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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 smsm42 »

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

Voice matching? I heard some banks do that.

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

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Post by ethbr0 »

Cherian wrote: post #42
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.

My life was built on people who helped me out like this. Tangentially, the real MVP is the home depot guy who helps you find the one right-sized screw that costs $0.5….

Interesting story on that, Robert Nardelli (HD CEO 2000-2007) fired all the ex-tradespeople that Home Depot employed in their stores, because they cost more than younger and less experienced labor.

Straight from the GE "How to mortgage a company's future for a small boost in the present" book.

There were also some hilarious anecdotes told about him refusing to get out of his car in the corporate parking lot until security met him and escorted him in, presumably because he understood how much employees disliked him.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Nardelli#The_Home_Dep...

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

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Post by tgsovlerkhgsel »

paganel wrote: post #43
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.

For what it's worth the original poster seems to be from Sudan, another current (and more recent) war-zone. It's this part that made me think of that general area: > our concrete homes are not designed to be habitable without AC power. and a little web-searching confirmed it. The reason being that concrete-made buildings in Ukraine are definitely habitable right now without AC (I live in a concrete-made building myse…

It's unclear if he means Alternating Current or Air Conditioning with AC. I hope it's the former, because the latter needs kilowatts, not the 270 W they have.

"Concrete" can also mean "the cement based building material" or "specific", as in "this specific building needs power to be habitable, because " (pumping drinking water for example, which is mentioned).

The comment "because Russia and America are busy in Ukraine" indicates OP is not in Ukraine.

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

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Post by xdennis »

ethbr0 wrote: post #25
wicharek wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

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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 interroboink »

shagie wrote: post #28
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 )

Your phrasing makes it seem like the people answering have the job of "keep up with the rate of incoming of questions." So, if there are a lot of incoming questions, they must reduce quality of feedback, since they are spread thin.

Personally, when I answer a question it's because I want to, and feel I can be helpful. I have no skin in the game with regard to the site's overall ability to keep up with incoming questions. So, I take as long as I need, and do as much hand-holding as I feel is appropriate, not governed by external pressure.

But I suppose there are professional moderators and such who really do have that external pressure, and thus have incentive to give curt feedback, or even to drive people away — thus reducing that pressure, making their lives easier.

As a SO user from the early days, I do miss that feeling of mostly interacting with people doing it "for the love of it," rather than governed by efficiency.

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

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Post by doodlesdev »

kranke155 wrote: post #14
rareitem wrote: post #9

It's like we're living in a parallel reality in 1st world countries

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).

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

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Post by [deleted] »

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…

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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 hinkley »

Man, 15 meters is a long way when you don't have a Home Depot. For short distances there are a lot more options. Everything from taking the cord off your dryer to scrapping transformers for the windings.

I kept thinking he might be better off figuring out how to move the transformer instead.

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

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Post by bsimpson »

kranke155 wrote: post #14
rareitem wrote: post #9

It's like we're living in a parallel reality in 1st world countries

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.

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.

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