Posts by Terje 351 publicly visible posts • joined 14 Mar 2011
Using a clamp requires you to have access to the just one of the cables in the cable since if you measure both the "supply and return" the net current will be zero unless you suffer from an earth fault in the equipment. And I guess that having the outer insulation on the cables stripped to reveal the internal cablers would make the customer ask annoying questions...
I have had a pixel 4 and 7 and after an unfortunate encounter with gravity now a 8. My opinion is the reverse to your, they are the best phones I have used, without the additional crud and bloat that most other manufacturers add on to android.
Edit: This sounds a bit to evangelical, but they have worked very well for me.
Unless my memory fails me (which it very well may, it's Friday after all) One of the main issues was that the documented operational procedures for the reactor were ignored during the tests, when the energy output got to low you had to shut the reactor down and restart from scratch, the director didn't want that and when trying to bring power up it caused a hotspot and follow on bad things.
Sometimes you need to do stupid things to get your brain to learn to avoid similar things in the future. In my case me and a colleague was doing some troubleshooting, and I decided to check that the 230V supply really was 230V and we didn't have a dodgy cable or something. Grabbing the multimeter, setting it to 300V and doing a quick measurement phase to neutral. after pulling my head out of the roof after setting a new record height for a standing jump I realised that it would have been a good idea to check that the cables were in the sockets for voltage and not current measurements... No harm was done apart from vaporising the probe tips, blowing the multimeter fuze and one of the office fuzes. To this day I have a printout of the resulting transient on my wall to remind me not to do something like that again. Unfortunately the measurement bottomed out at 86A, would have been fun to know what the actual short circuit current was. As a fun note, the actual short circuit lasted for about 1/100 second but that and a couple of hundred amps was enough to vaporize something like 5mm of probe tips. Nowadays I always double check that the multimeter cables are correctly connected.
When two boxes collide they turn into an expanding cloud of different boxes that in turn can turn into other boxes. By carefully analysing the resulting shower of boxes we can learn things about the makeup of the original boxes and even figure out the contents of them. with enough box collisions we may even find new heretofore unknown boxes and deduce the underlying principles of all boxes and possibly finding new delivery methods that will extend the standard modes of delivery! There are models that predict an entire new family of delivery methods similar to the normal ones but transposed to higher altitudes. Propositions of an even larger box flinger to probe these possibilities have so far met with resistance from the community.
While I personally would like to kill anyone who install a server in something else but English, and exclusively use English for my own computers, I fail to see why any sane person would force a us keyboard on anyone. For many languages it's functionally unusable and since all the common users of said keyboard are used to whatever local version they have you lose productivity as well. One thing that absolutely needs to be sorted out in some smart fashion is sql collations though since I have no small amount of hate for different collations colliding, while at the same time don't want to see å, ä, ö treated as a and o or whatever else the collation of choice of the perpetrator deems correct.
Reminds me of one of the first versions of internet explorer for solaris (yes there was such a thing) that could only set the cache in % disk space and minimum of 1% which on a quota based unix system was not such a good idea when 1% was way more disk then you had quota for... It was promptly banned...
The first rule of any kind of support is that they never ever follow instructions... They may read through the instructions that tell them explicitly to do things in order A,B,C and the more critical it is to do things in the correct order for it to work, the less likely they are to actually do it in said order...
From my point of view we will still have a lot of ICE powered vehicles for a long time, what will change is what fuel they use. In many areas an electric car is simply not an option for many people, due to distances and environment (temperature) if an EV manufacturer tells you it will give you 300km range but you have an outside temperature of -15C and crap weather you will be very very lucky if you get half of that on the other side heat will lower your range since AC requires a lot of energy as well.
You gracefully forget that the Apollo program was totally new designs and breaking new grounds, the Artemis program was supposed to be based on supposedly proven "off the shelf" parts slightly modified and were supposed to be cheap, fast and easy... Anyone with an ounce of sanity left and not working at one of the plants on life support by the project should be able to see that it has been neither cheap fast or easy...
Unless the system is crap I hope that would not be the case, but you would certainly need significantly more battery capacity in the UPS to either be able to offload some of your demand during peak hours, or to backfeed into the grid without negatively affecting your own security.
The sad fact is that from a grid perspective most of the renewable energy is crap since it is unreliable and fluctuates to much both over shorter and longer timespans so that it becomes hard to keep the grid voltage / frequency stable.
Yet another reason why I loath the drive for cloud, when it falls over (not if) you are fully at the mercy of cost optimised likely understaffed company to hopefully have a working backup and recovery system to sort it out at their leisure. When you have control over the system you are at the mercy of your own backup and recovery procedures which you yourself can influence.
A long time ago while at university writing a program in a functional programming language with an interpreter that was slightly less robust then a tissue paper ocean liner I had to insert a comment line with the text (translated) "If this comment line is removed the fing interpreter throws a fit and crashes!"...
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