1st Gen Lunchtable Thread - General Discussion

One thing I miss was the initial setting up and getting guns laid in for an upcoming fire mission with air.

Laying out the aiming point to find the GM angle of your geographic location, and laying your gunline pointed in a general direction (away from friendlies, mostly).

Then getting the call for fire mission, taking into account elevation differences between intended target and yourself, all while laying rounds down range indirectly (can't see target) while achieving a specified height which gives you specified time of flight to allow 30 seconds before and after for air to reach intended target, drop bomb, and continue suppressive fire while air makes its way out.

 

Wow, that's a lot longer than I would have guessed! I figured maybe a week's worth.
But yep if the utility doesn't have a spare transformer they usually have huge lead times... Crazy 6 months and no backup feed?

 

Ya or even Facebook's

 

That's badass. Best I've gotten is a measly 20hp rated vfd blow up. I did get to watch an instructor blow up a 100hp rated vfd at an Eaton school, that was cool and made me wanna crap my pants. I can't imagine being near a substation transformer

 

So as far as marksman training goes, are army snipers just lazy marines?

 

Can't comment on Army; only Army I knew was an old long time friend in Cav division and my old man who was a grunt himself.

As for marksmanship, every Marine is a basic rifleman.

After that, it's all dependent on - the needs of the Marine Corps (number one), your MOS (special duty assignments or MOS will pull from infantry units), and last but not least how you qualify.

 

It depends on the site. Not only is each building based on redundant systems, most of the big players rely on geo-redundancy as well. Essentially they have multiple sites spread across a large geographic region. If something happens where they lose local redundancy (i.e. substation blows up), then they just transfer the IT load to another site. This can usually happen in a day or two.

That said, you are right in that most sites only have a week or so of fuel on hand, or simply just enough to transfer the IT load to another site. The current wave of the future is AI/Machine-Learning though. This requires massive data compaction and liquid cooled servers (something most companies don't have yet). This means that they don't have the geo-redundancy needed and have to rely on large fuel stores if something happens.

 

Well it looks like Netflix has completely detached from reality and is getting ready to take a permanent dirt nap. Back to sailing the seven seas for me

https://thestreamable.com/news/conf...netflix-with-someone-who-doesnt-live-with-you

 

Makes sense, cool!

 

Crazy.

No worries here

 

@Kwikvette lots of good stuff man.

You should be taking these home, making trendy sandwiches and become a sandwich influencer.

 

The no traveling thing is retarded.
All bypassable by having the owner setup a VPN server on their home router though

 

I'm nervous about rebuilding the PS pump tomorrow, Before I swap in the hopefully correctly assembled OEM rebuilt pump, I'm going to try just put fresh fluid, and clean the res intensely with about as much brakleen as I can .

I'm also going to break my 23/1 fast today with a ribeye and fried eggs.

 

@Wulf Thank you for talking me off the my over analyzing cliff.

 

Some pics were taken at school, but many at home as I get to keep any and all production. It's too much and I end up giving most of it away anyway.

 

Absolutely anything can be bypassed. The whole point of paying for Netflix is that it was convenient to get all the content, all of this makes it less convenient and gives me much more reason to set up sonarr and radarr and use my Plex server again. Those download exactly what I want after telling them what I like.

 

Haha, I wasn't there when it blew. It wasn't as cool as it sounds since there are so many relay protections on that MV/HV equipment that trip before anything "cool" happens. I have definitely blown up my fair share of shit though. A few weeks ago I blew up a 320 ton air cooled chiller that is going to cost at least $15-million to replace, woops. Also flooded a building a few years back because of a control valve that failed open instead of closed. That was a $60-million mistake. We seem to deal with blown/failed panelboards, switchboards, VFD's, pumps etc on a regular basis (even more lately with the reduced QA/QC from factories during Covid).

 

Coming from someone who sees a lot of HVAC failures in buildings.... Vfds that are controlling anything mildly important should have another failover vfd for when they eventually give out. They have to be one of the most failure-prone items in industrial control systems.

 

I dunno. For me Netflix is also an energy savings vs maintaining a NAS, so just tieing my devices to a VPN (power consumed via router either way) before I launch a streaming app would still be worth it.