For two people who look/are dressed similarly: “you look like the before and after photos for a product that doesn’t work.”

Are there a lot of charities and free services that homeless people can use?

Depends on the type of homeless. Folks who were just evicted and need someplace safe so they can get back on their feet? Sure. People with severe mental health issues or drug addictions? not so much.

Going to a shelter involves giving up certain freedoms that living outside affords you. If you’re dealing with a heroin addiction, they won’t let you bring your drugs in. Got a pet dog companion? No dogs allowed. Going with a friend or partner? Expect to be split up. Also shelters often fill up and the next shelter with space may be an hour walk away.

It also doesn’t help that the shelters are all separate charities and don’t really coordinate.

So as miserable as it is, many people prefer living in tents and won’t even accept a shelter when they’re offered help as their tent encampment is being cleared by authorities.

What do you mean by “depending on where you live?”

That homelessness is a choice and the people sleeping on the ground and being nibbled on by rats are somehow gaming the system.

United Healthcare required me to do an email confirmation every time I filed a claim even when I was already logged in. Tell me that’s not a dark pattern.

Honestly I’d rather make an account than do this bullshit where you get a new confirmation email every time you log in.

“You can go outside on a hot night and clap, but you won’t get your blood back”

Fair Game Samia

The fuses protect the lines upstream to the next protection device. That doesn’t mean every house could max out their breaker at the same time. Just like you can’t pull the max amperage on each circuit breaker in your panel without popping the mail breaker.

To answer your question, most American homes I’ve seen have 240V at 200A. Some older homes have 100A.

Love it. Yes.

Primer

Insanely low budget, very realistic depiction of engineers. Super complicated plot which gives it great replay value.

If you watch it for the first time, the audio sync issues are not part of the plot. They had to re-dub a lot of the movie and they didn’t do a great job.

🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹FLASH!

I keep trying to block reddit, but half of the good practical advice and troubleshooting help is trapped there.

If anybody has a giant directory of active messageboards, I’m all ears.

You can be too close to a door to close it.

so 1b is 1 butt or approximately 481l.

If you want to go really old school, get a ham radio license, then buy a handheld with APRS.

You can send out 5W packets with your GPS coordinates, that can be received and relayed by any radio in range. This can work completely off-grid, so no cell service required.

Getting your Technician license is super easy.

I didn’t say profitable. I said more profitable. As in losing less money.

Every video card that’s plugged into an AI data center starts losing money the second it’s powered on. It might actually be more profitable to mine crypto.

I had this bad when I first got into embedded design. I built a Nixie tube clock with a Parallax SX chip in raw assembly.

Running at 4MHz, I had to give it a nop loop where it spun for 4 million iterations just to increment the clock for a second. It lived a whole life between seconds and it would do this thanklessly tedious work forever.

Or how about airbag sensors or seatbelt pretensioners that check sensors thousands of times a second for years in the off chance that they detect a crash and save the life of a person who they will never comprehend for the 100ms duration of a crash just to get scrapped with the rest of the vehicle.

At one point I wanted to write a short story based on this concept. A story of unrequited love between a person and a machine that they don’t even know about.

Or in spec when the spec is very broad.

See also “silicon lottery” in the world of overclocking.