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djsmiley2k

00:05

Happy Easter to anyone who cares

Oh man so drunk

3

Took 3 attempts to write the Easter message.

Bob

00:21

@bwDraco what happened to it?

Journeyman Geek

00:44

@djsmiley2k its saturday

bwDraco

Mar 4 at 1:41, by bwDraco

Basically, machine has been giving me frequent BSODs, and the Wi-Fi and Bluetooth intermittently stop working, requiring a full power cycle to recover. These failures, as well as crash dump analyses, point to one thing: the wireless network adapter.

(was taking a shower, sorry)

allquixotic

apparently the Meltdown patch allowed arbitrary, unprivileged, kerrnel memory reads and writes on Windows. Awesome.

Journeyman Geek

yup

twas rushed

Bob

02:23

lots of layout issues and false starts but finally got it going

the pathing is a bit weird

allquixotic

what is that?

Bob

@allquixotic thingiverse.com/thing:2015859

allquixotic

oh for your 3d

allquixotic

02:57

@Bob Star Trek Armada 3 total conversion for Sins is out (final release unless there are showstoppers), I played it for about an hour in single player, seems pretty balanced and stable so far

not to say it won't crash if we do multi, but one of the devs does bi-weekly meetups on ICO where he plays games with the community and they've done STA3 before

William

04:11

anyone know anything about direct current?V

vs alternating?

allquixotic

@William you're going to need to be more specific

in what context? what are you trying to solve / learn / figure out?

William

I'm trying to wire a countdown timer to my headlights on my car. I guess I'm wondering can I just use an alternating count down timer in my car like I have in my house.

my headlights do not have a timer by default

if not can I maybe buy a timer that works off of direct current.

allquixotic

a countdown timer? like, have the lights turn off automatically after you turn off the vehicle?

William

yeah

Something like this wired into the headlighst amazon.com/gp/product/B00002NAPD/…

I should be able to use a meter to figure out which pin on this works amazon.com/PT-Auto-Warehouse-CBS-3080-Combination/dp/B00NWT122G/…

and wire it in

my car is doesn't have a timer cut off. no place that I called new how to fix it

allquixotic

well you need to know what's being supplied to the headlights to figure out what sort of timer you need, I guess - not sure if the headlights are supplied with AC or DC, as most cars these days have various electrical paths with both in them AFAIK

William

04:22

I'm fairly certain it is DC

allquixotic

the alternator on a conventional vehicle usually produces AC but that can get rectified to DC at some point

William

What if the battery feeds directly to the lights

allquixotic

right, if it's just the battery then it'd be DC

William

because I guarantee my lights stay on if turn off the car and remove the keys

it drains my battery :P

allquixotic

most electronics are designed to operate on DC, but if the timing functionality is coming from the sinusoidal oscillations of the AC wave, you can't use that, probably, because whatever AC gets generated in a car likely won't be consistent enough to be used for timing

William

04:24

I have AC timers in my house like this one amazon.com/gp/product/B00002NAPD/…

might not work great because the voltage is different though

can I use an AC timer on a DC current?

allquixotic

yeah, there was a problem in Britain recently where the EU/UK power grid was causing timers on tea kettles to be off by several seconds because of fluctuations in the frequency of AC electricity across the grid due to insufficient power availability in... somewhere... Kosovo? I forget

if the timer is using the AC oscillations as its timing source, DC definitely won't work unless you have a very accurate transformer that generates good quality sine waves from the DC, but that's inefficient

probably better is to have an internal timing source like a quartz crystal

William

are there any dumb like I liked above DC timers.

I'm sorry did this mean the AC timer will work on a DC current

> yeah

allquixotic

no, that "yeah" was just ... a conversational ... somethingorother

William

assuming the voltage is high enough

allquixotic

like an "um" :P

William

04:29

I would prefer to get a "dumb" timer that works off of direct current. Any ideas

this wasn't my original question obviously

allquixotic

mightycarmods.com/blogs/news/…

instructables.com/id/Turn-Off-Headlights-When-Ignition-Off

William

if you know someone that will do that to my car awesome.

I would pay them.

That was my 1st solution but it requires schematics

and I can't voltimeter 10 different cables

also the dealership told me old cars allowed that while new ones might get screwed up from the onboard computer

hmmm it is similar. maybe I can find a Honda Element instructable. Off to do more research.

allquixotic

unless you have an EV, a really recent (2016+) or hybrid car, it should be similar

William

its funny the picture of the healight switch in the instructable is the same as the one in my car

yeah recent cars have auto lights as a feature. I don't :'(

Thank you!

If I had multiple cars I'm sure I could eventually get it right but a timer seems like the least intrusive method

Journeyman Geek

05:04

@William I was under the impression everything in your car is 12 or 24v DC

more typically 12

before you do anything buy a multimeter.

and learn how to use it.

William

i have 1

do you know of any 12v or 25v dc timers?

Journeyman Geek

you can totally multimeter 10 different cables

what's a timer here?

something that turns on things at specific times?

ah!

William

like a kitchen timer for an hou.r I was planning to just wire it into the ignition but I have determined that I may have to rewire the stock wiring extensively

Journeyman Geek

Sounds like what you need is a relay

William

somebody did this on the honda element forms and basically you have to cut or strip at least one stock wire

I would prefer to just have a kitchen timer that cuts off after an hour that I set when I very rarely need my lights

Journeyman Geek

05:08

14

Q: Why don't some modern cars automatically turn off headlights when stopped?

I forgot the lights on overnight on a 2016 Volkswagen Jetta and 16 hours later when I came back to the car the lights were still on but the car wouldn't start. Can't the car check the battery level and automatically turn off lights if it had been stopped for a long while so as to prevent the bat...

battery-drain

William

Yeah I'm the idiot in that Q&A :P

Journeyman Geek

@William "delay timer relay" looks like a good google search

but you also should consider the current that goes through the headlights

oh

William

I may be misunderstanding instead of messing with the ignition(and touching factory stock wires) at all I want is a kitchen timer

Journeyman Geek

Do you have a service manual?

William

no

Journeyman Geek

05:11

not a kitchen timer.

Go find/buy one.

Basically you need to work out if the vehicle is on, and based off that switch off the power to the headlights.

William

If I have a timer that caps out at 1 hour then I don't need to wire it into the ignition.

I drive to and from school everyday and never at night

Journeyman Geek

How do you know when the hour starts and ends?

William

like this amazon.com/gp/product/B00002NAPD/…

Journeyman Geek

"never at night" why not just turn the lights off then? ;p

William

rain

Journeyman Geek

05:13

no no

I mean, why not only...

so you basically want to switch on the lights, and turn them off after an hour unless its reset?

William

exactly

no touching stock wires.

Journeyman Geek

You'd need to get wires in somewhere

William

yes on this amazon.com/PT-Auto-Warehouse-CBS-3080-Combination/dp/B00NWT122G/…

I'm going to mod one of these

Journeyman Geek

hmm

William

I called 6 places including official honda dealerships and most said because of they way the Honda Element is made it isn't exactly easy and refused to do it

1 place said it can't be done :P

Journeyman Geek

05:17

ya, definately want to grab a service manual

or a heynes guide equivilent

(or a good, slightly crazy old school mechanic ;p)

William

I desperately need all of those

Journeyman Geek

cough

Pretty sure you can buy/copyright-infringe those trivially.

well its hard to pirate a mechanic...

William

^ lol.

Journeyman Geek

I'd guess something like this might work amazon.com/Delay-Relay-Board-Switch-Module/dp/B00VFUG3KK

William

how do you reset it

Journeyman Geek

05:22

you use a momentary switch I suspect.

but with these things, read/understand the manual

William

honestly I would be fine just wiring the ignition straight to the lights with a regular realy

I don't care about the timer part

unless I am skipping the ignition all together and the a relay is not needed

Journeyman Geek

well the relay is simple

turning it off after an hour is the tricky bit

William

honest question why can't I just use an AC like kitchen timer?

Journeyman Geek

cause voltage/current/design....

William

assuming the voltage is the same though

wouldn't it just be constant and work

Journeyman Geek

05:26

Well if its so simple, and the kitchen timer is cheap, why not buy/test it?

you can pretty trivially even bench test it with a 12 v wallwart

William

I think I can figure everything out with out manual except for the fuse relay box

its funny I wouldn't have bought this car just for this reason

I like things that are "idiot" proof

Bob

mosfet installed, fire hazard reduced \o/

Journeyman Geek

06:26

wired.com/story/rss-readers-feedly-inoreader-old-reader

here's the joke.... where's their RSS feed? ;p

Bob

@JourneymanGeek right here wired.com/feed/gear/rss

Journeyman Geek

ah

Bob

<link data-react-helmet="true" href="/feed/gear/rss" rel="alternate" title="Gear RSS Feed" type="application/rss+xml"/>

from the category page

if you put the category page into tt-rss it'll also extract the <link rel="alternate">s for you

Journeyman Geek

ah lol

oops

ugh

noaa.gov/media-release/… via arstechnica.com/science/2018/03/…

(I actually watched that launch as far as they'd show it, and this seems like one of those slightly petty bureaucratic moves...)

and this could mean no more live launch videos (or hopefully they can get the right licence)

rahuldottech

08:06

Journeyman Geek

08:32

._.

djsmiley2k

Hi hi hi

Journeyman Geek

Yo DJ

@rahuldottech you're too young for dad jokes.

djsmiley2k

09:45

I r v. Tired today. :/

Journeyman Geek

10:10

ooh

QUACK

Bob

10:43

WHY IS THERE A DUCK

Journeyman Geek

New enterprise product

RogUE

11:41

@Bob ^^That one?

I think the whole Stackexchange network is infected by a Yellow-Duck which does nothing except "QUACK"...

bwDraco

12:27

Not seeing it here. Might be tied to the time zone.

(there are very few Americans in this room FWIW)

Journeyman Geek

12:47

meta.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/quack-overflow

ToxicFrog

tinkers with IPFS

rahuldottech

14:07

Denial

Anger

Bargaining

Depression

Acceptance

[°}

Journeyman Duck

Superuser is a stage of grief?

rahuldottech

[·}

@JourneymanDuck Yes. Visiting this chat room. You guys rock. Being here makes everything better.

Journeyman Duck

ah

jokerdino

@rahuldottech oh

rahuldottech

*quack*

Journeyman Duck

14:11

~~woof~~ Quack?

RogUE

@JourneymanDuck What happened to your Gravatar?

and your name?

Journeyman Duck

@RogUE Depends on your definition of "what happened"

RogUE

Explain, in your definition of 'what happened'..

Journeyman Duck

Quack

RogUE

I think the Duck is slowly taking over the chat, slowly.

bwDraco

14:23

I'm still not seeing it :(

Journeyman Duck

@bwDraco on the bottom right?

bwDraco

I'm not seeing the duck you mention.

Journeyman Duck

That's odd

bwDraco

Alrrady tried a full refresh.

Journeyman Duck

That's odd

rahuldottech

14:25

That's odd

RogUE

@bwDraco Have you tried another SE site?

bwDraco

Tried all three chat servers.

Journeyman Duck

oh

the easter egg is not on chat

RogUE

Its not in the chat rooms.

@bwDraco You got your Duck?

bwDraco

!!/oh

bertieb

15:55

So it's April 1st somewhere already?

bwDraco

17:53

Back on the job today. I'm currently between games at a softball doubleheader event, and used the FZ1000 for a bit alongside my Pentax K-3 II and D FA* 70-200mm f/2.8 lens. The Lumix just wowed me, almost matching the DSLR in image quality while shooting considerably faster.

It's not a substitute for the big gun with moving targets or indoor events, but 12 fps continuous shooting is no joke.

Can't wait to try out high-speed video...

jokerdino

18:49

@bertieb yes

Burgi

19:45

so.... the neighbour i took in a parcel for just answered her door just wearing a towel

allquixotic

good grief, actual deep technical discussion on Sourceforge! sourceforge.net/p/sevenzip/discussion/45797/thread/e730c709

@Burgi is she pretty?

Burgi

@allquixotic yes

i thought they had shut down sourceforge

Burgi

20:06

i like QuackOverflow

DavidPostill

20:19

> Today we’re announcing the end of life of the Hosted Apps platform.

Hosted apps retirement - SourceForge Community Blog

Hahahahaha. From today's spam:

> What is a marketing qualified lead?
A marketing qualified lead (MQL) is a prospect who is more likely to become a customer because he or she has already been primed through various methods. Warming up this person to your brand, developing trust and positioning him or her to accept your solution is often accomplished through the content you offer.

Spamming me is not priming me :)

Burgi

20:43

mmmmm, prime spam

Journeyman Duck

23:35

@bertieb quack

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