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This gave me a good laugh
Of course it refers to power plants. My mind was at those crazy preppers who make plans for surviving underground even after a nuclear war, so I misread it completely.
Like first time I read on the cover of a vinyl record who was playing lead guitar: I was thinking of the heavy beats of the bass guitar, thinking that "lead guitar" was meant as a joking name for the bass guitar (as well as a joke on steel guitar).
Another asocciation: I heard missionaries having problems making natives adopt their Christian respect for living creatures: Their language has one word for "dead" applying to humans, a completely different word for "no longer working", whether referring to a machine or an animal; they both could stop working. In their conceptual world, there is no philosophical difference between a machine stopping and an animal stopping; humans is a completely different matter. We have extended it in the other direction: We make even a power station into something living, which, as a consequence, also can die. For a generation or more we have had burial grounds for our pet animals - maybe we in the future will se burial grounds for our smartphones and iPods.
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That's the problem with this silly English language. It's all (mostly) context based. For one not in the know, "Lead guitar" could mean the heaviest guitar. Then, it may sound like it has lead in it.
As you mention in the last paragraph, there are some languages that have different words for different events, items, feelings, or thoughts. Even in Greek, there are at least 5 different words that express different types of love. In English, we must understand the context that a word is used to understand its meaning.
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When you live in a place where you can get snowed in, have a road washed out or regularly get news reports with headlines like: "Fire Storm/Ice Storm (insert year here)" or "Storm of the Century" and the resulting power outages because of the weather conditions, it IS common sense to stock up on things. Septic tanks and wells are awesome during times like this. You can almost have some normality during everyone's craziness.
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It's been a rough few weeks:
memorial service for an 18 year old that had CP
memorial service for a co-worker who passed suddenly
a service I couldn't get to for a former co-worker
another service tomorrow for a co-worker, but I'll be travelling
So, heard this on the radio:
grief after a loss is an expression of love you weren't able to show.
Yeah.. that's about how I feel right now.
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Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Tim Carmichael wrote: grief after a loss is an expression of love you weren't able to show.
and of love you can no longer show.
Marc
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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And then - BANG - one asteroid and nothing left to do on tuesday.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
modified 13-Jun-17 4:07am.
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Yay! Even more time for selfies!
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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...is my cable connection consistently goes down above, say, 85F.
I guess that's what I get for living in rural NY and Mid-Hudson cable.
Currently using my phone as a hot-spot, fortunately I upgraded my plan a couple months ago, lowered my phone bill by $40/mo AND got an extra 3GB of data.
Marc
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Come on out to Phoenix...
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: Come on out to Phoenix...
I don't think the coax reaches that far.
Marc
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Marc Clifton wrote: ..is my cable connection consistently goes down above, say, 85F. That sounds like the normal range for the operating temperature of consumer electronics. Do you have one of the little boxes installed in a hot place, like in direct sunlight or under the roof?
If yes, you coud thaw the little camera I have under the helicopter. I had been flying in the last snow about three months ago. The temperatures were below 0C and the camera 'froze', first producing only garbage and then nothing at all. It's just the temperature range for cheap electronics (like 0C - 75C, without looking at the data sheets).
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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CDP1802 wrote: (like 0C - 75C
75C = 167F ? I wish!
Usually, operating ranges are 40-90F, or, very roughly 5-35C ?
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Let's look what we find in Wikipedia[^]:
Quote:
Commercial: 0 ° to 70 °C
Industrial: -40 ° to 85 °C
Military: -55 ° to 125 °C
That's about what I remembered from the datasheet from my old CDP1802 CPU, which was military grade because it was used a lot in space and also in aircraft.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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I was just considering the "operating range" on most consumer electronics (rather than individual parts). I agree with how high a temp individual components will find tolerable.
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ICs can heat up quite a bit on their own already and if the device is exposed to direct sunlight or placed in a hot environment (like under the roof of the house) it may heat up enough to fail.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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The worst thing about that temperature is that it's F
But seriously, 95F isn't THAT hot?
At a former job we once had to place a computer in a cold store at -25C/-13F.
Someone built a special isolated casing to keep it from cooling off.
We never had problems with the computer, I'd hate to operate it though
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There is nothing wrong with 35C - it is pretty normal here and has no effect whatsoever on any aspect of life (except water consumption of course)...
Does 95F is that extreme around there?
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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If I would not know it better, I would say you are experiencing a cool day in Texas.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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I used to live next to Dead Sea for over a decade, where the summer average is over 100F...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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I could use some salt + sun right now. Avoiding the almost unavoidable massive sunburn would be the real problem.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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CDP1802 wrote: unavoidable massive sunburn would be the real problem
do not afraid - there is an age old solution for that: [^]
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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