A dimmer switch for an LED light is different from a dimmer switch for a non-LED light. If you try to use an LED light with a “normal” dimmer, it won’t work well.
Ah, the unintentional ambiguity of language, the reason there are so many lawyers in the world and why they are so expensive. The GP's phrasing is not incorrect but your comment made me realize: I only parsed it correctly the first time because I've heard managers use similar phrases so I recognized the metaphor immediately. But for the sake of reducing miscommunication, which sadly tends to trigger so many conflicts, I could offer a couple of disambiguatory alternatives:
- "her job was to be a crap-umbrella": hyphenate into a compound noun, implies "an umbrella of/for crap" to clarify the intended meaning
- "her job was to be a crappy umbrella": make the adjective explicit if the intention was instead to describe an umbrella that doesn't work well
That’s very similar to my experience except docking was just too hard. No matter how carefully I tried to match the rotation, 99 times out of 100 I crashed. I still don’t really understand why! So I just stayed around the starting point, which was a shame but still quite fun.
The manual was bundled with the cassette or disc, and it states in the 'Docking Procedure' section:
Approach the final moments of docking at DEAD SLOW SPEED
However this is dead wrong! If you put some speed on before entering the 'letterbox' you're actually far less likely to crash, unrealistic though this may be. It's perfectly possible to dock successfully at full speed. Try it out here:
The trick was to get perfectly perpendicular to the face of the spacestation that had the docking slot. But that was very hard to do visually. You had to fly directly away, turn around and watch the space station very carefully as it rotated to see if the rotation was symettrical from your point of view. Then approach slowly, match spin, but dont go too slow that actually made it harder. But even then would be game over one time in 20 or so.
Re:docking, if you went far away from the station, then kept it aligned in your crosshairs as you approached, you would be perpendicular to the front face of the station. Once I figured that out I could dock every time.
I don’t think you needed to match the rotation of the station at all (at-least, not in BBC micro disk Elite).
Thanks for building this. I agree there's a gap between OSS libraries and high-end products like Scandit.
Scanning barcodes is harder than it looks. Or rather, scanning an intact, well-lit barcode square-on is easy – but it gets harder as conditions deteriorate.
