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  • absGeekNZ@lemmy.nztoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldYeah
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    2 days ago

    You should read some of my other responses with regard to electricity.

    Never mess with energy sources.

    I work with electricity in an industrial setting, safety is paramount. I know this is a public forum, but it isn’t like Facebook or tiktok here, the average lemming has a little more age and intelligence.

    Maybe I should have put a disclaimer at the bottom of my post “don’t mess with electricity kids, that shit will fuck you up”.

    As a side note, there is also blue wire in the picture, this could be a 3 phase board.


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    3 days ago

    Generally same coloured wires are at the same potential.

    It is extremely bad practice to have different potentials on the same wire colours. Especially since they are in same terminal block.

    I don’t know which country this picture is from, but yellow/red would be safe to assume line voltage, green would usually be earth potential.


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    Looks fake.

    The voltage difference between the two terminals would be minimal so no current flow, the back plate should be non-conductive. The other reason is there are no scorch marks or other signs of burning.

    Now if the mouse had gone between the green and yellow (where the terminal separator is); then we would see a big voltage difference.


  • 95% is a little low for a genius.

    At 95%, you are the smartest in a room of 20.

    Depending on if you are talking about ordinary or extraordinary genius, depending on which measure you choose ordinary genius is in the 1 in 10k range; and extraordinary genius is 100 to 1000 times rarer 1 in a million to 1 in 10 million range.

    If you are sitting in a stadium of 50k, and you are the smartest person. You are still likely not and extraordinary genius.






  • They are the admins of their devices, not you. And as admins they should have full control over the security policy, not you.

    I can’t agree with you there, a few years ago I installed Mint on my mum’s old desktop. It was either that or pay for a new Windows license to “upgrade” to Win10. She doesn’t have admin, doesn’t even know what admin is and would be unwilling to learn if she did know.

    Not all users need to be admins, in fact most don’t want it.

    Me, however, I get pissy if the machine stops me doing what I want to do.



  • It depends on the situation.

    If I know I’m correct (I’m a subject matter expert in the field I work in), I generally don’t preface my comments.

    But in related fields, where my knowledge is less sure, I do.

    It can really get difficult, when someone else is talking out their arse, but sounding confident. There are situations where it is unprofessional, to not correct the course of the conversation.


  • I could see the usefulness of saying, “hey I saw this on my phone a few days ago, which site was it?”

    To answer my own pondering. We could feed your browsing history to a local LLM, it could fetch a synopsis of the site and be able to answer that question very easily.

    This wouldn’t require a really powerful AI model, combine this with desktop search and you have close to what MS is offering.