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by generatorguy 7y ago
Ah I didn't understand that a "no carbon grid" meant using electricity for transportation and was just thinking in terms of reduced demand for electricity regardless of whether the source was renewable or not.
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by generatorguy 7y ago
Presumably companies that supply carbon free energy still get paid only when they actually supply energy. Even though they may not have to purchase fuel they would still make no money and have all of their operating costs. I don’t see why t
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by generatorguy 7y ago
Schematics show you where a wire begins and ends. Wire ducts with no covers so people can ‘trace’ wires is a sign that either a) they don’t know how or can’t be bothered to read schematics or b) poor maintenance practices such as making mod
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by generatorguy 7y ago
I was actually thinking of Alan Cox!
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by generatorguy 7y ago
for some reason I always thought russ cox was 60 years old (even 15 years ago) with a big grey neck beard. boy was I wrong!
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by generatorguy 7y ago
You’ll be happy to know my runny nose has gone away!
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by generatorguy 7y ago
the video on their web page shows an external antenna, looks like a dipole.
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by generatorguy 7y ago
It sounds like you agree 900 MHz will be much better than 2.4 GHz in this non line of sight application so long as the obstructions are trees and foliage and not terrain. I would expect to be able to send a few bytes between two stations ma
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by generatorguy 7y ago
915 MHz goes a lot farther than 2.4 GHz. At very low bit rates you need very little SNR. There is probably very low noise out in hiking environments. Yes, attenuation due to terrain is going to be a killer, but my experience with non line o
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by generatorguy 7y ago
Easier but factories are unfriedly to WiFi with all the giant metal structures, high,medium,low voltage power cables, emi noise from motors and VFDs, etc. WiFi is more difficult to troubleshoot whereas Pretty much anybody can use a cat5 cab
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by generatorguy 7y ago
The climb acronym from the article, it is same reason we can’t build nuclear plants on time or or budget anymore.
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by generatorguy 7y ago
I only know from my own experience and I’m essentially self taught, so I don’t know what industry norms are only what has worked for me and my customers. The instruments and controlled devices are wired to a PLC such as Allen Bradley contro
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by generatorguy 7y ago
I haven't assembled a PC since the pentium 200 days. I recall hard drives, floppy drives, and the motherboard had their own power connections but not the CPU or GPU of the time. Still a single pin is probably something like a #18 gauge
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by generatorguy 7y ago
thanks for the links. We only create an alert if there is a problem the operator can solve, otherwise there is no point in waking them up at 3 AM, so if anything our thresholds are set as loose as possible instead of as tight as possible. H
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by generatorguy 7y ago
I haven’t read anything that said sniffles or runny nose was a symptom. I have a runny nose and was told by the ER on the phone in British Columbia not to worry unless I get a fever.
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by generatorguy 7y ago
to deliver 1500 watts at 12v through one pin would be 125 amps. 5 pins each with 25A I would think you’d want at least 14 gauge per pin and even then I think they would be rather warm.
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by generatorguy 7y ago
I work on power stations which normally have about 1000 monitored variables per turbine-generator and another 500 for the plant in general. So typically 2500 for a two unit plant. Alarms are generated if a variable exceeds a threshold, or a
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by generatorguy 7y ago
Insurance?
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by generatorguy 7y ago
Chromecast audio
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by generatorguy 7y ago
They still work great though! you can’t buy more from google but they are on eBay and craigslist etc
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by generatorguy 7y ago
If you have a factory you run wires to the things that are important for your factory to run.
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by generatorguy 7y ago
Ctrl + s works great for me
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by generatorguy 7y ago
I use genutax works great, free, updated every year and uploads your return for you!
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by generatorguy 7y ago
It will still cost money to produce and transport even if demand is low so the price will not be negative. Who is going to pay you to take gasoline when they could just burn it themselves very cheaply to get rid of it? Presumably supply wil
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by generatorguy 7y ago
I had a co-op position at Nortel in the late 90s for three years. While I was in a sysadmin group maintaining 10,000 hp-ux and 10,000 sunos workstations (the servers were auspex’s in the basement in rooms with a glass wall along the hallway
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Did Huawei Bring Down Nortel?(nationalpost.com)
6 points by generatorguy 7y ago|2 comments
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by generatorguy 7y ago
Text entry fields with no border are the worst, if they are blank you can’t even tell they are there. The notes field on a contact in IOS is a good example of this unfriendly design. the amount of tapping I’ve done to try to figure out how
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by generatorguy 7y ago
I think because in the hardware world the cost for being wrong is so much higher since you can’t push out an over the air update or update your saas or whatever. So if you don’t know you stay quiet instead of being wrong.
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by generatorguy 7y ago
they are turbine generators in hydro electric power plants - they are live buildings; the floor and walls are resisting all of the torque from the generators and the forces exerted by the water flowing through the building, and the machines
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by generatorguy 7y ago
that sounds better. I thought a point was 1D, a line was 2D thinking of a plot with X and Y axis, and a surface was 3D - but a totally flat surface would be 2D, and a totally straight line i guess is 1D. a point must be 0D.

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