Treczoks

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[–] Treczoks 70 points 10 hours ago (18 children)

Real question here: It is titled “Restoring Names that Honor American Greatness.” - Has the Gulf of Mexico ever been named "Gulf of America" in any reasonable historical context, or is this just the usual made-up "fact" from Donald the Jester?

[–] Treczoks 13 points 10 hours ago (4 children)

Indeed. It is the hurricane class five generating hot tub. How else could nature teach the most boneheaded MAGA-brains that climate change and global warming is real but by depopulating the coastal states...

[–] Treczoks 6 points 11 hours ago

The question is absolutely clear: How can we get rid of paying people for work?

It's a two-step approach: There are the low-skill jobs that could get replaced by machines, with desperate people flooding the markets, putting downward pressure on peoples' incomes, and there are the high-skill jobs where currently not enough staff is available - at least when one does not want to pay suitable rates.

[–] Treczoks 13 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

FTFY: '~~Country~~ Tech Billionaires will be prospering like never before'

[–] Treczoks 36 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Well, it shows that the average right winger was fast asleep in school, especially during science and history classes.

[–] Treczoks 6 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Da ist 50. Wer zu blöd ist, in einer geschlossenen Ortschaft 50 zu fahren, hat das Knöllchen voll verdient.

[–] Treczoks 2 points 22 hours ago

They just found this out? This was obvious basically a year ago. If not earlier, if you knew where to look.

[–] Treczoks 73 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Block them. If they have something interesting or important to say, just quote it. Don't send them even more traffic and attention.

[–] Treczoks 18 points 1 day ago

Natürlich wollen sie das. Politische Bildung ist der Erzfeind des Extremismus.

[–] Treczoks 2 points 1 day ago

Our last HP was definitively older. I have to admit it lasted long, and worked rather good until about a year ago.

[–] Treczoks 4 points 1 day ago

FTFY: after ~~a gesture likened to~~ doing a Nazi salute.

[–] Treczoks 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

This worked fine for a number of years until it started wasting ink like mad (had to deep-clean it after 3-4 pages with color images (not full-sized images, just some graphics on the page).

 

Because you now did it to yourself.

 

My problem: I want to create an inventory of my parts. For that I need data I could look up on BL. Sadly, my storage has no internet whatsoever, so I need an offline solution.

I have found the LDRAW library inside the Studio installation, which gives me the parts and their design. They contain the name of the part, too, but only as a comment, and I have yet to verify if this is consistent. I think I could rig a software that renders me the picture as I need it for my application, so that's that.

But there are other files inside the Studio installation, and I wonder if there is a way to find the following information from this:

  • BL Category (Like "Brick" or "Plate Modified")
  • LEGO part numbers and colors that exists for a certain design
  • Parts Weight

I don't need any rapidly changing data like price or availability.

Has anyone here done this, or knows a software that does this?

 

Sounds easy? Well, it should have been. I'm not talking about a "Hello, World!" (although it is more or less on the same level for me). The goal was to write a set of three MQTT clients that properly talk with each other and interact nicely.

So I had to learn Python and MQTT on the same day. Should not be an issue after 40 years of programming. But it quickly turned out that the Python library/package for MQTT on Ubuntu was heavily outdated (1.6), and did not supply all the functions the documentation and examples (2.0) asked for. Using pip3 didn't work, as it complained that the package structure was maintained by the OS. In the end, I had to virtualize the python3 system and pip3 the 2.0 package there and run it.

After about three hours, I had the clients working as they should. Yes, I think MQTT is a good base for the next project.

 

I was just wondering. There was or is a mediawiki group on Reddit, but so far I could not find one here.

 

The new Eldorado Fortress is listed at €214.99. Is it just me, or is this set much to expensive for what it is? When I saw it, I thought "Maybe €150, €170 tops", and was shocked when I heard the real price.

I know (who doesn't?) that LEGO is not cheap, but this is not a Starwars set, it is 100% their own IP.

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