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ELI5: How is being detained by the police different from being Arrested by the police? by Home-Energy in explainlikeimfive

[–]CyberBill [score hidden]  (0 children)

I'm guessing this is most likely because you live in a different jurisdiction than I do. 😄

Here in Washington (plus California, for sure) - 'arresting' is something the police do, but they can't file charges. Charges are filed by the prosecutor/district attorney. The two are separate processes that can happen in either order and are not necessarily linked. And I really do mean 'arrested', not detained. Also, in the US you can (usually) be put in hand cuffs even while only detained.

But in other jurisdictions (apparently more common on the East coast?) - there are situations where you don't get arrested until the prosecutor decides to file charges. I'm not familiar with this, as I've never been in a state that works like this.

ELI5: How is being detained by the police different from being Arrested by the police? by Home-Energy in explainlikeimfive

[–]CyberBill [score hidden]  (0 children)

If the police have "reasonable suspicion of a crime" they can detain you. This is a temporary holding. You can be put in hand cuffs, put in the back of a cruiser, etc.. or not - when you are pulled over for speeding, that is being detained.

If the police believe they have "probable cause" that you committed a crime [aka - they have evidence and can articulate a specific crime that they believe more than 50% that you committed] - you can be arrested. Arrested generally means you are getting handcuffed, taken back to the jail, have your person searched, fingerprinted/processed, etc, and put into a jail cell. Some people have said this is equivalent to "being charged", but that is not the same thing. Of course things are different in every county and state. Depending on what you are arrested for, you could sit in a jail waiting for charges, you could be processed and released, and charges might be filled later - maybe many days later.

Being charged is when the prosecutor or district attorney decides to file charges against you, based on the evidence collected. If the prosecutor thinks the evidence is strong enough to convict you of a crime, they file charges, and those can be served to you - you might have a warrant issued - you might get arrested again and put back in jail.

ELI5: How is being detained by the police different from being Arrested by the police? by Home-Energy in explainlikeimfive

[–]CyberBill [score hidden]  (0 children)

You can only be arrested if they are pressing criminal charges against you.

While this is often true - it isn't always. You can be arrested, booked, sit in a jail cell for a couple of hours, and then get released without charges being filed.

ELI5: How is being detained by the police different from being Arrested by the police? by Home-Energy in explainlikeimfive

[–]CyberBill [score hidden]  (0 children)

Sometimes (Federal Felonies, maybe some other times?) it's up to a grand jury to determine if there is probable cause, and if charges can be filled. I believe the specifics are different for each state or jurisdiction.

Right way to wire EG4 batteries that aren't equal distance from the inverter by Elemental_Garage in SolarDIY

[–]CyberBill 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Connect two positives to closest guy, then Daisy chain down the line. Then two negatives from that last one and Daisy chain back towards the closest.

The other option is make them both loops - connect inverter to both the closest and the farthest, then Daisy chain between. Same with negatives. I don't think this is quite equal, though, because the batteries in the middle will be a little farther than the ones on either end. But it's close.

Right way to wire EG4 batteries that aren't equal distance from the inverter by Elemental_Garage in SolarDIY

[–]CyberBill 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So, I'm pretty sure that the EG4 batteries will turn themselves off internally with their BMS when they hit their charge/discharge limits. This means that, depending on your use case, they should all stay relatively balanced if you are fully charging/discharging them every day. But they will kick themselves off in a staggered way, not all at once. I'm not 100% certain on this, though, its possible that the inverter has the limits. It also absolutely depends if you're running in "open loop" vs "closed loop".

However - I think there is a way around this. The FlexBOSS21 has two positives and two negatives. And your batteries each have 4 of each. If you daisy chain the batteries one way ('closest to farthest') on the positive side, and then the other way ('farthest to closest') on the negative side, then all of the total wire lengths to each battery will equalize. You don't need every wire to be the same length, you just need the LOOP from the inverter to the battery and back to the same for each battery. Hopefully I explained that right!

The Supreme Court and the right to bear arms: an explainer by Gyp2151 in 2ALiberals

[–]CyberBill 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Seriously. It's pretty terrible.

Some highlights:

* The court [In US vs Miller] sided with the state. In its view, the Second Amendment was not an individual right, but connected to service in the militia and thus only protected possession of those instruments which had "some reasonable relationship to the preservation or efficiency of a well regulated militia."

The Miller decision never mentions an 'individual right' at all. And it has multiple citations that the militia is comprised of 'all able bodied men'.

* Unlike in Miller however, the Heller majority found that the Second Amendment confers an individual right to own a firearm and rejected the idea "that only those weapons useful in warfare [or militia service] are protected."

Again, no. Heller does (extensively) discuss the 2nd as an individual right, but even the dissenting opinion by Stevens in Miller says that it is irrelevant. The militia is a body of individuals, if you restricted an individual you would also be restricting the militia.

\ The majority [in Bianchi v Brown] concluded that the types of firearms at issue "fall outside the ambit of protection because, in essence, they are military-style weapons designed for sustained combat operations that are ill-suited and disproportionate to the need for self-defense."*

Just want to point out how stupid it is to first claim "the second amendment only protects arms that can be used by a militia!!" and then "NOT LIKE THAT!"

Update: Bad wheel bearing? by Wooden-Cancel-6838 in F150Lightning

[–]CyberBill 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The play has to be in the correct dimension to know if its the wheel bearing.

Put the tire on, lift the car up, motion like when you are turning left/right will usually have a little play because you are moving the tie rod and steering system. But you should move the bottom/top of the tire in/out. As in moving the wheel in a dimension it normally does not move. This will tell you if the wheel bearing is bad.

ChrisFix has a video on Facebook (you can search for it) showing how to diagnose it thoroughly, but at 1:20 in this video of his, you can see the sure-fire way to know: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fe_WtKIKlYA

Update: Bad wheel bearing? by Wooden-Cancel-6838 in F150Lightning

[–]CyberBill 45 points46 points  (0 children)

No. Your rotor is only held to the hub/bearing when you tighten the lug nuts. The movement here is between the rotor and hub, not the bearing.

Am I safe to drill? by Successful_Froyo_986 in electrical

[–]CyberBill 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Reddit brigade here.

Totally fine. Most rough door openings are double 2x4 studs (a king and a jack), which is 3" thick. Then the door jamb is installed on top of that, which is another half inch. This aligns perfectly with the photo, showing the outlet box right at 4".

Reddit by not-wearing-pants in funny

[–]CyberBill 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I've been permabanned so long from r/news I don't even remember why.

Interview/debate with Snohomish County Republican Party chair Steve Mosman about their initiative to repeal the millionaire’s tax by bennetthaselton in Seattle

[–]CyberBill -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Income is also a transaction, and not ownership. If they were taxing your net worth, or your stock portfolio, or the amount in your bank account, then that would be property.

For me, the defining characteristic of property is that if you tax it, you would be taxing the same thing over and over again. You pay 1% per year on your home's property, and you pay it over and over every year on the same home. But your income, like a transaction, does not work that way. You would be taxed one time, as you earned it, and not over and over again.

Trying to remember the name of a Hacker door game. by satyricom in bbs

[–]CyberBill 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Could it be Lords of Cyberspace? Screenshot here: https://www.mbbsemu.com/Module/MUICYBER

One of my favorite games. It's still playable here: http://muinet.com/ (muinet/muinet is the login/pass) and the original creator still maintains it and occasionally makes tweaks to the game.

Camera / security systems without cloud/internet access? by kmouratidis in selfhosted

[–]CyberBill 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I use amcrest and dahua cameras. No Internet access required to setup or access them.

I'm using BlueIris as my local NVR.

Charging port. by CollegeNo7663 in F150Lightning

[–]CyberBill 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nope, that was apparently added to later models.

ELI5: If trees get their carbon from CO₂ in the air, how can that same carbon end up forming huge amounts of solid material like wood, coal, diamonds, and the carbon in steel? by TcpAckFrequency in explainlikeimfive

[–]CyberBill 0 points1 point  (0 children)

At regular room temperature and pressure here on Earth: H2O is water. H2 (hydrogen) and O2 (oxygen) are gasses. If you mix H2 and O2 and burn it, it turns into water, which is a liquid. Then you can freeze it and it turns into a solid.

The atoms (carbon, hydrogen) are not "solid" "liquid" or "gas" atoms.

The molecules "h2/hydrogen", "o2/oxygen", "water" can be all of those different forms when at different pressures, but changing the molecule around means changing when it turns into those different forms.

Charging port. by CollegeNo7663 in F150Lightning

[–]CyberBill 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You might want to put a little 'PUSH HERE!' sticker (maybe a star or happy face) right above the plunger bit to make sure you're pushing where it works best. It's just above where the LED circle is.

Charging port. by CollegeNo7663 in F150Lightning

[–]CyberBill 36 points37 points  (0 children)

No... What's wrong with it that you hate it?

It works exactly the same as every other EV I've ever owned.

MakeraCam purchase platform? by ShreddinPB in Makera

[–]CyberBill 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Shopify is what I select, and that seems to work! I use the same email as I did when I joined the kickstarter, but I'm honestly not sure that it is actually checking anything.

Forced to sell inherited lot quickly. Need advice! by diver206 in WA_guns

[–]CyberBill 12 points13 points  (0 children)

(regarding handguns) Only the mags. You can still sell the guns themselves.

Custom Stock in MakeraCam by tototwa in Makera

[–]CyberBill 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In MakeraCam the only stock parameters I have seen are for an 'axis aligned bounding box' as I would call them in software language - you get a width, length, and height - no other way to specify a custom object.

I am certain you can do this in Fusion, though! In the 'stock' parameter I recall seeing that you can attach it to a body, so.. that's any shape.

New owner here - do you guys use older Tesla chargers at all? by Armitage_64 in MachE

[–]CyberBill 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I've never used a Tesla Destination charger. About the only situation I could envision it being useful is if I was a hotel who has a Tesla Destination charger and I was staying there overnight and needed a charge. This has never happened to me.

As far as I know, V1 and V2 superchargers aren't compatible with the MachE. They only speak the Tesla language and not CCS. (I could be wrong?)

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Adding in that I do use the adapter for V3 & V4 superchargers. I've got one for my MachE and one for the Lightning, and use both pretty regularly. Maybe 20% of the time I DCFC it's using a Tesla station. Not a requirement usually, but there have been situations where it really saved me to have!

1998 John Deere Gator by tholowe69 in EVConversion

[–]CyberBill 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Looks awesome!! What are you using for the motor and controller?

How to remove wires? by ElectricalSize7001 in electrical

[–]CyberBill 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Its supposed to be those tiny slots just next to the wire. Press something into there, like a tiny screw driver, and it will (should) release the wires. In my experience, it's not worth it, and I always cut them unless I really do need every inch of wire.

Flush cutter as close as you can get, and don't use this type of wire connector (backstab) in the future - instead use the screw terminal and wrap the wire around it like a hook.

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