u/Callidonaut

It probably didn't help that for the first six of those hours, I was pissing about waiting around for medication to kick in and wondering why I couldn't seem to settle to any task, before then realising I'd actually forgotten to take the bloody stuff today. After hitting the 8 hour mark and achieving nothing, I was well on my way to an anxiety attack over wasting so much time.

But the bug is fixed, so I am choosing to consider today a fucking success, god damn it!!

Just noticed Strong Bad Email 22 ("banned in the UK") is currently missing from the original website. Even on the SBemail menu, it isn't listed any more. Is this because I'm visiting the site from the UK and the Chaps decided to actually ban the email for Brits, or is something else going on? It was always accessible before.

This is annoying because I remember there was an extra clickable easter egg in it that you can't see on the Youtube version.

I've learned a fair bit about sewing machines, and done some basic sewing repairs and one or two little projects, but I'm a bit bewildered by the different antiquated and modern thread specification systems that apparently exist. The adjuster's/service manual I have for a Singer 221 says

> a bobbin thread tension of approximately 50 grams is sufficient for No. 50-3 mercerised cotton.

Can anyone please tell me for certain what particular system they are using to specify the thread type here, and how to interpret it? The manual has already cheerfully mixed metric and Imperial/US customary units for other measurements, so I don't feel safe to make any assumptions about this. Searching online has mostly just turned up a load of untrustworthy, incoherent AI slop articles that don't make the situation any clearer at all.

Most of what I can get locally is Gutermann thread, which doesn't seem to give any specification for thickness or weight on the spool labels at all, just the length; the spools they sell thread on appear to themselves be made of different coloured plastic according to some sort of system (white, brown, pale green, grey, etc) but I don't know what that system is either!

Can anyone provide me with an accurate wiring diagram for the air conditioning and non-automatic climate control panel in a 2014 Clio? I've already shelled out for the appropriate Haynes manual, but the diagrams provided for these systems in that book are not accurate and missing lots of crucial details.

I'm trying to get the air conditioning working before we hit the height of summer. Pressing the A/C button with the cabin fan and engine running turns on the indicator LED, but it doesn't engage the compressor clutch. The clutch is in working order, however, because I was at least able to locate the relay that controls it and manually bridge the output contacts, and then the compressor pulley started turning. The relay itself is also in working order, so either there's a wiring break between the climate control panel and the compressor clutch relay, or the panel itself isn't trying to turn on the relay at all for some reason.

Please help, this car is driving me mad. If nothing else, the pinout for the two connectors on the back of the climate control panel would be invaluable; the colours given in the Haynes manual don't match all the wires in the white connector, and the grey connector doesn't even use the same pins as the book claims.

Please forgive such a basic question, but I'm following the compilation instructions after checking out the master branch from Github and it's not working and I've got terrible brain fog today and can't figure it out. I've checked all the dependencies are ok using

./scripts/check-dependencies.sh

as instructed on https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/OpenSCAD_User_Manual/Building_on_Linux/UNIX#, and then followed the instructions on the same page to make the binary file using

qmake

from the project root directory, but qmake simply does nothing other than bring up the "usage" instructions. What quite probably laughably simple step am I missing here? I'm running Debian 12, if that's relevant.

I was looking for a way to encapsulate sprawling data for complex models as named fields in structures in OpenSCAD, and came across this, which doesn't seem to correspond to anything I can find anywhere else. Is this link just meaningless hallucinated LLM slop, or is it a feature in the development build or something? Is there actually any way to do what I want, via structs or namespaces or something?