What you describe is not vandalism at all. It is simply called "attention to detail" and "being thorough."
Any disputable statement of fact should require a legitimate citation. For example, there is a growing body of research that demonstrates that the statement "the sky is blue" is not always true. According to the Jeppesen Private Pilot Manual, the sky is sometimes filled with water vapor in a way that makes it appear gray. And, according to the same book, the sky can appear pitch black for several hours a day in some places.
So, the categorical statement that "the sky is blue" is demonstrably false. "The sky is sometimes blue" would be more accurate. "The sky sometimes appears blue to persons with unimpaired perception of colors" would be even more accurate.
Actually, can you link me to the article that says the sky is blue? I think I would like to go correct this misinformation.
"There is no longer a decent path to paid insurance at a nice company with a nice salary."
Yes, there is.
Step 1) Obtain relevant skills that are in demand Step 2) Use those skills to produce something of value Step 3) Convert that something of value into portable wealth Step 4) Use that portable wealth to obtain other things you need/want Step 5) When the winds of change blow, raise your sails.
All the while, you must understand that there will never be total justice or fairness in a world that involves human beings. There will always be those who break the rules. You can either learn to manage that risk, or you can fall victim to it. The choice on that, however, is all yours.
If you don't like what your company is doing and have objection to it on moral grounds, you are perfectly free to take your relevant skills elsewhere. If your skills are not relevant elsewhere, that is your problem to solve.
You can choose to be an Owner, or you can choose to be a Victim. It seems you are choosing to be a Victim.
The "right" temperature is the average temperature over all time. There can be no deviation from the norm. Any deviation from the norm is to be considered a crisis.
This is the hallmark of leftist conformism. Everyone must be the same. Everything must be the same. Everyone must have the same education, same skills, and the same life outcome. Everyone must hold the same beliefs.
To wit, the environment must never change. Peoples' living conditions must never change. Nothing can ever change. Change is bad. Change is crisis. Any change, no matter how minute.
Well, it is supposed to be both. There is both an accountability component and a rehabilitative component. The US simply ignores the latter, because crime is quite profitable for state actors and those with whom they conspire in the private sector. Rehabilitation conflicts with the interest of those who benefit from the flow of money, so naturally they just leave that part out.
It is getting even worse now that the US is moving towards a model of prison-for-profit, policing-for-profit, and other models that make funding dependent upon increasing crime.
My thoughts exactly. Punishment for a crime is supposed to be objective, measurable, and above all, finite. We go out of our way to ruin people's lives forever over seemingly trivial transgressions like speeding or jaywalking or smoking pot.
The problem is that, even at 7.2kW (maximum available power from a home circuit) it will still take several hours to charge even a modestly-sized eCar battery.
As I outlined in another post, using a higher voltage supply increases the available power, but this cannot be done very safely with a plug and socket system where contacts are made and broken. There is a risk of arc flash any time a high voltage contact is broken.
Have you ever heard something spark when you plug something into the wall, or unplug it? That's a small arc inside the socket. At 120V or 240V household voltage, they're pretty small (but can be much worse under abnormal circumstances). The higher the voltage, the larger and deeper a plug and socket must be to contain the arc, and the less safe the whole thing becomes.
Removing the make/break operation from the process increases safety by orders of magnitude, and allows much higher supply voltages to be used, therefore increasing power and decreasing charging times.
It is not uncommon for modern Lithium batteries to be charged at 1-2C. A 25kWh battery could be charged at 50kW CC and probably even finish its CV cycle, all in about an hour.
Of course it's faster, because with inductive charging systems you can build it in such a way that it can use a 13.2kV primary coil without putting anyone at immediate risk of electrocution.
The limiting factor in plug-in systems is the 240V supply rail, which is limited to a 30A circuit breaker (240V * 30A = 7200W). If you pipe in a higher voltage primary to a plug-and-socket, then you introduce issues of arc flashing and electrocution. However, if the primary high voltage coil is safely isolated and couples magnetically to a secondary, high current coil, then you can transfer much more energy.
So, let's say we use 7200V (typical underground MV circuit for neighborhood distribution) for the primary instead of 240V, and say 360V for the secondary (20:1 turns ratio). If our 7200V circuit is on a 10A breaker, then we have 72kW available. The primary coil is safely isolated in a panel on the floor under the car, and the secondary coil is inside the car itself. Piece of cake.
This is far from revolutionary. It's simple electromagnetics.
For cryin' out loud, this is just senseless hyperbole. Nobody is going to uproot themselves and move to another country just because Trump gets elected. The President is temporary. Moving to another country is not so temporary, and no reasonable person is going to go through that just because Trump gets elected.
Words mean things, and spelling is important. So is proper grammar. I am not an asshole for trying to help you improve the way you use language. You should consider being grateful that I care enough to try to help.
Perhaps harboring hatred towards me is not the best approach for you, as hatred has seldom accomplished progress. I don't hate you for failing to possess a reasonable command of language. It's not necessarily an indication of your personality or character, so I do not assume so. I would therefore appreciate you not assuming similar things about me when I politely try to help you improve.
If there's enough ambient light, especially sunlight, to cause glare on your phone screen, the first thing you should do is put your goddamn phone away and do something else. It's nice outside. The Sun is shining. Take your dog for a walk. Throw circular plastic discs with your girlfriend. Fly a kite. Go for a bike ride.
There are so many better things to do than to waste life away twiddling on a cell phone.
When you consider that it costs $150+ to pile a family of 5 into the Canyonero and drive to the movie theater, pay $15/ticket and $15 a piece for a small bag of stale popcorn and small sugary soda, and watch a movie surrounded by people talking on their phones and calling a play-by-play of the film, I would HAPPILY, VERY VERY HAPPILY pay $50 to watch a first-run movie at home on the night it is released in theaters.
Alpha Particles from space do not penetrate the building that the computer is in, nor the computer case, nor the plastic package of the memory devices themselves.
Alpha particle bit errors are caused by alpha particle emissions within the memory cell itself, as there is a minute amount of radioactive material in all semiconductor devices, including memory.
However, radiation-induced bit errors are seldom actually caused by package alpha particle emissions. The more likely space-related culprit is neutron flux. It has been found that DRAM bit error rates increase dramatically with altitude, and that solar events increase the rates further.
It's probably more like 1/15000th of a microwave oven with a volkswagen-sized dish that makes the signal ONE MILLION TIMES STRONGER when the signal is going SOOOOOOOPER FAST.
Up until about two months ago, I was limited to 1.5M/384k DSL. AT&T finally rolled out VDSL and now I can get 12M/1M, and our neighborhood has been told that this is it. Forever. No more wireline upgrades. Ever.
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What you describe is not vandalism at all. It is simply called "attention to detail" and "being thorough."
Any disputable statement of fact should require a legitimate citation. For example, there is a growing body of research that demonstrates that the statement "the sky is blue" is not always true. According to the Jeppesen Private Pilot Manual, the sky is sometimes filled with water vapor in a way that makes it appear gray. And, according to the same book, the sky can appear pitch black for several hours a day in some places.
So, the categorical statement that "the sky is blue" is demonstrably false. "The sky is sometimes blue" would be more accurate. "The sky sometimes appears blue to persons with unimpaired perception of colors" would be even more accurate.
Actually, can you link me to the article that says the sky is blue? I think I would like to go correct this misinformation.
"There is no longer a decent path to paid insurance at a nice company with a nice salary."
Yes, there is.
Step 1) Obtain relevant skills that are in demand
Step 2) Use those skills to produce something of value
Step 3) Convert that something of value into portable wealth
Step 4) Use that portable wealth to obtain other things you need/want
Step 5) When the winds of change blow, raise your sails.
All the while, you must understand that there will never be total justice or fairness in a world that involves human beings. There will always be those who break the rules. You can either learn to manage that risk, or you can fall victim to it. The choice on that, however, is all yours.
If you don't like what your company is doing and have objection to it on moral grounds, you are perfectly free to take your relevant skills elsewhere. If your skills are not relevant elsewhere, that is your problem to solve.
You can choose to be an Owner, or you can choose to be a Victim. It seems you are choosing to be a Victim.
Thread winner.
The "right" temperature is the average temperature over all time. There can be no deviation from the norm. Any deviation from the norm is to be considered a crisis.
This is the hallmark of leftist conformism. Everyone must be the same. Everything must be the same. Everyone must have the same education, same skills, and the same life outcome. Everyone must hold the same beliefs.
To wit, the environment must never change. Peoples' living conditions must never change. Nothing can ever change. Change is bad. Change is crisis. Any change, no matter how minute.
https://ifixit.org/blog/7668/u...
Apparently if a machine breaks it just goes to a landfill instead of being repaired - because they cannot be repaired.
No, thanks.
... fat lot of good it did them.
Gotta love the Streissand Effect.
TRIM automatically ONES the blocks of deleted files. The erased state of flash is all ones, not zeroes.
In fact, it explicitly states that Net Neutrality must be preserved:
"SEC. 4. Additional rule of construction.
For purposes of this Act, broadband Internet access service shall not be construed to include data roaming or interconnection."
Well, it is supposed to be both. There is both an accountability component and a rehabilitative component. The US simply ignores the latter, because crime is quite profitable for state actors and those with whom they conspire in the private sector. Rehabilitation conflicts with the interest of those who benefit from the flow of money, so naturally they just leave that part out.
It is getting even worse now that the US is moving towards a model of prison-for-profit, policing-for-profit, and other models that make funding dependent upon increasing crime.
Cuckoldry is also not the same as fathering a child.
Cuckoldry is the act of having sex with another man's wife. Whether or not that act produces children has nothing to do with cuckoldry.
My thoughts exactly. Punishment for a crime is supposed to be objective, measurable, and above all, finite. We go out of our way to ruin people's lives forever over seemingly trivial transgressions like speeding or jaywalking or smoking pot.
Since when do you need batteries to power an electric motor?
The problem is that, even at 7.2kW (maximum available power from a home circuit) it will still take several hours to charge even a modestly-sized eCar battery.
As I outlined in another post, using a higher voltage supply increases the available power, but this cannot be done very safely with a plug and socket system where contacts are made and broken. There is a risk of arc flash any time a high voltage contact is broken.
Have you ever heard something spark when you plug something into the wall, or unplug it? That's a small arc inside the socket. At 120V or 240V household voltage, they're pretty small (but can be much worse under abnormal circumstances). The higher the voltage, the larger and deeper a plug and socket must be to contain the arc, and the less safe the whole thing becomes.
Removing the make/break operation from the process increases safety by orders of magnitude, and allows much higher supply voltages to be used, therefore increasing power and decreasing charging times.
It is not uncommon for modern Lithium batteries to be charged at 1-2C. A 25kWh battery could be charged at 50kW CC and probably even finish its CV cycle, all in about an hour.
Of course it's faster, because with inductive charging systems you can build it in such a way that it can use a 13.2kV primary coil without putting anyone at immediate risk of electrocution.
The limiting factor in plug-in systems is the 240V supply rail, which is limited to a 30A circuit breaker (240V * 30A = 7200W). If you pipe in a higher voltage primary to a plug-and-socket, then you introduce issues of arc flashing and electrocution. However, if the primary high voltage coil is safely isolated and couples magnetically to a secondary, high current coil, then you can transfer much more energy.
So, let's say we use 7200V (typical underground MV circuit for neighborhood distribution) for the primary instead of 240V, and say 360V for the secondary (20:1 turns ratio). If our 7200V circuit is on a 10A breaker, then we have 72kW available. The primary coil is safely isolated in a panel on the floor under the car, and the secondary coil is inside the car itself. Piece of cake.
This is far from revolutionary. It's simple electromagnetics.
For cryin' out loud, this is just senseless hyperbole. Nobody is going to uproot themselves and move to another country just because Trump gets elected. The President is temporary. Moving to another country is not so temporary, and no reasonable person is going to go through that just because Trump gets elected.
Words mean things, and spelling is important. So is proper grammar. I am not an asshole for trying to help you improve the way you use language. You should consider being grateful that I care enough to try to help.
Perhaps harboring hatred towards me is not the best approach for you, as hatred has seldom accomplished progress. I don't hate you for failing to possess a reasonable command of language. It's not necessarily an indication of your personality or character, so I do not assume so. I would therefore appreciate you not assuming similar things about me when I politely try to help you improve.
If there's enough ambient light, especially sunlight, to cause glare on your phone screen, the first thing you should do is put your goddamn phone away and do something else. It's nice outside. The Sun is shining. Take your dog for a walk. Throw circular plastic discs with your girlfriend. Fly a kite. Go for a bike ride.
There are so many better things to do than to waste life away twiddling on a cell phone.
Well what the hell did you all expect when you decided to put every detail of your entire sordid lives on the Internet?
When you consider that it costs $150+ to pile a family of 5 into the Canyonero and drive to the movie theater, pay $15/ticket and $15 a piece for a small bag of stale popcorn and small sugary soda, and watch a movie surrounded by people talking on their phones and calling a play-by-play of the film, I would HAPPILY, VERY VERY HAPPILY pay $50 to watch a first-run movie at home on the night it is released in theaters.
Alpha Particles from space do not penetrate the building that the computer is in, nor the computer case, nor the plastic package of the memory devices themselves.
Alpha particle bit errors are caused by alpha particle emissions within the memory cell itself, as there is a minute amount of radioactive material in all semiconductor devices, including memory.
However, radiation-induced bit errors are seldom actually caused by package alpha particle emissions. The more likely space-related culprit is neutron flux. It has been found that DRAM bit error rates increase dramatically with altitude, and that solar events increase the rates further.
Fun stuff.
Math is the Universal Language used to convey ideas.
It's probably more like 1/15000th of a microwave oven with a volkswagen-sized dish that makes the signal ONE MILLION TIMES STRONGER when the signal is going SOOOOOOOPER FAST.
It's probably more like 100mW with a 2 meter dish that gives 60dBi of gain at 80GHz.
Up until about two months ago, I was limited to 1.5M/384k DSL. AT&T finally rolled out VDSL and now I can get 12M/1M, and our neighborhood has been told that this is it. Forever. No more wireline upgrades. Ever.