Why are people stocking up on food anyway? this is not that kind of event. A solar storm or EMP that knocks out all electronics would be that kind of event.
It's not like the government would leave you to starve to death if you are quarantined, either the military would organize handing out of food or they would organize some kind of mobile groceries van or something like that. It would make sense to have food for a couple of days before everything gets organized, but that's all.
I mean if we can get food and water to people and areas that are totally snowed in in the winter, I think we can handle this.
government to the rescue? where do you live? the last couple "hit the fan disaster" times that i went through worked fairly well for us, just minor issues that dry runs didnt catch (poor testing on my part). ive since tweaked a bit and also factored in a few more things, as this time is a bit different in some aspects. BTW not a doomsday prepper or anything , just my pappy learned me some things. EDIT: the one that my dad said that stuck most was " if you dont have it, you dont have it." odd as that may read
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You seem to have misunderstood my post, I said that it was "too much" I was not referring to the price of the smartband whatsoever, it is rather the concept, and now you are suggesting even "worse" options such as getting merit notifications on car's dashboard, for me the only use for these bots is to actually help me keep up with the different discussions I enroll in.
I am so in love with the forum, but I also have a real-life to live, when I turn off my PC/Phone I wouldn't want to be notified about anything related to the internet, the idea of having these notifications 24/7 for every single merit I receive on my wrist and car dashboard is annoying, but that is just me:).
With that said, I highly appreciate the efforts put by fillippone, sent him a smartband merit for the efforts.
yes this is highly cool. but as with mikeywith, when i turn away from the forum, or any online thing, i make sure NOTHING will get through. except maybe that heart transplant message or such. online is one thing, nature is another. not that they are mutually exclusive. and again this does rock! dont let my personal opinion (which is worth nothing as we know) influence you. hmmm any way to collect a total and bring that up when the watch is online or that app is active again? that might be cool.. ie time to read up on what the gang is up to, must be a lot going on as 50 merits or @'s came through in the last 2 hours. EDIT: perhaps a number based on a rolling average? like so many mentions or @s per arbitrary period get flagged and acted upon. so as to get rid of random fluff quotes that arent really pertinent and let you know something real is up.
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yeah
I ain't waiting around for no goddamned government cheese
I will say from personal experience that the government cheese is fucking delicious. i may still have a block of government cheese that was packed in those brown boxes.. prolly good as the day i put it away.
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Yes holy water being drained in churches too
WHERE IS YOUR GOD NOW?
I'm interested in seeing what the death rate per capita is in the various US states. Will Red states suffer more due to their ignorance and love of "real facts"? Will Blue states suffer more due to their Godless ways and lack of prayer? Reality exists, time to place your bets. the important question is: what are the rates in the Citadels?
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Hello dev! Why yo dont do pill for RTX20 series??
that was specific to the 1080/ti series only iirc. the author(s) are not around here anymore that i know of. it is EOL anyway and no longer supported (officially anyway).
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Similarly the people who do declare themselves female in here are likely to be 11 yr boys trying to sell their grandmother's underpants passed off as some lithe gym bimbette's workout clothes.
curses! the jig is up. I SWIM made out like a bandit on this. now what do I *cough* SWIM do with all this stock?? - EDIT out of merits at the moment but will send one to libert19 for his honestly ![Smiley](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/smiley.gif)
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Is it evil that I take pleasure in this? ![Grin](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/grin.gif) i was watching the financial markets the last few days. got some good lulz. some analysts seemed fairly bright. and some actually looked a bit worried too.
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Been thinking about it a bit more. Bitcoin does not produce anything. There is no dependency on any supply chain being functional or not. Dumping your precious bitcoins like a company stock because of a non computer virus makes absolutely no sense. It is an irrational decision unless your purpose is to try an buy them back cheaper, and we all know how that worked out over the last 10+ years for Joe Average.
fastest way to get rekt in modern times. of course hodling is also the fastest possible way to get to that stupid rich thing too. EDIT maybe
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Interesting, so that's like 5 men to 1 woman.
I'm curious too, let's hope some real ones answer haha.
I did a search from previous years male female 2012 Male to Female Ratio 2.3:1 2013 Male to Female Ratio 3.8:1 2014 Male to Female Ratio 4.6:1 2015 Male to Female Ratio 4.3:1 2016 Male to Female Ratio 3.9:1 2017 Male to Female Ratio 4.2:1 2018 Male to Female Ratio 0.0:0 2019 Male to Female Ratio 4.6:1
source archive org There are variables that can lead to error in this data suchs as,not include sex in the registry or not tell the truth of the gender. wait. so 2018 we were all replaced with pod people?
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so now im here too, requesting an increase.
turns out even trying to limit to 1 merit a post there have been so many good, informative, pertinent posts i have started running out again.
i try to spread the merits over that 30 day to the second shelf life thing but i sometimes have extend time away (well days) from the forum and that messes things up a bit.
i may be sporadic in where i read but i try to also read around the forums sections in general as much as i can rather than concentrate in one particular spot. that of course again varies with time.
but my aim is always to be near out of merit. collectibles these arent.
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solar trackers.
I don't want to come off as snarky, I know I can be an ass sometimes... System complexity, in my experience there are exactly two kinds of trackers; those being installed, and broken ones... I have heard rumors of there being a brief intermediate state of "working tracker", but I have never encountered it in the wild. no, not snarky at all. there is a manual override mode. manually set it to table mode or wjatever angle you want and lock it. so fail safe = manual grunt. or just leave at optimum angle. so when it does work its more efficient. What’s the trade off between buying a tracker v buying two fixed panels and pointing them in different directions. I can see the tracker being useful if you have limited roof space, or you are a Mars rover 3 axis tracking with fixed amount of panels vs what - 2 axis simple math when all panels are direct on the sun all the time. even corrects for longitude. / seasons EDIT it uses GPS
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solar trackers.
I don't want to come off as snarky, I know I can be an ass sometimes... System complexity, in my experience there are exactly two kinds of trackers; those being installed, and broken ones... I have heard rumors of there being a brief intermediate state of "working tracker", but I have never encountered it in the wild. no, not snarky at all. there is a manual override mode. manually set it to table mode or wjatever angle you want and lock it. so fail safe = manual grunt. or just leave at optimum angle. so when it does work its more efficient.
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Yes in an emergency we would loose the beer fridge, which should significantly reduce our load. As you point out, aircon is the real killer. Our system draws at least 6kw so would be a definite no.
A key is not to fully optimize your panels, don’t point them all due South because that will give you a weak feed on the shoulder periods and a big spike in the middle of the day when you just have to dump it on the grid.
Instead you want 1/3 pointing south east and 1/3 pointing south west and 1/3 south. This allows you to pick up the early morning sun and the late afternoon sun which is much more valuable than the midday sun.
Battery is a Tesla Powerwall 2 with 13.5 kWh with 5% capacity reserved for intermittent grid trips - it comes on in less than a second. Sometimes you actually get more than 13.5 out of it in a day if there is a storm and you draw down and then recharge in the afternoon
Other days it doesn’t get a full charge if it is cloudy and we are running the aircon non-stop - household consumption can peak around 70kw/h per day which exceeds panel capacity even in full sun if we abuse aircon, run the stove, dishwasher, clothes dryer.
Panels cost very little these days, they seem to be halving in price every five years. If you put your system in awhile ago, you might try and see if you can economically add more panels. Of course you will need a converter but if your string inverter doesn’t have enough capacity you could consider adding microinverters which allow you to add panels piecemeal.
solar trackers. not very portable though plus high upfront cost.
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the lithiums have made impressive strides in energy density, outpacing your Trojans by a fair bit
that said, and I am quite aware of the dangers inherent in H2SO4, if I had one of those power walls it would be installed in an airtight bunker some distance from the dwelling...
when lithium decides to do the bad, it is really bad
Which dangers of sulfuric acid are you talking about specifically? you ever spilled any? ever had the hydrogen gas over a battery light up? trust me, it is nasty stuff, I moved to gelled electrolyte years ago and accepted the lower energy density just to not have it in my life also when your jeep is upside down on the trail again batteries that dont leak all over the environment are nice.
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One of my secondary DNS servers for >100 zones + backup resolver for ~80 nodes, doing 2 queries/s over 24h avg runs on an embedded 486-class embedded system with no complaints since years. For home or SoHo, an old embedded system that can run Linux w/ at least 64MB RAM will do just fine. i never considered a PC that was PoE. interesting.
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Think we are at a bottom. Sell orders have not been increasing and are in fact decreasing slightly.
maybe. room for lots of panic in the market still. i slurped some corn up during this but still have some reserve if it keeps going south.
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[snippage ensues] I still own a pair of (working) Compaq 'sewing machine' 8088-based PC clones. DOS on floppy, store to floppy. Woo-hoo!
I keep an 8 inch floppy disk at my desk, beside my 5 pound IBM Model M keyboard. Winderrs keys are for losers! The Model M is a daily driver, the 8 inch floppy is just a momento. yeah i have an old IBM AT keyboard. old IBM keyboards were the standard (aside from its Selectric typewriter) and still kick ass. prolly weights more than some entire computer setups now.
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In other news, watch out: Latest Mozilla update wants to route your DNS queries through cloudflare. Which since it's an internet provider means the Govt will be able to see all of your queries without a warrant.
(Run your own DNS servers ffs)
wonderful. ive donated to them numerous times.
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Indeed, I’ve shipped devices that provided canned boot sector data before - not as an exploit, but because the operating environment needed such in order to function. Of course, that was a ‘from the factory’ thing, not a field exploit. Yeah, that's exactly what THEY wanted you to believe ![Tongue](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/tongue.gif) Just kidding. Or maybe not... Was that "canned boot" somehow easily replaceable with a different one afterwards? Ie: the canned boot residing in another area of the HD which could be updated or using a custom tool? Or just reusing all the developed firmware, replacing the "canned boot" and generating the payloaded firmware? Well, the canonical example would be to package a disk with a 'paddle card' protocol converter which sits between the drive and the system's SCSI | ATA | Fibre Channel | 1553 | Ethernet | InfiniBand | whatever bus. The canned boot sector would be resident in the FW of the paddle card. Used for things such as allowing contemporary HDDs to be used as boot devices on legacy systems built before the dawn of large HDDs. i had a card on one of my PCs (maybe around the pentium 2 era? was playing doom or quake then i think, whenever that was) that allowed me to boot with drives larger than what the mobos bios could handle. fixed the cylinder/head/etc limit that became a issue on bigger drives about then.. it had its own bios. there was a way to futz that in software but im more a hardware guy so wanted the card.
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