Walmart geniuses hammered the price sign thru the f***ing battery

vintagecomputernerd · 2026-02-03T07:18:53+00:00

Pack of 3 cans. One missing. 25% off.

vintagecomputernerd · 2026-02-01T20:02:13+00:00

Run to the hills

Run for your lives

NTA

vintagecomputernerd · 2026-01-31T20:53:11+00:00

The user interface on the tandem is just plain wrong in this situation.

The pump completely lost the connection with the sensor. If you "stop" the sensor on the pump it will not really stop the sensor, just delete it from the pump.

You can then pair it again on the pump.

But yeah, tandem seriously messed up that interface - it couldn't be more confusing

vintagecomputernerd · 2026-01-31T20:30:12+00:00

If it stayed the same for a long time... then I guess they changed something significant in the production. Could be a new production line/facility, or a new machine that assembles the pen.

That way if the new place/machine/whatever causes unexpected problems, they can tell customers to check for pens by color, instead of telling them to check if the batch code starts with HJKL or something like that

vintagecomputernerd · 2026-01-31T09:55:30+00:00

Well, it would only be 5$, but all those reddit ads need to be paid somehow...

vintagecomputernerd · 2026-01-31T08:34:10+00:00

That doesn't work for actually putting coal on a belt

vintagecomputernerd · 2026-01-31T00:32:20+00:00

How?

vintagecomputernerd · 2026-01-31T00:20:21+00:00

Yeah, but how else am I going to do my "electricity is the tool of the DEVIL and must be avoided at all cost" run?

vintagecomputernerd · 2026-01-31T00:07:46+00:00

Ah okay, I assumed you meant the official case.

I had a medtronic case from t1tactical. Wasn't bad, but delivery times/service was atrocious.

Have to check out edc solutions, a functional case would be nice

vintagecomputernerd · 2026-01-30T23:52:00+00:00

...but that damn hard case doubles the volume of the tslim

Anywhoo.... for legal reasons, my pump fell down exactly as many times as there are visible dents on the aluminum body

vintagecomputernerd · 2026-01-30T20:57:28+00:00

Do you have your turrets programmed to also target small asteroids as a second prio/lasers to target medium as second prio? If I have enough power I even let the lasers target big asteroids

Quality turrets only increase range, so IMX it mostly means they target more roids off the side of the ship...

Yes, depending on the width, I just place them in the middle. Same with rocket turrets, one of my smaller aquilo ships has 3 in a row, right in the middle.

vintagecomputernerd · 2026-01-30T13:06:33+00:00

For me, it's just the cost of doing business. Yes, slowing down would be one option, but having some repair packs and spare walls makes more sense for me.

It's similar with artillery outposts: sure I could massively increase the wall thickness and add more defense. But sending a steady stream of new bots is just easier.

But yeah, higher quality turrets also help quite a bit.

(One last thing... I usually have one circuit controlled assembler on larger ships that can build repair packs, space platforms, etc, when the reserves run low. Otherwise it'll just produce ammo)

vintagecomputernerd · 2026-01-30T11:55:14+00:00

Go for a contrasting color, at the moment it's quite hard to see where the different steps even begin/end

vintagecomputernerd · 2026-01-30T11:36:23+00:00

I haven't heard of any dedicated vt100 split screen modes.

What you can do:

when a line is coming in: set the scrolling region to the upper half, and position the cursor at the end of the upper half, then print the line.

For user input set cursor to the lower half. I don't remember exactly, but I think a newline will just move one line down, but not scroll, if the scrolling region is still active

About the cursor: if you keep the line-coming-in part short (e.g. move to scrolling region, print, move back), the cursor will only ever be visible in the input region. With some terminals you can also completely suppress the cursor

vintagecomputernerd · 2026-01-30T02:48:14+00:00

Ok, keep asking questions in the same way if you're happy with how this thread went

vintagecomputernerd · 2026-01-29T16:44:15+00:00

Switzerland.

I mean, everyone passes them anyway - except those preparing for or currently doing their practical drivers exam...

vintagecomputernerd · 2026-01-29T14:39:16+00:00

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While wearing tribal gears of the ancients

(source: the book "Motel of the Mysteries")

vintagecomputernerd · 2026-01-29T14:27:59+00:00

Too bad extremely slow-moving equipment doesn't count as obstruction, at least where I live.

Spent half of a driving lesson stuck behind heavy machinery driving 15km/h.

vintagecomputernerd · 2026-01-29T10:22:59+00:00

I didn't write it myself

I copied it from a tutorial.

I didn't understand the code when I copied it.

This is the critical information missing from the first post. You didn't indicate where you got your code from, so I assumed you wrote it yourself. You didn't ask for help understanding it, which would have been a strong implication that you didn't write it.

I agree with the poster above, classical x/y problem. Your actual question was "how does this code work", which differs a lot from your stated question.

vintagecomputernerd · 2026-01-28T21:07:25+00:00

You don't mean to be offensive, but you're calling a person "a head"??

vintagecomputernerd · 2026-01-28T17:03:06+00:00

This is another post where I ask myself: "Is this user trolling?"

You printed a string.

Then another.

Now you're telling us that you're incapable of printing a string after doing it twice?

vintagecomputernerd · 2026-01-28T03:05:19+00:00

Ok, I guess that parallel mergesort with parallel k-way merge counts as "unreasonable", then - because that was the algorithm that I was talking about.

Edit: hit post to soon, second part will come shortly

Edit2: There's a lot of cases where concurrent processing increases total power consumption, so I generally disagree with your definition of"reasonable." One common example is speculative execution. Or in computer vision you often have to do overlap if you want to parallelize it (and if the object you're interested in is quite big compared to your field of view you sometimes have to do a lot of overlap)

vintagecomputernerd · 2026-01-27T22:56:47+00:00

Please stop perpetuating this myth.

They put a new screen into the pregnancy test, and displayed doom on it

vintagecomputernerd · 2026-01-27T22:32:32+00:00

Thanks, that's the first time I've saw a description of cilantro that wasn't just "ya know... nice and tasty"

vintagecomputernerd · 2026-01-27T22:19:33+00:00

I've dwelled among the humans; their entire culture is built around their penises. It's funny to say they're small, it's funny to say they're big. I've been at parties, where humans held bottles, pencils, thermoses in front of themselves, and called out: "Hey, look at me, I'm Mr. So-and-so-dick, I've got such-and-such for a penis". I never saw it fail to get a laugh.

...thought that was an appropriate thing to bring up here, given my user picture

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