gazter
@gazter@aussie.zone
- Comment on How to revitalize this sub? 2 months ago:
I’ve got a whole library of upvotes that I haven’t even used yet.
- Comment on Moon Standard Time? Nasa to create lunar-centric time reference system 2 months ago:
Any particular spot on the moon does have a day-night cycle, and the length of that does vary throughout the lunar year. Lunar daylight savings here we come!
- Comment on This was the first result on Google 3 months ago:
I’ll need a source for that claim buddy
- Comment on Why is it dangerous to chain power dividers? 3 months ago:
In Australia, for example, the earth pin on a 15A plug is taller than a 10. This lets you plug 10A rated extensions and appliances into a 15A capable socket, but not vice versa.
Amperages above that have dedicated plugs, and any available adaptors only go downwards in amperage limit, not upwards.
This of course doesn’t stop people getting creative with a screwdriver, or from creating immense chains of small gauge extensions, but it certainly goes a long way to reducing risk.
- Comment on Why is it dangerous to chain power dividers? 3 months ago:
I’ve never heard of being able to plug a 15A into a 10A socket. Everywhere I’ve seen them, they are keyed to physically prevent this. What country are you in?
- Comment on Why is it dangerous to chain power dividers? 3 months ago:
How does RF attenuation affect power safety?
- Comment on sometimes you just need a tiny box 4 months ago:
My friend, if you think you want small boxes, what you actually want is Gridfinity.
You’re welcome.
- Comment on Conservatives on Facebook absolutely believe this. 4 months ago:
It’s ok. We all know you secretly want sweet little Taylor to beat you with jumper cables.
- Comment on It’s Surprisingly Easy to Live Without an Amazon Prime Subscription 4 months ago:
As a millennial, I agree with that.
- Comment on Regarding Avocado Toast 6 months ago:
I’ve paid anywhere from five bucks to get Madge at the corner shop to smear some vaguely avocado looking goop onto burnt white bread, to twenty bucks for gobs of perfectly ripe avo on artisanal sourdough with lemon myrtle dressing, garnished with some kind of deep fried flower and a bit of grass on top to look pretty.
- Comment on Regarding Avocado Toast 6 months ago:
Aussie reporting in. I can’t recall the last cafe that I went to that did not have avocado on toast, in some form, on the menu.
- Comment on Voyager 1 stops communicating with Earth 6 months ago:
I don’t know if I would consider Voyager to be ‘dead’ if it stops transmitting.
If I put a message in a bottle, with a blinky light on it, then throw it into the ocean, the message is still there even if the blinky light goes out.
- Comment on it always interesting when multi billion dollar company's costing system is a 63 tab excel 97 spreadsheet at it's core... 6 months ago:
Almost 24 hours and no one has commented on MMDDYY? I don’t know whether to be proud or disappointed.
- Comment on it always interesting when multi billion dollar company's costing system is a 63 tab excel 97 spreadsheet at it's core... 6 months ago:
At least they aren’t trying to use Powerpoint for computation…
- Comment on it always interesting when multi billion dollar company's costing system is a 63 tab excel 97 spreadsheet at it's core... 6 months ago:
It probably makes sense to them. I’m sure they’re looking at your git workflow wondering how you function!
- Comment on Japanese Institute breaks optical fiber speed record with 22.9 petabits per second — 1,000 times faster than existing cables 6 months ago:
640KB of memory is enough for anybody.
- Comment on What is this connector called? 6 months ago:
Your 2nd best bet would be to get the pin spacing, and filter your search using that.
Your first best bet would be to just replace both ends.
I settled on a ‘standard’ and just bought a massive kit of each of those connector types- wire-wire, wire-board, wire-panel in M and F, in various pole counts. Buy once, cry once.
- Comment on I realized why I like friendships with lesbians 6 months ago:
One of my most treasured things about my friendship with one lesbian friend is her amazing abbreviations… You don’t get invited to go snorkelling, you get asked “Anyone keen for a snork?”
- Comment on I realized why I like friendships with lesbians 6 months ago:
I think they didn’t go anywhere, they just became a normal part of society, so you don’t notice them.
- Comment on Real quick question about the "break" 6 months ago:
It’s a very good lesson- to the point where I wouldn’t be surprised if the teacher is deliberately putting an arbitrary restriction on the assignment.
If you want to have a career, the people that pay you are going to make you do things that you consider to be ridiculous. That’s work, that’s life. You’ve got three options- Just smile and nod and do it their way, get huffy and tell them that you don’t like their yapping and you’ll do their project your own way, or politely suggest there may be an alternative way, and ask if they are willing to be flexible with some requirements.
- Comment on Suggestions to new networking gear 7 months ago:
Have a look at the Bananapi options, especially the R3. (Or the R2, it’s a bit more mature)
It’s a very capable single board computer with onboard managed switch, including SFP cages. If you want, you can buy antennas and utilise the wifi 6, or get a dedicated access point.
PFsense, openwrt, et al all have images. I think some people also run the mikrotik OS on it. It’s powerful enough to run as a hypervisor so you can chop and change between all of these if you want.
It gets bonus points for accepting 5G modems for failover.
- Comment on Industrial robot crushes man to death in South Korean distribution centre 7 months ago:
Without knowing the setup, it’s all guesswork- But if I had to guess, the program the robot ran through would be a series of movements that results in a box that is this size and this shape in this position being moved perfectly well to this particular spot.
Humans are not that size, that shape, or in that position.
I’ve not worked industrial in Asia, but where I have worked there has been stringent protocols around locking out machinery that has the potential to kill. For someone to enter a hazardous area, they have to remove any potential source of energy (eg, disconnecting power to motors, draining hydraulic pressure, lowering suspended loads, etc) and use a lock that only they have access to to prevent that energy returning. I’m guessing that this incident either did not have that procedure in place, or it was in place but not followed correctly.
- Comment on I’ve got this worldbuilding project where a big chunk of land is cordoned off. I’m not sure what’s inside. 7 months ago:
I would suggest even further restraint. There’s no need to fill the space, just have it as a mystery, maybe even to yourself.
Blank spaces on the map are always so intriguing.
- Comment on What is the name of the building at festivals located opposite the stage where the cameramen and lighting crews are located? 8 months ago:
It’s not so much about the audience perspective as it is the layout of the building. Just like backstage is the area behind the stage, other areas like behind the bar, or the storage areas, green rooms, offices, tech rooms, weird tunnels full of mysterious cables, etc are all collectively ‘back of house’.
Like when you go to a big box store and they see if they’ve got something ‘out the back’, the back of house areas are those generally not seen by the public. The term front of house likely evolved as the opposite of this.
- Comment on What is the name of the building at festivals located opposite the stage where the cameramen and lighting crews are located? 8 months ago:
In theater it’s sometimes called the ‘Bio Box’. However, in theatre it is often tucked away right up the top, and is called 'The Gods '.
- Comment on Why cant the Middle East just chill out? 8 months ago:
The region was defined by constant conflict and instability before Britain and France were even a twinkle in a Celtic eye.
- Comment on Fahrenheit vs. Celsius vs. Kelvin 8 months ago:
Obviously the freezing point of water is also a range (depending on purity, altitude, etc) but would you say it’s less, or more specific?
- Comment on Fahrenheit vs. Celsius vs. Kelvin 8 months ago:
It’s almost like being ‘fairly cold for humans’ is a wide range, and subjective, therefore useless as a baseline.
- Comment on All of Japan's Toyota Assembly Plants Shut Down for a Day Because Their Server Ran Out of Disk Space 9 months ago:
Also, if space starts decreasing much more rapidly than normal.
- Comment on Why doesn't the United Kingdom rejoin the European Union? 9 months ago:
Does the UK still meet the requirements of joining?