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Re:Tesla introduces new standard electrical connector on Monday October 28, 2024 @04:01PM (#41975557)
In various industries, colors are used to differentiate between various voltages so it's obvious whether you're working with high voltage, low voltage, etc. so you can determine the necessary precautions for whatever you're dealing with (and some will also make the connectors incompatible so you can't accidentally join high and low voltage sets of wiring). I'm not super familiar with the automotive side, but I believe they use orange for high voltage and light blue for 48v.
Major General Anders, actually. O8 vs. O4.
Re:Direct File officially opens in 12 pilot states on Tuesday March 12, 2024 @11:46PM (#39687903)
I believe it's more the states with no state income tax at all plus those that have a state-provided version of "direct file" already available.
If those were the only records, you're probably correct, but there are sources other than the national archives that can be used in some cases such that I'd still do a search, especially for high level awards like silver stars and up.
For high level awards, there are some separate databases that list the recipients and citations. Have you looked at those? E.g. https://valor.militarytimes.com/award/5
Re:Your Organization should run its own Mastodon server on Monday November 07, 2022 @01:53PM (#33510398)
Mastodon is federated, so users of their instance are able to interact with the wider set of Mastodon instances, much like people with @google.com emails can interact with people with @microsoft.com emails, despite both instances being separately controlled and not open to people outside their respective companies. Not having an account on an instance, in other words, is not the same as it not being accessible.
Re:Falcon Heavy Launch Live on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @12:47PM (#33423721)
Correct, this was the first direct-to-GEO launch, so they needed the extra dV to get there. Left nothing in the tank for a landing, so to speak.
Re:Turns are better than radians on Monday September 26, 2022 @03:01PM (#32986914)
Speaking of reference frames, I deal with quite a few for Earth-bound things, and the primary ones we use are ECEF (Earth-Centered, Earth-Fixed) and ECI (Earth-Centered, Inertial), which then we will often move to a relative local frame for whatever object matters.

Is the equivalent set available for Martian Nav (MCMF/MCI, I guess), or do you have different/specialized/etc. frames based on something unique to Mars.

Re:Unicode character “ꙮ” (U+A66E) is being updated on Monday September 19, 2022 @10:21AM (#32898714)
Maybe just a big fan of the Tim Allen movie?
Re:TIL: You can access a user’s camera with just HTML on Tuesday September 06, 2022 @01:35PM (#32740348)
Yeah, looks like it's been slashdotted. (Or whatever the appropriate verbing of an aggregation site is in 2022).
Re:Use one big server on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @12:41PM (#32321015)
These days we just call it licensing Red Hat.
Re:Standard Ebooks on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @12:37AM (#32234294)
Very cool. Also, did you add that feature just in response to my question?

As far as the download, is this equivalent to "Method 2" of downloading it via the built-in browser, so it's not in the Kindle Library and won't have a cover, (but it will still remember the reading position)?

Thanks for the support.

Re:Standard Ebooks on Monday July 25, 2022 @02:54PM (#32229230)
This seems to be primarily talking about sending web articles.

How does it work with SE Books? Are you able to do it wirelessly while still maintaining the azw3 features given SE's Kindle FAQ indicating it doesn't work with send to Kindle[0].

[0]: https://standardebooks.org/help/how-to-use-our-ebooks#kindle...

I parsed it the way you did at first, but on second reading, I believe it could be rephrased to "the work of 100 engineers simultaneously attempt" to make it clear the simultaneity referenced all the various systems working together.
In case anyone is wondering, since it was a photo op flight, there's a photo of it shortly after the midair collision, missing a vert stabilizer. The fireball is the F-104 that contacted it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_XB-70_Valkyri...

Raspberry PIs have had a similar thing with VC-1 and MPEG-2 decoding requiring a small fee for about a decade now. In this case, to cover the patent licensing cost so as to not add it into the base hardware, but paying a fee to unlock features resident in the hardware is not new in computing. (I realize there are likely other/older ones I'm sure, but that was the first in my mind)
Re:Firefox on Ubuntu 22.04 from .deb (not from snap) on Saturday April 23, 2022 @05:29PM (#31138775)
lxd has only been available by snap in ubuntu for a couple major versions.
Re:Musk announces funding secured for Twitter buy on Thursday April 21, 2022 @02:52PM (#31113692)
Right, he denied the TRO, but that doesn't change the prior ruling regarding the accuracy of the tweet. Also "accuracy of the tweet" is a horrible thing to have to be debating in a court of law.
Re:Musk announces funding secured for Twitter buy on Thursday April 21, 2022 @01:52PM (#31112863)
Because he keeps going around saying that in public, there was a recent request for a restraining order to stop him from repeating it since it poisons the jury pool. It quoted the US District Court's ruling from 1 April of this year[0]:

"the evidentiary record demonstrated that no reasonable jury could find Musk’s tweets on August 7, 2018 accurate or not misleading. Likewise, given that Musk was intimately involved with the facts leading to that conclusion, the Court also held that he recklessly made the statements with knowledge as to their falsity"

Which is to say, a federal judge has ruled that it was inaccurate, and he knows it was inaccurate.

[0] - https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.33...

Yeah, after asking my earlier question, a quick google found the 2006 driver's manual which indicates you must be a KY resident, and discussed the road test.

https://transportation.ky.gov/HighwaySafety/Documents/2006_k...

When was that? KY requires a road test now. Also, it requires you to prove KY residency. I'm surprised people were able to get KY licenses without being residents before.
Re:Why I'll never use Affirm again on Friday April 08, 2022 @02:57PM (#30961110)
Do you have experience with the Alabama AG office not responding to a consumer complaint?

A quick google indicates both an online form and a phone number specifically for contacting Alabama AG Office Consumer Specialists: https://www.alabamaag.gov/consumercomplaint

Very interesting, thanks!
Out of curiosity, how do they determine the fine for people without a salary (students, retirees, self-employed, disabled, otherwise out of work, etc.)? Social safety net amount? Fixed minimum?
Re:Google Domains is out of beta on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @02:31PM (#30689081)
'Have experience starting Twitter mobs' is something I'm excited to start seeing on resumés soon. Followed by the discussion over whether that shows key leadership/organization abilities or not, a la the "Wow Raiding Guild Leader" debates of the late 2000's.
Re:Polaris Program on Monday February 14, 2022 @11:45AM (#30334160)
Definitely not. For a recent example, both Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley of the first manned SpaceX Dragon crew have astronaut wives, (Megan McArthur and Karen Nyburg, respectively).

Jan Davis and Mark Lee, a married couple, both went up in 1992 on the same flight, STS-47. (I think they actually were selected prior to being married, and got married in secret during training, but I forget the exact timeline)

So, what I did for a similar use case:

-Buy domain from name cheap

-Setup email forwarding to my gmail account with namecheap

-Setup gmail to optionally send as [email protected] (I forget the steps, but I think it's under settings -> accounts)

So although the email comes to/from my custom domain, gmail is the real sender so I've not had any trouble with delivery (that I've noticed, at least)

Re:Michigan DOT Snowplow Names on Monday January 10, 2022 @06:21PM (#29884511)

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