Don’t forget about the inverters.
Low voltage (such as the output from a solar panel) suffers badly from losses over distance. Centralised solar makes up for this by having a large amount of panels close to a central inverter. There is going to be a distance tipping point of cost vs losses, if this is short and you need a lot of inverters, that’s going to become a major expense.
I haven’t finished setting it up yet, so I can’t offer an opinion yet, but the way I’ve gone is a doorbell with electric lock control- mine does 2 locks, and you can set the 2nd lock to be a doorbell instead. The ‘doorbell’ output is a contact closure, which I just wired to a standard doorbell chime. Network down means I still have a doorbell.
It always tickles me when I come across people with enough comms etiquette to not say “Go” unless they are giving a cue. “I’ll wait for you to say G. O. before I do anything”
Truly a great post. Not a video, just a straightforward building blocks approach to teaching a concept- the examples really make it shine.
I’m sorry you’re getting downvoted. People don’t like it when you show them there is shades of grey in any argument, they just want to get outraged simply.
Precisely- it’s a concept that is ingrained in people to the point where anyone who doesn’t understand it is viewed as lacking. However, it’s needless.
I don’t need to understand IP addressing subnet routing to go to a website. Why should I need to understand a file and folder structure to find an old tax document?
You use an interesting example- personally, I feel like while files and folders have their place, I prefer they be part of the background and not presented to the user. Take photos, for example. If I’m looking for pictures of my dog, I don’t want to go into the 2022 folder, then the August folder, then look through all those files, back out into 2022 then go into the September folder, etc. I just want to type ‘dog’. Or pick from a dropdown list of common tags, or anything other than digging through files and folders.
Shadow of the Colossus was such a landmark game. The few little changes to the standard video game formula combined together just made for an absolute masterpiece.
A picnic rug and a nice thick blanket do the job, and as a bonus you are always ready for a cosy picnic.
I’m with you. I was pretty close to giving up on it several times, but slugged through it at first because so many people said it was so great, and then because the next book was meant to be better, and then because I was over halfway so I may as well finish it. I wish I hadn’t.
I felt the Culture books by Iain Banks were a similar tone and style, but I found them much more enjoyable.
Don’t even need an Opal card- just tap your phone or your bank card.
The network is also massive. You can tap on in Kiama and tap off in Scone. That’s about 400km, roughly equivalent to Berlin to Frankfurt, on regular metro trains. Might take a while, but you can do it.
Am I in the minority, thinking that the London Underground is actually pretty amazing? Wherever I was across the huge area the city takes up, I rarely needed to check a timetable- There would be a station within walking distance, I could be relatively confident that a train would turn up within fifteen minutes and get me to basically anywhere in London in fairly short order.
Headtorch.
I bet you there is a distro called Pikachu, just to fuck with people like us.
Not to mention the broke single mum tech neckbeards!
The hardest part of excel is knowing when to not use excel.
But now it’s late, faster.
You’re right, the imperial units are not S.I. units, but each (most?) imperial unit is defined by an S.I. unit.
They look amazing! I’ve always loved the translucent look, never even considered you could dye it yourself. Well done!
You’ve also inspired me to start calling him ‘Mister Chef’, best typo ever!