. Syncing a generating unit to the grid "by hand" is not that hard (I have done it).
I did that once too in one of my EE classes...well, the whole class kinda did and watched. That is one of the few things I remember from the class - it was not my area of interest, but required. One of those things that you really don't think about and then go 'hey, of course you have to do that'. Fun memories.
I started out on an Atari (it was out a year or two before the C64). Basically the same thing though. SID was better, but Atari had better custom graphics chips.
Hey, maybe you could disagree and we can re-ignite the oldest flame war in computerdom.
Even better than cookbooks is youtube. Seriously, there is every conceivable foodstuffs there and it's really not a lot of work. Even complicated stuff is maybe 20 minutes of actual work and the rest is sitting around time. I invested in a $5 kitchen timer and have yet to burn something. You'd think that most "nerds" would have completed a chemistry class and I've yet to find a recipe as complicated as anything as on nurdrage.
I've been cooking all of my life (latch key kid. Parents expected dinner when they got home). The primary reason that I don't go out to restaurants is that the food sucks, even in some high end places. As a benefit, I can make 6 meals for the price of one trip to the restaurant.
My last restaurant trip was taking a friend to "The Olive Garden". It sucked, but she wanted to go and it cost me $50. That's a week's worth of food at the grocery (I went there last night) and could have included the ingredients to reproduced the restaurant dinner a couple of times. Seriously, cooking is not that hard. GO to youtube and do the same things that the person making pho does.
I have the inverter on my off grid house to shut down at 80%. I have a large enough battery capacity to usage ratio that it's not a problem and greatly increases battery life. I don't know what the chemistry is on LiPos does, but on lead acid, everything below 75% starts to rapidly decrease the lifespan of the battery. I read once that you can fully discharge a lead acid battery about 10x before it is permanently ruined.
Sweet. I could trivially conect my car to ardurover an have it drive across town. Of course it doesn't have any collision detection capabilities, but I could hack in some simulink vision code with some effort.
I don't have a job and make around 20K per year from random gig's and have no credit history. I went to the bank two months ago out of curiosity and they said I would qualify for $150k house loan. I would be responsible for about $600/month.
rPi's are fun until you've hooked up every sensor and every output, built a drone from balsa and component parts, set up a remote weather station using fibre optic cable and an xbee and control it from 10 miles away, then hook it up to an iridium satellite modem running PPP and figure that you could run it from anywhere on Earth. Then you think, is there no more?
How could you find computing anything but more fun than ever?
My laptop that I bought last week is virtually indistinguishable from the one that I bought ten years ago. Back in the 80's you could go from text only to 4 colors on the screen at one time in as many years. That was a huge jump. 4k of memory could fill up one text screen with little room left over for a program.
I've been playing with computers since a friend showed me his TRS-80 in grade school. I got jobs and counted pennies for two years before I was able to save enough money to buy an Atari 800 (while still in grade school). Throughout the intervening highschool years, I spent all of my time teaching myself hardware and software.
It was difficult because my family didn't have any money and they looked down upon me playing with toys. I never played games because I didn't have enough money to buy any and couldn't afford a hard drive, but I became decent at programming and understood chips and how they worked which was an advantage when I hit engineering college. It was all a lot of fun, the challenge being trying to make something that did something that no one had done before - make a computer 'play' a fourier series generated wave form. That was fun.
One of the reasons it is (was, I kinda got out) is that every level of human sensory input could be read or created by a computer. I'm not a very creative person and couldn't think of anything beyond my level of understanding of the universe. Probably by the year 2000, everything had been done. Computers could generate any object that I could see (eg, morphing in Terminator 2; "retina resolution") or hear. 44khz 308kbs audio. Sure, there was the challenge of bigger, better, faster, but after a while even that seems like a treadmill - OK, time for the next incremental crank of the wheel even though nobody will notice.
Every toy that I'd dreamed about having as a kid (FPV drone racing) is now practically given away for a small fraction of what my first computer cost me. There was nothing like the thrill of a ten year old seeing a 4 color monitor at a computer show. I'm now living the future that my fifth grade self imagined.There are a lot of other fun things to do an work on, but computers, not much else is going to happen other than they'll keep getting slightly better at 2% a year.
Slashdot Mirror
it turns back into carbon dioxide when I pour vinegar on it.
Already well out of the gravity well of the Sun.
It doesn't work like that. Out of gravity well implies the mass has more kinetic energy than escape velocity.
zen
Anybody have any ideas?. Bueller?
Air gaps are federally mandated. This virus was on the outside FTA.
. Syncing a generating unit to the grid "by hand" is not that hard (I have done it).
I did that once too in one of my EE classes...well, the whole class kinda did and watched. That is one of the few things I remember from the class - it was not my area of interest, but required. One of those things that you really don't think about and then go 'hey, of course you have to do that'. Fun memories.
You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it.
Scott McNealy, CEO, Sun Microsystems
Give it up. king neckbeard doesn't even know what the grid network is.
It's a Brave New World
And strangely enough, Episodes I-III are very accurate.
That line gave me a headache. It's why I have to avoid most media. It's not fake news, it's retard news.
I was doing assembler in highschool. It was the only way to get decent performance.
Hey, maybe you could disagree and we can re-ignite the oldest flame war in computerdom.
people who really understand the low-leveling functioning of the system
We calls thems electrical engineers where I'm from.
Even better than cookbooks is youtube. Seriously, there is every conceivable foodstuffs there and it's really not a lot of work. Even complicated stuff is maybe 20 minutes of actual work and the rest is sitting around time. I invested in a $5 kitchen timer and have yet to burn something. You'd think that most "nerds" would have completed a chemistry class and I've yet to find a recipe as complicated as anything as on nurdrage.
The internet has spoken.
I've been cooking all of my life (latch key kid. Parents expected dinner when they got home). The primary reason that I don't go out to restaurants is that the food sucks, even in some high end places. As a benefit, I can make 6 meals for the price of one trip to the restaurant. My last restaurant trip was taking a friend to "The Olive Garden". It sucked, but she wanted to go and it cost me $50. That's a week's worth of food at the grocery (I went there last night) and could have included the ingredients to reproduced the restaurant dinner a couple of times. Seriously, cooking is not that hard. GO to youtube and do the same things that the person making pho does.
I have the inverter on my off grid house to shut down at 80%. I have a large enough battery capacity to usage ratio that it's not a problem and greatly increases battery life. I don't know what the chemistry is on LiPos does, but on lead acid, everything below 75% starts to rapidly decrease the lifespan of the battery. I read once that you can fully discharge a lead acid battery about 10x before it is permanently ruined.
Sweet. I could trivially conect my car to ardurover an have it drive across town. Of course it doesn't have any collision detection capabilities, but I could hack in some simulink vision code with some effort.
I don't have a job and make around 20K per year from random gig's and have no credit history. I went to the bank two months ago out of curiosity and they said I would qualify for $150k house loan. I would be responsible for about $600/month.
rPi's are fun until you've hooked up every sensor and every output, built a drone from balsa and component parts, set up a remote weather station using fibre optic cable and an xbee and control it from 10 miles away, then hook it up to an iridium satellite modem running PPP and figure that you could run it from anywhere on Earth. Then you think, is there no more?
How could you find computing anything but more fun than ever?
My laptop that I bought last week is virtually indistinguishable from the one that I bought ten years ago. Back in the 80's you could go from text only to 4 colors on the screen at one time in as many years. That was a huge jump. 4k of memory could fill up one text screen with little room left over for a program.
Go spend $5 on an Arduino.
Yes. It's unbelievably less expensive and easier to find things today.
It was difficult because my family didn't have any money and they looked down upon me playing with toys. I never played games because I didn't have enough money to buy any and couldn't afford a hard drive, but I became decent at programming and understood chips and how they worked which was an advantage when I hit engineering college. It was all a lot of fun, the challenge being trying to make something that did something that no one had done before - make a computer 'play' a fourier series generated wave form. That was fun.
One of the reasons it is (was, I kinda got out) is that every level of human sensory input could be read or created by a computer. I'm not a very creative person and couldn't think of anything beyond my level of understanding of the universe. Probably by the year 2000, everything had been done. Computers could generate any object that I could see (eg, morphing in Terminator 2; "retina resolution") or hear. 44khz 308kbs audio. Sure, there was the challenge of bigger, better, faster, but after a while even that seems like a treadmill - OK, time for the next incremental crank of the wheel even though nobody will notice.
Every toy that I'd dreamed about having as a kid (FPV drone racing) is now practically given away for a small fraction of what my first computer cost me. There was nothing like the thrill of a ten year old seeing a 4 color monitor at a computer show. I'm now living the future that my fifth grade self imagined.There are a lot of other fun things to do an work on, but computers, not much else is going to happen other than they'll keep getting slightly better at 2% a year.