#oops
Oh shit...
My Pilot 823 decided to commit mechanical suicide as the entire plunger just fell out when I went to fill it!
Turns out the 823 nib fits PERFECTLY in my WingSung 699. With a slimmer profile, the 699 is more comfortable to use, and honestly, I prefer it over the Pilot
(and it's cheaper)
With the 823 nib, it's pure writing bliss. But I'm still a miffed a £200+ pen broke like this
Team expensive or budget clone... what side are you on?
McDonald's PAC donated $1,000 to Sen. Bob Menendez's, D-NJ, campaign on June 17.
That's the same day Menendez reported to prison to begin an 11-year sentence for accepting bribes.
(Note: though, not funny for recovering alcoholics or people allergic to alcohol)
BBC: Warning issued after US energy drink cans accidentally filled with vodka
"US authorities are warning consumers of Celsius energy drinks to check their cans after some were accidently filled with vodka.
The US Food & Drug Administration (USFDA) issued the warning for the Astro Vibe Blue Razz edition of the drink.
The mix-up came about after a packaging supplier mistakenly shipped empty Celsius cans to the vodka seltzer company High Noon, which filled them with alcohol."
@BorrisInABox Lol, because of course it did #oops. This monstrocity of a remix did not result in a 10year time-lapse. At least, it hopefully didn't *checks date*
what controls when submenus open downward vs when they open upward?
Here on the 'don, my 'emojis' submenu typically opens downward (boo - it often goes past the bottom of the screen) on a first try, and upward (yay! always works) on a second try.
Screencaps from a submenu in calendly.com that opens downward (yay! all options visible!) when it's the at the top of a list, but upwards (boo! opens *behind* a spacer that obscures several options).
#UCaaS: Unintended Consequences as a Service
It's part of everything you buy anyway... Stop denying it.
Ouch. A brand-new ANA 787-10 on delivery from the Boeing 787 factory in Charleston, South Carolina #KCHS on July 18 was taxiing out and clipped its wingtip against the tail of a parked Breeze Airways A220-300. The A220 had diverted to Charleston and was waiting for fuel with passengers aboard. 2 injuries aboard the A220. Both aircraft were taken out of service for repairs. https://asn.flightsafety.org/wikibase/528264 #aviation #travel #avgeek #oops
The Big OOPs:
Anatomy of a Thirty-five-year Mistake – BSC 2025
by Casey Muratori
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wo84LFzx5nI
I don't watch or attend a lot of conferences and talks these days, probably for the same reasons you shouldn't watch as much tv and believe it all as you used to.
But to me, at least, this is a deep and serious one worth your time in a fundamental way. If you are a programmer who actually cares about code, anyway.
I just cost myself several very puzzling hours over the course of a few days, because I forgot the first rule of debugging electronic circuits.
It's the connector.
It's always the connector.
I'd been having trouble getting some of my guitar effects modules to work correctly - older ones that I knew worked were giving me issues, and newly-made ones didn't pass any signal back through to the one they were connected to. I spent lots of time tracing through circuits trying to find where the signal was disappearing, and then trying to figure out *why* it was disappearing there. It wasn't until I happened to scope one of the wires in a cable at one end, followed by the other end, and found the signal disappeared somewhere in between...
It turns out some male-male JST XH cables I made were faulty - but not because of me. I'd bought premade pigtails, and just added another connector to the other end of the wires. Checking these more carefully, I found that 3 of the 6 I had made had one or more wires that weren't connected properly.
Taking them apart, it became clear why. Whoever set up the crimping machine when making those pigtails didn't do it right. A bunch of the wire crimps had the wire inserted way too far into the contact before it was crimped - so the wings that are supposed to make contact with the stripped portion of the wire were actually just closed on insulation. No contact at all.
Reminder to future me: check the connectors first!
Accidentally overtipped the pizza delivery guy by 20.00, I guess I made his day!
zfs on linux tip: use serialno based device names *not* /dev/sd# labels that are dynamically assigned (like say due to slightly different disk spin-up rates at boot).
If you fail to do that, zfs unmount POOL, zpool export POOL, zpool import -d /dev/disk/by-id/ POOL can get you fixed up.
"Vibe Coding Fiasco: AI Agent Goes Rogue, Deletes Company's Entire Database" by @PCMag - A company using Replit for #VibeCoding found that the system disobeyed a pre-release code freeze and then deleted a production database. There should be multiple levels of procedures and guardrails to prevent such a thing from happening. https://www.pcmag.com/news/vibe-coding-fiasco-replite-ai-agent-goes-rogue-deletes-company-database #AI #software #engineering #tech #WTF #oops
Lol just saw something about "AI software CEO on Jumbotron" 
#oops
Looks like I accidentally started an #FSCFriday on CCPEM... 
