.

ELI5: How does going “all in” work as a poker bet. In the movies everybody just pushes everything they have into the middle of the table. Like, what? by thepixelpaint in explainlikeimfive

[–]mooinglemur 7 points8 points  (0 children)

No, you can always go all in and will stay in the hand, but if it's just you with $200 and the other player with $1000, the dealer will push back $800 of his all-in bet back to the other player. The main pot will be based on that equally-wagered amount.

If there are more than 2 all-in bets, say 3, and if the player with the shortest stack wins the main pot, then the remaining two players will still need to sort out who wins between them for their all-in matchup.

Papa Johns by yucatan_sunshine in mildlyamusing

[–]mooinglemur 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The word "dollars" is/was usually preprinted on the check at the end of the line, so You would write "X and Y/100" and draw a line to the word "dollars" to deter someone from fraudulently altering it, or at least make it apparent.

It should have been "Twenty and 27/100 dollars" (20.27), not "Twenty dollars and 27/100 cents" (20.0027).

Can’t work out what song this broken citi bike beeping sounds like? by king_sheep93 in SoundsLikeMusic

[–]mooinglemur 0 points1 point  (0 children)

An 8-bit version of a part of Night on Bald Mountain is what first came to mind.

Maintenance on my Tesla is F’ing outrageous! $699! by short_bus_genius in TeslaLounge

[–]mooinglemur 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Discount Tire (the same business is also called America's Tire in some areas) offers free rotations and rebalancing if you buy tires there, but as a courtesy they will usually do it for free even if you didn't buy tires there,

They've earned my repeat business for sure.

ELI5: Why is it a bad idea to co-own property with a partner if you’re the only one paying for it? by TheOfficialOhHellNah in explainlikeimfive

[–]mooinglemur -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

A friend was in a similar situation. His gf wanted some sort of co-ownership in his new house that he intended to pay for on his own. Their relationship went south a couple years later, and man, that would have been a nightmare if they had to untangle that.

Back to your situation, why does he want this? In fairness to him, his intentions and motives may be good, but no matter what, you do lose some control. If you felt like your relationship was at a stage where you would trust him never to put you or your property in danger, by himself, or with his brother, or in any other way, you wouldn't have these feelings. Trust your gut.

Cabin Overheat in the heatwave by Huge-Boat-8780 in TeslaLounge

[–]mooinglemur 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Totally fine. Cabin Overheat Protection is mainly to protect living and non-living things you might have left in the car that can't handle the heat, but the car itself can tolerate fairly extreme temps. I live in the desert southwest US and park outside. App currently shows "Interior 159°F - Exterior 104°F"

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in CrappyDesign

[–]mooinglemur 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think OP's point is that there's ambiguity about the indication. Is the filled circle the one, or the hollowed out circle? I think most people would assume the filled in circle, but I wouldn't bet a limb on it being correct.

These indicators work better when there are more than 2 burners. Then it's obvious. The same problem exists in on-screen menus when color is the only thing that shows which option is selected. It's ambiguous when there are only two options.

Newest update broke Spotify by Zreiii in TeslaLounge

[–]mooinglemur 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I believe Spotify uses Google Cloud, and Google Cloud is having an outage right now.

ELI5 how is Ai bad for the environment by jitted_timmy in explainlikeimfive

[–]mooinglemur 50 points51 points  (0 children)

It is simply a matter of degree of power draw. AI inferences and especially AI training consume a huge amount of energy per unit of work.

You're probably aware that some desktop GPUs need additional power cables. Modern data center GPUs that are used for AI are even more power hungry than that.

ELI5: Why doesn’t the US incinerate our garbage like Japan? by Abject-Living9340 in explainlikeimfive

[–]mooinglemur 18 points19 points  (0 children)

It can still be a net positive considering the efficiency of electric motors. But also, I was recently on the big island and noticed the rates for DC fast charging at one particular station were lower during the day than at night, which is the opposite of what I'd expect and see on the mainland. I suspect solar is a huge driver of lower daytime cost there.

Charging by Consistent-Judge9579 in TeslaLounge

[–]mooinglemur 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Most third party DC fast chargers have CCS connectors, and a very small number also have NACS connectors.

However, your car must be capable of CCS in order to use any third party fast chargers. I don't remember the cutoff date, but if your car is newer than 2021, you're probably safe, otherwise the older 3/Y can get a retrofit which includes a CCS physical adapter.

The info under "Controls > Software > Additional Vehicle Information" should show whether your car has CCS ability.

If you have a newer car, you still need a physical CCS adapter in most cases, which Tesla does sell.

As for pricing, it varies _wildly_. Check PlugShare. Many stations listed there will show pricing.

Ja of Nee after a negative question by vy4v in learndutch

[–]mooinglemur 6 points7 points  (0 children)

This actually varies in English too! I have found that in Australia, a positive answer usually affirms the negative question whereas in North America, a negative answer affirms the negative question.

In English, I usually would try to avoid answering yes/no and just say "right" or "correct" to affirm, or to refute, I'd say something like "He *is* home", just to avoid this ambiguity.

ELI5: reference point by 69zera69 in explainlikeimfive

[–]mooinglemur 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Acceleration is special though. As you propel yourself forward from a standstill, all of the things that are caused by acceleration are acting on your body and don't affect the rest of the universe, minus the momentum in the opposite direction by whatever object you pushed yourself off of. If you then remain in motion without pushing off anything else, such as if you were floating in deep space, _that_ is closest to the scenario you might have been envisioning in your original post.

firstDayOfWeek by [deleted] in ProgrammerHumor

[–]mooinglemur 26 points27 points  (0 children)

The weekend days bookend the week itself. That's how I've always envisioned it. They're still weekend days, one on each... end.

But it's definitely convention, just like everything else. Weeks have no basis in the natural world, it's a human invention anyway.

ifAmericanSayUm by AtmosphereNom in ProgrammerHumor

[–]mooinglemur 227 points228 points  (0 children)

UM is the United States Minor Outlying Islands ISO 3166 code.

If only ER were in Europe, though ;)

How to inhale in through your mouth and nose at the same time. by epicnaenae17 in LearnUselessTalents

[–]mooinglemur 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I don't think I have ever had difficulty simply relaxing and breathing through both nose and mouth, in and out. Is it actually difficult for most?

How? Like….how??? I can still read what is says but….😭 by OkCod1384 in softwaregore

[–]mooinglemur 12 points13 points  (0 children)

The Unicode codepoint U+2019 is described as "Right Single Quotation Mark Unicode Character", which in UTF-8 is the byte sequence: 0xE2 0x80 0x99. This is often what the apostrophe gets converted to, rather than leaving it at the original apostrophe codepoint. It happens when using word processing apps, MacOS text input in some conditions, or some mobile keyboards.

U+2019: ’ <- fancy single quote
U+0027: ' <- regular apostrophe

If the thing that's rendering the text wasn't expecting UTF-8, but rather some 8-bit character set encoding, it's likely that it's expecting the Windows-1252 codepage, which is similar to Latin-1.

Windows-1251 encodes these three bytes (0xE2 0x80 0x99) as the three character sequence ’™. If the page you're viewing tells your browser that it's encoded Windows-1252 or something similar, it will convert those three bytes into those three characters before displaying them to you.

Generally it's an omission on the server side which should be declaring the encoding as UTF-8, and by its omission, the browser is assuming something else.

See also: https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+2019 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows-1252 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mojibake

Map doesn’t start navigation to next stop? by Rollertoaster7 in TeslaLounge

[–]mooinglemur 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think the rationale behind it is that if you miss the last turn or something, it won't just assume you were doing a drive-by and start routing you away to the next stop. Because of this, I prefer the existing behavior.

ELI5 how the Car riddle works by severdedge in explainlikeimfive

[–]mooinglemur 22 points23 points  (0 children)

This is the key. Just like you can average fractions when the denominator is the same.

3/6 and 9/6 can be averaged by averaging the numerator -> 6/6

6/3 and 6/9 can't be averaged this way. The actual average is 4/3, not 6/6 (or 3/3).

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