I'd also like to know the hack, my buddy's been fighting his Samsung fridge for years.
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Most common type/size is the 18650, used in everything from drills, powerbanks, to Teslas. Second most common type is the 21700.
A "scientific" test isn't even necessary, just tear down the battery pack, see what cell they put in there, and read the spec sheet. The big 4 battery makers will sell you a whole range of batteries in that size with varying mAh/Amp.
Googling teardowns, I found a Black & Decker 1.5A MAX Lithium simply uses a bunch of Sanyo UR18650W2 (1500mAh rated at 18A) cells, while a teardown of a Dewalt pack shows they used the more expensive LG HB4s (1500mAh rated at 30A).
There literally no reason they can't use the better cells in the Black & Decker, other than they're building it to a cheaper price point. The fact that they're built in the same factory is besides the point.
I'll program and be professional at company A just as happily as I would at company B.
I'm already professional and apolitical at work, I don't feel I stand to gain much being otherwise.
So I think you'd be inadvertently discriminating against people who are simply interested in getting 2 salaries for 6 months.
If you don't have a job where you can simply take on more hours, but it's also not predictable enough that you can get a second job, you just end up with a lot of useless free time on short notice.
Can't afford hobbies, trips, no significant other (being poor doesn't help your dating life), what else is there to do?
It took money for me to actually run out of free time. I honestly really enjoy tinkering and fixing stuff, but it's usually no longer worth my time (to my own dismay).
Before money learning to fix something meant the difference between keeping the car going, or having your car break down without money for the shop bills. I've fixed lots of stuff by flashlight so I could get to work the next day.
Nowadays being put in that sort of back-against-the-wall scenario isn't likely to happen, unless I sign up for some sort of game show or reality TV where it's purposely planned.
If the counterfeiters are willing to produce anything to make a buck, and amazon is willing to sell counterfeit goods as legitimate, it makes sense we'd eventually have counterfeit brand name cereal or canned goods.
A while ago my fiancee was having trouble finding some Eagle Brand Medicated Oil (it's this traditional asian stuff her mom rubbed on her), and I saw it was on amazon. It's possible they have changed their manufacturing processes slightly since her previous bottle, or it was different because it wasn't as old, but it just kept being every so slightly different in subtle ways, such as the feel of the bottle and even cap, the texture of the oil, the smell was a bit different, the box was a bit bigger, etc.
I honestly still am not sure if it's counterfeit or not, but that's just the issue, I don't have the means to check. My only choice is to buy from sources with trusted supply chains.
It's ironic, I was the first of all my friends to start using amazon excessively, and got them into it, but nowadays my fiancee remarks she found her workout supplement on there for a few dollars cheaper and I reflexively reply "Hell no! We don't put things from amazon in our body.
At this point I only trust them with things that can fail on their own without causing damage, or for products so complicated no one has made a knock-off yet (I'm waiting on knock-off brand name monitors). They went from this amazing cheaper alternative to big-box stores, to AliExpress with 2 day shipping.
I'd also assume they'd assign the english speaking North American dissidents to a monitoring person who speaks good english.
My first foray into options trading I lost around 3% of my net worth, and I'd say I'm more than twice as confident about this than I was about that.
I'd evaluate the odds of the CCP doing something, to be in line with the odds of them benefiting from doing something, regardless of the expense/risk to their populace.
There's nothing I'd really put past them, we know for a fact they harvest organs from political dissidents, but we're skeptical on if they'd store passwords plaintext?
Given people tend to re-use passwords, I'd imagine having a massive trove of plaintext passwords for all Chinese citizens, or even anyone who communicates with them, would be incredibly useful.
Not to mention the fact that they have to maintain a list of anti-CCP passwords, which would be a tedious process, or they'd have to automate something to detect anti-CCP sentiment. I think an interesting experiment would be to see what less obvious anti-CCP passwords get you banned. With enough probing and data, I'd possibly increase my wager to 10%.
As a well known and outspoken critic of the CCP, she might be elevated to the status where they actually just have a person reading everything she types into WeChat 24/7. Do you think they fully staff the night shift, or would the ban have taken twice as long outside of Chinese business hours?
I was annoyed when after a several hour long outage SendGrid still had not updated their status page to reflect an issue.
But I was even more annoyed when 5+ hours into the outage, a different support person told me they aren't aware of any outage because their status page does not reflect one.
If I sound bitter it's because I am, I was the on call person who got woken up in the wee hours of the morning to deal with this. I'm referring to the outage you guys had in December if you're wondering.
I have one short and one long cable, and am only just now realizing the issue. I'd simply assumed the short one was a fake I'd gotten.
Can't speak to why your iPhone and iPad do the same thing, I've experienced it when using sketchy cheap lightning cables or wall adapters (including ghost touching), but not when using better built stuff (like AmazonBasics or Anker).
So regardless how bad your credit rating and interest rate are, it's overwhelmingly worth putting a router onto your credit card.
My father enjoyed driving his Mercedes, so I figured I ought to enjoy a German luxury car as well. I expected to pay a certain premium on parts, and obviously for premium fuel and synthetic oil, but that I'd get a much more solid feeling car in return.
The problem is, the Mercedes he drove were from the 80s and 90s, so parts markup aside, they were basically Toyota reliable.
The German car I bought was from the mid-2000s, and nowhere near as well built or reliable as a 90s Mercedes, even in present day.
I'd even owned a 1986 Mercedes that was still reliable in 2010, I'd also owned a 1992 Mercedes that was also reliable, and continued to be so after I sold it to a friend who drove it for all of university (2010-2015).
But it was the 7 year old one that basically fell apart despite me buying one with full dealership service history, then sinking endless money in making sure all the repairs were done properly with OEM parts, on top of my religious maintenance as I'd believed German cars were only problematic due to neglectful owners.
So, it went about as poorly as you'd expect.
Americans also spend a lot of time in their cars, I went from a short commute to a long commute (1 hour each way), and found I got almost exponentially more critical of my car the longer the commute.
Suddenly the practical vehicle I didn't mind driving 15 minutes, was an eyesore to look at after an hour, and the NVH (noise, vibration, harshness) wears on you exponentially with time.
I started browsing cars to buy that would have been borderline financial suicide for how much I made, just because of how important the comfort and aesthetics became to me.
Couple this with their tendency towards financing things, and how cheap automotive related expenses are in the US, and it's the perfect storm.
I ended up changing jobs to one 10 minutes from my house, and it's downtown so parking is just done at various pay lots a few blocks from my office so nobody ever sees what I drive, and suddenly what I drive is irrelevant again, I was back to being content with my 15 year old Camry.
I set the lifecycle rule on all objects in the bucket, for as soon as possible (24 hours).
About 2 days later first thing in the morning I get a bunch of frantic messages from my manager that whatever script I was running, please stop it, before I'd even done anything for the day.
The lifecycle rule had taken effect near the end of the previous day, and he was just getting all the billing alerts from overnight, it was all done.
I read about glacier pricing, but didn't realize there was a lifecycle transfer fee per 1000 objects (I forget the exact price, maybe $0.05 per 1000 objects). That section was a lot further down the pricing page.
The bucket contained over 700 million small files.
I'd just blown $42,000.
That was over a month's AWS budget for us, in the end AWS gave us 10% back.
On the plus side, I didn't get in too much trouble, and given we'd break even in 4 years on S3 costs, upper management was gracious enough to see it as an unplanned investment.
TLDR: My company spent 42k for me to learn to read to the bottom of every AWS pricing page.
If I’d had more money, I could afford a coupe.
And if I had more money still, I could afford a 2 seater sports car.
An under utilized vehicle may be a hallmark of the middle class, but a desirable vehicle that is only exactly what you need at that moment is a hallmark of the upper class.
On top of being more expensive, it’s also far more likely to be a secondary vehicle.
The amount of effort needed for this can vary wildly depending on the vehicle, it’s mechanical condition, and the speed it’s being driven at. Some vehicles are more prone to being bothered by wind, or grooves in the road, or require more constant adjustments to maintain lane position.
My tiredness is dependant on the vehicle.
I’ve had cars I’m exhausted from driving just after a 1 hour commute, and I’ve had a luxury sedan I could drive basically indefinitely (once did 3000 miles in 3 days, I didn’t mind it at all).
I wonder if the person you’re replying to previously drive a much less refined car, and would see most of the same benefits even when driving the Tesla manually.
Honestly the second part of their focus, simply being aware of their surroundings, should also be muscle memory for any experienced driver. That’s probably why they find driving so tiring, because they don’t plan ahead enough to keep a peaceful flow, rather than slightly too late scramble to gather information when they have to change lanes or something.
When I put the key in the ignition position for on (without starting it) so I could read the codes, it complained that the battery was low, and to start the truck soon.
Oddly enough, my dad's 2001 Silverado always had the same problem (just a red battery light back then), 2 years of ownership so far and it's battery is still fine, same warning right before you start it that goes away once it's on.
When I told this to her she told me her old Jimmy did the same thing.
The code her truck was throwing was coincidentally the same code as my dad's 2001 truck, about the evap canister.
I was flabbergasted, 13 years age difference and this truck was no different.