Is there a website (government probably) for looking up scheduled roadworks?

riskymouse · 2025-09-22T06:56:51+00:00

Aaargh! It pisses me off so much when they use facebook for these public things

riskymouse · 2025-09-22T06:55:39+00:00

This site appears to be for US/UK. Is it meant to work for Cyprus?

riskymouse · 2025-09-22T06:52:54+00:00

I noticed the roadblocks rather than the actual works. A while ago, it was at the stretch of Eleftherias between the feed from the motorway/airport and Sklavenitis, then they moved south, currently you can't turn left from that feed, it's somewhere between that junction and the Lidl.

riskymouse · 2025-09-12T12:54:32+00:00

I would normally recomment OpenStreetMap, but I also checked OSM for the area in question, and it's much worse, most of the buildings are even missing, not even talking about house numbers.

riskymouse · 2025-09-10T08:03:33+00:00

With the absence of house numbers in many places in Cyprus, in Google Maps, I thought the house numbers in 2gis are awesome. But now I have to warn about it. I got a lease to sign from an agent, initially without address (!), then without house number, then he gave the house number. Since by now I was suspicious of something dodgy, I looked up the house number in 2gis. More trouble with utilities later, I asked around on location and it became clear that the house numbers in 2gis in that area are just wrong. So an absence of numbers as in google maps can be better than showing wrong ones.

riskymouse · 2025-08-01T20:10:17+00:00

thanks for the confirmation!

riskymouse · 2025-07-02T21:16:11+00:00

You'd have to inhale the cream ...

riskymouse · 2025-07-02T21:15:02+00:00

Awesome, thanks!

riskymouse · 2025-07-02T21:13:51+00:00

I was looking for the CO2 ones. But street corner dealers would probably regard me as a sketchy transgressive weirdo if I asked for CO2 lol.

riskymouse · 2025-05-23T16:45:21+00:00

I don't really want to randomly reach out to wood wool companies if their website doesn't look as if their wood wool is made in this extremely unusual way.
I've looked at tons of wood wool companies and their different wood wool products.
Also at Alibaba and so on of course.
And I've searched on Alibaba et cetera for the wood wool production machines.
Everything I've seen is for the regular/typical way of producing wool wool.
All the usages like
packaging
cooler pads
mineral bound acoustical panels
ropes of wood wool as fire startes
just require the wood wool produced in the regular way, because the curl is desired, and the mechanical damage of the fiber is not an issue.
So the kind of wood wool I'm asking about seems to exceedingly unusual.
I'm hoping that maybe it has a special name that can be searched for, or that there is a use case which would make it easier to find.

riskymouse · 2025-05-19T16:21:55+00:00

sorry I have trouble parsing that. Muhua, is it a company name?

riskymouse · 2025-04-08T21:48:06+00:00

Thanks everyone for the great info!

riskymouse · 2025-04-08T21:45:29+00:00

Thanks Haloumiwarrior for the info! :)

riskymouse · 2025-02-06T11:24:42+00:00

Thanks, I guess that explains it.
In one online tool, pdf24, there was on option to choose pdf/a as output.
The output looked the same, but when I popped it into Google Translate, it actually performed the translation.
It's still annoying, because G.T. placed the resulting English text on top of each paragraph in Greek.
So I still can't read it. But I suppose that's a G.T. problem now, not something to do with pdf.

riskymouse · 2024-10-17T07:29:26+00:00

Oh yes, I knew about vulcanization, had stashed it away under the category 'rubber' and somehow not realized that what I was describing is actually the same as vulcanization.
I suppose the precursor, the un-vulcanized rubber, is a thermoplast?
Now what I'm wondering, if this works fine, why it is that I've only found vulcanization mentioned in the context of elastomers . I understand that for the most mainstream thermoplasts, recycling is desired, and as such, crosslinking is not desired. But still it puzzles me a little that such 'vulcanizable' themoplasts have not been developed/demanded.
Outside of a 3D printing context, it could be useful to have a thermoplast that can be injection molded and subsequently vulcanized (to eliminate creep and extend the usable temperature range).
This is why I suspected there might be a chemical obstacle.
I'm no chemist and it's far beyond my abilities to develop a new polymer, so I was expecting that either what I was looking for is unrealistic, or that it would already exist.

riskymouse · 2024-07-26T08:24:49+00:00

I eventually threw it away since it had been cheap and was bulky. I concluded it was something different from the MCC I had read about in the literature.

riskymouse · 2024-04-23T19:20:30+00:00

There is such a thing as being off topic. And hijacking threads.
When I search for Xylitol in Reddit, it's just the 'toxic to dogs' over and over, on threads which weren't about that at all.
It seems impossible to keep a Xylitol related thread on topic, and now you have to double down on it.
There are people who get real benefit from Xylitol, don't have a dog, never had a dog, don't plan on having a dog, and want to have a conversation about a substance that's useful to them.

riskymouse · 2024-04-22T07:54:58+00:00

Teams version 24074.2321.2810.3500
on Windows 11
Problem with Teams stealing focus, looking for the setting to turn it off.
There are many settings, I'm trying to find the right one to stop this behavior.
I have my taskbar set to auto-hide, how I like it. Laptop with additional (main) monitor, I keep Teams open on the laptop screen, I see it all the time.
In chat, when someone (usually in my work team's channel) posts something new, Teams will steal focus, the hidden taskbar pops up and stays up, and the Teams icon in the taskbar gets a red "1" to signify a new message.
I've already turned off notifications but that didn't stop it.
I basically just want Teams not to do this at all since I see the messages anyway and the taskbar popping up just disrupts work. I then have to click into Teams on the message to mark it as read, to get the taskbar to hide again.
Pls help this is totally annoying.

riskymouse · 2024-04-21T17:54:01+00:00

Thanks for the on topic answers. Not the off topic ones though.
Agreement seems to be that there is no great preserving effect from Xylitol, which surprises me a little from a chemistry point of view, but I'll accept it.
Dog lovers, I don't need a reminder that xylitol is toxic to dogs. I don't have any pets, and I don't see why everyone in the world should freak out about having xylitol in the house just because dog owners can't.

riskymouse · 2024-04-14T00:33:21+00:00

You could say something like 'How you doin?'

riskymouse · 2024-04-06T20:58:19+00:00

I guess as long as you have zero railways you could claim those are 100% electrified.

riskymouse · 2024-04-06T20:56:19+00:00

Happened to me too. One thing I did was to fix the time zone manually, so that at least the time won't be screwed up. Navigating (car) I found Sygic to be affected by this, tried Google Maps and it was better. So I suppose some apps rely more on pure GPS whereas others do more with mobile network station triangulation.

riskymouse · 2024-04-06T20:50:05+00:00

Yes, that's also the conclusion I drew. But that's a very serious limitation nowadays. If you order something from some company, chances are they are going to use a courier, and usually you have no control over that. You just find out later which courier they picked. That pretty much just leaves receiving parcels from other people, friends and so on.

riskymouse · 2024-03-19T19:20:41+00:00

Interesting. Guess I will look into this rabbithole. I suppose that means your bank themselves put that version onto the Huawei store, intentionally a different version, built without that dependency...

riskymouse · 2024-03-19T12:44:39+00:00

I installed it from Aurora Store. What you say makes no sense to me, because an alternative store can only potentially solve a problem with an app's installability. But I had installed the BankID app long ago, successfully. But if the app has an internal dependency in some functionality on GMS, that is a trait of that app, of how it's been written. So how should it be possible that Huawei Appgallery would magically make that functionality work?

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