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MattBatt@computergeek06.bsky.social |
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I do software engineering by day and computer hardware/software, radio communications, hobby electronics, model trains, and photography by night.
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Is that like a common thing where even the door open controls are disabled along with immediately clearing floor call buttons even to get back out where you just got on?
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@deviantollam.bsky.social I bet you'll know the answer on this - didn't get a pic (too frazzled) but just got stuck in an elevator where somehow it was shut down for inside buttons but still responded to calls so you could get on. Least the emergency phone worked to call a confused security desk...
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Wish there was some kind of find a cuddle buddy system
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Finally uploaded my @anthrocon.org photos so far, including the parade (I think I got at least 1 of each person in the parade)
millerm.org/foliogallery...
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I set ours to about 45-50%...tho with 1 dead at the moment the remaining one is pushed down to 40% with fans to try and help it keep the remainder of the basement below 55%
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Yeah its important. I just get tired of $250 devices failing right at the end of the 1yr warranty!
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The ones from like pre-2017 lasted forever...also new ones seem rated lower pint/day? Old ones were 90 most now only go up to 50-70
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May have to look into that...mine direct drain but I've tried a bunch since the 5 year old TCL I got died in around 2021 and been thru multiple (I have 2 units in different basement rooms) TCL, GE, Frigidaire (Frigidaire died under 1yr warranty trying to replace as we speak)
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Now if only someone could explain why dehumidifiers die every year...
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Probably shouldn't be a next time... I've had issues with the initial drop of I think every one I've been on
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Like I clearly still remember the ride starting and then I remember the next thing I became aware my pockets lifting away from me and looking up at a pond or lake and thinking I had to be out of this thing immediately. And that's about all I remember.
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I am not compatible with roller coasters... I also proved that the restraints work you can't get out of one mid ride (I freaked out and tried while upside down)
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Usually the trains aren't where the injuries happen with a grade crossing collision but if they derail...it can get very bad very fast
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I don't think anywhere in the US has anything considered high speed except the Northeast corridor and even that is only like 100-110mph max. Most places passenger rail services max out around 70mph give or take.
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Really interesting what people learn in different places...we got minimal education about trains that I recall in school but spent lots of time on how deadly rivers are never to swim, wade, etc because so many die in the river thru here.
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I think also many don't understand how quiet trains are, especially modern passenger trains. Even diesel ones. Took a friend railfanning at a local park and I had a scanner and knew the area could call within a few seconds when it'd come and still surprised them when Amtrak wooshed past.
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Florida Man/Woman....
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This actually bothers me way more...I was escorting some of the people out of the office during the power failure with my personal EDC flashlight. And what's a first thing probably to go out in any emergency situation if not power?
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I don't see a way to share videos here...but you may also like this one...(Landlord is supposedly in process of hiring an electrician since complaining during a power failure when it was pitch black failed in all stairways)
youtu.be/qhn8njlM-cE?...
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See this is the kind of information that I am interested in! The "why" makes it so much more logical than just saying "because rules". You now also have me thinking that might be a decent tornado shelter area too (a more common hazard than fires)
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Sure, feel free to use it, I'd love to hear your video about it!
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So tired
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How about sunken areas that go across the whole parkinglot a couple inch drop? Actually our Food Lion had that like right NEXT to the speed bump so it was almost like a tripple height bump.
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Hate when the power does funky stuff.... startled me just now when things buzzed loud and the UPSs clicked a ton
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@deviantollam.bsky.social liked your talk on fire codes... I'm curious if you know the "why" on storing stuff in an out of way part of stairway is a problem? As someone without a dog or say in this fight...it looks reasonable. In this case no LPG tanks, not blocking anything...
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I thought it was ":HEA: :TO:"?
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Relatable...
@thatlldosammy.bsky.social ❤️
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Today for comparison to yesterday I took down the windshield sun-screen shield to see how hot the same areas got...car hasn't moved since yesterday this is "around" the same time as yesterday. (Outdoor temp 96F according to my backyard weather station)
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Update for the curious - as the sun moves from the front to more on the top/rear of the car (back window also has a "baby sun shade" mesh) the windshield temp has dropped ever so slightly but the rest of the car is continuing to rise
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How hot does it get in a parked car with a windshield sun blocker in place? Well the part in front of the sun shade is hot enough to safely slow-cook meats and its still climbing...
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I have questioned it before and been told its because a properly sized system for less extreme temps can't do more than about 20F above/below ambient on the extreme temp hot cold days. If it was oversized to do more wouldn't work right on less extreme days
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*boops your snoot*
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Never heard of it but I know I have cold hands all the time everyone tells me.. and my skin dries out SO MUCH in winter. Hate the self checkouts... sometimes have to spit on my finger to make it wet enough to hit the "finish and pay" button at all which I hate having to do
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This is also why most EVs can't use regen for a while starting out on a cold weather drive until the power consumption and battery heater warms up the cells enough to push high current charge back into them.
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And yes, they can heat (with most recent models using heat pumps) but that's then using more power and depending on the source may be unable to keep up with losses as it drops farther below freezing...so the car can be drawing several kW and its all going to heating none to charging.
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Its not water, no...but the problem is charging around 32-41F internal temperature increases the chances of lithium plating as ions collect on the annode resulting in significantly reduced battery capacity due to internal chemistry changes. Damage gets significantly worse as it gets colder.
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Lithium chemistries can't charge below freezing without being damaged so that would apply to any of the OEMs that use Lithium based packs (which I think is most now?) that it has to suck up huge amounts of power to heat the battery and charge slow as a result
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This was back around January so temps were sitting around teens-to-20s at night and 30s-40s daytime. When they sat at the supercharger it took so long because it also couldn't precondition sufficiently so it was like 30-40kW charge rate on the superchargers.
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Cold charging is abysmal...friend visiting with a Model Y and stayed for about 10 days plugged into our front porch my circuit power monitoring said it used ~150kWH of power...and then they STILL had to go and sit for nearly 40 minutes at the Supercharger a few miles away to charge enough to leave.
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3D TV still could be ignored and was a normal TV...I have one that is plugged into a FireTV and Nintendo Wii. This AI junk keeps being forced into everything and seems to have no way to ignore or opt out in many cases.
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I also frequently have issues with fingerprint readers where they refuse to match or read - I gave up on phones/tablets and at work its a nightmare when I have had to renew IDs and the system claims it can't read me as alive or can't read a print.
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I had problems when we went to Busch Gardens after I was working on my car...and they apparently use fingerprints for entry. Except around day 3 I guess my skin healed enough it stopped reading...at which point they accused me of stealing someone else's pass...
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I think it was RNO that I was coming home and TSA was demanding to know "what I had on my waistband" and "what is the unknown liquid substance" under my arms and around my belly...gee I don't know, maybe sweat from lugging heavy luggage thru sweltering hot parkinglots?
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The possibilities are endless!
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That brings up another interesting question, we use seconds microseconds and nanoseconds but why don't we use kiloseconds or gigaseconds?
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Why is 4K video sooooooooo biggggggggg
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So far today isn't going to plan...wonder what I should try and do...hmm
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Personally I'm a fan of mixing SI-prefixes and Imperial units... so like 1 mile = 63.36 kiloinches!
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he doesn't look happy
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Hate when I wake up unable to sleep, tired, but also too late to take any sleep aid because I gotta get up in a couple hours :/
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