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Philips Hue. I've had issues with color ones, the White + Ambience ones are fine. (Makes sense as they omit the color section) Hue is basically the only bulbs not being sourced fro…

Lighting color is cultural. Go to Asia and you'll find many places, commercial and residential, lit with 5500K, traditionally fluorescents. I've heard a theory that it has to do wi…

Had a ton of issues with the original Cree bulbs. They underglued the glass bulb and it came off with thermal cycling. They also put the LEDs on a metal core PCB they bent into ~10…

My OG gray Philips lasted more than a decade constantly on. It was still working at the end but I noticed the yellow remote phosphor plastic panels were disintegrating with a web o…

Fan blade failures are supposed to be contained. Turbine disk failures are not. This leads to several characteristics: disks are life-limited parts where they must be removed after…

Incandescent bulbs are 0.8 atm (equivalent to 15,000 ft altitude) when off, and when they're on, they're actually slightly pressurized.

You need 1.25 kg of gas. Candles don't consist solely of oxygen, the ones the Russians use utilize lithium perchlorate (LiClO4). When they finish burning, you are left with a lithi…

And the 1961 fire that killed cosmonaut Valentin Bondarenko in an altitude chamber. The Soviets covered it up until the 1980's, so NASA made the same mistake.

Candles are useful when oxygen has been consumed because of respiration or a fire. They're not useful in a leak. Conservation of mass: if a cubic meter of air escapes, that's 1.25 …

Because it's not an actual investment and can't run out. Like US Social Security and many other national schemes, the UK is pay-as-you-go. Money coming in is immediately paid out. …

You don't have it "now" unless you didn't upgrade to 26.3. But yes. The only way you can resize windows through System 7 is the resize widget. You cannot grab anywhere else and dra…

As they should. There are fundamental differences in hardware and capability between 1992 and 2026. The most immediate are pull-down menus at the top of the screen. They work good …

Not for the majority of retirement savings in the US, where Social Security makes up only about 25%. In the case of 401(k)s/DC plans and private pensions/DB plans, the government a…

Lucent v. Microsoft, $1.53 billion over MP3

Logistics requires lots of humans, and worse, humans traveling. That's inherently risky and a difficult physical job. People simply would rather have an information economy job lik…

It's a thing, but it's not universal on the A320. Original 1984 critical hardware: the box has an EEPROM module, you swap it on the plane. FMS (which requires monthly nav data upda…

Not true. 7th gen gained Mode Based Execution Control which greatly decreases the overhead of VBS. 7th gen also gained SMM Security Mitigations 1.0 and some UEFI hardening.