28 Sep
2012
28 Sep
'12
11:36 a.m.
On 09/28/2012 05:09 AM, Mouse wrote:
Nah, that was a "short-timeout plonk". I've known you for far too
long to plonk you permanently.
The difference is intention, that's all.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
> I
don't doubt that for a moment.
> But I do doubt that there is "just no
way" that such a spec-out
> could happen any other way.
You are obsessing about corner cases and picking
apart assertions.
I thought you'd plonked me? (Not that it's a big deal either way, just
a bit surprised.) Valid point. I don't know whether it's the
precisionist mindset going
"that's not the same thing!" or the debugger mindset going "don't
assume X and Y are the same without realizing when they're not!" or
even if there's really any difference between the two, but it _is_ true
that this isn't a situation where that level of pickiness is needed,
nor even, really, called for.
I understand both mindsets, and I agree. The thing is, our society is
losing information at an amazing and terrifying rate, and one of the
pieces of information that appears (due to this conversation) on the
verge of being "lost" is what a Nixie tube actually is. It's not really
open to interpretation or debate; the owner of the name (Burroughs) said
so, and has done so over many decades.
Yes, one could pop the nipple and re-fill with a different gas...but
while it would be cool to do, is it really worth doing if the only goal
is to prove someone wrong on a mailing list? And if it is, then have
you really achieved that? I say possibly not, because then you'd have a
*modified* Nixie tube.
Not giving you
shit, just pointing it out.
Is there a difference?