Induction drives are not safe enough. This is a design using a worm drive. If you have exprience with worm drives you know their self breaking properties make this very safe. In addition the designs I saw years back had emergency breaking systems similar to normal elevators.
The past 3 routers I used had a random number sequence 20 or so number long on a sticker on the back. That sequence was the initial key and after a physical reset that will be the key again.
I always rather like "Secret" and "Above your paygrade" as multiple user passwords but "I forgot" would be a cool one too. Now I just have to go back to a place where multiple user passwords are a thing again.
I haven't got an advice on what to buy. I do have an advice on what not to buy. Don't trust a Trust I have one. It is too slow. If I use it as an UPS and pull the wall plug the computer first shuts down due to power loss and then the UPS comes up and I can immediately restart my PC without putting the plug back in the wall. It drops the power long enough to kill the PC. How can they not have detected that during testing? It is useful for some other use cases, but not as an UPS. Just as an easy 240V power supply.
Either staff switch to desktops, or use laptops with virtualization so the work is offloaded to something that is better suited to the task.
I see a third option. If he can change the application maybe he can split the UI and the heavy lifting. Or maybe the application already has that option. The responsiveness of the local UI and the brute force of having the heavy lifting on a company owned cloud. If the load gets to big maybe some of the heavy lifting can be shifted to overnight work. You know, just like Pixar does (or used to do).
In some hyperfocussing modes my memory is almost output only. In those modes I can get loads done. It also means that I barely notice the passage of time because nothing new is stored in my memory. I can forget to sleep in such a mode and only fall out of it because I get really hungry. Really as in: first I need some sugar so I don't pass out before I get some real food.
I really had to learn to comment well in such modes because it also means I can't really remember why I made choices.
All you really need is something the size of a shuffle but with a microSD slot.
The Sansa Clip is similarly sized as the iPod Shuffle. It has a micro SD card slot and later firmware updates allow FLAC and OGG. It is a great player that survived my abuse for years, with only a silicone skin over it. I have no direct experience on the successor Sansa Clip + but I would assume that it is similarly awesome.
DST aligns it better. Noon shifts through the year because the Earth orbit is not completely round. What we see as a day is the sum of two effects: 1. The rotation of the earth around it's axis. This takes about 23 hours and 56 minutes. Understand it as "relative to the stars in the background". It is called sidereal time. 2. Our orbit around the sun. This adds 4 minutes to each day. If the earth would not rotate relative to the stars in the background this would still cause one "day" per year. Total is approximately 24 hours.
The rotation around our axis is relatively constant. Sufficiently constant for this. The orbital speed is not constant. The orbit is not round, there is a point where the planet is closer to the sun. The closer the earth is to the sun the faster it goes. The faster the earth goes the more degrees per hour the sun movement by the day-caused-by-our-orbit is. This causes noon to shift approximately 1 hour during the day. DST corrects for that.
Having said that: we should kill DST. The lost productivity it causes is enough reason.
On mercury this effect is so strong that the sun can be seen going backwards during a part of the day(if there was an observer there).
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The batteries do not have to be on the elevator. They can be on the building side of the high powered rail. For example in the basement.
First gen stars didn't have any rocky planets nor enough metals to form cellular life. If they had life it would have to be quite different to us.
If everyone is as smart as Bruce Banner then I would expect warp drives to be developed quite fast.
Induction drives are not safe enough.
This is a design using a worm drive.
If you have exprience with worm drives you know their self breaking properties make this very safe. In addition the designs I saw years back had emergency breaking systems similar to normal elevators.
With the next format you'll be able to fit them on a disk while using even more draconian DRM! Wouldn't that be great?
All the stuff is just hydrogen, helium and time. Not just the good stuff.
There are engineering apps. There are fluid dynamic apps, wind tunnel simulation apps and graphic calculator apps.
In the more practical domain there are function generators and oscilloscopes
It's just that those aren't downloaded as often as Candy Crush.
Hardly effective. Dongles are still allowed.
Especially "Is a smartphone detected?".
The past 3 routers I used had a random number sequence 20 or so number long on a sticker on the back. That sequence was the initial key and after a physical reset that will be the key again.
I always rather like "Secret" and "Above your paygrade" as multiple user passwords but "I forgot" would be a cool one too.
Now I just have to go back to a place where multiple user passwords are a thing again.
Vlad Tepes had similar ideas.
I haven't got an advice on what to buy. I do have an advice on what not to buy.
Don't trust a Trust
I have one. It is too slow. If I use it as an UPS and pull the wall plug the computer first shuts down due to power loss and then the UPS comes up and I can immediately restart my PC without putting the plug back in the wall.
It drops the power long enough to kill the PC. How can they not have detected that during testing?
It is useful for some other use cases, but not as an UPS. Just as an easy 240V power supply.
If driving over the ocean isn't going to stop him the Darién Gap will do nothing because then you can simply drive over the Caribbean sea and avoid that swamp all together.
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Either staff switch to desktops, or use laptops with virtualization so the work is offloaded to something that is better suited to the task.
I see a third option. If he can change the application maybe he can split the UI and the heavy lifting. Or maybe the application already has that option. The responsiveness of the local UI and the brute force of having the heavy lifting on a company owned cloud.
If the load gets to big maybe some of the heavy lifting can be shifted to overnight work. You know, just like Pixar does (or used to do).
Not all work can be done from home.
In some hyperfocussing modes my memory is almost output only. In those modes I can get loads done. It also means that I barely notice the passage of time because nothing new is stored in my memory.
I can forget to sleep in such a mode and only fall out of it because I get really hungry. Really as in: first I need some sugar so I don't pass out before I get some real food.
I really had to learn to comment well in such modes because it also means I can't really remember why I made choices.
Assuming there are no down sides I see no issue in using the placebo effect to get more energy.
All you really need is something the size of a shuffle but with a microSD slot.
The Sansa Clip is similarly sized as the iPod Shuffle. It has a micro SD card slot and later firmware updates allow FLAC and OGG.
It is a great player that survived my abuse for years, with only a silicone skin over it.
I have no direct experience on the successor Sansa Clip + but I would assume that it is similarly awesome.
Yep, but I prefer paying $2500 to iRiver over paying $1200 to Sony.
Not that I would buy either. They are a tad out of my price range and I can't see Spotify support in the list.
The mass difference between an entangled cat and a non entangled cat is the mass of the tread it got entangled in.
see these images
Why doesn't NTP give both UTC and TAI (or GPS)?
Or devise a similar system with as only difference that it gives TAI or GPS.
Use another time standard if it bothers you. UTC is meant to be corrected with leap seconds.
If leap seconds don't matter: use TAI.
DST aligns it better. Noon shifts through the year because the Earth orbit is not completely round.
What we see as a day is the sum of two effects:
1. The rotation of the earth around it's axis. This takes about 23 hours and 56 minutes. Understand it as "relative to the stars in the background". It is called sidereal time.
2. Our orbit around the sun. This adds 4 minutes to each day. If the earth would not rotate relative to the stars in the background this would still cause one "day" per year.
Total is approximately 24 hours.
The rotation around our axis is relatively constant. Sufficiently constant for this.
The orbital speed is not constant. The orbit is not round, there is a point where the planet is closer to the sun. The closer the earth is to the sun the faster it goes.
The faster the earth goes the more degrees per hour the sun movement by the day-caused-by-our-orbit is.
This causes noon to shift approximately 1 hour during the day.
DST corrects for that.
Having said that: we should kill DST. The lost productivity it causes is enough reason.
On mercury this effect is so strong that the sun can be seen going backwards during a part of the day(if there was an observer there).