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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 tonyarkles »

jutrewag wrote: post #161
H8crilA wrote: post #159

Earlier quoted context omitted.

WW2 stories of diversions to enemy communications: put small needles through the cable. At first you'd think you just have to cut the cable, but that actually makes it very easy to find and fix the problem. Small needles that short the wires are very difficult to locate. Unless you have a fast device that measures return latency on the shorted circuit, but that wasn't available in the 1940s.

Perfect time to use a pin nailer.

Customers used to do this unintentionally with staples, and my boss was too cheap to buy a TDR tester for a long time

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

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Post by noduerme »

shubb wrote: post #189
noduerme wrote: post #186

Earlier quoted context omitted.

From the fact that the writer said his concrete house was not meant to be habitable without power, I suspect he means to run an air conditioner.

I guess you could use a lot of parallel cables...

if there's water, a single line could probably run a swamper.

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

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Post by dsfyu404ed »

mrguyorama wrote: post #87
bsimpson wrote: post #70

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I was recently in northern Vietnam. You could spend an hour having a simple conversation via Google Translate. Made me realize there are still big chunks of the world where you can't take basic literacy for granted in 2023, even of people in their 30s.

50% of Americans cannot read at a highschool level.

Are they measuring "reading ability for the real world" or are we talking "analyze any interpret fiction literature" type reading skills? Serious question. Because I feel like "real world reading" stopped after about 8th, maybe 9th grade and everything else was just fluff.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

elzbardico wrote: post #152
gota wrote: post #100

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I don't understand this. Sao Paulo is mostly indistinguishable from any large city in the US. Big concrete-and-glass buildings city centre, lots of traffic-related infrastructure, large swaths of residential areas including richer suburbs and poorer ghettos ('favelas', in Brazil). Are there any large cities that do not conform to this formula? What are you referring to, specifically? The only thing that comes to mind…

Downtown São Paulo, or the central zone is a decadent part of the city (think Bronx in 70s). It is overrun with Cracolândia (big gathering of crack addict homeless people). Most foreign people or even Brazilians that go to São Paulo stay only at the nice zones.

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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 nucleardog »

NikolaNovak wrote: post #54
hermannj314 wrote: post #8

Humans seem to as susceptible to prompt hacking as LLMs. "I cant give you this advice because it would be dangerous." "I am in a warzone, it's fine..." "OK, then what you need to do is..." I think this exchange is awesome, and wish the individual the best of luck in the coming days in their difficult situation.

I'm from Sarajevo, spent two years in civil war as a child. This post brings memories, and yes that's exactly right - things that wouldn't fly in million years in my current home in Canada, were perfectly viable solutions in warzone. Best (worst) example - hand made natural gas lamps: use medical transparent tubing into a tennis ball as distribution joint, with four metal ballpoint pen tubes stuck into it, light the…

> things that wouldn't fly in million years in my current home in Canada, were perfectly viable solutions in warzone.

You’d be surprised!

I’m near Ottawa and in the past year I’ve been without power for 8 days, 5 days, and a handful of other times.

I’m on well water and our septic system requires a pump. When the power is out we have no water, sewer or heat.

The cell tower nearby only has about 1-2 hours of reserve power. There’s no hardwire communication here so we lose all outside communications after a couple of hours.

During the eight day outage, everywhere within about an hour drive was out of power. Gas stations were closed, grocery stores were closed, etc. That’s if you could even get anywhere—many highways and roads were closed due to fallen trees and power lines. Our own driveway had half a dozen mature trees across it.

It’s no active war zone, and it’s certainly not _two years_, but a lot of stuff you might not think would fly in Canada was exactly what many people were doing to get by.

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

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Post by ars »

noduerme wrote: post #186
squarefoot wrote: post #90

Steel is bad as an electrical conductor as its much higher than copper internal resistance would waste a lot of power. I don't know if the military still use wired field telephones, but in case they do, the field phone wire is excellent. It won't sustain lots of current, but if you're OK with a few amps, then that cable is sturdy, water and oil resistant and it has both copper and steel core, the former working as go…

From the fact that the writer said his concrete house was not meant to be habitable without power, I suspect he means to run an air conditioner.

It's not hot in Ukraine at all - it's actually quite cold right now.

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

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Post by shigawire »

noduerme wrote: post #190
User23 wrote: post #153

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Yeah I don’t think it’s common knowledge in the west that our governments are doing the color revolution dance in Sudan.

Nothing about the Sudan fight between two warlords (the president and the vice president) has any of the hallmarks of color revolutions or of western-backed popular uprisings. There is no evidence of western military intervention, apart from hasty and late withdrawals of embassy staff. [edit: Which rather illustrate that the US and Europe had no clue that war was about to break out]. There is, moreover, no stated ide…

Part of the cause is due to the warlords needing to seize power rather than handing it to civilian government established in the latest revolution.

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

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Post by monocasa »

cjbgkagh wrote: post #172
H8crilA wrote: post #159

Earlier quoted context omitted.

WW2 stories of diversions to enemy communications: put small needles through the cable. At first you'd think you just have to cut the cable, but that actually makes it very easy to find and fix the problem. Small needles that short the wires are very difficult to locate. Unless you have a fast device that measures return latency on the shorted circuit, but that wasn't available in the 1940s.

You can use binary search to find the pin. Unless two or more pins are used.

At that point it's easier just to run new line.

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

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Post by cjbgkagh »

monocasa wrote: post #198
cjbgkagh wrote: post #172

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can use binary search to find the pin. Unless two or more pins are used.

At that point it's easier just to run new line.

But you don’t know that when you start. You could assume it and never try to repaid and always replace but in WWII there were not as many options.

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

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Post by noduerme »

shigawire wrote: post #197
noduerme wrote: post #190

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nothing about the Sudan fight between two warlords (the president and the vice president) has any of the hallmarks of color revolutions or of western-backed popular uprisings. There is no evidence of western military intervention, apart from hasty and late withdrawals of embassy staff. [edit: Which rather illustrate that the US and Europe had no clue that war was about to break out]. There is, moreover, no stated ide…

Part of the cause is due to the warlords needing to seize power rather than handing it to civilian government established in the latest revolution.

> warlords needing to seize power

Really? They needed to? And if these individuals needed to destroy their country in order to save it, that is also the West's fault for providing the population some encouragement to overthrow the last warlord?

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