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Comment Re: Good (Score 1) 90

If we can enforce these rules for cars, why can't we do the same with rental scooters?

seatbelt law enforcement? rofl .... where do you live? in my city (that has rental scooters) there is practically no enforcement of traffic laws anymore, you can drive around with no plates passing people in turn lanes in front of the cops.

Comment Re:Not just that (Score 1) 161

Plus if you're into non drama stuff the free content on youtube just keeps getting better (despite googles ever more intrusive ads).

That's odd - except for advertising embedded in the content, I never see ads on YouTube.

you can fix that too —there's a plugin, sponsorblock, that crowdsources marking which segments are ads, sponsors, filler, etc and automatically skipping over them as you watch.

Comment Re:Not going to save a dime (Score 1) 159

I doubt the code allows for the breaker to be at the consumption point (looked, but couldn't find it), unless the cable was buried and/or in hard conduit. The wire between the meter box and the service panel is in a conduit, and it's a very short distance (usually 6 feet or less).

it's in the feeder tap rules, and yes, it requires "suitable protection" and there are limits on length of the tap. i don't know if they've renumbered, but it was NEC 240.21(B) when this quickly-found article was written: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ecmweb.com%2Fnationa... in any case, the AHJ makes the call, not the codebook. i could see a friendly inspector squinting and allowing the thing under those rules.

Comment Re:Not going to save a dime (Score 1) 159

I'm also curious how this would pass code, since it is not protected by a breaker.

presumably they have a circuit breaker at whatever box mounts by the driveway. NEC allows the breaker to be at the consumption end of the feeder tap — same way the breaker in the service panel acts to protect the wire between the meter box and the service panel

Comment Re:Am I at the only one... (Score 4, Informative) 65

What I hate about the shorts-format is, that it takes control away from the user in order to maximize engagement; no rewinding, no timestamps, annoying autoplay, videos made to mindlessly scroll through.

FYI they're still youtube videos stored on the platform; you can ditch the shorts player! grab the id from "youtube.com/shorts/<ID>" and plug it into "youtube.com/watch?v=<ID>" and you get the normal youtube player with controls back.

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