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#2923774 7-Jun-2022 23:57

martyyn: Turns out, when the blinds were delivered, the laser is wrong.

Unfortunately those cheap laser measures are meant for immediacy of measurement, to quickly assess area, volume, whatever for surveyors, architects, and tradespeople, not for terribly accurate measurements. You can get reasonably accurate ones, but you pay quite a bit for those.

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#2923779 8-Jun-2022 00:04

Technofreak:

I think most places that use metric measurements. I think NZ and Oz might be outliers.

My big beef is having to choose UK English in some applications in order to get the correct date format but then you're saddled with miles instead of km. Outside of North America who uses their silly date format? Yet it is assumed that the whole English speaking world except UK uses it.

Gmail, where if its set to US english then it uses AM PM timestamps because having those connected makes sense?

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#2923780 8-Jun-2022 00:05

Senecio:

Who measures tyre pressure to kilopascals?

Either that or bar for most people I know, PSI is just for turbos.

Generally the name plate on the car for pressures is in metric so thats what you set the inflator to.

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#2923781 8-Jun-2022 00:07

neb:
martyyn: Turns out, when the blinds were delivered, the laser is wrong.
Unfortunately those cheap laser measures are meant for immediacy of measurement, to quickly assess area, volume, whatever for surveyors, architects, and tradespeople, not for terribly accurate measurements. You can get reasonably accurate ones, but you pay quite a bit for those.

My aliexpress one is within a mm or 2 of what I would expect it to be, really good and a fraction of the cost of one from bunnings. Also my aliexpress laser level is great too.

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#2923816 8-Jun-2022 08:33

Being told "it's out of our control" as a response to poor service delivery from large organisations that are admin-and- PR-heavy but understaffed when it comes to doers and/or that treat their subcontractors like dirt.

Did Eric Clapton really think she looked wonderful...or was it after the 15th outfit she tried on and he just wanted to get to the party and get a drink?

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#2923819 8-Jun-2022 08:46

richms:
My aliexpress one is within a mm or 2 of what I would expect it to be, really good and a fraction of the cost of one from bunnings. Also my aliexpress laser level is great too.

Yeah, same, but that's because I spent a lot of time reading reviews to see which ones weren't junk. What I meant was that just buying a random cheapie is unlikely to be a satisfying experience.

OTOH nothing electronic beats this:

No batteries needed, works in any orientation, sub-mm accuracy, you don't have to worry about what's at the other end for ToF laser-based measurements to work, measures angles as well as distances, etc.

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#2923824 8-Jun-2022 08:53

Damn! @neb, seems to me you raided a German DIY store and then emigrated to NZ - where did you get all this stuff we sell here in GER? :-)

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#2923828 8-Jun-2022 09:12

Tinkerisk:
Damn @neb, seems to me you raided a German DIY store and then emigrated to NZ - where did you get all this stuff we sell here in GER? :-)

Werbeartikel :-). That particular one I paid for because it's a 3m one which is useful for measuring things like 2.4m studs, but the standard 2m ones you just sort of accumulate over time if you stand still in one spot long enough.

To people who haven't seen those, they're frequently given out as advertising by trade companies, so they'll print their logos on them and hand them around for advertising purposes. I vastly prefer that folding style to the crazy five-degrees-of-freedom UK style which have hinges that fold in multiple directions so you can't hold it out without some part of it collapsing in on itself, and in any case usually only unfold to 1m length.

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#2923860 8-Jun-2022 10:18

richms:

My aliexpress one is within a mm or 2 of what I would expect it to be, really good and a fraction of the cost of one from bunnings. Also my aliexpress laser level is great too.

Yep, lesson learned. In my defence the ad claimed +-2mm accuracy, wasn't the cheapest I could find and the seller has 99.9% on over 20k trades.

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#2924061 8-Jun-2022 19:29

Handsomedan:

MadEngineer:

This tree:

558 Featherston St - Google Maps

Is that a Liquidambar?

If so, I can understand a local wanting to do it harm.

We had a very large specimen in our front garden and it was a nightmare, when it dropped wither the seedpods, or the leaves.

BUT - if it's not yours, don't damage it. Ask for something to be done about it and if nothing is done about it, continue to complain, or learn to live with it. If it's not posing a hazard or endangering your property, it's not yours to do anything about.

Nah, sycamore I think

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#2924533 10-Jun-2022 03:34

It's a me-me, sorry, but way too true:

Sites like Aliexpress seem to have adopted the above as a design principle. It's also bad in Europe where a side-effect of the GDPR is that instead of fixing their crappy web sites, most companies just put a roadblock cookie-accept barrier across the site every time you visit it.

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#2924551 10-Jun-2022 08:38

I keep a Javascript switch on my browser. When I am just following a link and have no intention of returning, that usually works fine for viewing any text I want to read, though photos and videos often get blocked. But all the crap the site throws up miraculously disappears most of the time. Very handy!

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#2924782 10-Jun-2022 15:31

More spam emails than usual have been getting through the filter recently (predominately ones about my nonexistent McAfee account having expired...)

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#2924805 10-Jun-2022 15:55

Behodar:(predominately ones about my nonexistent McAfee account having expired...)

I only get them about Nortons that I've never bought. You have obviously not not-bought the right one ???!!!

There was recently an article (news media?) about how spam had just about been stopped entirely. An odd article when the level was as high or higher than usual.

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#2924826 10-Jun-2022 16:09

I saw that article too, although I don't remember where.

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