On a PC calculator app, does anyone actually click the on-screen numbers or does literally everyone use the keyboard?

I imagine the on-screen numbers are very helpful if using a touchscreen, but yeah, nope. 

MadEngineer: I wonder if anyone has chowed down into a sweet juicy fig only to find it full of wasp larvae

Have become very aware of such things since eating a cherry with a worm in it. Figs have a larvae looking flesh which would make it difficult to notice. Think I'll pass on figs for now. Please tell me you didn’t eat it.

Good source of protein.

Eva888: I'll pass on figs for now. Please tell me you didn’t eat it.

Well, some bits didn't have larvae in it yet, and it was a pretty nice fig...

This is actually a real problem with guava moth larvae, you need to either be prepared to carefully eat the non-affected parts of the fruit or get essentially zero fruit off your tree that year.

neb:

 

This is actually a real problem with guava moth larvae, you need to either be prepared to carefully eat the non-affected parts of the fruit or get essentially zero fruit off your tree that year.

 

When I drop a bucketful of guava into a couple of litres of 93% spirit, the bugs die :)

Their remains get filtered out along with the guavas at the next step of the liqueur-making process.

Behodar:

 

On a PC calculator app, does anyone actually click the on-screen numbers or does literally everyone use the keyboard?

 

Replying to myself here, but I saw someone doing it in the office today. Her keyboard doesn't have a numeric pad. I confess that I hadn't even considered that!

I never explained what I was thinking when I asked the question. I was wondering whether there was a reason that calculator apps were built that way, or whether it was a case of everyone copying everyone else. It seems that there is some logic to it after all.

Behodar:

 

Replying to myself here, but I saw someone doing it in the office today. Her keyboard doesn't have a numeric pad. I confess that I hadn't even considered that!

 

I never explained what I was thinking when I asked the question. I was wondering whether there was a reason that calculator apps were built that way, or whether it was a case of everyone copying everyone else. It seems that there is some logic to it after all.

 

I figured that since a majority of the functions do not have a key on the keyboard that you would be using the mouse most of the time. I do if I am not putting in a long number because I am then having to press things that are not on the keyboard. Perhaps if you just do the 4 basic functions then you would use them but I have a standalone calculator for simple things.

We have a number of transit lanes in our part of the world. The left lane of a nearby arterial road is specified as T2 4-7pm, Mon-Fri.

Going back a few years, they had people with cameras on the side of the road looking for infringers - then they automated it. Babies count as passengers and they generally sit or lie low in their car-seat which is often mounted in the back seat area. Once in place, the baby is very hard to see. I don’t see how a baby in this position can possibly be detected by an automated camera at the side of the road - particularly if the car-seat is behind the driver and even more particularly when it’s dark.

I wouldn’t do it but what would stop me claiming our baby granddaughter is in the car when she isn’t - unless they use thermal-imaging cameras?

eracode:

 

I wouldn’t do it but what would stop me claiming our baby granddaughter is in the car when she isn’t - unless they use thermal-imaging cameras?

 

Nothing, where the camera are and the angle they are on can generally see the back seat. But i suspect if there is any doubt they don't issue a ticket.

But you have morals, so you won't do it, and you just will sit in the regular traffic lane like 95% of people.

There are the apocryphal stories about people carrying sex dolls as passengers. Would a camera be able to distinguish a large teddy bear or doll in a baby seat at the back?

Jase2985: But i suspect if there is any doubt they don't issue a ticket.

No, it's the reverse, if there is doubt they issue a ticket and assume most people will find it less effort to pay than to contest.  Friend of mine has had numerous parking fines despite having a residents parking ticket for the location, whoever was responsible for enforcement (AT?) actually admitted, once they'd worked their way through the bureaucracy, that it shouldn't have been issued but then followed up with, in effect, "so take us to court".  They found it easier to pay than to do that.

If there are no demerits involved, for example for parking, then one technique I've heard used (by student-types) is to keep accruing fines until you've got a balance of about $10K outstanding, do 20 hours community service to make it go away, and then start again with a clean slate.  The fines haven't been updated for donkey's years and it's often cheaper to pay the fine than pay the parking fee.

What is the name of a vertical rod in the back of this type of chair?