K‮ly‬e @khird@qoto.org

@dimsumthinking @Shayman I was trying to make sense of the post and wondered if it meant lunar months. It'd naively be in the 200ish range if they're independent, but, I dunno, maybe there's some weird pattern - a lunar month is pretty close to four weeks, and I wouldn't be shocked to work out the math to find that the excess has lined up just right to make the distribution really nonuniform.

Then I remembered admiring a waxing crescent moon this week and that hypothesis kinda fell apart

@Shayman I made something to that effect actually for the US spec. Very crude but the idea was it superimposes the minimum and maximum heights for various features (chin, eyes, top of head) and you pan/zoom until everything's between the lines, then it crops and positions it so it fits the standard 4"-by-6" size and you can cut it out (which sell for 35c as opposed to 15 or 20 USD to order the 2"-by-2" size required by the passport office).

Obviously it can't check if you're wearing glasses or making a funny face or anything, but with a bit of human judgement it makes it possible to verify there isn't a formatting error that would invalidate it.

The issue for Canadian requirements is that the photos have to be taken by a photographer who signs and dates them, so you'd need to go once, have your photo taken and get a digital copy, verify it, and then go back to have him print, sign, and date the physical version.

This metal plate was just installed recently. Emergencies are now prohibited on the premises.

@Shayman and the dash in a phone number separates the exchange code from the station code (and separates the area code from the exchange code in ten-digit numbers). This means that any town large enough to have its own telephone exchange gets assigned a block of ten thousand numbers (10⁴ station codes) even if it serves far fewer phones than that.

@Shayman

I thought it was gonna be in Edmonton this year actually:

"Holiday Monday features some of the league’s fiercest rivals: the Tiger-Cats welcome the Argos to Hamilton and the Elks host the Stampeders." So it's Stamps fans that'll have to drive.

https://www.cfl.ca/2022/12/13/circle-your-calendars-cfl-releases-full-2023-schedule/

"In Labour Day action, the Ticats host the Argos and the Elks welcome the Stampeders to their stomping grounds at Commonwealth Stadium."

https://www.tsn.ca/cfl/cfl-releases-2023-season-schedule-with-new-twist-1.1892688

@AnthonyReimer

@realcaseyrollins I must be misunderstanding. Generally you can put in a higher-power PSU without ill effect; the notion that a motherboard only supports up to a certain wattage is odd. It draws a certain amount of current at a particular voltage, and your PSU just has to maintain the rail at the correct voltage. A bigger PSU can maintain the voltage in the face of you drawing a greater current, but it isn't going to overvolt your other components. You can even run it completely unloaded and measure the potential across its outputs with a multimeter - it's not going to spike up to infinity trying to force current through the disconnected wires.

There's a partial exception if you swap between consumer/workstation/server/gaming PSUs or ones of very different age. The reason is that there are a few different rails, and, at different points in time and across different market segments, the demand for current on each rail has changed. So you may buy a model that has a higher total rating, but has *less* power available on a particular rail you need, because it's designed for applications where that rail is used less.

@RL_Dane Looking further, I think it was actually hdajackretask, not hda-analyzer

@RL_Dane there's a utility I used at one point that can remap the sound jacks, so you can use the mic as line out. I think it was this, but I'm afraid I don't remember for certain and the machine in question is long gone, so I can't check.

https://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/HDA_Analyzer

If your mic jack is TS, it'll be mono output. If it's TRS, you may be able to get stereo.

@lapingvino I've seen such situations too - but I still think the marker is useful despite not being infallible.

The most reasonable norm would seem to be for the recipient of advice to ask the giver as to his whereabouts, if he suspects it might matter. That seems nicer than expecting someone to disclose his location as a matter of course, especially when he's doing something to help others.

It's not just Americans who mistakenly assume their experiences are universal - my favourite example is actually Australians trying to get their minds around the northern hemisphere school year. That there isn't a perfect one-to-one correspondence between calendar year and grade level is hard to imagine without experiencing it for oneself.

@lapingvino If they're offering their advice in American English, that they're in the US seems as good a default assumption as any. I think it might make sense to clarify if they're speaking some language that suggests another origin.

On the other hand... free advice is worth what you paid for it, right? So you should exercise due diligence in verifying it *anyway*, even if it comes from someone you know to be your countryman. If you follow advice from random strangers on the Internet, "it assumes I'm American" is probably not the failure mode about which I'd worry most.

@yerald IEEE

@trinsec @skanman it's not that it works loose from the frame, it's that the frame itself (really just some plastic ribs moulded into the thin bottom shell) cracks away from being overstressed. The problem is that the hinge plate is only a centimetre or two wide, perpendicular to the hinge axis, whereas the screen is maybe twenty centimetres tall. So when the laptop is in use, and the screen is opened up to maybe 120 degrees, its weight has a big mechanical advantage.

I've lost two consecutive HP laptops to this failure mode. My hypothesis is that they went for parts commonality, since they have a series that runs from 13 up to 17 inch screens, and the hinges aren't deep enough to effectively distribute the weight of the larger screens.