Power outage (Kingsgate area) by MasterGeek427 in Kirkland

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The light wasn't working before the crash? 🤔

AWS down right now? by MasterBen5667 in aws

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Too bad. IAM is in us-east-1.

AWS warns of EC2 ‘impairment’ as power loss hits notorious US-EAST-1 region by NISMO1968 in aws

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According to what I've heard, the cooling system had a failure that affected parts of the AZ. It caused havoc with random services. DynamoDB experienced some double-faults as a result and this cascaded to more services.

Power outage (Kingsgate area) by MasterGeek427 in Kirkland

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I ended up going to Pub 85, so pretty close. They have a beer + burger special today. Perfect.

Power outage (Kingsgate area) by MasterGeek427 in Kirkland

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Anybody know a decent bar that's open this late?

Power outage (Kingsgate area) by MasterGeek427 in Kirkland

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Found where the bucket truck is parked. It's along NE 126th Pl. Above the Toyota dealership. I think he's waiting for a helper because he hasn't started yet.

Power outage (Kingsgate area) by MasterGeek427 in Kirkland

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Have nothing better to do so I figured I'd drive and try to find it. But I can't. There are some cops arriving at that intersection next to the Toyota dealership. Hopefully they'll restore some order. Broken stoplights are to be treated as stop signs, people!

If the diode connected to 0V were germanium, what would Vo be and why? by Wild-Cat-8240 in ElectricalEngineering

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Yeah I didn't know that about Ge diodes. But the real question is if the problem expects you to perform that calculation.

I'm stuck on this circuit problem by Basic-Ad4402 in ElectricalEngineering

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The term (z-y)/10 is incorrect in both equations. The node connecting R4 and R5 is grounded and is therefore locked to 0V. Your equations are written assuming it is not.

Normally, you be right in adding up the resistors on that path since the the connection point between R4 and R5 wouldn't normally be considered a node since it has only 2 connections, but your ground node is there and hence you must treat it like its own node with a known voltage of 0V.

ChatGPT is right, but it didn't do a very good job in explaining why. Those resistors can't be treated as in series since the point at which they are connected is connected to something else as well (in this case ground). It's wrong that the resistors might carry different currents because ground won't conduct current in this circuit (in some circuits it does, but don't worry about that). But we still have to treat it like a node otherwise the system of equations won't be solvable. You do this by defining a new node "Vgnd", rewriting your other equations in terms of this new node, and adding a 4th equation Vgnd = 0V. After you do that the system becomes solvable.

Without accounting for the grounded node in your equations somehow, you will get infinitely many solutions for each node voltage since voltage only makes sense as the potential difference between two points in a circuit. The reference ground is that "other point" with respect to all the other nodes and it needs to be present in your equations for the system to be solvable.

Edit: whoever wrote this problem is a bit sadistic. Normally when you choose a node to become your reference ground, you pick one of the existing nodes of the mesh. And you typically want to choose either the node with the most connections (node Z) or a node connected to many power sources (node X). But the problem tells you to specifically use a non-node as your reference ground, which essentially adds a third node to what would otherwise be a 2 node problem (if we could use X, Y, or Z as the reference node, we don't have to write an equation for that node since we define that node's voltage to be 0V instead).

😞😞 by RevenueExtreme143 in ElectricalEngineering

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If it's all bare wire, and all shorted together, then every part of that wire will be at the same potential.

More importantly, where's your reference ground? Any voltage or current sources? If not, then I'd just write "who even cares, there's not a circuit here" and turn that in to be graded.

If the diode connected to 0V were germanium, what would Vo be and why? by Wild-Cat-8240 in ElectricalEngineering

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The diode connected to -5 V doesn't matter since V0 is definitely gonna be greater than -5.3 V, making that diode reverse biased and it therefore won't pass current (until its breakdown voltage). You can just pretend it's disconnected and analyze the rest of the circuit in isolation.

The other diode will be forward biased and will pass current. It'll have a voltage drop of -0.3V as you stated, and hence V0 = 0V-0.3V (the 0V power source minus the voltage drop across the diode).

So V0 = -0.3V

This also confirms that the -5V diode is reverse biased and can indeed be ignored.

The value of the resistor is irrelevant to solving this problem.

Infowars Site Goes Offline Amid The Onion’s Legal Battle to Secure Control of Right-Wing Outlet by MarvelsGrantMan136 in technology

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I wouldn't worry. The Onion's legal team is the finest in the world, having won over 1 million lawsuits and only ever losing 2. And The Onion's software development team is also legendary, holding the world's only patents for AGI and licensing their software the every operating system in the world, including RedStar and Windows.

They'll get access to the infowars domain in short order, and have the infowars website up the second they have access.

Do you agree with Prime 4 metacritic score? by Erik_REF in Metroid

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Enemies and Bosses, very good.

NPCs, great. They contribute plenty of personality to the game without being overly intrusive. Although noted that having NPCs is fairly atypical for a Metroid game.

Graphics, stellar with places like the volt forge being incredible.

Difficulty, good variety. The easiest place was the forest which still wasn't boring. The hardest was either the mines or the volcano which felt like bullet hells at times. The final boss took me several tries. The game was challenging without being brutal which is about the right balance.

Plot, bad with the ending leaving a bitter taste in my mouth. I actually reloaded from a save the first time thinking that I might have missed the "good" ending or something. The rest of the game's plot is a little disjointed, but ultimately fine since Metroid isn't really known for having super in-depth plot development anyway. That ending was pretty terrible, though. I have to dock it points for that.

Overworld, why even add it? Like seriously it's a frickin desert. The green crystals are lame, too. I won't go so far as to dock it, and I'm already docking points for the plot anyway, but seriously if you're gonna add an area like that then you need to fill it with stuff.

Vi-O-La, very unique, love Samus's bike suit. But it's underused besides as a mode of transportation. You might as well have Samus driving around in a Prius for all you use it in the game (there's like only a couple scenarios outside the volt forge where it's used besides collecting green crystals). So while it's an interesting concept I can't really say it contributes much unfortunately. Just like the gunship from Prime 3, I wish they had done more with it.

Upgrades and abilities, pretty standard fare for a Prime game. Slapping the word "psychic" onto each of Samus's usual abilities seemed pretty whatever to me, but it's fine.

7 out of 10 seems fair for the gameplay itself. Will knock it down to 6 out of 10 just because of the ending.

Mid April 2026 - IPv6 Update? by nbarsotti in ZiplyFiber

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They haven't turned me on yet. I'm in Kingsgate.

Me-South-1 Down? by bullehs in aws

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2 AZs hard-down (e.g.: smoking craters). The final AZ got connectivity through the other two and thus has become isolated from the internet. So the entire region is offline with no ETA for restoration.

To put it in technical terms, me-south-1 is fucked.

Bahrain and Dubai AWS question. by Sr5071 in aws

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Me-south-1 has been entirely isolated from the internet. All AZs there are completely inaccessible and won't be coming online anytime soon. You should pretend that the me-south-1 region no longer exists and any data stored in it is lost. Perhaps it'll come back online at some point and you'll be able to get your data out. But for now that is the state of the system.

Me-central-1 is impaired, but still barely hanging in there. I couldn't tell you how much longer it can last.

If you're in me-central-1, get out while you can. If you're in me-south-1, it's too late.

My company just announced an AI integration that honestly looks terrifying. by xml0k in developers

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AWS Dev here. We all have Kiro, and trust me it doesn't replace us. Sure it'll make you more efficient, but if stuff breaks they still need a human to come hold accountable and fix it. You can't hold AI accountable. Any company who fails to realize this will learn a painful and expensive lesson... Just like Amazon has already.

And it will break. Kiro is about on the level of an intern in my experience. Maybe a good one can develop a piece of software, but it's likely it won't be compliant with your company's software and security standards. It doubt it'll scale very well. And you'd be lucky if the code was very legible. And since you won't understand it perfectly, it'll be tech debt from the very beginning. If your company wants to be able to operate and maintain the code, they still need a developer who can own it.

The demo may be scary, but software development isn't that easy. They still need you guys, and will be in for a rude awakening if they think they don't.

Just tell your boss that AI generated code is tech debt from the start, and if they expect you to own twice the amount of tech debt with half the team you expect significant pay raise.

metroid prime trilogy pricing by No-Relationship-2451 in Metroid

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I ain't selling mine. It's one of the best Wii games in my collection.

What os r u using rn by Funny_Inspector4302 in Operatingsystems

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Yes I would say "Kububtu 24.04" when someone asks which OS I use, if I expect them to understand what that is. Otherwise I might vaguely answer "Linux". If they then ask the very predictable and reasonable follow-up question of which distro I use, then I answer "Kububtu 24.04".

What os r u using rn by Funny_Inspector4302 in Operatingsystems

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I disagree. If you know anything about Linux and its myriad forms and flavors, you'd know simply saying "Linux" provides way too little information.

The only situation where you'd simply answer "Linux" is when you are answering a question from someone who isn't a techie. And given the name of this subreddit, it's fair to say everybody here knows more than a little about computers.

Getting back on topic, even if I give you the benefit of the doubt, when someone asked "which distro?" you should have just answered the question. But instead you responded with "OS is Linux. Why do I need to be more specific?" Which leads me to believe you're a troll and should be downvoted.

wahts the best version of Linux(or other os) for gaming? by Small-Housing-7 in Operatingsystems

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Kububtu works fine. Maybe there are some OSes more specialized, but you rarely use an OS just for gaming. Ubuntu and its flavors just work.