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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 wicharek »

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.

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

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Post by ethbr0 »

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.

No, that's just stack* being their usual dickish selves.

"How can I do a thing?"

"You shouldn't want to do that thing."

Danger/risk is a situation that happens sometimes, but it's never an excuse to dismiss the asker's question and need.

Explain the warning or concerns ("May catch fire and explode" or "Will not be to code, would cause your building to fail inspection" or "There's this other framework/language that might make it easier"), but also give them a damn answer!

In this case, there's no @$&#ing reason someone sitting in their office shouldn't do the calculation that's being requested from the parameters supplied. It's a simple emag calc.

I'm pretty sure stackX would tell someone asking about the time required to boil water for sanitization to never drink boiled water and use the tap. :/

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

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Post by RobotToaster »

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 writing a novel" The universal excuse to ask pretty much anything.

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

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Post by legitster »

God bless the people on Stackexchange who actually answer the question that is asked instead of scolding you for your idea being bad or being pedantic about the way you phrased your question.

Yes, I want to use jQuery. No, I may not be in an active war zone.

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

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Post by ethbr0 »

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.

No, it doesn't. It's a fair comment about external arms supply intensifying conflicts, without apportioning blame.

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

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Post by ethbr0 »

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…

Out of curiosity, does electron flow influence oxidation speed at all?

Or is its speed purely a consequence of temperature + environmental gases?

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

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Post by shagie »

legitster wrote: post #24

God bless the people on Stackexchange who actually answer the question that is asked instead of scolding you for your idea being bad or being pedantic about the way you phrased your question. Yes, I want to use jQuery. No, I may not be in an active war zone.

There's a substantial difference between the amount of time and guidance an individual can spend with a single question when you're on a site that gets 3.9k questions per day and one that gets 21 (stats from https://stackexchange.com/sites#questionsperday )

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

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Post by potatototoo99 »

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.

Vae victis. Whoever wins the war will set the record on responsibility, like they always do.

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

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Post by LeifCarrotson »

brianwawok wrote: post #20
dylan604 wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, us old timers that can remember the days before LLM just called this social engineering. Customer Service: How can I help you today? hacker: I need help resetting the password to this account that is totally mine. CS: Sure, I just need you to verify a few things. hacker: I'm not in a place where I have that info, but I totally swears it that I'm the person I say I am, but I'm really in a jam right now and you'd…

I mean, every time I call tmobile I am my wife, because only she can make changes on the account. PROVE IM NOT HER OVER A PHONE

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't sound like a woman.

Perfection is unattainable.

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