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AVGresponding:
--- Quote from: Nominal Animal on January 29, 2024, 05:03:03 pm ---"Fish and chips, and salad or vegetables" would be unambiguous, I believe. Poor comma, so neglected.
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Indeed, the Oxford comma is underutilised. Lynne Truss wrote a rather good book about it "Eats, Shoots and Leaves".
IDEngineer:
--- Quote from: Nominal Animal on January 29, 2024, 05:03:03 pm ---"Fish and chips, and salad or vegetables" would be unambiguous, I believe.
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Better: "Fish and chips, *with* salad or vegetables."
Best: "Fish and chips, includes your choice of either salad or vegetables."
Hydro:
--- Quote from: electr_peter on January 29, 2024, 04:37:54 pm ---IMO, "Fish and chips and salad or vegetables" translates to "Fish and chips" AND ("salad" OR "vegetables"), i.e. main AND (side OR side). "Fish and chips" is a dish by itself, "and" in the middle is not logical operation - it should be interpreted as a frase from 3 words.
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Being a programmer, I know several jokes.
First one.
The wife says to her programmer husband, “Dear, go to the store and buy one piece of sausage.
and IF there are eggs, THEN buy a dozen"
The programmer husband returns and brings eleven pieces of sausage.
vk6zgo:
--- Quote from: PCB.Wiz on January 26, 2024, 01:44:53 am ---Hehe, just had the same thing happen with a credit card.
It was $5, and terminal menu said PIN OR ENTER
So, I did exactly what it said, and just pressed enter. 8)
It failed, turns out that really mean PIN THEN ENTER ( or PIN AND ENTER)
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Why would you need to enter your PIN if you are buying something worth $5?
With normal EFTPOS terminals these days you just touch your card & you are done, up to a particular value when you need your PIN.
BradC:
--- Quote from: Halcyon on January 29, 2024, 09:08:18 am ---I get confused with the red and green status LEDs on those magnetic door locks you often see above glass doors.
Does green mean locked or unlocked? If green, what if unlocked is undesirable, does that mean green=bad?
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Green is "I'm powered and can detect my armature is sufficiently bonded". Red is "I'm powered and can't detect a good magnetic bond with the armature". Off is "I'm unlocked".
Of course being a magnetic bond the strength reduces significantly with distance, so it can still be green but with a compromised bond that a good 'hip and shoulder' will pop.
Mag locks suck.
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