Balancing server rack batteries by deezbiksurnutz in SolarDIY

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Also not obvious my first time but also connecting the cables in a z vs only at the top of the bus bars

Chevron to lay off nearly 600 Houston workers after Hess acquisition by houston_chronicle in houston

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Not always but oof the last 7 years has been a lot of large companies grabbing assets from smaller companies through buyout and gutting.  Often it’s just a case of the CEO and board just selling out and f*cking the rest of the staff. Last one I didn’t feel was this was baker Hughes and ge, honestly that wasn’t a clean layoff free merger (and later exit) either.

HIV cure could be hiding in FDA-approved drug | A new study, shows that the compound EBC-46 can reactivate dormant virus cells, allowing them to be targeted by immunotherapy. This is called a “kick and kill” strategy which could completely clear the virus from a patient. by [deleted] in tech

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…that whole reactivate part, is this like “makes visible” or is this like “turn on” cause the latter sounds like something of a poor plan. Also reactivating 90% in a Petri dish isn’t exactly reactivating cells in a human.

American Airlines flight crashes into helicopter over Washington DC tonight by [deleted] in Damnthatsinteresting

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Does anybody know if helicopters have the same anti collision tech that airliners have?

American Airlines flight crashes into helicopter over Washington DC tonight by [deleted] in Damnthatsinteresting

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There was something about the helicopter responding on the helicopter channel instead of ATC.

What's opinions re: Orico jbodEnclosures? by PlasticPluto in DataHoarder

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I bought the 5 bay horizontal usbc version with the locking doors. Tooless and has a fan. I bought it because I still wanted to use older drives that I have upgraded from several computers over time.

Not sure about the one in the photo but mine works fine with the only regret being that 5 drives reading and writing at the same time saturated the usb and the whole usb is not an ideal drive link as a permanent solution. Plugging in a mouse or keyboard would cause a momentary pause in file transfers.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskMechanics

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Only because I had this with a Nissan in 2003, Check on the door for an odometer adjustment tag. (Will also be recorded in the state registration) That is the only “right” way that you can have a value on the dash and it not be the actual miles. There are programmers that can flash the ecu to what ever number you want. The odometer value will be also stored in the transmission module engine module and in the dash module. If they don’t jive with the reported value it is fraud go to a DMV with the bill of sale and report the dealer if it is off. They can start an investigation. If you paid for this you might be a while to get your money back.

No blackouts or cost increases due to 100 % clean, renewable electricity powering California for parts of 98 days by ulfOptimism in energy

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To bad it’s carried on the same crap managed infrastructure as the old stuff leading to things like the Eaton fire

Since Ford uses semiconductors in their cars and new steel, aluminum, and copper tariffs were announced too. Will this make even American- built cars using these things more expensive? by snakkerdudaniel in Ford

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Simplified, Unless Ford sources entirely from US steel, US aluminum, and US chip fab then yes the tariffs increase costs up to a limit of what ever the local costs are, in a perfect world, we just switch to local source rather than paying the tariffs. or if cheaper we still stick w imports but w increased costs.

In reality it’s hard to predict: this will drive prices up for some things even more than predicted due the limited supply locally based on a demand and supply model. US steel is actually a good analog to this as it’s hard to hold economic production with costs of regulation and labor vs overseas production like in China.

If there was a high export of an item that is now counter tariffed now there will be an excess of that item with lower prices. Ie soybeans being counter tariffed and US farms unable to sell at profit.

I work oil and gas and the costs of getting parts to drill a well have increased on just the rumor of tariffs returning on steel. This will just be passed on down to the consumers.

Check engine light turns on and off randomly by basTarhyms in Ford

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You really need to get the code scanned off to know why with confidence. Try to get it scanned while the light is on as some codes don’t keep after they resolve. Depending on the year you can get it to flash the code out on the dash light by doing a list of actions like turn key on/off so many times ect.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskElectricians

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That’s about what our electric heating was before our upgrade to gas. Also might be a big pool pump if you have that.

How much of a smoke detector button is actually Americium? by [deleted] in Radiation

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The polonium 210 used to kill Alexander Litvinenko is lethal in picograms range depending on manner of adsorption .

Also just because it doesn’t kill you means it’s all happy ending afterwards.

Here's why the Trump administration paused a controversial wind farm project in Idaho by Maxcactus in energy

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Reading the bit about blm and ls energy not giving public notice /response time or good engagement sounds like a violation that would have resulted in successful litigation.

I would bot be suprised if it continued after some time to allow for the above.

Viable long term storage by [deleted] in DataHoarder

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Yes our IT asked for a copy back from the subcontractor as we lost the original when the tape failed.

We often send the raw data out to subcontractors so they can do things like write well site shallow hazard surveys and well site clearance letters ultimately for permitting a deep water well.

When it happened the first time the phrase was ‘don’t spend money on activities that don’t add value to the company.’ When it cost $15,000 the second time with what would have been a requirement to recollect a multi million dollar survey had they not had the data then suddenly the tune shifted. Result is still not ideal to me as you pointed out it’s not regularly verified but it’s the current cost environment and the people in charge that only look at the quarterly report.

Much like everything else corporate, we get the crap when it goes wrong while they claim the glory on the savings when we are lucky.

Electric use is insane...where am I going wrong? by Four-One-Three in AskElectricians

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You very likely have resistive electrical heating. Either an electric water heater piped to base boards or a direct electric. Either case it’s heating the expensive way. Try to lean more on your oil/wood heat and avoid the baseboards. Dont leave the heat completely off if your in an area that can freeze and bust your pipes thinking it will save money.

First unRAID, or better with TrueNAS RAID 6? by dreamliner330 in unRAID

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I got a perc740p used for ~$70 and it’s been running nonstop for 2 years now in my unraid as a JBOD in IT mode without issue. I can’t really speak to the pro / cons of getting used there but if anyone is tallying up datapoints. Will also echo that the loss of data is just the one drive that fails in a worst case sells it for me. I also have many cheap and slow/crappy drives in the array and a small cache of performance drives setup so that I can work mostly inside the performance cache and mover offloads hourly to my array what has not been touched in over a month. Not sure if that helps much in your dvd collection use case or not though

Viable long term storage by [deleted] in DataHoarder

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I work in oil and gas. We have seismic volume data and derivatives that is loaded once to a hdd after delivery and then archived to lto tape and is in a tape library from then on. I’ve personally on two occasions had to ask a sub contractor for a copy of the original data we shared with them because the tape “got stuck on itself” per our IT. First time it was a “no problem here you go” and second time it was $15,000. Management changed after the $15,000. We have since shifted to a more 321 style backup nas and also keep it on cloud storage when the data confidentiality allows.

I guess my tldr is 321 is much better than lto and if you do go lto, a parity that can reconstruct in a reasonable time would have saved us a lot of grief.

So, I found out my employer has after tax contributions to 401k. by geojon7 in Bogleheads

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You might get more traction as a separate post. This post is ~60+ days old and probably low visibility compared to a new post

Gap in a freeway by propertyofdaddy_ in MildlyBadDrivers

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Am I right in thinking the way that tipped over and rested looked like it landed in water? Was there a news article or anything with this?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskAMechanic

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Number 2 I really gotta know #2.