Comments by "Christian Baune" (@programaths) on "Technology Connections" channel.

And they replied the bad way ! Awareness campaigns was the good answer, but it was harder. They could also provide a slit in front of the camera which would turn it of too. (The slit would be to show customer that the camera is hidden, even if turning it off on hardware side is enough)
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Yes, exactly what I said two weeks ago : They could also provide a slit in front of the camera which would turn it of too. (The slit would be to show customer that the camera is hidden, even if turning it off on hardware side is enough)
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In my youth, we had to learn typing on typewriter...the old mechanical ones where you punched letters. And we had to stick a sheet of paper over our hands to not look at the keyboard. We also had black and red ribbons. We were able to type in two colors! And by punching, I mean it. During the first classes without the cover sheet, it was a struggle just to have letters showing decently. Later, people started to speak about "touch typing"😁
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@trippmoore I worked as a QAM and for some part of the implementation that had to be done according to regulation, I had to jump in and code it myself. The team wasn't apt enough. When I did quit, they attempted to rewrite it in a "simpler" way (i.e. consolidating everything into a function). That didn't end well as the new code was impossible to "prove" and testing was a nightmare. Devs were really pissed by that "shitty code" 😃 At some point, I had to shove the dependency injection and have them follow a training on design patterns and refactoring, because the code became routinely a mess. I even had to explain to a guy what are SQL injections and why sending SQL to the back-end was quite a bad idea. Even had someone doing batches by having the front-end calling the back-end repeatedly and hitting browser limitation on number of concurrent requests and the having issues with back-end also dropping requests ^^ Educated on stored procedures and even coded that batch which took like an hour and went in few seconds as a result. I was the "QA department" and I can confirm that devs despised when I cam to talk seriously to them😁 Now, I am back to the full dev thing (aka "full stack", but more "do everything") and I wish we had at least QC, It's nice to have someone check your work so you don't have to stray too far from your main job. There is a bit of QC built in IntelliJ and I like that too, better than nothing!
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@Hdtjdjbszh That's an opportunity for a Dad moment. Explaining how a switch works to a kid is not difficult. More you explain to kids, less difficult become the remaining subjects!
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@icedragon769 In some countries, there is two pipe networks and one of them is for water that is considered unsafe. In UK, hot water was in a dedicated network and you will find a lot of sink that have two separated faucets for that reason.
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@icedragon769 Where did I wrote that toilets are connected to hot water network ?! I gave UK as an example to raise awareness that countries are different, including how they do water pipes network. Sadly, because common core is failing, people learned to skip reading and infer the missing pieces. Sure, people end up reading much more faster...but what do they really read as a result ? These few last years, it became more and more proeminent and that's quite creepy!
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Eager to see µwaves DLCs !
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Had a oil radiator with a huge stone above it. You had to plan really well because I takes time to heat up and time to cool down... Quite difficult to use as you need to follow forecasts, but inexpensive too.
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For French speaking people : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TT54jlem1Gg Highly related to this video :-)
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Are you an electric motor ? (1:22)
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There is an iteration of the pocket can opener which resemble a butterfly. Very easy to use as the only motion is rocking the butterfly. No moving pieces, so it works for a long time.
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halftone color! Still in use for really big ads that are only meant to be seen from far away! Much less expensive to print colored blobs ^^
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@jasonfullerton7763 Optics was given when you were around 12...Last time I checked, it's not even in the program or only flat mirrors. We had curved mirrors, lenses and mediums with different density...Oh and we were given to play with lights that were "shaped" through a slice and then lasers. Now, I never used any of that knowledge :-D
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@christo930 That's because you are not yet aware of how fast your eye move. Yes, it does move really quickly. On top of that, even when "stationary", your eye is a lens. So rays come in all directions. So you look at more than you believe ^^
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With digital timers, you don't see the whole day schedule! So, it's a tradeoff. 15 years ago, a school where I was a student called me, because they couldn't figure out how to change the schedule of the boiler. It was for good reason, that was an old system with a mixture of mechanical timers and one digital timer where the screen was so small that it didn't offers display of days, but 3 digit codes. So, you had to use a flow chart from the manual and fiddle with the mechanical timer too. Took me a solid hour at the time to understand how to setup different schedules for different days, because it wasn't as simple as entering the schedule day by day. You had to think about how time would pass by encoding start and stop times for other timers. A big shit to program, especially when you think that you are dealing with time of the day and it's in fact hours to wait 😂 System got changed after that. I still have the one with push tabs in my room to manage ventilation. Because it's mechanical and so simple, I did setup it once and I'll probably die before having to replace it. Obviously, those are not to be fiddled with every day (Because tabs becomes loose). Ironically, I did electro-mecanical studies and I didn't though out how the override switch did work. The most basic mechanical "or" hold switch, but that's often those things that you forgot about. A bit like the "not" one ^^
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And now, the ones that are programmable through "pin wheels". So, you could schedule "on/off" for a whole week using modular arithmetic :-D (i.e. you had to call in someone who was familiar with the system OR a student good at maths)
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And EU plugs are recesed. So, there is no way to touch the metal part. And on top of that, some connectord are even sleeved. The plugs are designed for people actively trying to kill themselves 😂
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