extrapickles

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91.
by extrapickles 5y ago
Fancy air compression systems (eg: not consumer) will have a drain valve that automatically opens when the pressure falls from turning system off for night/weekend/other maintenance so people don't forget to drain it. Its als
92.
by extrapickles 5y ago
That is what I do. I don't want to assume that because I "feel no effect" that I'm still fine, I want to be able to measure that "I'm fine".
93.
by extrapickles 5y ago
Even if it’s accuracy was not that great, say <25%, 25-75%, and >75% of legal limit would still be useful to know as some places have heavy handed bartenders, were you could end up with more than your expecting if you are counting dri
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by extrapickles 5y ago
It can be hard to move the capacitors without having to redesign the entire power supply, as increasing the distance will increase the inductance. Increased inductance will make most power supplies less stable. One thing I have done in the
95.
by extrapickles 5y ago
I doubt its anything thinkpad specific, unless someone can find a datasheet for the parts involved. This sounds like a sequence designed to get people to wait long enough until the computer is fully drained of power, causing any latch-ups t
96.
by extrapickles 5y ago
That is an option I kind of outlined as leasing/subscribing to the battery back are the easiest mechanisms to do this. If the car owner only charged via swapping you could do a system where the cost of the pack was part of the electric
97.
by extrapickles 5y ago
Part of the problem is accounting. Since the value of a battery pack is highly variable depending on its remaining life, the only way it would work is if you subscribed/leased the battery so it didn't matter what the delta in valu
98.
by extrapickles 5y ago
If you at least sleep underground (1-2m), it keeps the total lifetime radiation dose manageable. For most of the machinery, you would bring the tricky to manufacture bits (tight tolerance mechanical, electronics, non-basic chemicals) with y
99.
by extrapickles 5y ago
As far as I can tell they cannot discard the salt if they want to be able to tell if you already have a 'humanID'. Without the salt, you cannot tell if the phone number already has an account without having to brute force the salt
100.
by extrapickles 5y ago
If the database leaked, the salt would become known. A truly anonymous system should still be just as effective if the entire DB is known to an attacker. Assuming there are on the order of 10 billion valid phone-numbers (there could be on t
101.
by extrapickles 5y ago
If you are in one of the suburbs of Seattle, you pay even more for utilities, so they can’t be more wasteful than average (or at least in the greater Seattle area). There are a lot of games played with utility rates (eg: have taxpayers on t
102.
by extrapickles 6y ago
Yes. Good ones will have a time-domain reflectometer (TDR) that will tell you were the break or sharp bend in the cable is in addition to the standard is this cable terminated correctly test. They will also be able to do basic connectivity
103.
by extrapickles 6y ago
If you’re doing this, make sure you are not using technical grade isopropyl, as that can have a bunch of nasty side products in it. Getting the correct isopropyl online is problematic as people have been watering down technical grade and se
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by extrapickles 6y ago
The alloys used in most modern cars work harden too much to be able to bend them back into shape trivially. Ideally, they would sell you a new front/rear casting and recycle the bent old one. I don't see this happening though as t
105.
by extrapickles 6y ago
I was thinking one would replace the tires with train wheels, so you keep the steering system intact. The biggest downside to doing exactly this is that car traffic will not have traction as most of their tire contact patch will be on the s
106.
by extrapickles 6y ago
Another facet is that the private companies are very good at finding ways that off the self designs are not suitable so they must make bespoke equipment when its not needed. For the streetcar they recently installed in Seattle, off the shel
107.
by extrapickles 6y ago
Not any more than a matte black car judging from the photos. Cars are required to have retroreflectors so night-time should not be that big of a problem. The main issue is the extra cost of this worth the 16km (10miles) in range added per d
108.
by extrapickles 6y ago
For something as critical as auth, I would expect most changes to be rolled out over a few days just to make sure something like this cannot happen to everyone. Ideally a change would be shadowed for a few % of traffic before it was allowed
109.
by extrapickles 6y ago
I never said they would be affordable even in qty 100k. I would think the major use for them beyond space probes would be providing last resort backup power/heat for life support on outside earth orbit space habitats/crewed vehicl
110.
by extrapickles 6y ago
The reason for that high of a price tag is that the engineering costs are spread over a very few units. If they made 100,000 of them, the costs would be much closer to the materials cost.
111.
by extrapickles 6y ago
Risk is an indicator for how you should allocate your limited time. Since most software projects these days directly depend on dozens of software packages, you can't really afford to carefully vet each and every change to all of your t
112.
by extrapickles 6y ago
I have been toying with the idea that version numbers should really be release.risk, where release is an incrementing number and risk is the projects estimate of the risk of breakage from the previous release. Eventually the risk part of a
113.
by extrapickles 6y ago
Most things I’ve found to be reasonably priced for what they are. Most products are made with much higher quality materials than you would find in consumer gear. Also the “rated” spec for parts is expected to be understated as the “unreliab
114.
by extrapickles 6y ago
If you are careful yes. Doing job shop work (making other peoples parts) is hard to make a good profit as people expect overseas dumping rates. The real profit comes from making your own products, as then you can force competition to also b
115.
by extrapickles 6y ago
You can get electronic probes that measure the stock automatically so you don’t need precision blanks. The probe loads in the tool changer so it can be completely automated. Automatic tool setting makes it so operators don’t need to measure
116.
by extrapickles 6y ago
You only have to shut off if you don't have the ability to disconnect yourself from the grid. Automatic switches are fairly expensive ($500-2k), so unless you also have battery storage, you generally opt out to save money.
117.
by extrapickles 6y ago
You should be able to afford major city if you are able to split the fixed costs of living with someone. Its more likely that people on UBI without any supplemental income would live in a suburb of the major city. A true UBI would make abus
118.
by extrapickles 6y ago
That amount would likely require universal health care to make it comfortable to live off of. You would still not be able to afford decent housing in a major city though, as you would have to split a studio apartment with several people.
119.
by extrapickles 6y ago
Even if someone was making $1m/day, they still would get it. The reason behind giving it to everyone of working age is to prevent people from falling into cracks like what can happen with unemployment.
120.
by extrapickles 6y ago
I hope they followed industry standards, and used a pump that was simply not able to supply harmful amounts of the chemical even when running at maximum speed.

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