captsneeze

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[–] captsneeze@lemmy.one 15 points 8 months ago

In the US, a conductor is the one who checks tickets, makes announcements, and delegates tasks to the crew to help ensure things keep moving on time.

The locomotive engineer is the one who is “driving” the train. They run the engine and communicate with dispatch and traffic control to keep them informed where this particular train is fitting into the overall juggling act,. They also make every effort to keep things safe (watching for signals, obstructions, etc.).

I’m not 100% sure if the terminology is different outside of the Us.

(Source: My father is a 3rd generation locomotive engineer.)

[–] captsneeze@lemmy.one 6 points 11 months ago

The point you’re making is valid, but it is also worthwhile to consider that more than 85% of humanity lives in the Northern hemisphere. It’s probably not malice or idiocy that causes media to focus on the northern hemisphere.

[–] captsneeze@lemmy.one 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Now I'm hoping that the devs add the ability to use a different font for comments and/or docstrings.

I have had mine set up to use a different font for comments for quite a while, but I don’t recall how I set it up that way. If I remember, next time I’m in front of my computer, I’ll see if so can figure it out and respond again.

[–] captsneeze@lemmy.one 4 points 11 months ago

That’s a great point. I can use a brand new blade every shave and still spend far less than it would cost to buy Mach-3 heads (or similar). Even using those disposable heads for multiple shaves (I would normally go 5 shaves per head), it’s still much much much cheaper with the safety razor blades I now use.

[–] captsneeze@lemmy.one 18 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Be warned, safety razor shaving can become a rabbit hole if you’re not careful. I’ve spent a fair bit of coin on various razors, brushes, soaps, blades, and numerous other accessories. I was pretty settled on my setup for the last 2 years, but really wanted to try a lighter weight razor (aluminum or titanium). These have historically been very expensive. I stumbled upon this Henson AL13 razor and decided to try it out. Still expensive for me at roughly $80, but much cheaper than options I was looking at a few years back.

It’s been a couple of months now, and I am extremely happy with it. Compared with my previous razor (Karve Christopher Bradly, which I was very happy with) I barely even feel this razor on my skin, but it gets just as clean of a shave. I have very sensitive skin, so this is a blessing for me. 100% recommend.

[–] captsneeze@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago

Don’t talk about Usenet.

and..

Don’t — talk — about — Usenet!

[–] captsneeze@lemmy.one 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Guys… you’re all breaking the first two rules of Usenet…

[–] captsneeze@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m curious, for what reason would one need/want to do this?

[–] captsneeze@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

When looking at the series page, if you expand the seasons down to list the contained episodes, are all of the episodes there (even if not in the “correct” season)? Or are several seasons worth of episodes just not listed at all? Which show?

[–] captsneeze@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

100% agree! I feel like people are flipping their lid about this and it’s completely unwarranted. I have never had any issue with using lighting cables, I’ve never wished that it was a usbc cable, and I also don’t care at all that it’s becoming usbc. It makes zero difference to me. Everyone else on the internet talks about this like it’s been the bane of their existence holding back their ability to live their full life. Not sure what I’m missing.

[–] captsneeze@lemmy.one 7 points 1 year ago

Damn, this one really got me. Nicely done.

[–] captsneeze@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

I saw this pop up on here a week or two ago. It’s a great print. I was hoping it was available in a larger size, but most of the artist’s prints are pretty small. If I could get a good giclée print of this 24+ inches (preferably 36) in the long dimension, I’d get it in a heartbeat.

He has other great prints too.

https://ooloopress.com/index6/

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by captsneeze@lemmy.one to c/programming
 

I hope this isn’t breaking any rules here. I’ve been struggling with a personal web project for the past week, and I’m hoping some smart people here could get me pointed in the right direction.

I’ve already posted a full explanation in another community here, with some informational comments.

Long story slightly shorter… trying to get a website that is great for scoring a tennis match, and making it work offline so I can have it run locally on an offline machine. For some reason that I can’t figure out, the js refuses to work as expected.

First, I thought there may have been a CORS issue. And, the js is checking the protocol and changing it from “file” to “http” (see comments in like above). I worked past this issue, but it's still not really working.

Now, I can see the first action of the “score” function is working (it logs to console), but nothing after that does anything at all, and I can’t figure it out!

Edit: A very kind person (what’s the lemmy equivalent for “redditor”?) offered some insight through a DM that got me on the right track! I won’t put all the details here because it could be considered borderline “unethical” if the wrong person was trying to follow my path. Thanks to that person and to the community! Ive learned a lot in the past weeks.

 

I'll try to make this as short as I can, but with enough info to make sense. Be warned, I am not a programmer or developer by any means. I'm just a hobbyist who spends a lot of time trying to learn on my own.

I'm looking to save "https://scorecount.com/tennis/" locally on a PC so that it can be used offline. I've done the normal "right click, save as" routine in both Firefox and Chrome, which saves the main page (I save it with the name "tennis") as well as a similarly named folder that contains the js, css, and image files. (so, in my case... "tennis.html" and a folder called "tennis_files")

When I try open the tennis.html file, my browser eventually gets to a "we're having trouble finding that site" message. The URL it's trying to reach in the URL bar is "https://driveLetter/path/on/local/drive/tennis.html", instead of the more expected "file:///driveLetter/path/on/local/drive/tennis.html".

I believe I've narrowed this down to something in the tennis.js file (which gets renamed to "tennis.js.download" when I save the page locally). If I remove this file, the page loads, but of course it doesn't actually work. I think something in there is redirecting the URL, but now that the file is saved locally the path it's creating and trying to reach doesn't work.

I've tried going through the js, deciphering all of the array references as best I can, but I'm not able to figure out where this is happening. I'm hoping someone can throw me a lifeline. Thanks in advance!

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