Recent content by Rive

Just as he said. When other property is in danger they are protecting (cooling) that, not the burning vehicle.

It's more about familiarity. Differences makes elderly users feel insecure, and little differences adds up at the end. Even those seemingly little (but often enforced) changes may matter which comes with updates. And the small but numerous differences between Win10 and Win11... I may get a...

For elder people even the 'clikety' instead of the 'clikety-click' is a hurdle.

As far as the company training went: since damaged batteries actually cannot be 'extinguished' but will 'burn' till energy remains within the primary goal is to isolate: keep people away and prevent nearby materials to catch fire till the battery (wreck) is hot. Some batteries may explode so...

Bloatware meets too many layers of abstractions through browser and OS down to HW and so demanding absurd amount of CPU power even for trivial tasks. That's all.

I'm about to fetch a new PC for my mom (closer to 90 than to 80). Her old one (some i5 3rd gen with 4G RAM) is no longer able to properly run some facebook games (quiz...) and youtube stuff. Games and AI it is? Really?

Considerably 🤣 It is often forgotten, but fuses are not just about a single current rating (and type). They have voltage too, and also a (lot higher than the rated current) breaking capacity (current). ... and so when the 12V automotive fuse catches a short at line voltage, it'll go quite...

Just that the fuse were blown does not means that the current was anything really 'high'. There are fuses for small currents too. They are chosen as to blow at current levels still not catastrophic but already faulty in the given circuit. There is no absolute definition when can current be...

As far as I know the relevant ARM 'sister' CPUs do support adaptive frequency and voltage control for some time already, so the possibility very likely exists on HW level. It is just that Apple has that kind of thinking that 'user experience' rules all and cannot be tinkered with, so the...

Nice, but most programmers I know (and are blessed with AI-supportive management) deals with lot less structured/organized/proper code (that lot less was one very polite description of that usual overgrown mess of legacy code mixed with haphazard addons of last minute customer requests and...

With the so called 'increased effectiveness' of AI-supported coding the humans assigned will need to watch over lot more and lot less familiar code than ever before.

So they had to use insulation extensively even for an efficient distribution system. Then why keeping the user side uninsulated and inefficient? Sorry, I just can't see the point. They had to tackle these issues just as we tackled the DC versus AC thing way back at the beginnings.

Th 46Hz part is within tolerable practical limits by my opinion, but I think that there would be some considerable pressure to raise the line voltage.

By my experience that's only a review, not any proper course: a chance to check whether you have everything in place or not. If somebody won't get the hint to learn what's apparently missing then he/she will be left behind very fast.

The issue is, that different cables/shieldings can have different purpose and so simplification might make the question miss the mark entirely. This: or this: or this: ...are meant to be very different.