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Re: As I am currently in a war zone, I don't have many options for cabling

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Post by ethbr0 »

anoonmoose wrote: post #111
ethbr0 wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Who are we to weigh the consequences to the poster of a lack of electricity against risk created by jury rigging? And specifically, to make that choice for them? Caveat hacker.

This isn't even a hacker, though! This is a person who isn't capable of doing extremely basic electrical calculations. It'd be a totally different topic if it was a person who I thought fully appreciated the danger of what they're doing. If you can't calculate the voltage drop over a length of cable you should not be wiring your own deadly AC voltages. I'm willing to die on that hill.

Agree to disagree. Submitter was smart enough to measure resistance in their chosen wire, and understand the rough ideas of current limits: that's a hacker in my book.

"Here are the things I know" + "Here are the things I know I don't know" + "Can you help me?"

I'm sure there's a ton they don't know they don't know (stranded vs solid core AWG equivalency), but this is a pretty simple use case -- running power a relatively short distance in a temporary install.

The worst that can happen is they or someone on the street short across their heart and dies. Which would not only require shocking yourself, but doing so in a pretty specific orientation.

But they're already in a warzone! That risk is lower than their base level of environmental lethality.

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Post by eitland »

shagie wrote: post #117
eitland wrote: post #104

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Maybe. Personally I think software engineers are a much more valuable audience than college kids. Also I think a lot of what happened was rampant deletionism, that I personally can't see any good reason for with todays storage prices.

The issue isn't the storage... but rather the difficulty of using a search to find a good question that has been answered. Do we need 10,000 questions about how to handle a NullPointerException in Java? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/linked/218384?lq=1 If not, then it is probably appropriate to delete more of them and that may be seen as rude by people who have asked a question about a null pointer exception whi…

Back when the answers were still there and Google still worked I managed to find them just fine.

Many others clearly did too as many of the questions they removed or tried to remove were massively upvoted.

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Post by contingencies »

te0006 wrote: post #115
legitster wrote: post #53

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There's no better reminder that only a thimbleful of useful human knowledge is actually found on the internet. I recently spent 4 hours online trying to solve a carpentry problem and not even knowing what words to use. I finally called my dad and in less than 2 minutes it was solved.

Now _that_ would be a good, hard challenge for ChatGPT and its ilk. Could you post question and correct answer here? Preferrably also something approximating the original version (when you still didn't know the correct technical terms).

The communication of solutions to untrained audiences through the employment of simplified semantics is definitely an interesting field of linguistics. Visual smacks of Ikea.

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Post by avgcorrection »

armchairhacker wrote: post #32

Daily reminder that online, someone well-off lying in bed with a nice bowl of soup can be talking with someone homeless in a third-world country with no chance of improvement whatsoever. Hopefully the OP in SE is not the latter and it's just a temporary situation, especially if they're in Ukraine and Ukraine wins.

They could also be talking with a voluntary soldier who is fighting for an invading military. Lots of ifs and buts to consider.

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Post by zubiaur »

doodlesdev wrote: post #66
kranke155 wrote: post #14

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Fly to Brazil, take a cab around Central Sao Paulo. Your understanding of the world is warped by the safety and availability of goods. It's incredible when you get in places where the state doesn't function at let's say 50% of what we get in the first world. It's one hell of a learning experience.

> Fly to Brazil, take a cab around Central Sao Paulo. Better yet, don't. source: Am Brazilian, would not recommend it. To be fair, Central São Paulo isn't even what I would consider third world yet, if you really wanna see how good some of us have it go to the northeast of Brazil, or Venezuela (if you manage to get in somehow).

In the grand scheme of things, even rural-ish northeast Brazil is not thaaat bad. Venezuela though... oh boy.

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Post by aliher1911 »

wicharek wrote: post #21
dimitrios1 wrote: post #11

Interesting comment by the OP of the EE Post: "Yes. we already done that but not over do it because we hope the power will be restored.I think Probably the war will end because Russia and America are busy in Ukraine and hopefully will not supply fighting parties with bombs, rockets and ammunition and they have to keep fighting with sticks and swords"

This remark implies that the warring parties are somehow equally responsible. I do not know where the OP is (Sudan?) and know nothing about what’s going on there. But Ukraine situation is crystal clear - there is the victim and the aggressor. Representing them as as equally guilty of war is at best misleading.

Wagner group (russian private military) which is now busy in Ukraine and lost quite a bit of personnel was actively involved in Sudan. I might be mistaken but they have some interests in gold mining operation which is a shared venture between Sudan and some Russian business.

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Post by zdragnar »

Gordonjcp wrote: post #35
ltbarcly3 wrote: post #3

The risks of using steel cable for power are going to be corrosion/rust. The primary way this will cause problems is around connections, but long term it is also an issue away from connections. At connections, corrosion can cause the wire to become loose, something like ox-gard can be used to delay this significantly. It isn't designed for steel but some kind of protection must be done at connections or arcing will b…

> The risks of using steel cable for power are going to be corrosion/rust Probably fine in Sudan in late spring, tbh. They have to pump water up from the ground with electric pumps, hence the need for cabling, so I guess they don't have much rain right now.

Sudan gets about 4 inches of rain a year or something like that. It's obscenely hot (compared to what I am accustomed to) and dry. For a temporary solution, rust definitely is not a limiting factor here.

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Post by joseda-hg »

brianwawok wrote: post #113
LeifCarrotson wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's a false positive vs. false negative distinction too. The GP is concerned that Tmobile allows hackers to impersonate you/your wife on the phone. You're concerned that even after providing all possible account details - password, PIN, last four of her SSN, last bill amount, anything else they might want to ask that's not literally a live biometric scan - they can't distinguish the two of you just because you don…

It's a pretty low bar. I think if you know SSN you are good to go to do anything at Tmo, including a number port. Which means phone as a 2fa is very easy to beat.

I was about to freak out, then I remembered that there's no ID in the US

I can't change anything about my phone without providing both a "Public" (Taxpayer Code: Doesn't change, commonly shared, also used as a state bank account number) and "Private" (Document number: changes per renovation, only shared for identification purposes) number

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Post by beardog »

netsharc wrote: post #92
gizmo686 wrote: post #60

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Also, the OP pretty much says they are not in Ukraine in a comment: > I think Probably the war will end because Russia and America are busy in Ukraine

Depressing world facts in April 2023: "I'm in a war zone." "Oh yeah, which one?" At least in March 2023 it was "slightly better" that people would go straight to assuming the answer is "Ukraine". Any other active wars going on[1]? Maybe Myanmar.. [1] Result for "active wars in 2023" gives me a page of potential conflicts: https://www.cfr.org/report/conflicts-watch-2023

The tigray war is kind of paused right now and Eritrea has not signed onto the ceasefire, so I would still treat it as a war zone if I were to travel there.

The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict could reignite if Azerbaijan wants to take advantage of Russia's distraction.

The Yemeni and Syrian civil wars are still not resolved

Western Sahara has a sort of no-mans land and a land mine problem and had clashes in 2020.

India's borders with Pakistan see skirmishes from time to time. A similar situation may arise with India and China too as water and geopolitical issues mount.

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Post by andrepd »

netsharc wrote: post #92
gizmo686 wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Also, the OP pretty much says they are not in Ukraine in a comment: > I think Probably the war will end because Russia and America are busy in Ukraine

Depressing world facts in April 2023: "I'm in a war zone." "Oh yeah, which one?" At least in March 2023 it was "slightly better" that people would go straight to assuming the answer is "Ukraine". Any other active wars going on[1]? Maybe Myanmar.. [1] Result for "active wars in 2023" gives me a page of potential conflicts: https://www.cfr.org/report/conflicts-watch-2023

> Depressing world facts in April 2023:

Has there ever been a point in at least the last 2500 years where there weren't multiple active warzones in the world?

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