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There's an issue with making your safety devices your primary protection. Your wiring is protected by being adequate for the load to be put on it. If there is a short, there's a failsafe device that trips. Adding too much load makes it an example of 'normalised deviance'. What if the contacts weld?
January 19, 2026 at 7:14 AM
If anyone wants to know what this is about: It is warning about 'SMS Blaster' attacks, where a fake cell tower using the obsolete an insecure 2G protocols is set up, and phones that connect to it get sent fake SMS messages.

The 'mobile networks' to turn off isn't any provider, just 2G.
January 17, 2026 at 3:54 AM
> the speed values for the low-speed rotor (N1) and high-speed rotor (N2) for the No. 2 engine showed minor
perturbations,

Would this suggest that engine 2 performance isn't a factor?
January 15, 2026 at 5:16 AM
Adapters like this exist, and they are Horrible! I ordered an induction cooktop that was rated for 5000 Watts, and it came with one of them! The thing would have melted to a puddle in moments if I had been foolish enough to use it.
December 31, 2025 at 5:50 AM
You've got two things to balance-one is that the solar production displaces other forms of energy, usually from heat engines. The other side is that solar panels have a lower albido than the surfaces they are covering, so less of the sunlight is reflected back to space. I think the latter dominates.
December 4, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Sounds like another case of, "I'm not going to deploy the reversers on 4, so I'll forget to throttle it down, too". Then when the plane doesn't slow down, he starts to play chopsticks on the throttle quadrant.
November 19, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Does any document exist outlining what inspections are required?
November 9, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Inky goes with the blacks instead of chip.

The last one is rodent members of cartoon duos who are listed first - Itchy (and Scratchy), Rocky (and Bullwinkle), Pinky (and the Brain) and Chip (and Dale).
November 2, 2025 at 8:08 AM
AfterMarket? This looks like a classic homecraft bodge.
October 26, 2025 at 8:28 AM
If you want to watch them, all the Connections series are on archive.org - archive.org/details/Conn...
Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine
archive.org
October 18, 2025 at 7:50 AM
For us watchers, the answer is simple - don't use the home page - always go to the 'Subscriptions' feed. It helps if you go into settings and turn 'watch history' off, so the home feed remains blank.

Notifications are also useless, because all they do is alert you to videos you watched days ago.
September 7, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Any comments on the possible sound of a deployed RAT in some video clips?
June 13, 2025 at 3:56 AM
This is all being paid for by investors, who want in on StarLink.
May 29, 2025 at 7:00 AM
A car that has reasonable performance below the speed limit - is able to accelerate to it within a reasonable time without stressing the engine - will be able to be pushed to travel much faster.
May 29, 2025 at 6:50 AM
The challenge is reliably re-synchronizing with the grid when the grid power comes back. This needs to be done very reliably, because reconnecting when not in sync is catastrophic.
March 31, 2025 at 4:48 AM
That looks like an interesting read. Do you know the name of the book?
March 28, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Here, over the weekend, there was clear weather over most of the state. As a result, the wholesale electricity price went negative at 7:30 in the morning, and stayed negative until 4:30.

Net metering isn't sustainable. But the system is full of incentives for anyone who can make storage work.
March 6, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Nice to see you put to bed the 'Child and nepotism baby told the planes to crash" narrative. I wonder if those still peddling this story know he was 38 years old, and well experienced in his roll.
March 1, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Yuan Browne noted that images of the plane showed one of the pilots with their arm out, bracing against either the windscreen or the handle above it - so yeah, they knew where their plane was headed.
December 30, 2024 at 12:00 PM