Random Thoughts

[D-Dey65]

Again with Lebanon Station, Florida. I've never really liked the sign arrangements for the off-ramps from US 19-98 to FL 121 and Levy CR 336.
https://www.google.com/maps/@29.1638404,-82.639101,3a,75y,1.54h,90.58t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sMl34r3ecw3acy_2RpIaTSA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en&entry=ttu
The state road and county road shields should be on the same sign tree.

I know Kurumi's SignMaker page and similar ones would let you make big highway signs, but isn't there a similar program that let's you just make local signs?

[DriverDave]

Some of the moon missions took place during the Nixon-55 mph speed limit era. Did that speed limit apply to the luna Rover they were driving around? Wonder what its top speed was anyway?

[Big John]

Some of the moon missions took place during the Nixon-55 mph speed limit era. Did that speed limit apply to the luna Rover they were driving around? Wonder what its top speed was anyway?

The last manned mission to the moon was before the NMSL was enacted. There were a handful of unmanned flybys after Nixon left office and before the NMSL was repealed.

[GaryV]

Per Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Roving_Vehicle

The rovers were designed with a top speed of about 8 mph (13 km/h), although Eugene Cernan recorded a maximum speed of 11.2 mph (18.0 km/h), giving him the (unofficial) lunar land-speed record.

[kurumi]

Since people are often too busy to proofread, spell checkers should not only check for "is / is not a word", but also "is a legitimate word, but are you sure that's what you want".

For some embarrassing stuff that gets through, search Google for "pubic library" (that is, without the L). Not only libraries, but people's resumes, show up as links.

[kkt]

Since people are often too busy to proofread, spell checkers should not only check for "is / is not a word", but also "is a legitimate word, but are you sure that's what you want".

For some embarrassing stuff that gets through, search Google for "pubic library" (that is, without the L). Not only libraries, but people's resumes, show up as links.

Or, you know, people who cared could proofread their own writing.

[algorerhythms]

Since people are often too busy to proofread, spell checkers should not only check for "is / is not a word", but also "is a legitimate word, but are you sure that's what you want".

For some embarrassing stuff that gets through, search Google for "pubic library" (that is, without the L). Not only libraries, but people's resumes, show up as links.

Spell checkers are not smart enough to figure out if it's the correct word. I wish Apple would get that through their skulls, so the iPhone keyboard would stop second-guessing what I'm typing.

[1995hoo]

Since people are often too busy to proofread, spell checkers should not only check for "is / is not a word", but also "is a legitimate word, but are you sure that's what you want".

For some embarrassing stuff that gets through, search Google for "pubic library" (that is, without the L). Not only libraries, but people's resumes, show up as links.

Or, you know, people who cared could proofread their own writing.

One of the procedures my office has adopted for major written work product is that when we have almost finished with something, one of has Word read the document aloud. That can take a while (a 50-page document typically takes about two hours), but it's astonishing how helpful it is because there's always something. Even if there are no typos (there usually are), hearing it read out loud causes you to notice stylistic things to fix, like two avoidable instances of the same word in very short succession. You do have to pay attention to the screen when doing this. The software highlights the word (or sometimes words, like in the case of a date or a multi-word place name like "New York") it's reading at any given moment, and watching the screen is a big part of what helps you catch mistakes because sometimes your mind sees what it knows the document was meant to say and then hearing something else read is somewhat jarring.

Since people are often too busy to proofread, spell checkers should not only check for "is / is not a word", but also "is a legitimate word, but are you sure that's what you want".

For some embarrassing stuff that gets through, search Google for "pubic library" (that is, without the L). Not only libraries, but people's resumes, show up as links.

Spell checkers are not smart enough to figure out if it's the correct word. I wish Apple would get that through their skulls, so the iPhone keyboard would stop second-guessing what I'm typing.

You can turn that off on your iPhone. But the issue you raise about the correct word is why grammar-checking is part of word processing software these days. I find it to be somewhat rudimentary and not terribly helpful most of the time–I find often as not if it flags a word, it's because it doesn't recognize that the word has a technical use. For me, hearing the software read the document is more useful for that sort of thing.

[kphoger]

For some embarrassing stuff that gets through, search Google for "pubic library" (that is, without the L). Not only libraries, but people's resumes, show up as links.

The public library in the town I grew up in had the letter L fall off the building.  Or it was vandalized by mischievous teen-agers, which during my time there was at least as likely.  So it indeed said "PUB IC   LIBRARY" on the outside of the building for a time.

[kphoger]

Imagine a world in which you weren't prompted to change all of your passwords every so often.   

Imagine a world in which you had to change all of your passwords on the same day.   

[ZLoth]

Imagine a world in which you weren't prompted to change all of your passwords every so often.   

Imagine a world in which you had to change all of your passwords on the same day.   

I did that at the end of the year after LastPass had a bleeping data breach where they lost their secrets, I migrated to a new password, and changed every... single... password.

[kkt]

It amazes me that LastPass is still in business after that.

[US 89]

Imagine a world in which you weren't prompted to change all of your passwords every so often.   

Imagine a world in which you had to change all of your passwords on the same day.   

I wish my passwords would change on the same day. At work, we have a couple of different systems with separate passwords, which have slightly different mandatory reset intervals. I started them out as all the same one, but now I have a hard time keeping straight which ones I've had to change and what my new passwords are.

[kphoger]

Imagine a world in which you weren't prompted to change all of your passwords every so often.   

Imagine a world in which you had to change all of your passwords on the same day.   

I wish my passwords would change on the same day. At work, we have a couple of different systems with separate passwords, which have slightly different mandatory reset intervals. I started them out as all the same one, but now I have a hard time keeping straight which ones I've had to change and what my new passwords are.

This would only help if I used the same password for everything.  Unfortunately, not only is that a bad idea from a security perspective, but different programs and sites have different parameters for what makes an acceptable password.  So, for example, if SmutMaster789 might work for 90% of my passwords, but then I might have to get access to something that requires a "special character", or that limits password length to 12 digits, or disallows a string of three digits in numerical order, or whatever.

[ZLoth]

So, for example, if SmutMaster789 might work for 90% of my passwords.

According to How Secure Is My Password?, it would take 1 hundred thousand years to crack that password. Now, if you added a exclamation point at the end, then it becomes 2 hundred million years. I think they are exaggerating, and it'll take less time than that. Personally, I just use a random generator that includes a upper and lowercase letter, number, and special symbol. But, a unique password for each site is a must.

[Scott5114]

Imagine a world in which you weren't prompted to change all of your passwords every so often.   

Imagine a world in which you had to change all of your passwords on the same day.   

I wish my passwords would change on the same day. At work, we have a couple of different systems with separate passwords, which have slightly different mandatory reset intervals. I started them out as all the same one, but now I have a hard time keeping straight which ones I've had to change and what my new passwords are.

I had that problem when I worked at the casino, so what I would do is just go through and manually update the passwords to all of them whenever the first one went off.

(And yes, I used the same password to all of them. While I get the rationale of 'every account must have a different password', I figured I'd be just as fired if someone breached one account as if they breached all of them, so it wasn't worth the extra mental overhead to me to have to remember four different mandatory-change passwords. I am also not all that fastidious with my personal account passwords. I only tend to use different passwords for each of the sites I have advanced privileges on, such as this one. For all of the nonsense capitalism sites...man, who cares if someone hacks my Pizza Hut account?)

[kphoger]

Imagine a world in which you weren't prompted to change all of your passwords every so often.   

Imagine a world in which you had to change all of your passwords on the same day.   

I wish my passwords would change on the same day. At work, we have a couple of different systems with separate passwords, which have slightly different mandatory reset intervals. I started them out as all the same one, but now I have a hard time keeping straight which ones I've had to change and what my new passwords are.

I had that problem when I worked at the casino, so what I would do is just go through and manually update the passwords to all of them whenever the first one went off.

(And yes, I used the same password to all of them. While I get the rationale of 'every account must have a different password', I figured I'd be just as fired if someone breached one account as if they breached all of them, so it wasn't worth the extra mental overhead to me to have to remember four different mandatory-change passwords. I am also not all that fastidious with my personal account passwords. I only tend to use different passwords for each of the sites I have advanced privileges on, such as this one. For all of the nonsense capitalism sites...man, who cares if someone hacks my Pizza Hut account?)

Having all my passwords be the same isn't even possible for me.  For example, I access an operations management system for Charter Communications via MSO-provided VPN and gateway.  The VPN requires that the password be at least 10 characters and have at least one "special character".  The management system in the gateway–on the other hand–you know, the thing I have the VPN for to begin with–can only handle a password of exactly 8 characters, and none of them can be a "special character".

[Poiponen13]

Happy Gemerton's Day!

[GaryV]

Happy Gemerton's Day!

Except in the Southern Hemisphere, where it happens in March.

[Poiponen13]

Happy Gemerton's Day!

Except in the Southern Hemisphere, where it happens in March.

What does that mean? Is always happens in September or August.

[kphoger]

What does that mean?

It means that Gemerton's Day occurs in March for locations south of the Equator.

Is always happens in September or August.

Not in the Southern Hemisphere^[1], as already noted by |GaryV|.

[D-Dey65]

Who here has had SD cards where the files suddenly stop showing up on your PC, but still wind up appearing on somebody else's PC? 

[Poiponen13]

What does that mean?

It means that Gemerton's Day occurs in March for locations south of the Equator.

It can't. In the same vein, Easter would happen in September in Southern Hemisphere. It does fall in spring rather than fall in Southern Hemisphere, but the thing is that September is a spring month and March a fall month there.

[GaryV]

What does that mean?

It means that Gemerton's Day occurs in March for locations south of the Equator.

It can't. In the same vein, Easter would happen in September in Southern Hemisphere. It does fall in spring rather than fall in Southern Hemisphere, but the thing is that September is a spring month and March a fall month there.

If you can make stuff up, why can't I? Gemerton is a fall holiday, for everyone.

[Poiponen13]

What does that mean?

It means that Gemerton's Day occurs in March for locations south of the Equator.

It can't. In the same vein, Easter would happen in September in Southern Hemisphere. It does fall in spring rather than fall in Southern Hemisphere, but the thing is that September is a spring month and March a fall month there.

If you can make stuff up, why can't I? Gemerton is a fall holiday, for everyone.

Its date is determined according to Easter, which always falls in March or April, and in these months, there are already lots of feats leading to Easter, but none similar in August, September or October. So, Gemerton is an August/September holiday for everyone.