dgriffith

I think a gas company executive's greatest fear is that one day, gas won't be used for stuff.

Six levels deep in a teams group file storage and open a file to view? Clicking the big obvious "close" button on the top right of the opened document now takes you back to the top level. Enjoy digging back in again!

Oh, you really just want to close that document and remain in the folder you were just in? Well that's easy. Just ignore that big tempting close button and click the tiny "<" button on the left, no problem. You'll probably remember that after reflexively clicking that close button at least once, so enjoy all that!

Probably all the suburbs that have metered gas connections to each home.

Would explain all the generic, "Gas is used for stuff" advertising I've seen on tv lately. No further message than that. Gas industry trying to keep things rolling for them I guess.

It was a Sharp "Memory LCD".

https://sharpdevices.com/memory-lcd/

Basically "visible memory storage".

You treat it as addressable memory and write into it, and it will hold that state using about 15 microwatts to do so.

You can still buy the display modules , there's a few boards that let you easily drive them with arduinos and etc.

"Akshually", so do you. You had a chance to discuss and inform, and instead you went straight to "bootlicker".

Do you think they're going to take any notice of whatever you say from here on?

Samsung front loader washing machine here.

It is generally musical while selecting program options. It sings a little song when finished, which is only after it unlocks the door. The little song only plays once. The little song can be changed to other tunes by subtle and undocumented button presses.

After about 10 minutes it plays a few notes while turning itself off that are easily recognisable as the notes it plays when it turns itself off, so if you miss the first little song, once you hear that you know it's definitely finished. After that it is done. No more door locking shenanigans or tumbling or clothes.

Generally I use the "sportswear" cycle which is about 1 hour, my clothes are generally not that dirty. Sometimes I treat towels / linen to a hot cotton cycle which is 2.5 hours and a 90 degree (Celsius) wash.

Had it for 10 years now, no mechanical or electrical issues. I always leave the door ajar when finished and once every few months I do a cleaning cycle.

I also have a Fisher and Paykel dryer. I have owned it for 8 years, in which time it has needed a replacement drive belt as it gets used heavily. The bushes on the drum need replacing soon, but I just turned it upside down so it will last for a while longer

Regarding your door issues, well that's because idiots try and open the door during a load, and then when it's locked, they turn it off and still try and open the door. They subsequently complain about the water going everywhere. Don't forget that manufacturers have to deal with the lowest common denominator end user.

Possibly your motor is having an insulation breakdown when 220v is applied. Looks fine when testing with an ordinary multimeter and it's low supply voltage.

So everything looks fine until it powers up and then you get a failure of the insulation on your motor windings, either failing to ground/frame or across windings in the motor. This flashover would likely fry whatever control components are in your main board, and it's possible that your safety capacitor has a set of polyfuses in it that temporarily go high resistance when excess load is applied.

To check for an insulation breakdown you'd really need a megger which can apply 250/500v to the motor windings to check the leakage to ground/between windings.

You don't need an entire web server in your daemon, you just need the socket.

Include a websocket listener in the daemon. Keep a ringbuffer of the last X data points, whatever nicely fills your client graph, for example. Wait for clients to connect, dump in the ringbuffer, then update clients as data comes in.

The webserver can serve up the page with the client code that links to the websocket. After that it's strictly a discussion between the end client and the daemon over websockets.

What was Wenger thinking, sending Walcott on that early?

Maybe we should take the Amazon storefront naming approach where instead of repurposing exisiting nouns we just create new words from combinations of vowels and consonants, like Pnopty, or Flontep.

Always make your test messages something like, "Test message, please ignore".

That way if it all goes wrong at least it looks like it was somewhat intentional.

In Australia with similar parking companies they have to prove that the losses incurred would amount to what they are trying to invoice.

That is, the invoiced amount can't be a penalty, it can only be up to the amount required to recoup the financial loss they would incur from being unable to rent out that spot for the duration under their usual rates. This is the basic "making them whole again" principle of compensation that applies in the legal system when parties are injured.

The "penalty" amount that they attempt to invoice is thus pretty difficult for them to justify, seeing that all day parking can usually be had for $20 or so.