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Since that looks like your normal camera flash circuit with xenon tube (the cap values are on point for one) I'd agree its likely the cap, unless there is anything visibly wrong with the flash tube.

As linked in the GP, solar production as a percentage of total generation capacity China is 4.8%, just like the US.

Is that something that needs to be considered separately, since the operation factor is given in % of hours per year?

Deterrence against thieves is a pretty big benefit.

Meanwhile there's massive amount of low-quality parts i have to wade through when wanting to order a replacement battery.

That's very rose colored. It was only universal if you installed a third-party client and set up each one separately, or installed a half dozen applications.

As a consumer, I am particularly unsympathetic to what what Apple is doing to developers.

The developers do the same to me when they have the opportunity.

I'll totally admit wind farms make me feel fuzzy at night-- mostly because that's when they produce >50% of total power on the grid where I live.

> roads don’t make noise

You're proving GP's point. Roads on their own don't make noise, but if I go outside I can hear the road noise from cars going down a IH-35 which is a mile away. (It isn't even the only road I can hear noise from)

Having used Wacoms for years before trying things like the Surface Pro and then settling on iPad? The iPad 100% beats every other tablet I've used.

How well the iPad / Apple Pencil work for drawing very much adds color to posts here berating the iPads for being a content consumption device.

When a cell phone camera auto-focuses, it's still literally recording what light strikes the cmos chip.

Do you think its recording some other light?

PJIM is at 'Action' now:

' A Geomagnetic Disturbance Action has been issued as of 22:15 on 05.10.2024 to protect the power system from damage or disruptions due to increased geomagnetic activity.'

The sun will become more luminous to a point it will stop plate tectonics by evaporating the oceans far sooner (about a billion years from now) than it will take the earth's core to cool.

Why does there have to be an end goal? Why cant things just do the thing they do?

It might be, but for all of the examples in the blog post, HA does this out of the box.

> For example, a battery that primarily functions in the frequency regulation market (modulation of supply and demand every few seconds) doesn't need a lot of storage capacity, but needs high power output.

For ERCOT this is fixed as a hard requirement so there's no point in specifying the time-- it's all going to be the same. For example:

> Fast Frequency Response (FFR) – subset of RRS

> – Must be capable of sustaining its required response for at least 15 minutes (if necessary)

> It's a whole different paradigm than your UPS under your desk is: With your UPS, your system(s) receive a signal that things are running on local battery, and you've elected to configure things to use that signal to order an automated shutdown.

The setup you described there wasn't the situation I was describing at all.

I was describing a situation where there is utility power, a UPS, and a standby generator. When the utility power goes out, the generator has to start, stabilize, and only then can the load be transferred off the battery.

The requirement is that the UPS meet this current power demand for longer than the generator start up and transfer time (the "holdover time" I was speaking about in the previous post.)

For things like frequency response the holdover time is a fixed requirement. ERCOT requires all energy storage resources be able to maintain output for 15 minutes.

Its fine as long as the amount of time it can provide rated output is longer than it time it takes to bring replacement generation capacity on line.

I don't care how long my UPS will actually last as long the holdover time is long enough to cover the time it takes to deal with all of the foreseeable problems in starting up the backup generator.

Yeah and I did that 10 years ago when the math worked out differently. 'Recently' is doing some work in that comment.

I'm glad you agree with my point that Walgreens owns their merchandise not because they stop shoplifters and restrict access, its because they purchased it and have title over it, and since GP has done no such thing they don't actually own it.

Google has been sending me emails about how things are preventing them from indexing my websites,and recently I've stopped caring.

My website and it's content is what it is, and its not my job to make Google more valuable. They're a multi billion dollar company, if it's really a problem, they can figure it out.

Ok so what is your point? That's the carrier.

Given that you haven't fixed your problem with scrapers (given the complaints you're making right in this thread.) It's obvious you're not in a position to restrict the data-- otherwise you'd not be complaining about scrapers, and thus you don't own it.

And then Circuit 1 and Circuit 2 are taken down at the same time because even though they have diverse paths they're part of the same underlying DWDM system which has just encountered a fault.

Ensuring there isn't a single point of failure is not just as simple as 'putting it in the contract.' Carriers can and have groomed their primary and backup circuit on to the same L1 path without realizing it.

These are game assets so its copyright law. Nintendo even used the DMCA to issue takedowns.

Trademark defense has nothing to do with this at the moment.

Not reading the numbers on the label is an orthogonal issue.

My point was gauge and maximum rated amperage are on the label.

For anything that's not just "grab a camera and shoot the movie" the format that it is shot in is absolutely taken into account. I don't think you can separate the story from how the image is captured.

They're very well marked at Home Depot.

The store brand, which is general most prominent, gauge is color coded: 6AWG - Gray / 12AWG - Yellow / 14AWG - Pink / 16AWG - Orange. There's one exception to this where 14 AWG cable is using orange labeling normally used on 16AWG wire but that's the opposite of a safety issue.

And they have generally have the rated amperage for the length of the cable.

> Technology is about tomorrow. It's not about yesterday

One doesn't have a tomorrow without a yesterday.

and you certaintly get what you pay for, DS3231s fry almost as easily as MAX3232s,

(And you can do the same thing were you write the time to the RTC before you have the correct time)

why isn't it? What prevents that?