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@TheScholastics Never admit fault. It's near impossible to enforce fraudulent license use even with clear proof. Do not let yourself be intimidate with threats of lawsuits. Consult a lawyer immediately. I've negotiated 6 digits demands down to 4 digits when I was in that situation.

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@JenGHCK aw hell yeah

Gonna unprivate my account now, might be a bad idea

@Ayle_Vermillion @aliceisplaying Most AC can heat and cool with high efficiency. All new buildings are built with AC only (it's just called 'heat pump'). Your comfort is worth it regardless.

@aliceisplaying Hello, Frenchie here That's bullshit, AC is just not useful when the temp is not that high globally during the year except during summer A good AC still costs a lot as a product and for energy consumption so having this for 2 or 3 months a year is not worth it

continuing our heatwave coverage, did you know that in france they have complete nonsense superstitions about AC

@HorniBaguette i missed my oc at first and thought she didn't make the cut hah

@HorniBaguette super smash hell yeah

The rankings are in!

@MGecko117 Diesel lasts forever, that's why it's used in emergency generators. And you can run some (esp. older) diesel engines on just about anything combustible. It's gasoline that goes bad quickly.

The dumbest doomsday prepper trend I see is the Mad Max style power fantasy apocalypse vehicle builds. Gasoline and diesel only last about 3–6 months, maybe up to two years if you use fuel stabilizer and store them in a temperature-controlled environment. That’s going to put your badass road warrior/fuel raider fantasy to rest real quick in an actual SHTF scenario. People also tend to underestimate just how much it takes to keep a car running in less than ideal environments without easy access to new tires, belts, electronics and tools. Even if you somehow have an endless magical supply of vehicle parts and shelf stable fuel, it still won’t unfuck all the roads

@MKFenris @HMBohemond I don't agree, but the way it was done is shitty.

@HMBohemond I still can't forgive the whole thing of making the aliens our friends.

Destiny was at it's best when the aliens were unrelatable monsters and the Darkness was an eldritch cosmic force with no face of it's own. "The aliens are good actually" and the Witness existing is what killed the lore.

@0FedKin Germans are utterly brain damaged about AC. The way you have to sell them AC is to market it as "heat pumps."

@Dayaritwt @Bitcoin_Murern @ShitpostRock2 It's more efficient than central heating too.

@Bitcoin_Murern @ShitpostRock2 omg you guys use electrical ovens that is so cute 😭

I am fucking BEGGING Europeans to stop posting this retarded shit and just buy a fucking AC unit for 200$

@DiddlyDooter my brain is definitely more fucked up when it's hot and/or i'm working in hot environments (dehydration probably)

Is it a normal thing for mental disorders to worsen its symptoms during summer or just hot temperatures

@zhao_dashuai @malangraya You don't want a covering. You want: * the transformer to be properly sized for the load * the transformer to be properly derated for the environment it's in * maybe even plan in forced cooling from the start Third world countries don't do those things and this is the result.

@malangraya Here's an idea, as one of the hottest country in the world, why not build some covering over the transformers? India didn't become hot overnight. This is the result of a culture that's incapable of long term planning.

Due to the hot weather, Indians are cooling transformers at power generation plants with fans. This country has nuclear weapons.

@MrBigNicholas @jocadbz Intent matters. You are not committing a crime if you didn't intend to do so. Otherwise any random person stumbling upon illegal material would be a criminal.

When scrolling through torrents, a big size often means that the person who made it put great care into it. It reminds me when I was scrolling sukebei and found a 1,5TB torrent. I was suprised, because who in their sane mind would torrent a terabyte of porn? So naturally, I downloaded it and found the material of extreme quality, all properly categorized and annonated. Even the videos had handcrafted substitles with Speaker names on it. FOR PORN. I deleted it after for obvious reasons, but the effect it had on me persists to this day.

@kerckhove_ts You only need buffers if you have asynchronous processes or processes where the cycles aren't equal. This hold for both Factorio and digital logic (well, there's more cases where you need buffers in digital)

There's a rule of thumb in Factorio: "avoid item/fluid buffers" which you only tend to learn after quite a while. (Buffers don't really save you, but do prolong the time before you find a broken process) I think about this a lot in the software industry.

@HorniBaguette IB-13

Send me your OC with a Pic of em below! I wanna do another smash or pass tier list!

@kelvarnson @Rainmaker1973 U is the preferred letter for potential because V is the unit, at least over here. U = RI, etc. The arc occurs because the helicopter has capacitance like everything else.

@kane_tw @Rainmaker1973 What's "U"? Did you mean "V"? Anyway, the length of the arc is determined by the voltage alone. Energy is irrelevant. I didn't say the arc in the video was the same length as the ones helicopters draw. The bigger question for you is, why does the helicopter arc at all?

This is how linemen connect 22,000-volt power lines without ever turning the electricity off. For extra high voltage lines, linemen often wear specialized conductive suits (Faraday suits) woven with metal fibers.

@kelvarnson @Rainmaker1973 The energy stored in a capacitor is 1/2 C U^2. You're comparing work on extra high voltage lines (which is done from a helicopter) to medium voltage (as seen above). You're looking at 360x the energy for e.g. a 380 kV line).

Arcs create current. At high voltages, everything is a load. Look at the helicopters they use to do line maintenance. They're not connected to anything, but they still have to initially connect with a wand, and it draws a huge arc. At high voltages like that, capacitance and inductance play a much larger role.

@G0dseeker A little bit of boob never hurt anybody, and I'm a flat chest enthusiast. cf. my Hornet daki.

It looks good but SHE DIDN'T HAVE BOOBS SHE LOOKS LIKE THIS

It's a bit confusing. In the sequence "extra low voltage, low voltage, high voltage" as per IEC 60050, the thresholds are <= 50 V AC/120 V DC, <= 1 kV AC, 1.5 kV DC, and everything above. In the sequence "low voltage, medium voltage, high voltage, extra high voltage" as used for electrical grids, the thresholds are 1 kV, 35 kV, 110 kV, and everything above.

@Rainmaker1973 First: 22 kV is not extra-high voltage. It's high-voltage. EHV starts at 400 kV. 2nd: that lineman is working "at contact", i.e.: with proper isolation that allows him to touch live conductors. Your second statement is right. For EHV technicians wear a conductive mesh suit.

@HKNoShitter @Rainmaker1973 By being reliable and good. Milwaukee isn't popular here but Hilti, Festool, Fein are in the same category.

@Rainmaker1973 Every skilled trades person worth anything that I have encountered in the last decade only uses Milwaukee. How did they take over the market like that?

@jacknyeko @Rainmaker1973 You'd have to turn the power off to an entire district and it's not THAT risky.

@Rainmaker1973 Can someone explain why you can't necessarily turn the power off in the local area well they work on it? Genuinely curious and want an explanation! Not hate <3