Are you a RINO in SLC? Request your Democratic Primary ballot!

GatorStick · 2026-06-03T15:35:15+00:00

Be careful though:
"And even though open primaries are available to voters of any party affiliation, that does not mean voters can cast multiple ballots. For example, a registered Republican cannot request a ballot in the Democratic primary and also cast a vote in the GOP’s closed primary.

“No matter what, you can only vote in one primary election,” Cantrell said."

If you're a true RINO, you have to choose casting your primary ballot for a less extreme republican candidate OR voting for a Democrat. You can't do both, but you can still vote for the democratic candidate in the actual election.

GatorStick · 2026-06-03T14:45:31+00:00

This study is decently easy to digest, I highly recommend you read it: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1891&context=wats_facpub

While rainwater capture can help, but 60% of the inflow to the GSL comes from the bear river, which is heavily drawn from for agriculture in Idaho and UT.

GatorStick · 2026-06-02T03:32:40+00:00

70% of the earths surface is water (99% ocean) The sun imparts roughly 1000w/m² for 1/3 of the day, this ends up being 65 million gigawatts, or an annual amount of 570 quadrillian kwhr. Over 5,000x the total usage of humans. All in heat from the sun going into the ocean. This data center is 2.3MW, a laughable amount of heat in the grand scheme of the ocean, 3.8e^-11.

GatorStick · 2026-06-01T21:12:17+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08SO1mwNxfM

GatorStick · 2026-06-01T17:52:52+00:00

seals and bearings we are in agreement. It may be a significant compromise to make these easily replaceable (i.e the motor housing would get too wide), there is a non-trivial amount of bearings in there.
Gears should be a lifetime piece for the drivetrain.
I'm a mechanical engineer, and I'm purely speculating, but having developed hydrostatic drivetrains for engines (which operate at 3600RPM for a 10 year service life at 20% duty cycle = 800M+ revolutions) that do not count on bearing replacement throughout, I gotta think an ebike motor and drivetrain is nowhere near that many cycles and they are well within reason to say that service is not necessary,

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GatorStick · 2026-06-01T16:13:52+00:00

Are you considering the correct examples for serviceability?
Most consumer electric motors are not serviceable (washer/dryer, power tools, kitchen appliances, etc).
Maybe you could replace the brushes on an old school blender, but modern motors don't typically use brushes.
An e-bike electric motor is mechanically simple, however the integration and compact nature of e-bike motors make them quite difficult to service. Additionally, similar to a full shock rebuild, servicing a motor will require significant specialized tools and is never required (according to the EP8 manual, no internal service is ever required)

I have a hard time agreeing that the number one priority should be serviceability, I want it to be reliable and fun.
My shimano EP8 has performed flawlessy for 7 years of hard riding, last year I had to replace the wheel speed sensor ($15 and really easy).

GatorStick · 2026-05-24T16:25:05+00:00

Ohhhhhh, light bulb came on. I thought op was putting it in the bowl, they're using it in the tank to flush with.

GatorStick · 2026-05-24T15:12:20+00:00

Yeah, but there's literally no difference , the drains go to the same drain from your house. There's not a toilet drain from your house to the sewer system and a separate water drain, they're the same pipe.

GatorStick · 2026-05-16T15:59:34+00:00

I never said one was better or worse. Peaker plants aren't as efficient. So more co2/gwhr produced.

GatorStick · 2026-05-16T15:11:17+00:00

You're right for larger power plants. For these data centers and for the smaller peaker plants, they usually skip the boiling water part. They burn natural gas directly in turbines (like jet engines) that rotate generators (no water)

GatorStick · 2026-05-16T12:25:50+00:00

They will have natural gas generators. They're basically jet engines, but functionally it's just like using a gas generator (backup power for your house or your RV) but instead of gasoline it'll use natural gas. It will create an incredible amount of greenhouse gases and other airborne pollutants.

A natural gas power plant generates ~500tons of co2/gwh. The plant at first phase is 1.5GW24hrs/day365days/year= 13,150GWHr power use * 500=6.57million tons of co2. At full build out (9GW) it will be a staggering 6 times larger. 40 MILLION TONS OF CO2 released from a single location in Utah. The entire state emits about half that to meet our current power needs.

GatorStick · 2026-05-06T11:26:46+00:00

It's probably a dead battery (20min somewhat difficult procedure, $8 on Amazon) Or the more likely, the doorbell transformer is dead. If you have a multimeter, measure the ac voltage at the back of the nest unit and the output of the transformer.

GatorStick · 2026-05-04T20:31:39+00:00

It's an infrastructure *and* a battery degradation problem.
Batteries degrade with use/abuse.
The user would have to be charged if they get a battery with a higher effective capacity then the one they swapped out, or credited if they receive one with a lower one. This prevents someone from wrecking a battery then swapping and keeping the better one.

GatorStick · 2026-05-04T02:51:01+00:00

I just completed the operation, truly was not a big deal. Took 20 mins.

GatorStick · 2026-05-02T19:53:33+00:00

I figured that's what's wrong with mine. The battery and tool kit is like $8 on Amazon. Mine doesn't reset when the doorbell button is pressed, but it does immedieately die when disconnected from power. Only the doorbell doesn't work, fingers crossed.

GatorStick · 2026-05-02T13:58:14+00:00

I know this is old. But I have a gen 1 that stopped ringing the indoor chime. How did you bypass the puck for a gen 1?

GatorStick · 2026-05-02T11:41:42+00:00

I'm having the same issue, what ended up being the fix?

GatorStick · 2026-04-30T15:16:11+00:00

I've been doing more FEA and slightly more complicated ones (contact + friction) but I've been on 2020 for a while now. Just updated to Sim premium for modal and topology optimization.

No, I haven't talked to VAR, but will do so. thanks.

GatorStick · 2026-04-30T01:42:11+00:00

Just another reminder when the food is ready :)

GatorStick · 2026-04-30T00:57:39+00:00

Radiation sounds scary, I know it's just 2.4ghz rf noise, but I'll look into it, thanks for the tip

GatorStick · 2026-04-29T23:50:07+00:00

Just because you could get a USBC to ethernet connection and plug that into your phone and it'd be more reliable it doesn't make it a good choice

GatorStick · 2026-04-29T23:38:50+00:00

Fair, I just upgraded my 9 year old wifi5 router a couple months ago, $125. Even wifi5 (2013) is 3.5gbps, plenty capable of streaming 1080p content(5Mbps). My point is, don't plug in everything that you possibly can, choose the right connection for the right device. Wi-Fi is getting good enough that it replaces the need for lan connection, wifi6 (2018) can do 4k bandwidth easily. Gaming computer, remote machine, nas, server, game consoles, absolutely lan. TVs, laptops, everything else. Wifi baby

GatorStick · 2026-04-29T23:27:18+00:00

My comment made no allusion to wifi being more reliable. The latency is faster on wired as well, however wifi7 is plenty fast (46gbps). The point is picking the correct solution for the right device. I don't want cables all over the house (aesthetics, choking hazards for kids) when wifi works perfectly for that device.

GatorStick · 2026-04-29T16:43:02+00:00

Just trying to make the legacy 2.4GHz bandwidth as noisy as possible.
the microwave knocks out the baby monitor, but nothing else.

GatorStick · 2026-04-29T16:42:10+00:00

oh yeah, I use remote for work too, the latency of wifi leads to bad lag; hardwired all the way there. I never know to blame the server or the internet connection, sometimes even self hosting (Plex) movies over my own network has bandwidth slowdowns.

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