RubberElectrons
@RubberElectrons@lemmy.world
Just a shiny male toy…
- Comment on California just debunked a big myth about renewable energy 3 days ago:
Most systems I’ve interacted with used what’s called an ats, automatic transfer switch, to be sure you’re not energizing the grid so one can self support in an emergency.
I’ve never seen a system so far that wouldn’t run isolated, but maybe I’ve been lucky 🤷
- Comment on California just debunked a big myth about renewable energy 3 days ago:
Sheesh I didn’t know the inverters may not run without a grid reference. Where have you seen that, what a terrible idea!
LOL imagine they skimped on a 555 generating 60Hz when in local mode.
- Comment on California just debunked a big myth about renewable energy 5 days ago:
Shouldn’t be a big change, the transmission system is the same no matter the prime mover.
When fires melted power lines near where I used to live in soCal, SCE would have trucks roll in, dig in new power poles and run the cable. Power restored within about a week, so long as they had stock on transformers.
- Comment on I took the term "Tree Skirt" literally 3 weeks ago:
Looks really nice!
- Comment on Beneath a Steel Sky 3 weeks ago:
This game is free on Linux.
For Ubuntu, just
sudo apt install beneath-a-steel-skyAnd you can start playing.
- Comment on Help identify a terminal type 3 weeks ago:
These are made by te connectivity, horrendous datasheets, but pretty good products. I’m more a Phoenix man myself but you work with what you’ve got in stock: www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/…/5872966
The drawings are found towards the bottom of that page, scroll way down to see “product drawings”.
I don’t think these care about malleability too much, they’ll pinch whatever you can fit into its maw.
Good luck, glad I could help 👍
- Comment on Help identify a terminal type 3 weeks ago:
Those are 100% spring terminals as the other person mentioned. I use these in my designs, you’ll need to press the orange buttons quite hard as they’re meant to work even in rocketry applications where bolted electrical connections may loosen.
- Comment on Billionaire Larry Ellison says a vast AI-fueled surveillance system can ensure 'citizens will be on their best behavior' 3 weeks ago:
That’s fuckin’ great!!
- Comment on YSK: The US is currently giving away free COVID tests to all Americans 3 weeks ago:
There are 5 in the box I got this morning. Woohoo!
- Comment on Hundreds March for 'Intifada' in NYC Hours After Attacks in New Orleans, Las Vegas 4 weeks ago:
Thanks, conservative moron.
- Comment on Hundreds March for 'Intifada' in NYC Hours After Attacks in New Orleans, Las Vegas 4 weeks ago:
Oh yeah? Cool.
- Comment on Hundreds March for 'Intifada' in NYC Hours After Attacks in New Orleans, Las Vegas 4 weeks ago:
You guys are fucking morons if you believe this.
- Comment on Bioshock creator Ken Levine discusses the future of narratives in games 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, that was it. I dug up the trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=attvYJb6xn8
- Comment on Bioshock creator Ken Levine discusses the future of narratives in games 4 weeks ago:
Man I had so much hope for infinite, remember when Elizabeth opens a year for that dying horse and they’re accidentally on a rain-soaked street in the 80s?
- Comment on Island-wide blackout hits Puerto Rico on New Year's Eve 4 weeks ago:
Used to be a reliable publicly-owned utility, as we the streetcars. Profit inevitably destroys quality.
- Comment on New bird flu mutation discovered in US as cat infections cause alarm 4 weeks ago:
Yes, also because fuck cats.
- Comment on What do people (as in, IRL) actually think of the [alleged] perpetrator involved in the NYC shooting? 1 month ago:
Anyone in my circles who’s had to fully interact with our US healthcare has, at minimum, said they understand the motive.
- Comment on Even better than a cart of apples 2 months ago:
I as well. Seattle transit, NEC Amtrak and NJ transit live off of these. If these systems work for them, they’ll work for us all
- Comment on Scientists Clone Two Black-Footed Ferrets From Frozen Tissues in Conservation Effort 2 months ago:
Very cool, no pun intended due to freezing of genetic material.
I like that the last lines are key: “we can’t lose the creatures in the wild, but if we do, now we have an insurance policy”.
- Comment on AND THEY DIDN'T STOP EATING 2 months ago:
Oh, these are the new billionaire inbreds?
Just kidding, fuck yeah, I’ll always upvote “the thing”.
- Comment on Inching Toward a Fusion Energy Future | A handful of startups are racing to usher in an era of near-limitless fusion energy, but big questions remain. 2 months ago:
It’s being worked on. Repetitive shots aren’t as ideal or obvious as a quasi-stable reactor, but a pulsed system will still have its output effectively smoothed in process of heating a thermal jacket or liquid first wall.
Statistics, high speed computing which I’ve assisted with previously, and other techniques are likely to get the rep rate to at least 1hz with the occasional miss.
Certainly ironic that we’re making what feels like a nuclear combustion engine. Old tech, same as the new tech…
- Comment on brains! 2 months ago:
For what it’s worth, it’s a bit nostalgic seeing that “look” of 90s film making and I grew up sorta near that diner.
It was a student film as well, and I appreciate how both good and bad the acting is. Why would the one with authority be in a band-leader getup, if not because in their fractured understanding of us it would make sense?
Dunno, lots of small interesting touches to it.
- Comment on brains! 2 months ago:
Fitting, really, to be a dream to meat.
- Comment on brains! 2 months ago:
They’re made out of meat.
- Comment on flouride 2 months ago:
Having worked for a municipal water system, no, they are not incompetent when engineers are at the helm. Corruption I saw was related to giving small incidental work to friends, some weird politics sometimes, but that was about it.
More importantly: everyone understood our job wasn’t to make money, we were foundational to our city’s livelihood & health, that of our neighbors, our mother’s and brothers. Quality was job 1, and I really do mean that. Could we have moved faster and for less money? Maybe. But I’m glad we picked doing the job right over doing it fast.
- Comment on With Core ONE, Prusa's Open Source Hardware Dream Quietly Dies | Hackaday 2 months ago:
Word, though I just scraped the prints off that dumbass plate repeatedly. Plastic bed in a $40k printer, what a fuckin joke.
- Comment on Inching Toward a Fusion Energy Future | A handful of startups are racing to usher in an era of near-limitless fusion energy, but big questions remain. 2 months ago:
Mmm… I wouldn’t say that it’s difficult to scale. Getting fusion to happen is hard, but repeatedly is simply an engineering problem (still hard, but less so).
- Comment on But yes. 2 months ago:
There are some fusion designs that use direct energy conversion.
- Comment on Terrified friends burn to death trapped in Tesla as doors won't open after crash 2 months ago:
Gotta love a broken spark plug…
- Comment on Terrified friends burn to death trapped in Tesla as doors won't open after crash 2 months ago:
I’ve tried to kick them out in a taxi driver fainting situation, it’s really not trivial, particularly if you’re the only one in the back.