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sounds like cheap therapy. You're going to be fine. 
And I'm pretty messed up at the moment. I refuse to take anymore prescriptions.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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Yeah I'm done with anxiety meds unless they give me something strong prescribed PRN, but I think that would just knock me out.
I've gotten pretty good at heading off panic attacks using mental exercises, but they don't help much with generalized anxiety itself.
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Chipping a car is something I've always wanted to do. For years. I spent my misguided youth restoring cars but as soon as ECUs became the norm I was both so excited at the possibilities and so frustrated at my lack of available tooling and knowledge to do it.
Anyone want to write a quick article on how to mod the firmware of a modern car?
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I think I probably just want to fiddle with features rather than remapping. I think you'd need a decent dyno and a lot of testing to really know how best to remap things.
One think that drives me nuts is my car will open the tailgate when there's an obstruction a foot away. I have a lot of scrapes on that tailgate now because if you lean on the carkey accidentally the tailgate opens. It has proximity sensors. It should know not to open the gate. And yet.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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You can rent dyno time. It's not horribly pricey.
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There was a meme in a mechanics forum recently about "getting to the guy who has a bad cylinder fire now that he replaced his ECU chip with one he found on eBay".
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In my childhood, I was fascinated by a couple of short stories in the weekend supplement of Norway's biggest newspaper ("Aftenposten"), and wanted to read them again. So I sent a request to the 'Ask a librarian' service at the Norwegian library. I could tell the author, 'probably in the early 70s, but could be the late 60s', an approximate title of one of the stories, a rough outline of the other. That was all I could give as clues.
The National Library managed to find those two stories, as well as three others by the same author from the same time period in the same weekend supplement, and gave me exact references, with information about how to access the texts. I am really happy about that; that is what librarians are for.
The impressing part: The reply from the librarian was time stamped 52 minutes after the time stamp on my request!
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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I wonder how chatGPT would do on this question?
It would definitely give you an answer. But it would probably hallucinate one. 
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Librarian is an under valued profession.
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
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I agree. Especially Norwegian.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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My first job where I was paid an hourly wage was working for our county library. I shelved books, sorted disorderly shelves, checked books out for patrons, and so on. This was before library operations were computerized.
Yes, I'm that old  .
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Our county library is an amazing place. Besides books they have classes in arcane subjects not readily provided by university such gardening tools, a maker lab with all sorts of tools for milling, 3D printing, etc. The people who work there are both paid and volunteer. I can retire all my old books, manuals, etc. there as well.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Our libraries will be the future monasteries, when the dark times come again.
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"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Gee - that is exactly like me!
I learned a lot from it. One thing was skimming: When shelving books, I saw far too many that I'd like to read, so twice a week (I worked two nights a week a the library), I brought 10-12 books with me home. Of course I didn't have time to read them all thoroughly, but I didn't want to just bring them back. So I learned to at least go rapidly through all those I couldn't read every word of, to pick up the main points, see which answers it could provide the day I needed it. I'd say that was very valuable learning!
Actually, I considered switching from software development to becoming a librarian at the technical university; I was offered a paid learning position that would lead to a degree. It would reduce my yearly income by about 10,000 Euros, which was quite significant in the late 1980s, and I had just become a daddy, so I turned the offer down. Some times I regret that I did.
I don't think that library was computerized until it was caught in a fire, burning to ashes all the books on the shelves, including the two or three incunables the head librarian once showed me in the back room. She did not allow me to hold them; she wore white cotton gloves herself when handling them. But they were lost in the fire.
The only good thing is that while the old library was really old and backwards, the new one that was build was really appealing, with practical solutions and lots of modern facilities that would have been difficult or impossible to install in the old building.
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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trønderen wrote: The only good thing is that while the old library was really old and backwards, the new one that was build was really appealing
In 1977, the middle of my tenure, a new building was constructed and all of our inventory was moved. That building is now being renovated and expanded, a little over 40 years later.
The original building was a Carnegie library[^] constructed by philanthopist Andrew Carnegie. It still stands and is in relatively good condition. It has been used for several businesses and even a private residence at one point. At the moment it is empty, waiting for someone with resources and inventive ideas to bring it back to life.
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It seem that many of us are convinced that -∞ is larger than 0 so I thought I'd try and explain why that isn't the case, even though it does seem to make sense.
Let's look at what "greater than" actually means (in all cases I'll use integers but it's exactly the same for floating point numbers).
1 is greater than 0, 2 is greater than both 1 and 0, 3 is greater than 2, 1, and 0, and so on: the general case is "if you add a positive number* to a value, you get a value that is greater than the original":
X + n > X where n is any positive number.
Similarly, "less than" comes down to:
X - n < X where n is any positive number.
And it works:
2 > 1 because 1 + 1 == 2; 3 > 1 because 1 + 2 == 3; ...
1 < 2 because 2 - 1 == 1; 1 < 3 because 3 - 2 == 1; ...
And we can use "greater than" and "Less than" for find maxima and minima for a set of numbers.
We can find the smallest positive number by taking any positive number as a starting point and repeatedly subtracting 1 until we reach a non-positive value (which will be zero): 1 was the last, so it's the smallest positive number.
Everyone here has agreed on that!
But when we look for the largest negative number it seems that some people are mistaking the absolute magnitude of a value for the value itself, and saying that the largest negative number is -∞
But that's not the case: just as numbers get smaller as you approach 0 from the positive side, they don't start getting bigger again as you move away into the negative side:
1 > 0; 1 > -1; 1 > -2
Slide that sideways and it's clearer for negative numbers:
0 > -1; 0 > -2; 0 > -3
-1 > -2; -1 > -3; -1 > -4
So to find the largest negative number, we start with any negative number as a starting point and repeatedly adding 1 until we reach a non-negative value (which will be zero): -1 was the last, so that's the largest negative number.
Make sense?
* Zero is neither positive nor negative because the definition of both those terms stems from the direction of X from 0.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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modified 16-Feb-24 4:00am.
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I don't think anyone doubted that -1 is the greatest negative integer. It is just that the concept of "large negative" can be easily interpreted by "a number with a lot of figures and minus sign in front of it".
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How about -π: it has lots of figures and a minus sign
Mircea
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You are evil... 
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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e^iπ is the largest negative integer, I'd say.
modified 16-Feb-24 5:08am.
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eiπ
FTFY.
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Eye thang ewe.
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You're welcome... I think.
Kind of sounds like an indecent proposal to a sheep, but to quote the immortal Marty Feldman, "Suit yourself; I'm easy."
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