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Sadly, I'm sure you're correct!
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: Douglas Adams Wonko the Sane was right.
FTFY 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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After reading your post it occurs to me I should probably make the effort to provide users of the API I am writing w/ extensive exception error messages rather than the terse few words I currently providing. Certainly more than "beep beep beep" though I rather like that.  Perhaps bee_beep_beep can be the name of the exception class.
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Beep - this is too funny. I own a 2018 RAV4. When I turn off the engine after parking, i of course am going into the store. Opening the door, I get a beep and a message "Door Open." Well duh. What I wish Toyota would do is allow me to auto up and down ALL windows, not just the driver's.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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A while ago I pressed some combination of buttons on my key and all the windows of the car went down. I have no idea what buttons were pressed and it hasn't happened since.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Not a beep, but a warning light: The dashboard of my car has a warning light to remind me that we are in the months from October to April, so the road may be slippery. (The specs says that it is lit when the outdoor temperature is below 4 C - that is another way to say October to April.)
small beep: My baking oven beeps for everything. I like that it tells me that the preset temperature has been reached, but after use, it beeps to inform me when it has completely cooled down and isn't even lukewarm any more. Of course this is essential information, I know that. Yet this (and all the other beeps it produces) bugged me so much much that I set the beep volume to minimum, so now I cannot hear the beep telling me that it has reached the preset temperature. You can't win them all!
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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trønderen wrote: the road may be slippery
Yeah, the 4Runner will indicate "ICE" at very low temperatures, as if I didn't already know. I only saw it light up when I was up in Flagstaff a few winters ago. It never lights up here in freaking Phoenix. (I'm from Massachusetts; I know cold and snow and how to drive in the stuff.)
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Hey - at least they tried! Not just any group of engineers can break the management barrier! 
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Is the battery in the trunk? We had once a dead battery in a grocery store parking lot, and one of the staff was so kind as to come out to give us a boost. When he backed his car up to ours, I was thinking WTF?! I don't recall what kind of car he had, but its battery was in the trunk, so I learned something new that day!
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Actually, no it's in front where it is supposed to be.
This wanders off my original chuckle, but the car comes with Roadside Assist. I was pleasantly impressed with the speed at which they got out there. Turns out, one of the cells of the battery had died (less than 1000 miles and 3 months old). So, dealer replaced the battery and made a specific notation that what killed it was the dash cam that was plugged in. I call bull chips on that, but that's another story.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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A bunch of people on YT were posting videos to tell me that batteries
were going flat because their dealers had hidden GPS trackers on their new cars so the cars could be found and repossessed.
This seemed a bit paranoid, but there were lots of viewer comments with similar stories. Even from people who had paid cash for the cars.
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Greg Utas wrote: its battery was in the trunk
My '06 Dodge Charger's battery is in the trunk. I believe today's are still there.
I suppose one of the main benefits is that even today, it remains as clean and corrosion-free as the day I bought it.
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Greg Utas wrote: its battery was in the trunk
My (soon-to-be-ex) wife has a Dodge Challenger, where the battery is in the trunk. Dodge made the masterful design decision to make the trunk latch a solenoid. Dead battery, you can't open the trunk from outside the car. You have to open the door using the emergency key in the fob, climb into the back seat, let the rear seat backs down, roll onto your back, slide to the rear of the trunk, and pull the internal trunk release cable.
Yeah, I curse the morons that designed the ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) ing thing. Good news is it's being sold as part of the divorce settlement and I won't have to deal with the er any more.
Software Zen: delete this;
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BMW likes to put the battery to the trunk for better handling of the car (50-50% weight on axles).
Sometimes one battery is not enough for even an ICE only car.
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User interfaces in cars are the worst. My dad worked for over 40 years as a mechanic - I keep telling him computers aren't as complicated as today's car consoles.
This stuff needs to be standardized.
But, a module placed at the back of a car, that makes an audible beep, is a different type of bad interface decision altogether.
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Be aware an alternator can destroy a battery - this happened to me 3 months after replacing the battery (2016 CX5) total cost $1200 AUD.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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charlieg wrote: For those of us who write software that communicates with people, please don't do this crap.
Was the beep in morse code at least?
Jeremy Falcon
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No, very steady three beep sequence.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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Well, smartphones and their offerings have made a whole generation (maybe two) stupider, so it's almost certain that they won't fare much better with a text-generating robot.
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
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As is the norm, SO already deleted the page at the link you provided.
That's good ole SO for you.
This is what I see[^].
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and me
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Yes, they have a fairly strict rule about non-questions.
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At least for me that link goes to a page that says the author deleted it.
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Hello all,
Ready to pull the trigger and get a 5k2k 40" monitor.
Now I own two 24" QHD monitors which have the text slightly small, that would be 2560x1440@60hz with 122.38ppi.
Currently what can be seen in my monitors at 100% and at 125%: https://www.imghippo.com/i/VBMaG1719656408.png[^]
The monitor I am about to buy gives 5120x2150@120Hz with 138.92ppi.
If I scale it to 125% (windows UI scaling)... would it become 4096x1720@120Hz with 111.06ppi? <-- that's wrong, of course pixel density won't change. But font size at 125% here should be a little bit bigger than the font I have now in my current 24" QHD monitors right?
Thank you very much in advance!
modified 2 days ago.
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