"Lossless" isn't the term you want; that refers to not lossily compressing the main data. Lossless compression or storage of media is very rare outside of text and sometimes audio, because it ends up so large.
You want to preserve metadata. That applies regardless of how lossy the data compression is.
I've heard flammable gas uses reverse (left hand) thread to prevent cross connection. At least for welding gases in NZ; not sure about natural gas.
The 737 factory is unionized, and it's not having any fewer issues.
They've just acquired a terrible management culture. Even the military and space contracts have gone down the drain.
Not to scale. Left triangle shows that the centre tee is actually 80/100⁰, not two right angles. So right triangle is 100+35+45, angle x is 135⁰.
135°.
The non-right-angle is downright cheeky.
If we knew what city/route/service and day, we might be able to get a better idea.
Sometimes operators declare a 'fare holiday' when everyone rides free, usually as compensation for some major fuckup previously, or for some other PR stunt. Metlink in Wellington doesn't charge on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, or New Year's Eve.
Operators sometimes half-strike and refuse to collect fares.
The specific route, service, or time of day might be free.
It's an express service that you can't pay cash on (only fare cards) and it's easier/nicer to tell you to ride for free than to tell you to get the next bus because they don't take cash.
You might be part of some group (youth, students, elderly) that doesn't have to pay.
Something is broken and they can't collect fares.
They don't want to deal with the big banknote you had.
From article:
He said the term “coconut” was a “well-known racial slur which has a very clear meaning” to the effect that “you may be brown on the outside, but you’re white on the inside. In other words, you’re a race traitor – you’re less brown or black than you should be.”
That's a different definition of 'coconut' than I hear here in NZ. Here it's usually just a (derogatory) term for any Pacific Islander, because they come from where coconuts come from.
Gotta love slang/slurs.
As a person in neither Georgia nor Georgia (nor the US at all), I agree that it seems like an easy mistake to make.
But for anyone in Georgia or a neighboring state, it seems like something that should be pretty well known. Especially if you work in marketing.
I'd normally expect these kinds of ads to be produced by the local party branch but this suggests that either the local Georgians don't know there's another Georgia, or the ads came straight out of the national HQ or Moscow.
Any hard drive can fail at any time with or without warning. Worrying too much about individual drive families' reliability isn't worth it if you're dealing with few drives. Worry instead about backups and recovery plans in case it does happen.
Bigger drives have significantly lower power usage per TB, and cost per TB is lowest around 12-16TB. Bigger drives also lets you fit more storage in a given box. Drives 12TB and up are all currently helium filled which run significantly cooler.
Two preferred options in the data hoarder communities are shucking (external drives are cheaper than internal, so remove the case) and buying refurb or grey market drives from vendors like Server Supply or Water Panther. In both cases, the savings are usually big enough that you can simply buy an extra drive to make up for any loss of warranty.
Under US$15/TB is typically a 'good' price.
For media serving and deep storage, HDDs are still fine and cheap. For general file storage, consider SSDs to improve IOPS.
I don't remember if they fully closed the loopholes, but there are inputs that programs cannot catch unless you actually replace the OS.
It looks like the WLTP range is about ¾ the Chinese range on these vehicles. Assume a faster highway speed and you've basically got the difference.
It's 30% lighter than a model 3, not a third. Still ~1200kg.
It's also torches and everything after the regulator, which run at much lower pressure. At least in NZ
I think it might be because they're connected and disconnected regularly so misconnection is a common problem, even with colour coding. Gas work on houses involves actually putting the fittings on pipe and is done by people who should be concentrating more on that rather than on what they're about to weld/cut.