I feel dumber having read that.
Banning a whole country because you disliked a company?
Dealing with stuff that’s ‘almost working’ is often harder than starting from scratch; ask any tradesperson.
They also apparently cannot get their heads around the fact that people might give you a discount if you advertise their brand. Ad-supported pricing has been around for a long time; it’s not some voodoo.
The other scores seem to be more about inherent cursedness, not simply ‘there is a far better option’.
I am very surprised that Rankine gets such a high cursedness score. Isn’t it just the same as Kelvin but based on Fahrenheit instead of Celsius?
Until the day comes that I get a letter in the mail from the government saying, “Here’s how much you paid in taxes, if you’re cool with that then please disregard”, I will not be satisfied.
NZ does that. More accurately, they email you to tell you that there’s a letter available online - I don’t think they send physical mail by default.
Then they pay any refund straight into your nominated bank account.
Requirements often depend on the type of building occupancy and the chance of fire spread to neighboring buildings.
I do feel that eating a Capri Sun with a fork seems like a better idea than installing a bulging battery in a phone.
It’s also torches and everything after the regulator, which run at much lower pressure. At least in NZ
I think it might be because they’re connected and disconnected regularly so misconnection is a common problem, even with colour coding. Gas work on houses involves actually putting the fittings on pipe and is done by people who should be concentrating more on that rather than on what they’re about to weld/cut.
I’ve heard flammable gas uses reverse (left hand) thread to prevent cross connection. At least for welding gases in NZ; not sure about natural gas.
The 737 factory is unionized, and it’s not having any fewer issues.
They’ve just acquired a terrible management culture. Even the military and space contracts have gone down the drain.
Even disregarding the orientation, people hate auto-next on YouTube, but will tolerate/accept endless scroll for shorts, especially because they’re short.
From article:
He said the term “coconut” was a “well-known racial slur which has a very clear meaning” to the effect that “you may be brown on the outside, but you’re white on the inside. In other words, you’re a race traitor – you’re less brown or black than you should be.”
That’s a different definition of ‘coconut’ than I hear here in NZ. Here it’s usually just a (derogatory) term for any Pacific Islander, because they come from where coconuts come from.
Gotta love slang/slurs.
Any hard drive can fail at any time with or without warning. Worrying too much about individual drive families’ reliability isn’t worth it if you’re dealing with few drives. Worry instead about backups and recovery plans in case it does happen.
Bigger drives have significantly lower power usage per TB, and cost per TB is lowest around 12-16TB. Bigger drives also lets you fit more storage in a given box. Drives 12TB and up are all currently helium filled which run significantly cooler.
Two preferred options in the data hoarder communities are shucking (external drives are cheaper than internal, so remove the case) and buying refurb or grey market drives from vendors like Server Supply or Water Panther. In both cases, the savings are usually big enough that you can simply buy an extra drive to make up for any loss of warranty.
Under US$15/TB is typically a ‘good’ price.
For media serving and deep storage, HDDs are still fine and cheap. For general file storage, consider SSDs to improve IOPS.
I don’t remember if they fully closed the loopholes, but there are inputs that programs cannot catch unless you actually replace the OS.
It looks like the WLTP range is about ¾ the Chinese range on these vehicles. Assume a faster highway speed and you’ve basically got the difference.
It’s 30% lighter than a model 3, not a third. Still ~1200kg.
Here in NZ they do a factory reset on your calculator at the start of every exam.
Exercising eminent domain can mean a long and expensive legal and media process. I’m not sure about Texas (or the rest of the US, for that matter), but many projects in the first world do everything possible to avoid using it.
Boeing doesn’t make many of the parts in the aircraft, especially things like pressurization controllers. Those come from contractors like Honeywell.
What they do is design the systems around the parts, including selecting the desired level of redundancy, and commission the custom parts needed.
The 737 is still mostly a 1960s design built mostly to 1960s rules. There have been plenty of improvements but that’s not the same as a clean sheet design built to be entirely automatic even when stuff breaks.
When you download a torrent, you’re downloading it from someone else’s computer. That ‘someone else’ is usually an individual, not some file sharing site with redundant servers.
When you download a torrent, someone had to send it. It’s a small cost for individual torrents, but they had to pay for energy, internet connection, hard drives etc. If more people seed the torrent, you get a small bit of it from each seed, spreading the burden.
If no-one with the torrent has their computer on and seeding it, you cannot download the file, because there is no-one to download it from. If there are several seeds with the torrent, then you can still download it even if one or more seeds turn the computer off at night, delete the file, or are overloaded.
Yeah, I posted it to the wrong sub.
Converting between Kelvin and Celsius is simple addition; converting between Rankine and Fahrenheit is simple addition. Converting between the two groups requires multiplication, and pre calculator, that’s notably harder.
Also, all your kJ/kg/°C or BTU/lb/°F tables and factors are identical when you swap to referencing absolute zero. If you change to the other unit system, all that goes out the window.