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by aaronmdjones 7mo ago
> Answer #1: Many UK RCDs/RCBOs are actually single-pole devices and don't disconnect the neutral. This is not correct; all type AC and type A RCDs used in British consumer units disconnect the neutral as well. Some RCBOs do no
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by aaronmdjones 7mo ago
This is not an RCD, it's an RCBO. It combines the functions of an MCB (Miniature Circuit Breaker) and an RCD (Residual Current Device) in one device, as specified by BS EN 61009 (Residual Current Operated Circuit Breakers with Integral
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by aaronmdjones 7mo ago
Between the phasing out of analog meters (the latter half of the last century) and the introduction of smart meters (2010), a lot of electronic prepayment meters produced for the UK market would set a tamper flag if they detected power flow
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by aaronmdjones 7mo ago
Yes they are. Current alternates direction, but power usually only flows in one direction, from the input terminal (from the bus bar) to the output terminal (that the circuit is wired into). If the circuit will be supplying power too (e.g.
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by aaronmdjones 7mo ago
> > AI training might be copyright infringement. But there’s no cases or laws to establish that. > In September 2025, Anthropic agreed to pay at least $1.5 billion to settle a class-action lawsuit over using roughly 500,000 copyrig
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by aaronmdjones 7mo ago
I also drew parallels to the Uberlingen mid-aid collision, but for a different reason. The mid-air collision occurred because the Russian air crew maneuvered contrary to their TCAS instruction (it commanded them to climb, the controller ord
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by aaronmdjones 7mo ago
When I went to university 17 years ago, all of the computers (except the Macs) had dual-boot Windows 7 and Ubuntu 9.04. I'll give you five guesses which OS I never booted into.
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by aaronmdjones 7mo ago
I have a 16 GiB Optane NVMe M.2 drive in my router as a boot drive, running OpenWRT. It's so incredibly fast and responsive that the LuCI interface completely loads the moment I hit enter on the login form.
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by aaronmdjones 7mo ago
> Work? Online. Presumably my place of employment would have already verified my identity when I started working for them. > School? Online. Ditto, and for kids enrolling during lockdown they wouldn't have any ID to hand over any
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by aaronmdjones 8mo ago
It's better with absolutely no cooling. It doesn't even consume (and thus dissipate) 100mW flat-out.
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by aaronmdjones 8mo ago
Generally speaking, there are two levels of crime in the US; misdemeanors and felonies. Both will land you with a criminal record, but a misdemeanor-only record will not show up on some standard background checks and does not remove your ri
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by aaronmdjones 8mo ago
It also has various options to adjust the behaviour, from no blocks at all, to not even being able to charge the phone (or use the phone to charge something else) -- even when unlocked. Changing the mode of operation requires the device PIN
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by aaronmdjones 8mo ago
Yeah; in Windows 3.1, Ctrl+Alt+Del took you to a blue screen that allowed you to kill an unresponsive task (but didn't display a list of tasks; the Task List was launched with Ctrl+Esc), or told you there was no such task to kill if th
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by aaronmdjones 8mo ago
The author may just be showing their age a bit. That's what Ctrl+Alt+Del does on modern versions of Windows, but from Windows 95 to Windows XP (inclusive) it directly launched the Task Manager.
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by aaronmdjones 8mo ago
I still have my Casio FX-83MS which my mother purchased for me when I started secondary school 24 years ago. It still works, it usually sits on my desk, and I use it a couple of times per month.
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by aaronmdjones 9mo ago
> just to throw the ex president in jail and to stop him from running again? Being convicted of a crime does not stop you from running for president. Being in prison also does not stop you from running for president -- one person has.
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by aaronmdjones 10mo ago
The mask mandates weren't to protect you, they were to protect others from you. If everyone did this, the spread would have been massively reduced, and super-spreader events wouldn't have happened anywhere near as much. Unfortuna
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by aaronmdjones 11mo ago
> You obviously do not believe in freedom of speech as defined by US law. Neither do you. The Supreme Court of the United States has repeatedly held in numerous rulings that freedom of speech and/or freedom of expression is not abso
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by aaronmdjones 11mo ago
It saved them time on switching the fuel they were using. Within US waters they were required to either burn cleaner fuel or scrub the dirty (high-sulfur) diesel fuel they would use in open waters. They didn't have a fuel scrubber and
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by aaronmdjones 11mo ago
> Non redundant fuel pump that doesn't even restart on power failure The crew weren't using the redundant fuel pumps. They were using the non-redundant fuel line flushing pump as a generator fuel pump, a task it was never desig
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by aaronmdjones 11mo ago
> and file lookup through $PATH (which is not done by the kernel, maybe it's some shell trickery) It's libc. Specifically, system(3) and APIs like execvp(3) will search $PATH for the file specified before passing that to execve
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by aaronmdjones 11mo ago
If the OS doesn't recognise it as an emergency number then it may fail the call if it believes that whatever network it is associated with won't connect it ("No service" vs "Emergency calls only" indicators etc
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by aaronmdjones 11mo ago
Probably because it was the London team that was actively investigating the incident and initially came to the conclusion that it may be a DDoS while being unable to authenticate to their own systems.
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by aaronmdjones 11mo ago
16 hundred hours; 16:00. Since revised down to midday (12 UTC). https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/sites/default/files/styles/pad_sid...
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by aaronmdjones 11mo ago
I wonder if they'll backport this fix to Windows 10 (Very much doubt). I also wonder if they'll ever fix the menu entry delay bug. At the moment neither of the "Update and ..." options is in the menu when you first open
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by aaronmdjones 11mo ago
htop(1) can also highlight running processes that have had their on-disk executable replaced (highlights in red) or one of its shared libraries (highlights in yellow). I find this very useful.
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by aaronmdjones 11mo ago
> Windows locks files when they're in use, so that you cannot overwrite them. Linux doesn't do this. Linux does do this (try overwriting or truncating a binary executable while it's running and you'll get -ETXTBSY).
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by aaronmdjones 1y ago
It feels like I have malware... You do; it's called Windows. I jumped ship over a decade ago and have been using Linux Mint as my daily driver; there hasn't been one day I've regretted it. Seeing the recent news ab
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by aaronmdjones 1y ago
This is why the UK prefers roundabouts where ever possible. They're much more efficient than a light-controlled junction, since anyone can go when ever there is any suitable gap at any entrance. Not that we don't lose the plot som
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by aaronmdjones 1y ago
It would also work to just write 'time' Quoting overrides aliases and builtins. $ 'time' -v -- echo hi hi Command being timed: "echo hi" [...]

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