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Just watch it.
Ok, you convinced me.
6 minutes later
Depression has now been augmented with Appreciation For Al.
Just watch it.
Ok, you convinced me.
6 minutes later
Depression has now been augmented with Appreciation For Al.
I wish the unending list of tasks respected this rule. I really could use some time away from “crushing pressure of infinite expectation.”
They’re also trying to teach that in math classes (it gets called “new” math) but the boomers are freaking out because “why can’t they just do normal additions like we used to, this is so complicated”.
So, as a childless Xennial, I have to ask… is today’s “new math” the same “new math” that people complained about in the 60s?
If so, that’s an awfully long time for something to be shunned as “new.”
we never need to just do a long division.
Truth. I recently got a neuropsych evaluation and part of it was an unexpected (to me) IQ test. And staring me in the face, for the first time in ~30 years, was a few pages of arithmetic problems. Took me a minute to recall how to do decimal multiplication but it did come back to me. Long division? Nope. Had no freaking clue. Given that it was timed I just left blank anything I couldn’t work out in my head. Maybe if I had time for trial and error I could have eventually figured it out. But one thing is for sure… the odds of me ever needing that skill again are fairly low.
As an American a couple months out from not being able to pay housing costs, I appreciate the empathy. Sorry about the cultural exports that have been going north.
Oh lord, this is the worst news to come from this week.
It was a high bar, but they cleared it.
They did (in the US). Bain Capital bled them dry and then sold off the scraps. There have been a few attempts to revive the brand but to my knowledge nothing has stuck yet.
Saw this posted recently and it fits quite nicely.
A curious choice of fondue
You are correct, generator is the way to go, with the UPS covering for the transfer time. AC goes on the generator.
Unless you don’t spec the generator to be able to handle the AC and have to do a song and dance with rolling units for every power outage. Then the AC sits idle while the undersized rolling unit just barely keeps the room below 95 degrees.
Or if you build out an office in an area famous for hurricanes and instead of a generator you buy a shitton of (physically compatible but logically incompatible) battery banks, reinforce the floor to hold the weight, then complain about not being able to have an accurate remaining runtime during an outage and bitch about people having to be sent home because it’s now 90 degrees and humid inside the cube farm and why isn’t the AC on battery we have so much battery.
And then the same people walk away with millions when the company gets bought out and they move on to their next victim to do it all over again.
I’m not the right person to ask for that kind of differentiation… it’s been a long time since I’ve had to do much of anything with component-level circuitry, and it’s use it or lose it as they say.
My experience is mostly at the data center level. And I got real tired of having to explain to uninformed C-suite micromanagers and their sycophants why it’s a Bad Idea to run the industrial AC off of the UPS, for instance. Or they’re nitpicking because a UPS is 40kVA and saying 96% capacity while “only” supplying 37kW and completely ignoring the fact that we REALLY should not be running it that close to max, as stated many times, instead choosing to “investigate” why the math doesn’t add up (hint: it’s because the power factor was less than 1).
(And if my math doesn’t add up, I’m blaming it on exhaustion and being out of practice. Roast as needed.)
I really enjoyed this video. It went into a few things I was fuzzy about despite having to ELI5 power factor to corpo suits on a semi-regular basis for about a decade.
Nebula link for those that partake.
I think it would be more of a mobius strip than a circle.
Link to the mentioned video. I can’t recommend this enough. It’s really well done.
At least as happy as Ceres. People non-nerds still remember Pluto.
It’s about $400 a month in interest.
Lovecraft would be proud of that non-Euclidean eldritch abomination.
AuDHD/depression/anxiety/isolation/unemployment/impending homelessness/being aware of the shit state of the world.
You know, the usual. But thank you.