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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3106: Farads⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And you can get 1F capacitors in bulk from China for a few dozen dollars each.

  Those things are still dangerous and scary. The 1T magnet way more so than the capacitor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3106: Farads⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember reading about their names in explainxkcd. I think the only one never named in the comics is Cueball.

  For a while, there was a blog, but I don’t think it named any character.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨just beat it⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And now interplanetary percussive maintenance is a thing too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's not supposed to make sense...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s called “shut up and calculate”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did YouTube just disable video playback for people using adblockers or is it just me?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes. They did that years ago.

  The ad-blockers are constantly working into evading the ban. You may need to update your ad-blocker of your browser.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Health of Brazil's ex-president Bolsonaro has worsened, doctors say⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  He was in the process of using medical excuses to evade a judicial notice right before he “worsened”…

  But he got notified in a hospital, because the judge decided that if he can do his political campaign from a hospital bed, he can receive the notification there too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is a two-party system considered democratic?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If this is about the US, notice that they used to have intra-party elections as a strong cultural requirement before going into the main election. They only stopped requiring that very recently.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Backups: Am I doing this right?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You test your backup by recreating your system, either in a local environment or in some cheap simulated one.

  It’s even better if you write a manual with the steps you needed. And try to follow (and update it) when you do it again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Backups: Am I doing this right?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I figure the most bang for my buck right now is to set up off-site backups to a cloud provider.

  If you don’t have the budget for on-premises backup, you almost certainly can’t afford to restore the cloud backup if anything goes wrong.

  Then I started reading about backing up databases

  Go read the instructions for your database in particular. They are completely different from each other. Ignore generic instructions.

  now I’m configuring a docker-db-backup container

  What is perfectly fine. But I’d first look how this interferes with the budget you talked about earlier and if it wouldn’t be better to keep things simpler and put the money on data replication.

  Either way, if your budget is low, I’d focus a lot on making sure you have the data when you need to restore, and less on streamlining the restore procedure. (That seems to be the direction you are going, so yeah, I’d say it’s good.) Just make sure to test the restore procedure once in a while.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there really nothing the EU or NATO can do to stop Russian vessels cutting energy and communication cables at the Baltic sea?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The EU doesn’t want to be at war with Russia.

  Russia also should really not want to be at war with the EU, but as you noticed, they don’t seem to care much about what they should do. If they fuck around enough, they may find out, but they are betting they won’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chart⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately that resulted in an extremely useless echo chamber full of circle jerking, JAQing off, bootlicking, whataboutism, and sealioning.

  Oh, man, I was curious about how people would actually act on this community, but it seems I decided to not check on the one week it got from zero attention, to overflowing with bad behavior, and felt down!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How is the Stock Market keeping it's value after *points to everything*?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You expect people to take their money from stocks and put into what exactly?

  Putting it in “someplace safe like our pockets” is neither safe, nor something people can do in large numbers. They can put it in bank accounts in large numbers, how safer than stocks do you think those are?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So, is the USA screwed?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What does “done” mean to you, and how possibly can it be final?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where did Captain Planet go when he flew away?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Does he never turn back into energy and flow back into the rings? I always assumed he just does that, but I’m not sure what is actually on those cartoons.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You Can Post Your Way Out of Fascism if You Own the Means of Posting⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Many people on lemmy has some ideology that either consider others insufferable, or is considered insufferable by most people.

  That doesn’t mean that you can’t organize something on social media, you just need one with freedom of expression (so, no overseeing algorithm), and a clique of people capable of organizing themselves. It may even be possible to get that here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Europe will not be part of Ukraine-Russia peace talks, US envoy says⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, peace will last for long enough for Russia to get new weapons.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Attempt to motivate people to take the stairs⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you eat only a couple of crumbs, that checks out. The OP didn’t say how much of bread he’s eating.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nice try guy⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Refuse the call for once. Keeping it ringing won’t help you in any way.

  And add the number to some kind of “refuse” list for the time you don’t want to receive the calls.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would happen if USA invades Canada?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Keep in mind that Greenland and Canada are both members of NATO, and thus the US would be forced to intervene…

  Oh, well…

  You mean seriously? Who knows? Both sides have nuclear weapons, don’t they? This is not something that ever happened. Would the US armed forces go along with the plan or will there be a coup? Will everybody keep their heads leveled and avoid exchange nuclear explosions even with people dying at home / on the front? Will somebody just put a bullet on Trump’s head and stop the madness?

  But the thing I can tall is that if you are expecting country lines and military treaties to be immutable, that’s not how they work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google officially changes the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America on Maps⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hum… Did they change the name of the North-America’s South-West like the Mexico president requested too?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google officially changes the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America on Maps⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They have clear rules for contested areas… that they follow in an as clear way as they user support rules.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lost in translation⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, assholes are common in lots of places.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sadge⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, do that’s its supervillain moto!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AHHHHHHHHHHH⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, IT adjacent areas are still full of math.

  If you ever get curious, electrical engineering has lots and lots of convoluted procedures one can learn to avoid even more math… And civil engineering has a very cool “I can beat math with brute force and linear approximations all day long!” philosophy that could improve the lives of most people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AHHHHHHHHHHH⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, another engineer…

  Hi.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If Walmart operates in Canada and takes all the profit back to the US, is that reflected in the trade balance?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No. The trade balance is specifically about trade.

  The name for the thing that includes every money exchange is the payments balance… But it’s always balanced anyway, so nobody talks about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We still have three eggs up for auction.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You are allowed chickens in the city limits, but not allowed roosters.

  What kind of authority is making up those rules?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pretty part of the week: Ruishen RSCM11548 3-winding common-mode choke⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  datasheet for this part doesn’t have impedance-versus-frequency graphs

  I don’t get those companies. Do they expect to sell it as decorative pieces?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If me and a bunch of my lemmy friends got on a yacht. Went into international waters what could we get away with legally and what would still be illegal?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Theoretically, the yacht follows the laws of the place it’s registered. On practice, the country you and your friends live will be the one that cares about it… so, it’s not any different from what you can do at home.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Many smaller drivers or fewer larger drives?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Enough to make a RAID 6. As few as possible.