

Yeah, most of my knowledge on “Chinese” is from when i tried to learn Korean. Korean still lean on some Chinese characters (hanja?). Not for like “daily” reading/writing, but like, I remember newspaper articles would sometimes have the headlines in Chinese characters. They, of course, would use their Korean pronunciations, but there was no way to tell what that was from the character (unlike the rest of the Korean writing system, which uses an almost completely consistent phonetic alphabet).
I heard schools have largely moved away from Phonics, which is wild to me. That’s basically how reading was taught going back to at least medieval monks.
I hear they’re using a “look and see” method or something? Word is that its how the Chinese teach their students to read…but they don’t have an alphabet, so I don’t know how that’s supposed to work in English.
I have a relative who just retired from teaching and she says its a real mess in early education because of how badly this reading teaching method works, and its only worsening as students mature.
Just shitty 4chan slang.
Primary usage I’ve seen for it is sPoOpY sKeLeToNs.
I was about to RAGE.
Then I saw the publisher. Good one guys.
Very nice writeup. Don’t have the time to fully read, but did a quick skim. Def saved for later reference though.
You sound like you might have the latest news on the 30% tax credit. Do you know how much longer that’ll be a thing/what you’d need to do now to get it?
This is good info and makes sense. Thanks!
So I’ve heard a typical set up is still dependent on grid power (typical set up => able to push power back to the grid), and so during a power outage, you still lose power at your home. Its my understanding one of the components required for the hook up to The Grid requires continuous power (in case you need to push/pull power from the grid) and since it can’t guarantee power from your panels, it gets that power from the grid (thus grid goes down, your whole home’s power goes down.
Don’t suppose you know more about this or can explain why this is/isn’t the case? This setup seems unintuitive and undesirable to me, and so I’d love to have proof that’s not the case, if it exists.
Trying to find the original response video, but can only find clipped or commented over versions.
Can anyone point me to the original video?
Can you explain how/why its the same?
My instinct says its actually trying to reach 127.1.0.0 (which is still local host), but that’s an educated guess at best.
Yeah, it (in my case, ChatGPT) has been great for helping me along with functions I’m only passingly familiar with / trying to use in new ways.
One that I was really surprised with was that it gave me a surprisingly robust, sensible, and (seemingly) well tuned-to-my-case check list of things to inspect for a used car I intend to buy. I’m already mostly familiar with what I’m doing there, but it pointed to some things I might’ve overlooked / didn’t know were points of concern for the specific vehicle I’m looking at.
Or you just hard-wire it to USB killer only and charge your phone exclusively with wireless charging.
That feels really insightful.
Saw this post earlier and was cranking some brain cycles in kinda the same way you were. My brain settled on a switch for the USB since you should just need a 5 pole/2 throw switch (think I’m using those terms correctly?) to go from regular USB function to kill mode. I think for my own peace of mind, I’d want it to be 3 throw though (normal, completely unconnected, and kill). My brain then went to the battery, which I see as the real design constraint.
Then I got to thinking about building it into a phone case. The case would need to plug in to your phone’s USB port, then have an additional external connection; it would be this connection that is switched into normal/nothing/kill mode. Cases can be pretty bulky, so tucking a battery into there would be easier and still maybe evade detection.
All that said, I think I like your idea better.
Edit: spelling
Edit 2: additional thought: if you went with the case, you’d want to have it really difficult to remove. Like, requiring undoing some screws, especially if you can get some torx or other niche screw head design (bonus points for mix and matched screw heads).
My thoughts on that are that even if the case is identified as having a false port on it, it would be so difficult to remove that the “adversary” just plugs their info stealer into it anyway.
THERE ARE DOZENS OF US!!
TL;DR: Cancer is coming for us all.
Just engineering in general.
While my “google-fu” for finding resources is garbage, I have a cousin with nearly encyclopedic knowledge of engineering reference material. He’s sent me things for figuring out where is safe to hang hammock chairs, acceptable bolt dimension/materials for car applications, and a bunch of other crazy niche things.
That reference material for all this just exists and is generally just accessible still blows my mind.
Better question, why did it take us so long to come up with this.
So what I’m hearing is we just need to return to tradition and start curing our own meats in our backyard smokehouses?
Looks unpleasant but generally not dangerous.
I think that’s the point he was trying to make.
Damn it.
Could we perhaps grow a whale in the vacuum of space?
You’re right, its a suboptimal example.
But I can conclude that its not so dangerous as to lead to imminent death / disability within 30 years. So how “unsafe” is eating processed meat anyway?
The article makes like you’re doomed to develop colon cancer if you mom ever fed you a single bite of hamburger helper as a kid. Obviously, that’s a ridiculous conclusion.