zaphod

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[–] zaphod@feddit.de 2 points 7 months ago
[–] zaphod@feddit.de 7 points 7 months ago (3 children)

What's the significance of the colors? Greenish = "stealing", orange = "okay", yellow = "grey area"? Seems awfully negative, maybe invert the whole thing.

[–] zaphod@feddit.de 9 points 8 months ago

So you do agree that he is a man, I rest my case.

[–] zaphod@feddit.de 2 points 8 months ago (4 children)

But wouldn't mining and processing inevitably cause airborne particulate?

[–] zaphod@feddit.de 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The 12 tons are a best case and they represent 37% of this ship's fuel consumption, that would be ~32.5 tons a day, on average it saved 3.3 tons, ~10%.

[–] zaphod@feddit.de 1 points 8 months ago

It's 45% income tax plus 5.5% of 45%, the 5.5% is the so called Solidaritätszuschlag a kind of tax which was originally introduced to pay for the gulf war in 1991 and then kept to pay for the reunification with eastern germany. Anyway, income tax barely applies to the super rich, they pay 26.375% capital gains tax (25% + 25% * 5.5%) on dividends.

[–] zaphod@feddit.de 2 points 8 months ago

OP is talking about extension cords with multiple outlets/sockets, that's not a power divider, the connected devices will draw as much power as they need. The fear with that is you might overload the socket, and it could start burning. But that should only happen if the circuit breakers aren't matched to the wire cross section area, meaning the wires can get too hot.

An actual power divider is something you'll use in RF systems, it literally divides power, the simplest form would be a T-junction and at the other connectors you only get half the power (obviously), so it appears attenuated by 3dB. Let's say you feed the system with 0dBm (1mW) and you want 0dBm at each output you need to amplify by 3dB somewhere and make sure your circuits support that. Using multiple power dividers is not uncommon if you want for example to feed multiple antennas with the same signal.

[–] zaphod@feddit.de 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

Power dividers are RF components, they divide power (and in reverse they're power combiners), if you chain 10 power dividers you get around 30dB attenuation. If you want to compensate for that make sure your system can handle more power.

For extension cords with multiple sockets read the other replies.

[–] zaphod@feddit.de 9 points 8 months ago (2 children)

The voyager intro, but apart from that DS9.

[–] zaphod@feddit.de 7 points 8 months ago (4 children)

It's either that or try to make cheaper movies instead, but even then they need to trust the people who actually make the movies.

[–] zaphod@feddit.de 34 points 8 months ago (11 children)

I don’t know why studios keep meddling.

Movies get expensive. Studios are afraid of the risk and want to play it safe. They start meddling.

[–] zaphod@feddit.de 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It had some fun elements, but it's not comparable to wd2 or wd1. It's like they ran out of money halfway through development and just released the game as is. If you really want to play it, wait until it's on sale somewhere and don't be disappointed, you were warned.

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