CobaltFire

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by CobaltFire 4d ago
Even Leaf batteries can be fine. A used Leaf might be the best deal going right now due to everyone being afraid of the battery, but if it hasn't been fast charged a ton its fine. Specifically the second gen "plus" models are
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by CobaltFire 10d ago
As a counterpoint: Telluride/Palisade causing fires because they cheaped out on the current/torque sensors in the drive motors for the seats. ICCU failures across their current EV platforms. No fix planned last I heard. It hurts m
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by CobaltFire 11d ago
As a veteran I agree, with a significant caveat: Generally those who support the police in general (especially those with the thin blue line American flag displayed somewhere) espouse support for veterans. The clash of a veteran operating l
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by CobaltFire 16d ago
Nothing I shared is, in any way, even close to something I am concerned with sharing. This type of wargaming scenario is literally stuff they give to brand new kids out of high school to get them thinking. It's not anything close to &q
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by CobaltFire 16d ago
Can't recall them going offline island wide when I was there (given there are two on not quite opposite sides of the island). I do recall one having downtime when the other was up and having to deal with that.
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by CobaltFire 16d ago
Not really relevant but a fun anecdote: I can't speak to how much cargo was on board, but I did a Hawai'i to Guam leg on a C-17B that was carrying palletized cargo. One of my better Space-A experiences. Crew was great, flight was
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by CobaltFire 16d ago
I didn't mean to imply that this would hit Hawai'i as hard as Guam, just that it would be one of the more effective places to hit with a DeCA supply chain attack.
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by CobaltFire 16d ago
As someone who spent over 20 years active duty, and spent a ton of my career in the IT, security, etc. side of the house: Unlikely to be a hack, more likely to be a misconfiguration or update sent incorrectly. That said, the timing of the d
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by CobaltFire 19d ago
The Dell XPS 13 with the intel 5 320 (Wildcat Lake) is getting really good reviews. Looking at benchmarks for the 320 vs the 322 is enlightening, as the 322 is essentially the same chip but as a full Panther Lake. So the same 2P+4E+2Xe3 set
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by CobaltFire 23d ago
I'm actually in the situation of looking to exit the Apple ecosystem to an entirely Linux one. If you look at my post history here I lost my entire Apple account due to them assuming my purchase of a 128GB Studio was fraud, and was for
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by CobaltFire 23d ago
I'm not sure I believe in this, but I certainly want to. There is a certain logic to this, and it's not certain it won't go this direction. But creating a solid society for the masses so they don't revolt isn't what
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by CobaltFire 26d ago
Naval Nuclear Power School had (maybe still does) this model 20 years ago as well. Pass rate for my class cohort was 28% over the entire 2 year pipeline. We didn't call them retch sessions, and they were taught by the instructors thoug
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by CobaltFire 1mo ago
How do these options deal with translation of other languages? I can do it manually, but was curious if any send it through any of the translation engines. Specifically my wife has a TON of Japanese recipes that I want/need to translat
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by CobaltFire 1mo ago
I have also settled most of my wardrobe on Uniqlo and Patagonia. I have some other stuff, but over 80% is from those two companies.
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by CobaltFire 1mo ago
Rode for nearly 100k miles before giving it up (had a 100 mile/day commute, plus leisure). Too many close calls, and since giving it up lost five coworkers to accidents. Still miss it all the time, but it's just not worth the risk
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by CobaltFire 2mo ago
Probably me. I wrote that on the train...
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by CobaltFire 2mo ago
Backing this up, these high numbers are for typical cooling towers where they vent to atmosphere. Once you get into closed loop PWRs the numbers get crazy. Actual figures for Naval Nuclear plants are classified, but as a nice round number e
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by CobaltFire 2mo ago
I don't disagree but am having a hard time parsing the second half of your comment. In my experience we saw some losses when taken as a system that prevented us from hitting 2:1, but they weren't anywhere near 50%. We also ran clo
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by CobaltFire 2mo ago
I had an extremely focused career, but am by nature a curious individual who craved the type of discussions the article talks about. They were closed to me because I came from poverty and had to focus to move myself up the ladder. Much like
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by CobaltFire 2mo ago
This comment really speaks to the article. The commenter didn't even have the curiosity to read and comprehend the article, and made the articles point in that.
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by CobaltFire 2mo ago
Thats the arguably legal part. Using a VPN or SSL over it violates the law, so... I don't see the point personally. I'm just aware of the arguments. The "best" use case I saw was some hunting and lake cabins extending co
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by CobaltFire 2mo ago
They address that they were looking at the maximum unlicensed power. In HAM circles some people do use WiFi in an arguably legal manner by making the SSID their callsign and either making the network open or putting the password somewhere p
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by CobaltFire 2mo ago
Used a cantenna and a PCI card with modified firmware to great effect when I only had WiFi for internet at the barracks in Japan in the 00's. I was absolutely outside of the legal limits on power, which I didn't really know at the
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by CobaltFire 2mo ago
Nitpick here: Nuclear discharges more like 2kWh of heat per kWh of electricity produced. Perhaps slightly more, but its in that ballpark. Seems like a small difference but you are overstating the waste by near 50%. Source: Degree in Nuclear
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by CobaltFire 2mo ago
Commented on another top comment but yeah, I've been running a similar setup for about $200 all in. Using the PCIe LX version takes care of much of the heat issue, and an eGPU dock (Razer Core in my case) takes care of the fan. Craigsl
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by CobaltFire 2mo ago
Thats what I do. ConnectX-4 and newer are natively supported. I use a ConnectX-4 LX in a $50 Razer CoreX off of craigslist. Works fine, hit similar limits to what Jeff did. Using an OCP is the neat trick here. MUCH smaller setup. As far as
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by CobaltFire 2mo ago
You sound like me. Same gripe about my Keychron, same Moonlander gathering dust that I keep meaning to do something with...
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by CobaltFire 2mo ago
Patlabor is left out of most lists. The new one (EZY) is amazing if you haven't seen it.
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by CobaltFire 2mo ago
When I loved in Guam we had a joke bout this: How do you tell if someone is driving drunk? They are driving straight! With the unspoken part being anyone NOT drunk was weaving to dodge debris, potholes, etc.
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by CobaltFire 3mo ago
No? Any M5 Max with the upgraded GPU has the full bandwidth, which includes the 48GB model the original poster mentioned. Same as the M4 Max, where only the trimmed part had a lower bandwidth. Why are you throwing in extra cost for somethin

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