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"What is the mechanism that increases risk for MOV-sourced fires in this arrangement?" I wondered the same thing, and failed to find a satisfying explanation. I can find plenty of …

It took me a while to realise that you were responding to the article, not a comment here. You're right in correcting the article, but I'd like to add that for probably around a de…

Right, it's TX-only. The article says so explicitly halfway through: "As before, this is a transmit-only proof of concept" I didn't notice that on my first reading.

> All the designs I know of have a pumped (active) cooling loop for the reactor, then a secondary loop where the coolant (typically water) evaporates and drives a turbine, [...] Yo…

Assuming you're refering to Hövding, the recall was overturned on appeal, back in 2023, but the company went bankrupt anyway: https://discerningcyclist.com/hovding-bankruptcy/ In s…

I looked at a London telephone book from 1979, when I think the record was released. Most of the phone numbers were something like 01 361 1234, i.e. seven digits after the 01 area …

(Author here) No contradiction. I think what happened is 1. The recording engineer dialled the operator. Could have been pulse dialling, could have been DTMF, doesn't matter. 2. Op…

659 8890 That one's just ordinary DTMF. I recorded the audio, trimmed it manually and then made a spectrogram like this: sox gun1.wav -n rate 4k spectrogram -m -y 500 The 'rate' sw…

You're right; I think CCITT5 is just another name for SS5, because different groups were writing standards. Bell called it one thing, CCITT (an international standards group) calle…

The discussion is new to me. I started analysing the audio because someone sent me a link to the film (The Wall) on youtube and asked me about the signalling. Once I'd decoded the …

Interesting. Normally, films use deliberately fictious numbers, e.g. in the US it's always xxx555xxxxxx. Wikipedia says the UK uses various area codes for the same thing, including…

Author here. Yep, 44 is the UK country code. The problem I got stuck on is that the rest of the number, 1831, didn't make sense. I assumed the number was complete, since it had the…

There's no smoke coming out. Best guess: you're confused by the word "smokestack". Smokestack is a synonym for chimney. The power station is closed. The chimneys are still there, b…

ATM cells have 48 byte payloads. Supposedly that was because different groups involved in the standardisation process wanted either 32 or 64 byte payloads.

Not important to the conclusion or reasoning... but Stevena's post says: "the whole team working on Erlang quit and started their own company." The same event as described in "A hi…

To put some numbers on "much worse" versus "not much worse": The best window I can find from the major Danish manufacturer Velfac has a total U-value of 0.82 W/°K/m² [1]. It's a tr…

Schroedingersat> ...albedo increase... You mean _decrease_, right?

> Electric heat pumps actually don't work in very cold weather. I think that statement needs to be qualified and quantified. Qualified: your claim is probably only intended to appl…

Do you have some numbers to back your "strong" doubts? One widely cited source is the 'Lazard' report: https://www.lazard.com/perspective/levelized-cost-of-energy-... it puts onsho…

Rurban wrote: "the very best (Formula 1) at 10 KHz". how much of the above is a typo and how much is real? I'm pretty sure 'KHz' is a typo which maybe should be kHz as in the start…

> you can't just throw around numbers without explaining exactly what they mean or where they come from. In the interview, Gieseke says influenza kills 1000 to 2000 people per year…

That difference seems to arise because the report you cite uses a broad definition of influenza deaths. Page 2 says they're counting patients who "have influenza as a contributing …

I also share your concern about claims made by Gieseke. The article quotes Gieseke as saying "The real death toll, he suggested, will be in the region of a severe influenza season …

"ICU admissions [...] have very little lag." Sweden's ICU admissions number for a particular day usually takes a week or two to settle down. For instance, here's how the numbers we…