i mean it would be hard to imagine 20 years ago precise ways things could get worse, and then

is there something you don’t understand? it doesn’t fucking matter what russians claim to have tested, you as nato resident are protected by nato’s ability to evaporate moscow and moscow residents survival instinct, meaning that they won’t start shit if they want to remain not evaporated. it works in any number of ways between any number of nuclear states, and can’t be undone

nothing. safety of people in nato is guaranteed by a several of icbms somewhere in wyoming or in some submarine with putin’s name on them. self-preservation is a mighty powerful instinct, and it worked for entire cold war. will easily work for a couple of decades more

you know, in comparison dubya at least tried to have this kind of diplomatic subtlety that is nowhere to be found in current administration

behold: vibe driving (or maybe it’s just DUI for silicon)

you can just put a flywheel on synchronous machine and it also works, especially where you have infra left over after coal plant shutdown or something similar

they might have done it this way because hydro, nuclear (or any steam turbine based) or gas (or any gas turbine based) generation is rotating generation, which helps to stabilize grid in a way that solar or (some of) wind power doesn’t. on top of that, many of solar installations won’t output energy without mains (grid-followers). getting rid of that would be a is a complex problem that would require infrastructure buildout and policy changes

there were reports of roombas not getting up because us-east-1 was down, don’t be so surprised

random sample of 1000 people is a decent one, they even included error bars:

The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points at a 95 per cent confidence level.

you’re not missing anything, it’s an unhinged tradeoff that you do because you need to conserve copper for brass casings because nazis are in calais, there’s zero reason to do this today. apparently it’s still allowed in uk for some unthinkable reason but i haven’t heard of it anywhere else. yes, single fuse *per ring is used, rated at double what it would be in star/radial circuit

you don’t even need a fault, sufficient asymmetry in ring geometry or load distribution already will cause this problem

yeah that’s what separate fuses for separate branches of circuit are for, all in one central box because where else are these supposed to be. if your lamp is wired with 6A-rated wire then that branch should be fused with 6A fuse, which on its own is unhinged because usually much thicker wires are used anyway

more like papers over poor design informed by ww2 shortages

uk fuse in fuse box can’t be sized properly because old uk installations used ring circuits in order to save copper during ww2 shortages, everybody else has this problem sorted out by now (initially by using aluminum wiring, or waiting for more copper). modern wiring is arranged in star-type topology with a few outlets per leg, and it can be fused properly, but the far out parts of circuit don’t transmit power at all times which is why it was looked down upon during shortages

example would be 16A circuit that has 5-10 16A outlets, has wires suitable to carry 16A and 16A fuse. it’s okay because you’re not expected to draw full power at all outlets at the same time, and most of the time much less than that. if you do and you know it in advance you’re expected to split it over more circuits, or make it bigger. uk ring circuit would have wires that carry only 8A in each direction, and fused 16A. it can fail in a way where one side disconnects, but the other side becomes overloaded. plug fuses are for protection of these shitty circuits from shortcircuit in appliance

that’s why you put fuses in central fuse box, not in the plug. appliances should be designed in such a way that it shouldn’t be a problem. nobody else does this because it’s not necessary if your installation is sanely built

really, happens to the best of us

the same way they did in 2021

it’s straight up still not good enough

right after fusion power goes commercial, which also will power it all

I don’t want to be remembered at all. If I’m being remembered it means I’m dead.

Yuri Orlow in Lord of War (2005)

ah yes chatbot seller says these things will become so capable, they’re gonna destroy the world, just you wait and see, but need trillion dollars in financing first. op have you eaten your daily recommended pebble today?