It’s a bait and switch, and you’re taking the bait. Microsoft does not do anything that benefits others, they only do things that benefit themselves, and if you think they’re benefiting you, that’s the trap, and you can sniff around it all you like until you’re convinced it’s safe, eventually they’re going to catch you, you’re not smarter than the multi-billion-dollar trapper who has already caught and killed and stripped the pelts off so many others. You will be no different.
All you’re missing is that I loathe microslop and will no longer extend them even a nanometer of goodwill. They deserve nothing but mistrust. They have burned all possible bridges. I’m entirely done with them, forever.
Ah, so we’re trying to embrace, extend and extinguish Postgres now are we Microsoft? Good luck.
JD Vance is enraging.
i18n is definitely a real thing and it’s often even used as an abbreviation in repos, folder structures and filenames related to internationalization/translation, I don’t love it, but it is definitely in real world use. l10n is one I’ve seen before and is also a real thing, but much less common (and even less acceptable in my opinion). a11y is not one I’ve ever seen before.
If this is about the bot I think it is, I haven’t personally complained but I have noticed it’s weird and often wrong, it seems to detect HTTP/HTTPS in every post (perhaps seeing links and URLs?) and it seems to maybe possibly be detecting any words with those strings of letters somewhere in them and presumably also doesn’t care about case sensitivity? The short ones in particular like “AP”, “CA”, “CF”, “HA” and “IP” seem to come up frequently almost every time it posts, and “NAT” and “IoT” seems common, and none of things seem to be actually mentioned in any of the comments that I see.
Capitalism has cooked these people’s brains. There is nothing of value left inside them.
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Yeah, it’s a wild idea, but the number of lives they’ve saved and extended far outweigh any danger. Sewer systems might actually be what increased average human lifespans more than almost anything else in history.
Yes. We can also swear: fuck shit cock piss cunt
I haven’t even verified my age! What freedom!
Financial censorship is a useful tool for people who want stuff censored.
“Nuke it from orbit, it’s the only way to be sure” has always been my policy for spiders, mosquitoes and ticks, so I’m looking forward to World War 3 going nuclear. I’m just a bit concerned that the “from orbit” part implies I’m supposed to be up there when it happens, and while I understand the basic mechanics of how to get there, I’m not sure how I’m going to handle the logistics after that point.
Have it spray tear gas first. But wait, then the laser won’t be able to penetrate the cloud. Maybe we could add a quadcopter drone to clear a path to the mosquito for the laser to fire. But then we’ll need a system so the drone doesn’t run into a human choking on tear gas, and the drone can’t see because of the limited visibility, could we use infrared sensors I wonder? /s
This is a stupid system. I love engineers, but they tend to uh… overengineer things like this.
Very normal behaviors for an independent country. /s
Us digital hippies just believe in free data and world peace, man.
Rest assured, the feeling is deeply mutual.
If you really want to piss them off, name politicians from Taiwan. They tell us it is part of China after all. (/s)
And nothing of value was lost. Good riddance. Genocidal apartheid terrorists don’t belong in the U.N anyway.
Technically almost everything is educational in some way, if you’re willing to engage with it in the right way. Like you said, period dramas and historical dramas are often a great way of learning about (some aspects of) history. The problem is you need to be able to sort out the fictional elements from the non-fictional elements and without at least a little bit of background that becomes challenging. Some methods that might be useful is cross-referencing by watching multiple shows about the same topic from different sources. If both shows include the same element, there’s a good chance it’s based on some real historical evidence. But you also have to understand that evidence is not proof, and there’s a lot of disagreement in science and understanding, and that’s good and natural. Not everything is going to match up exactly. You have to do your own research and actually study real sources and do your own experiments. This is why edutainment starts to become of limited value.
The problem with growing up is that you’re getting to a higher level of education and understanding, and that comes with caveats. No longer can you just rely on simplistic expositions of “this is absolutely how it works” and you start to get into a lot of “seems” and “maybes”. There’s a lot of stuff we just don’t know with absolute confidence and as we have learned from the historical documentary Star Wars, only a Sith deals in absolutes.
Most things at the adult level are not explicitly going to teach you things (because they effectively can’t) as much as they are going to motivate you to research further, experiment yourself, or become interested in things you might not otherwise find interesting.
With that said, there is tons of educational and entertaining content out there. Sometimes stuff that seems stupid is actually very educational. Sometimes stuff that seems boring and educational can be entertaining as hell. If you want a bunch of Youtube channels to help point your recommendation algorithm in the right direction, try some of these channels (in no particular order or topic consistency):
Honorable mention for bugfishhhh’s insane and comedic hour-long video on the events leading up to the Norman conquest of England which came out of nowhere but I’m here for it.
Changing power types is inefficient.
Batteries (which is what your emergency power supply uses) and solar panels are DC. They will be most efficient powering other DC devices directly.
Rotating generators (powered by engines, turbines, wind, anything that creates movement through motion pretty much) are AC. They will be most efficient at powering AC devices directly.
As soon as you’re changing DC into AC, or AC into DC, you’re losing power (usually a quite significant amount) in the conversion process. DC->AC requires an inverter. AC->DC requires a rectifier. Both are inefficient.
The direct answer to your question is that your DC power bank will be most efficient powering DC devices, and less efficient powering AC devices.