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Comment Re:I have a problem with the underground cable too (Score 1) 115

Do not put a LAN cable (copper twisted pair, fiber, or coax) in the same conduit as power. That violates the US NEC which is part of the UC UBC and is a really-bad idea. Instead, when you dig a trench bury one conduit for power, and two conduits for Data, because the phone company and the cable company do not play well together. Use long-sweep elbows for the conduit. Consult a wiring table for the size of conduit required for the cable. Use stranded conductors for power.

n.b.: I am moving from overhead to underground 200A electrical power service into my house. The local utility REQUIRES a 4" conduit for up to 400A service.

Comment Occam's Razor Update (Score 5, Informative) 96

If it is screwed up, look for an AI root cause.

I listed a wheeled walker (called a rollator) on Facebook Marketplace using the manufacturer's picture and a reference to the manufacturer's website. Facebook hid it because: "This Listing Goes Against Our Rules. It looks like this listing goes against our Commerce Policies. It has been removed and only you can see it now. If you think we got this wrong, you can request a review." I requested a review. Nothing changed.

I listed again using pictures that I took, no reference to the manufacturer, no mention of rollator, clearly indicating that I was selling because I could not use it. Same result.

The third time I did not even mention walker. Facebook complained that the pictures duplicated another listing, so I took more pictures. Same result.

All this time there are many walkers listed on Facebook Marketplace. I can not remove the three hidden listings from my account.

Comment What about .private? (Score 1) 76

I thought that the .private TLD was reserved for this purpose long before the proliferation of TLDs. I can not find that right now.
I know of at least one company that used .int for the internal domain name that is intended to be not reachable from the outside, even though .int was intended to be for international. So they registered and used mycompanyname.com externally, and use mycompanyname.int internally.

Comment KWe generation capacity cost (Score 1) 213

Using values referenced in the article for mini-nuclear power plants (values not verified)
            2E9 GBP * 1.32 USD/GBP / ( 440 MWe * 1000 KWe / MWe ) = 6000 USD/KWe
Using values referenced in the comments for the Sheffield nuclear power plants (values not verified)
          22E9 GBP * 1.32 USD/GBP / ( 3000 MWe * 1000 KWe / MWe ) = 9680 USD/KWe
These both seem in line with the capital cost for commercial power plants.
As posters have noted, nuclear power has the advantage of higher availability compared to renewable plants or even fossil powered plants.
There are thermodynamic advantages to large power plants. Large power plants also have lower operating cost for personnel compared to a set of smaller power plants with the same total production capacity.
There are additional losses from having to move power from remote electrical power plants to consumers.

Comment Re:Good, it was a BS case... (Score 1) 156

California AB5 also required community theater to treat any people receiving stipends as employees. This eliminated the ability of community theater to pay stipends (often $500 or less) for musicians. n.b.: In community theater, actors are usually NOT paid a stipend. Musicians are often paid a stipend.

Comment Re:Older? (Score 1) 39

The latest version of Mac OSX 10.13 High Sierra is not compatible with versions of Microsoft Office in use at our house and my spouse's small business. For example, Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac OS is not supported or tested on Mac OSX High Sierra. Even versions of Microsoft Office 2016 prior to v15.34 are not compatible. So when/if we update Mac OSX, we will have to buy new versions of software AND perhaps deal with the O365 perpetual subscription mess. No, it is not feasible to migrate to Open Office because we have several large applications built on Excel Macros and Excel VBA.

Comment Re:Courage (Score 1) 117

And even more courage to release a new phone with a headphone / microphone jack.
I have an iPhone 5 that had the battery replaced under warranty a year ago. When I took it out of the OtterBox Defender case at the Apple store, it was pristine except for some rub-marks from dust that worked in between the case and the phone.
The iPhone 5 meets my needs for now. If it were to fail, I would NOT purchase a phone that had no headphone / microphone jack. That does not leave many options in the iPhone lineup.

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