Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies| Author: | DanialR  | | Posted: | May 3, 2024 22:42 | | Subject: | Re: Super highway | | Viewed: | 14 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| In Off Topic, popsicle writes:
| | In Off Topic, DanialR writes:
| | | | Yeah, that's the real rub when trying to get around nowadays, the perpetual
road work that never seems to get much of anything done. Unfortunately, we've
got our share of those up here in Seattle too, Kevin. The never-ending projects
that take inexplicable years rather than the expected weeks or even months. Years
of tying up the daily commute of thousands.
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Construction on I-405 in Washington started in 1956 as part of the federal Interstate
Highway system. A 30 mile stretch of highway services commuters on the east
side of Lake Washington.
The first section opened in 1961 with all sections opened by 1971. It constantly
been under construction/rework since it opened.
Based on the pace of work and the list of planned and funded projects, everything
should be completed in 2120. 
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Right about when roads are no longer used, and anti-gravity crafts are the thing
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(I grew up 1/4 mile from I-405 in Lynnwood. Played on it before the Woodinville
to Lynnwood section opened.)
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Very cool story. As a transplant to the Seattle area, I'm trying to imagine
how it was for you in a more rural Lynnwood
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Coon skin caps, horses, flintlocks, and farms. We were at peace with the natives.
https://www.historylink.org/File/8200
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| Author: | DanialR | | Posted: | May 2, 2024 20:23 | | Subject: | Re: Super highway | | Viewed: | 32 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| | | Yeah, that's the real rub when trying to get around nowadays, the perpetual
road work that never seems to get much of anything done. Unfortunately, we've
got our share of those up here in Seattle too, Kevin. The never-ending projects
that take inexplicable years rather than the expected weeks or even months. Years
of tying up the daily commute of thousands.
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Construction on I-405 in Washington started in 1956 as part of the federal Interstate
Highway system. A 30 mile stretch of highway services commuters on the east
side of Lake Washington.
The first section opened in 1961 with all sections opened by 1971. It constantly
been under construction/rework since it opened.
Based on the pace of work and the list of planned and funded projects, everything
should be completed in 2120.
(I grew up 1/4 mile from I-405 in Lynnwood. Played on it before the Woodinville
to Lynnwood section opened.)
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| Author: | DanialR | | Posted: | Mar 15, 2024 02:57 | | Subject: | Re: BEWARE! HACK TRIALS!! | | Viewed: | 81 times | | Topic: | General | |
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Can't, can't, can't. Two words that means no hard work will ever
be done: spaghetti code
(and all the IT guys now nod their heads and say, yup, yup yup)
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Your interpretation of Spaghetti Code is off base. Spaghetti Code can be edited/updated
but it takes much longer than clean, well-documented code.
My reference to Spaghetti Code and the size of the code base was to try and give
some sense of the challenge the current developers face when fixing problems.
There is another factor beyond the condition of the code base that will affect
how long it will take to fix issues. The site was built on top of 20+ year old
technology using a language that has fallen out of favor. From what I have seen
by peeking under the hood with some browser-based testing tools the past few
months, there is a lot of work taking place to update the site using modern languages
and clean-up the spaghetti code.
Thinking Captcha is easily implemented would be like thinking Notre Dame can
be rebuilt in a few months. You have to peel back many layers of changes to
understand if a fix is going to undermine the structure in other places.
I and others are not being apologists or shills for Bricklink; we're realists
understanding true change will take time and will require some patience.
Do I like the spam, CBD ads, etc? NO!!!!!, but if reporting them when I see a
new one is the cost of allowing the Dev Team to focus on long term fixes then
it is a price I'm willing to accept. If the price becomes too great then
I have choices, Bricklink is not the only game in town.
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| Author: | DanialR | | Posted: | Mar 13, 2024 20:56 | | Subject: | Re: Help | | Viewed: | 53 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, happyweaver writes:
| | I want to get my grandson stared on getting his lego creations motorised what
is the best set to buy ?
Any suggestions 👍
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There are a lot of options.
If you provide some info, we can make some suggestions.
Age
Sets you/he would like to motorize
Type of sets he likes
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| Author: | DanialR | | Posted: | Mar 13, 2024 01:39 | | Subject: | Re: BEWARE! HACK TRIALS!! | | Viewed: | 68 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| | | If there are people here that have "extensive experience in the tech industry"
(reinstalling Adobe Reader doesn't count) then they should give their input
and let Bricklink know how to set up a captcha or other form of verification
so hour-old accounts can't spam scam links day in and day out
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 HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Implementing a CATCHA is not trivial. If not done properly can make the site
less secure than it is today.
The codes base has had multiple developers in its lifetime. Developers are not
the best at documenting their code. You end up with what is referred to as spaghetti
code; a twisted tangled mess with secret sauce keeping it all together. I would
estimate there is 3-5 million lines of code behind the site. By comparison a
typical NY Times bestselling novel has 80k to 110k words.
As for experience, 40+ years in the IT industry. 15+ years as a Systems Engineer;
designing, implementing, and supporting some of the largest web sites on the
internet. On the front lines playing cat-n-mouse with the hackers. On call
working 48+ hours straight recovering a major financial portal from what was
at the time the largest internet virus. Watched the entire internet in the US
get taken to its knees when a country's golden boy got beat in the Olympics
and their hacker population started a massive DDOS attack on the Top Level Domain
Controllers in the US.
You don't hear anything from the Support Team on what they are doing behind
the scenes to get past the recent issues for a very good reason. The worst thing
you can do is share publicly your plans on how to secure the site. The moment
you share the info, the hackers start working on how to defeat the security measures.
The cat-n-mouse game with hacker's is like a game of chess. You have to
keep your eyes on the big picture. Reacting to the early loses will not position
you for long term victory.
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| Author: | DanialR | | Posted: | Mar 12, 2024 21:00 | | Subject: | Re: BEWARE! HACK TRIALS!! | | Viewed: | 61 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, UTLF writes:
| | | | There are so many apologizers for BL on the forum it seems like no one is listening, but it's the only forum we have.
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Some people shill so hard you'd think they're being paid to do it, it's
insane
It's okay to criticize something you love, and I'm sure there are others
that feel similar but stay quiet as to avoid conflict - and to be honest, I still
walk on eggshells and bite my tongue to avoid risking a ban on here
I've never seen people so complacent and accepting of bot spam in my life
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(Thumper Mode: OFF)
Those supporting the efforts of the Bricklink Team are not shills nor are we
accepting of bot spam.
Many of us have extensive experience in the tech industry and understand the
challenges going on behind the scenes.
We know how frustrating it can be when a few noisy people try to denigrate the
efforts when they have no clue about the scope of the problem or the efforts
to find a permanent resolution.
(Thumper Mode: ON)
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| Author: | DanialR | | Posted: | Mar 11, 2024 21:22 | | Subject: | Re: BEWARE! HACK TRIALS!! | | Viewed: | 76 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, Saitobricks.ca writes:
| | In General, UTLF writes:
For me it may be 8 months!
I’d better be quiet now.
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The Bricklink team has to play a very difficult balancing act. Unless you've
walked in their shoes you can't understand the challenges they face.
I've supported some of the largest web sites on the internet, but I'd
be a fool to think I know the Bricklink teams' challenges or how to solve
them.
Sometimes it's best to practice "The Thumper Rule".
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| Author: | DanialR | | Posted: | Mar 11, 2024 20:18 | | Subject: | Re: BEWARE! HACK TRIALS!! | | Viewed: | 69 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, UTLF writes:
| | Bricklink is going further down the garbage chute day by day... wtf is going
on?
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Don't blame Bricklink. The #$*!)*@ hackers don't care who they impact,
just about the money they can rip-off from honest hard-working individuals.
Bricklink is a target due to their success, the user base, and $$ flowing through
the platform.
As a long time IT professional, I can confidently say, the support teams (dev,
security, admin, etc) behind the sight have their hands full keeping the platform
safe.
The continuous game of whack-a-mole they have to play would surprise most people
and drive many crazy. For every event or attempt there are 50-100 you never
hear about because the support team is on the ball.
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| Author: | DanialR | | Posted: | Mar 2, 2024 02:33 | | Subject: | Re: IS THIS FAKE? Speckle black silver axe head | | Viewed: | 52 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, Turez writes:
| | In General, BrickieSixx writes:
| | Did Lego EVER make an axe head without their logo on it? I got these from a
bricklink store, one with Lego logo came from a LOTR set, with less speckling.
The one with more speckles from a bricklink store. Any weapons experts? Please
help i won't be selling fake lego not ever!
There is what looks like a hyphenated number on the one without Lego stamp
Thank you!!
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http://v4ei.com/brickref/axeheads.php
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Should we be concerned that he has such detailed information on Axeheads?
Did he work as an executioner in a previous life? 
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| Author: | DanialR | | Posted: | Mar 2, 2024 02:25 | | Subject: | Re: OMG, Elmo has been arrested! | | Viewed: | 41 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| In Off Topic, Hardstone writes:
| | https://wsvn.com/news/help-me-howard/elmo-arrested/
This story broke on my local news a few hours ago. An actor was hired to play
Sesame Street's Elmo in a few skits. However, he was arrested (while still
in his costume to boot) after someone called 911 thinking that a crime was being
committed.
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His Grand=daughter complained that he wouldn't stop tickling her.
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| Author: | DanialR | | Posted: | Feb 25, 2024 20:01 | | Subject: | Image Errors on a large number of parts | | Viewed: | 80 times | | Topic: | Technical Issues | |
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| While looking for a White Printed Tile I ran into over a page of parts with Image
Errors.
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| Author: | DanialR | | Posted: | Feb 24, 2024 20:11 | | Subject: | Re: 14k GOLD LEGO Brick FOUND! | | Viewed: | 139 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, PBM writes:
| | Ok LEGO people. I have posted before when I find something cool as heck.
Well this is a twisted tail of "What the heck is this?" and yes I am
aware of the "it is fake" crowd but I can assure you I have documentation
to backup the "real" claim.
This is a one of a kind LEGO brick and yes it is 14k Gold.
I am not very good in photos and this thing even makes me look good.
Sometimes it is better to be lucky then good looking that is for darn sure.
Have a great weekend.
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Wait, I thought I had the Golden Brick . . .
You mean there is more than one of them?
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| Author: | DanialR | | Posted: | Feb 23, 2024 20:56 | | Subject: | Re: Can seller retaliate with negative feedback? | | Viewed: | 49 times | | Topic: | Problem Order | |
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I sent the seller a message through BL (now already marked as "read"
but no response. I did also send him a direct email with the photos.
I am thinking giving him a couple more days to a week to reply, and if not then
I will file a NSS case.
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IMHO, One should always assume positive intent until evidence shows otherwise.
- They have to check their inventory to see if the wrong minifig was shipped.
- They need to talk to the employee that packed the order.
- They have another job and deal with emails/problems over the weekend.
- etc.
I have received many parts that are the wrong color, wrong part, etc. About
20% of my orders have an error.
When I contact the seller, many times they respond the same day. Occasionally,
it's taken up to 5 days for a response.
Mistakes happen, how a seller resolves the mistake says more about them as a
seller than if the order was perfect. (I do appreciate perfect orders, but the
limited interaction doesn't tell you how they handle problems.)
If seller that makes a strong effort to make me happy, often I will tell them
not to worry about the mistake since it's usually less than $0.50.
If they ignore you for over a week or don't try to find an equitable solution,
then you've forced your hand and you have to do what you feel it appropriate.
Keep your response factual so other buyers can evaluate the seller accordingly.
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| Author: | DanialR | | Posted: | Feb 23, 2024 19:27 | | Subject: | Re: Add Forum Topic - Politics | | Viewed: | 53 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, wildchicken13 writes:
| | In Suggestions, Familybuild writes:
| | the cross border makes a going discussion mostly useless for a lot of users
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Depending upon your perspective, such a discussion could actually be a very useful
learning opportunity.
For example, I know nothing about Dutch politics. Please enlighten me.
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We could talk Canadien Politics but
- We'd have to have an exchange rate discount of 35% on Canadien posts.
- All sentences would have to end . . . EH?
- Pizza and Mustard would have to be banned subjects.
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| Author: | DanialR | | Posted: | Feb 15, 2024 00:01 | | Subject: | Re: Allow/use WEBP image format for images on BL | | Viewed: | 30 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, ChrstphrR writes:
| | BrickLink needs to use webp image format.
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WEBP is not all it is cracked up to be. Google has made a number of claims about
the format that have not shown to be true in the real world.
While it has some great compression it sacrifices color space using 8-bit YUV
4:2:0 format.
With the subtle changes in some Lego colors, the 4:2:0 format could end up with
pictures that are misleading. Primarily with these color combinations Brown-ReddishBrown,
LightGray-LightBluishGray, DarkGray-DarkBluishGray along with possibly others.
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| Author: | DanialR | | Posted: | Jan 16, 2024 20:08 | | Subject: | Re: Fraudulent requests to not pay TAXES | | Viewed: | 61 times | | Topic: | Problem Order | |
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| In Problem Order, Poncke writes:
| | In Problem Order, DanialR writes:
| | In Problem Order, BricksByTRiver writes:
| | Dear all,
In the last few months, we received 2 requests from buyers requesting us to fill
in the customs form with the total price much below the total cost to avoid paying
taxes in their countries (bigbao and lycaneart). Worst, they requested us to
commit fraud in our own country.
Those orders were canceled, so we lost 15 euros to PayPal fees.
If this happens again, we are thinking of not replying to the buyer about their
request and just sending the order with the customs form filled in correctly.
What do you think?
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I wonder what would happen if a copy of their email requesting the lower cost
accidentally ended up with the customs forms?
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What would that achieve?
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Would the buyer get flagged by Customs for possible tax evasion resulting in
more attention on future packages to them.
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| Author: | DanialR | | Posted: | Jan 16, 2024 01:06 | | Subject: | Re: Trying to find this triangle shaped plate | | Viewed: | 48 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| | | It's also a 3-dimensional plastic part, trapezoids when I was learning geometric
drawing and perspective were always 2-dimensional shapes, and would need to have
their cubic range calculated by dividing them up into their component geometric
shapes.
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I must have grown up in the dark ages(before computers).
We calculated the cubic volume if a trapezoid with this formula:
-- Volume of a trapezoid = 1/2(B1+B2) x H x L
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| Author: | DanialR | | Posted: | Jan 16, 2024 00:50 | | Subject: | Re: Fraudulent requests to not pay TAXES | | Viewed: | 54 times | | Topic: | Problem Order | |
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| In Problem Order, BricksByTRiver writes:
| | Dear all,
In the last few months, we received 2 requests from buyers requesting us to fill
in the customs form with the total price much below the total cost to avoid paying
taxes in their countries (bigbao and lycaneart). Worst, they requested us to
commit fraud in our own country.
Those orders were canceled, so we lost 15 euros to PayPal fees.
If this happens again, we are thinking of not replying to the buyer about their
request and just sending the order with the customs form filled in correctly.
What do you think?
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I wonder what would happen if a copy of their email requesting the lower cost
accidentally ended up with the customs forms?
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| Author: | DanialR | | Posted: | Jan 14, 2024 19:30 | | Subject: | Re: CONTEST - Rare Star Wars Item as Prize | | Viewed: | 53 times | | Topic: | Contests | |
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| In Contests, popsicle writes:
| | No purchase required. No kidding, just some community fun Inspired by a random
post that's got me thinking again about giving back some more
https://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=1447969
The prize
New/Sealed
The contest:
Guess the USPS declared delivered time and date, of one of our packages dropped
off this morning at our PO. Closest wins
The package was placed this morning with acceptance scan into our PO lobby dropbox.
It's traveling from Washington to New York USPS Ground Advantage.
I will post the actual USPS tracking info/documentation for confirmation of winner,
once delivered.
Contest Rules:
- One entry per member per 24 hour period, posted here, without limit to entries.
- If entries are identical, the first wins.
- For transparency, all entries must be posted as reply here
- Looking for the time and date of declared delivery.
- All members worldwide are welcome to participate, though consider that we'll
cover domestic shipping only, should you win.
-Otherwise no further restrictions
Remember to have fun with it... Goofing off encouraged
~ConstrucToys
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Well, considering one of my recent orders via USPS went from Santa Clara, CA
to Cleveland, OH before arriving in Woodinville, WA after an 8-day adventure
. . .
I'm going to say:
Jan 27th, 2024 @ 13:37 PT
with routing via San Antonio, TX
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| Author: | DanialR | | Posted: | Jan 14, 2024 19:14 | | Subject: | Re: Forum Resident Stats | | Viewed: | 35 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, popsicle writes:
| | In General, DanialR writes:
| | | | Freedom lol, its just about thread spoiling and forum ethics. People ask a serious
question and they get a day long off topic nonsense conversation from 3-4 posters
hijacking the thread.
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Some would contend, proper etiquette or forum ethics starts with a scene from
Bambi, known as the Thumber Rule.
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Don't know who or what the "Thumber" rule is, but Thumper
in Bambi was my brother's favorite when we were kids.
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Thank You, my fingers went on strike . . .
The Thumper Rule
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