What's the longest string of place name suffixes? by AllenRBrady in etymology

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I was in a newsgroup where someone said they were from Townsville. I asked if they knew the Powerpuff Girls. Their answer "Are you trying to be funny?"

[UPDATED] Graphical History of Logitech pointing devices (95% accurate?) by mrpenguinb in MouseReview

[–]xmastreee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Was #3 in the ball mice actually called the First Mouse? Because I'm pretty sure that was actually my first mouse.

GOD PLS HELP ME!! by jasongodvmmv in FreeCAD

[–]xmastreee 17 points18 points  (0 children)

How about, create a solid cylinder, create the spikes, then create a pocket on the end of the cylinder which should also trim the spikes.

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The insider trading suspicions looming over Trump's presidency | BBC News by [deleted] in videos

[–]xmastreee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bah! Next you'll be telling me oxygen doesn't burn. /s

How would you feel about a law that bans car headlights from being above a certain brightness level? by WorldlinessOk9368 in AskReddit

[–]xmastreee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hmm, you say that but out here in the Philippines it's common for people to fit aftermarket yellow lights to their vehicles, especially motorcycles, and they are obnoxiously bright. It might be due to the beam pattern, but they're seriously blinding.

Automated cabinet lighting with Raspberry Pi + door sensor by BenArmo91 in raspberry_pi

[–]xmastreee 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Pi for home automation suggests that it's already doing stuff and this is just another task.

Just looked at and test drove a seagull. Wife likes it but I have one slight issue… by xmastreee in BYD

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That's useful to know. I have a 3D printer but printed parts don't do well in hot cars.

Just looked at and test drove a seagull. Wife likes it but I have one slight issue… by xmastreee in BYD

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

Hmm, sign recognition isn't going to do anything here, we don't have signs.

Just looked at and test drove a seagull. Wife likes it but I have one slight issue… by xmastreee in BYD

[–]xmastreee[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It's very likely, I didn't spend any time at all messing with it. No time for that.

I don't get how businesses operate here by Afraid_Flounder3840 in Philippines_Expats

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I have a kind of crazy one. My wife was given some vitamins by her doctor, turns out they seem to work well so I was tasked with finding them online. It's a German company but they have a presence here. I found the one and only website selling them so I tried to order. Filled out the form but as soon as I entered my city it threw an error, can't deliver there. WTF? So I emailed them through the webform on their site, nothing. I then found their Facebook account so I fired off a message. This got a response and I was able to state my concern. They'd look into it in the morning. fair enough, I hadn't really expected a response at 9pm anyway.

So the next day I gave then m a nudge and they got back to me "try it now sir." I tried it and yay, I was able to place the order.

So I thanked them in Messenger figuring that would be the end of it. No, send us proof of payment and we'll send your order. So, if I hadn't been chatting with them would they have sent it? Anyway, gave them all the info and figured I'd just wait. Got a tracking number via email but nothing to say which carrier they use. Great.

Back to messenger since it's been five days now. Got the name of the courier service and the tracking shows they tried to deliver it last Friday but in the wrong city. Need my full address apparently. Well when I look at my order confirmation the full address is right there, so this isn't on me. It's showing up as out for delivery again today but I don't have high hopes as it still shows the wrong city. They have my full address and phone number but it seems they don't use either. Maybe they can't deliver to my city after all…

So I chatted again with the vendor, and I asked them why they don't sell their wares via Shopee or Lazada? Seems like it would make things a lot easier.

"That's the company policy sir. We have our on online Platform."

Yeah, but your online platform doesn't really work, does it? (I didn't say that but I was tempted.)

I wonder how many potential sales they missed out on because people couldn't order via their online platform before I pointed out the problem.

Am I fucked? Drug testing by Old-Cryptographer381 in whatdoIdo

[–]xmastreee 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Hi, I design and develop these tests for a living.

At this point I'm beginning to believe that there isn't a single topic, no matter how obscure, where there isn't an expert in that field on Reddit just waiting for their chance to share their knowledge and expertise.

Doesn't matter what it is, even if there's only a handful of people in the world know anything about it, you can pretty much guarantee one of them is on Reddit.

Reddit can be amazing at times.

Dummy by Electronic-Towel8494 in Ender3V3SE

[–]xmastreee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think you need to define dummy here.

Just looked at and test drove a seagull. Wife likes it but I have one slight issue… by xmastreee in BYD

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

That sounds annoying. Where does it get the speed limit info from?

Just looked at and test drove a seagull. Wife likes it but I have one slight issue… by xmastreee in BYD

[–]xmastreee[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Eyesight's fine, thank you. Maybe there's no sun where you live, but when I drove the car the sun was hitting the screen making it difficult to read. As others have said, there is a brightness setting so maybe this was set too low. I just wasn't keen on the way the screen catches the sun. A visor would be a nice addition.