The quite elderly range in this kitchen has easily removed hobs and non-stick coatings on everything. My spaghetti boiled over and left baked on starchy residue on everything and I actually enjoyed cleaning up.
First Ogged talks about the "joy" of thoughtful UI, and then an anonymous commenter enjoys cleaning up a mess on the stove.
At least Moby is still cranky.
Looks like it's for the US only, I need something less provincial.
You need to live somewhere that produces week-long hourly forecasts.
I have spent the morning being pissed off yet again by my company's tech support. My interaction began with a problem whose solution was described in detail in the error message. Except the solution didn't work and was never intended to work.
If it was never intended to work, then how can you complain that it did not work?
Speaking of things that were never intended to work, I fixed the drainage piping under our kitchen sink yesterday. The previous owner had put in a set of pipes that didn't line up properly or connect fully, so the whole assemblage was precariously balanced at best and from time to time would get out of alignment and drip water all over the cabinet underneath. (Sometimes it would get really disconnected and just massively flood everywhere when someone unknowingly did the dishes.) It took a while but I managed to get a set of pipes set up that fit together properly with no leaks.
I also managed to get the water line to the new fridge hooked up. Our previous fridge suddenly stopped working last week and it's been an adventure to get the new fridge in and hooked up, again with some unexpectedly flooding when the initial connections didn't fit well enough. But all fixed now. Homeownership!
I just connected them with slip joint nuts.
Slip joint nuts sounds like a painful medical condition.
Is this post trash talk because thousands of people have drowned in my part of the world, and you all are high and dry? That's cold, Ogged, cold.
I just use the BBC weather app. It's nothing fancy, but it has a widget, and it does both a week view and an hour by hour view with precipitation chance, which is the main thing I need.
We are all dependent on precipitation, but some people aren't so directly impacted.
I want the app with the button that makes it so if you don't like the weather you can order different weather.
The irony of discussing good ui ux on this here website.
Web design peaked in about 2007. You're just wrong.
You're just wrong.
Truer words.... This site has fantastic UI (I can say this, since I didn't make the design, only recognized the genius).
I generally use Weather Underground which also has a "strip.: This one is clean (although I would really like to have dewpoint charted as well(you can display its predicted value.
I got myself a Litter Robot for my birthday and it's just the best. I half expected it was going to be fiddly and unreliable and the cats wouldn't take to it, but no! It works perfectly, the cats now use it exclusively, it uses less litter, and the chore is weekly instead of daily.
I hear it gets creepy when the cats start to say things like "You're a dirty little robot and you like it".
I feel like we should spend the Joe Biden money on something fun and stimulus-y, so a cat and a scat-fetish robot seem like good ideas.
Good UI for the cat would be if the robot was also into licking buttholes.
27. Much easier to just have two (or more) cats.
Jesus Christ on the Cross dies in vain. Just stopped by here and I KNOW that most of you are either Gen X or early millennials. Did Spinderella spin in vain? Does Salt contain no Pepper/a? What is wrong with you? When someone prompts "let's talk about" and NO ONE talks says "SEX" or "BABY YOU AND ME AND ALL GOOD AND BAD THINGS THAT MAY BE" and INSTEAD talks about WEATHER as available on a HANDHELD COMPUTER-TELEPHONE it's not only a general sign of oldness and GRANDPANESS of everyone it's also clear proof that your lack of talking about SEXITUDE is directly responsible for ALL three of Covid, Donald Trump and Global Warming. You are all to blame for all of everything and I hope you're happy with yourselves.
Early millennials (born in the 80's) are expected to be all about a song that charted in '91, per Halfordismo?
(Good to see you, RH.)
30.1 Isn't that really just about right? What was charting when you turned 11?
I remember ... like .... 20yr ago, reading that the EU totally *waxed* the US on weather predictions: they'd invested massively in the software/systems to predict out several days further than the US, and it really made a difference. I wonder whether that's still the case today. I mean, sure, there's a question of whether there's a nice app and all. But beneath that, there's a question of whether the underlying data is better. I wonder about the latter ....
I was going to make a joke about Halford's comment, but he's right. We've disgraced ourselves. There was no point in this entire thread that the song even occurred to me. I have dishonored myself and my family.
In fairness, I certainly thought about the song when I read the post title.
re: 34
Ditto. But I didn't say anything.
re: 20
Sometimes I think that's true, also, although I'd put the date a bit more recently. Ubiquitous cookie/privacy warnings have licensed a return to every single bad thing there ever was about web design. I find a lot of sites these days are Geocities circa 1998 levels of usable.
32: You are almost certainly thinking of the ECMWF (European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts). It has a a better reputation for accuracy but actually does not go as far out in time as the primary NOAA model GFS.
Found this high-level explainer in the WaPo ( so may be paywalled) from 2019. And this much more detailed blog post from the same year. There is a chart in the blog post that shows the ECMWF Consistently beating the GFS on average since 2007 (and probably before that). Both models improve over that time (may just be raw compute). ECMWF uses a slightly finer grid and the blog post suggests the data assimilation process is more sophisticated.
In fact the NWS runs both (and I assume that is true in most European countries as well, but not sure) and there is information to be gleaned when the two diverge significantly. They have both had some notable hits and misses on things like Sandy and various winter storms along the east coast. (The way storms track up the east coast leads to slight differences in tracks and temperatures resulting in very significant differences in impacts--rain/snow line or hurricane tracks--on major population areas).
And speaking of good/bad UIs on phones, after being generally dissatisfied with various iD birds from sounds apps, there is one out from Merlin (associated with the Cornell Ornithology) that I am finding excellent. Both in the simple and easy UI and its success at IDing birds.
Those apps are pointless. They just give you the species so you can't take revenge on any specific bird.
When I titled the post, of course I wanted us all to talk about our feelings.
Probably shouldn't have had that fourth drink last night.
The internet sucks and you can go on pointing out how spending too much time here isn't good, but insulting alcohol is a step too far.
I liked the Internet better back when I could drink more.
Yes. My stomach just won't let me drink hardly at all.
Speaking of pop culture and childhood, I just learned that Aang and Pablo from the Backyardigans were voiced by the same person.
I found some good non-alcoholic beers and have been drinking primarily those at home. I still drink regular beers when we go out.
I have trouble with anything carbonated. I can have maybe a couple beers a week, but like two grasses of wine a night.