I can take it or leave it. My daughter likes it so we go out for sushi once in a while.
I remember one time we were out for dinner, we were eating in the lounge so it was fairly dark. On my plate I saw a chunk of something green and thought it was avocado. I tossed the chunk in my mouth and started chewing. To my surprise it wasabi. To say it was a shock to the system is an understatement.
The last time I electrocuted myself was after Hurricane Ida. When power was finally restored, we moved back by parking our camper in front of the house and plugging into a 15-amp outlet until we could get a 30-amp installed.
Well, apparently the 15-amp we were using was shorted during the hurricane, but it wasn't immediately obvious. First my son shocked himself trying to open the (metal) door to the camper but was too young to describe what happened (he would've been 5 almost 6), so we just assumed he had his finger pinched or something. Then, I stepped on the (metal) steps to get out of the camper barefoot and got shocked so bad that it literally knocked me on my butt.
Just describing it is giving me the frisons. I hope I never experience that again.
We had some trailers that could become charged. It wasn't noticeable stepping into the trailer from the ground, but you could get a mild shock if you stepped between trailers. I believe the trailers were becoming capacitors, though capacitors that didn't hold much of a charge.
The bigger issue was that there was a VERY long power cord for plugging the trailers into outlets at long distances. Some outlets were 220, while others were 480. Since those required different plugs, the cord had wiring for both. That meant that when it was plugged in, the current was running a long distance parallel to the unused wires...which induced a pretty good current in those other cables. Somebody eventually tested the voltage in the unused plugs and found that it was significantly higher than the 0 volts that had been assumed.
I have been toying around with the idea of building a modern-day web application without using any JavaScript.
So far, I've been able to implement a SPA pattern using URL fragments and a modal dialog using a hidden checkbox. Not only that, but I've been able to implement both at the same time.
E.g., assume you're viewing a football schedule and want to toggle which season to show. The seasons are stored in containers (e.g., section elements) where their identifier is set so that when the URL fragment references it, it is shown. A user clicks on a select, which is really just a label styled to look like a select that toggle a checkbox. Then when the checkbox is checked the modal is visible and there is a list of all the seasons. The list items are actually forms, with the method set to the URL fragment that represents the season and inside the forms are single submit button styled to look like anchors and inside the buttons are labels which the toggle the checkbox to hide the modal.
HTML Code:
<div class="modal-container"><input type="checkbox" id="schedule-season-toggle" class="visually-hidden" aria-controls="schedule-season-modal" aria-label="Open dialog for schedule season selection" /><label for="schedule-season-toggle" role="button" tabindex="0" aria-haspopup="dialog" aria-controls="schedule-season-modal"><span>Season</span><span aria-hidden="true"></span><!-- dropdown caret --></label><dialog id="schedule-season-modal" aria-modal="true" aria-labelledby="schedule-season-modal-title" aria-describedby="schedule-season-modal-description"><label for="schedule-season-toggle" aria-hidden="true"></label><!-- gray background behind dialog --><div tabindex="-1"><h2 id="schedule-season-modal-title">Seasons</h2><p id="schedule-season-modal-description">Pick a season below to load its schedule.</p><ul><li><form action="#schedule-season-2025" method="get"><button type="submit" role="link"><label for="schedule-season-toggle">2025</label></button></form></li><li><form action="#schedule-season-2024" method="get"><button type="submit" role="link"><label for="schedule-season-toggle">2024</label></button></form></li></ul><label for="schedule-season-toggle" role="button" aria-label="Close dialog">×</label></div></dialog></div>
I had a dream last night where I was going to post a question on here. The question had to do with an exception I was getting where the debugger didn't seem to be taking me to the right line. The line I was going to was something fundamentally innocent, like a comment or a simple assignment, or something like that. The error message was totally opaque, too, though I don't remember what it was.
I then changed a setting so that the debugger would break when an exception was thrown (which probably stemmed from a thread in the .NET forum), and got a better error message at an earlier place. However, the error message said that there was an invalid use of the word 'perhaps'.
"Perhaps" is not a key word in any language I have ever heard of, though it would be kind of funny for it to be a key word in either fuzzy logic or quantum computing.
In any case, it was more definitive, so I went to look at the line that caused the problem, and found that it was not a line of source code, but a JPEG of a line of source code that was inserted into the source code file. Therefore, at least according to the logic of the dream, that line should not have executed since it wasn't code but a picture of code.
I was going to start a thread asking how the compiler could be running a line of code from a picture of a line of code.
Apparently, this was a pretty disturbing dream, as I awoke to find the pillow was damp from sweat, which I have never had happen before unless it was either VERY hot (it was not), or I had a fever (I don't think I did).
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