NABDad

Saying "written" suggests to me that you're referring to the sonnet, "The New Colossus", which was inspired by the statue the French made, but was written by an American poet, Emma Lazarus.

That's what door frames are for. My wife is for chocolate mini cupcakes with almond buttercream. Among other things.

My first cat was born as a barn cat, so outside was all he knew. Then, as a kitten, he managed to get both his front legs broken. When my dad found him he was running around on his elbows, and my dad was barely able to catch him.

My dad made the worst mistake you can make as a father, and brought the injured kitten home and let me see him, hold him, and feed him. He wouldn't eat anything we gave him until we soaked kitten food in milk until it turned to mush, then put it on my arm and let him lick it off. At that point, my parents had to find a vet to fix him.

It wasn't easy, but they managed to find someone who would fix him. His front legs were never really right, but he got around ok, and he lived decades longer than any of his siblings.

He was one of the smartest cats I've known, and the one thing he made absolutely clear at all times was it was better to be a 100% indoor cat. He would have considered any cat that "escaped" their home to be mentally defective.

So, let your cat know to follow the wisdom of Gimpy. The lure of the outdoors is a lie.

You've got it backwards. Once every interaction is like that, you stop showing error codes.

I have trouble with my colleagues in IT doing the same crap. They come to me to ask me to help them with a problem, and they don't have the errors!

Parrot

You are correct. It relates to the torque (rotational force) that can be produced at different RPM.

Diesel engines have a narrow range of RPM where the torque is highest. At low RPM, the torque of a diesel engine is low. That's why trucks have to shift into a low gear to start moving and shift multiple times to get up to speed. The driver uses the different gears to keep the engine running within the optimal range of RPM.

Electric motors have high torque at low RPM, so they can start a heavy load moving without having to have any complicated gearbox between the motors and drive wheels.

In a diesel-electric locomotive, the diesel generator can be designed to run at an efficient speed without being affected by the mass of the train. The electricity it generates powers the electric motors which have the necessary torque to handle moving the train.

You now have to lug around a LOT of both fuel and water, instead of just water and dry coal. Water and oil are both heavy by comparison to coal when lugging a train car of it around.

I think you're making an assumption there. You would need to consider energy density of the fuel. Diesel fuel has almost twice the energy density of coal. For the same trip, the weight of the diesel fuel you would need for an oil-fired steam engine would be just a little more than half the weight of coal needed for a coal-fired steam engine.

Also, delivering the diesel fuel to the boiler would require a less complex mechanism and/or less workers than coal.

I skimmed through the Romance genre in my media server. Here's what I came up with. Not sure if any of these would work.

WALL-E

Dracula (1992)

Starman. He's not human, but don't hold that against him.

Warm Bodies, if you don't mind a zombie theme

Return to Me. A wife has to die, but there's a nice romance once she's out of the way.

On Golden Pond. There's a romance in there, but it isn't the main part of the story. And they're elderly.

The Man with Two Brains. True, she's just a brain in a jar, but none of us is perfect.

Love Story, just don't believe it when she says love means never having to say you're sorry.

Little Manhattan, but the romance is on the other end of the age spectrum from On Golden Pond

The Fault in Our Stars

That's the whole joke.

It's not very funny.

I wasn't saying it was a solution, I was just offering a possible explanation. I understand why someone wouldn't bother telling the user what's happening. For my code, I log everything that happens, and tell the user to call me. When I get the call, I check the log and use that to figure out what went wrong.

Distressingly typical user communication:

User: There was an error message.

Me: What did the error say?

User: I don't know. Something about the problem.

The washer moves water up from the center and down the outside. That's how it agitates the clothes to clean them.

You're supposed to load items into the washer in a circle around the outside. Most things don't matter, but something like a blanket can get stuck like this and won't be cleaned as well.

You're supposed to lay it in like a long snake in a circle around the outside, but I have done that and sometimes it still ends up like this :-(

Users ignore error messages.

I have seen my users request support, proceed to demonstrate the issue they're having, and click through error messages so fast there isn't even enough time for me to say "WAIT!" Forget about being able to actually read even one word of the message before it's dismissed from the screen.

They treat the error messages like they are just an annoying mosquito to be swatted away as quickly as possible. This despite the fact that the whole reason I'm standing behind them is so I can see what it's going wrong and, you know, read the error messages.