Actually, that makes a lot of sense…
Given that Trump is the best president ever (I’m sure I have heard people say so), then anyone who opposes him is, ipso facto, an enemy of the state and should be treated as such.
The more I think about it, the more obvious it is. I mean, why even have another election?
I’m not an expert woodworker but I did have aquariums when I was young.
A 20 gallon aquarium, all set up, can weigh more than 200 lbs. The stand will be under quite a bit of stress and if it fails…
One of my first non-trivial woodworking projects was a stand for a 20 gallon aquarium but I didn’t build it from scratch: I revised an existing table with stout legs. It’s a long time ago, but the legs were tapered and maybe 3"x3" at the top, or maybe even 4"x4". The aprons were maybe 1/2"x4" with mortise and tenon joints into the legs. The top was 3/4" plywood. I don’t know what the wood was, but might have been pine. It supported the aquarium fine, but it was much stronger than your design due to the stouter legs and more substantial aprons. The design was something like Build a Sturdy End Table, except for the mortise and tenon joints instead of dowels to join the aprons to the legs.
I would be hesitant to put a 20 gallon aquarium on a table of your design. The legs and bracing seem a bit weak. If the joints aren’t very tight, if it starts to go over, there might be excessive loads on the brackets and pocket screws, and it might collapse. It might be fine, but I would definitely loose sleep. I had a 20 gallon aquarium fail once (the aquarium, not the table). It’s a lot of water, a lot of mess and very hard on the fish.
If it were my first serious project, I would look for a proven design, specific to holding the weight of an aquarium. There are many designs available, some with nice build videos. All that I have seen are more robust than your design, even for 10 or 20 gallon aquariums.
If I were going to proceed with something like your design, assuming soft pine frame, I would use 2x4 or larger for the legs, wider aprons and angle braces at the corners.
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Maybe forbidden for IPs outside CA?
But this reminds me of the recent ruling in the UK:
Technology: UK judge warns lawyers about risks of AI use in court
In my opinion, given all the information available about how unreliable LLMs are, anyone using AI professionally without thorough validation of the outputs used should be found negligent.
For example OpenAI’s recent Why language models hallucinate - which reports an accuracy rate below 25% for two of their models. But there have been many other reports from diverse sources, for a long time. And, in my experience, it only takes a few minutes of interaction to experience significantly false output.
Yes, but…
Making social media fake is the intention. It’s not a failure.
The failure is that the fraud is noticed: the bots and LLMs are not yet good enough to be undetectable.
The fraud will be perfected when LLMs can be fake without feeling fake. At least until the fraudsters have achieved their objectives. After that, will they care how their victims feel? I guess not.
Pulsing the power every 3 to 5 seconds would be fantastic! One pulse every 30 seconds is not good. But I haven’t yet found a manual or sales person that can tell me the period of the pulse width modulation for any brand/model. Not that I have tried very hard.
Maybe I should try KitchenAid. What you describe sounds wonderful.
That was exactly the problem with simmering anything.
Also, only 9 power levels wasn’t enough. It was very powerful (nice when I wanted full power) but the steps in power were too big. For many things the only options were too hot or too cold.
But the fault that made me replace it was an intermittent one: occasionally (about five times in 18 months) it went to full power. This could happen at any power setting. No change in the indicated setting, but the power would come on continuously. Anything other than a pot of water would, in just a few seconds, be burning. Very dangerous! Fortunately, it never happened when I wasn’t standing right there to turn the power off at the wall switch. Being intermittent, technicians couldn’t find/fix the fault. It also occasionally stopped heating for a minute or so at a time, as if there was some thermal lockout even when nothing was unusually hot, but at least that wasn’t dangerous.
It was Haier. And I see they are no longer the biggest by revenue, but still #3
The problem with simmering is that the cooktop was very powerful (nice when you want to heat something quickly) but it only had two modes: one or off. The power was regulated by turning it on briefly, once every 30 seconds. Even at the lowest possible setting (there were 9 power levels), a pot of water would boil each time the power came on for about 3 seconds. Then it would cool for 27 seconds. Even a pot with a thick base, designed for induction cooktops, and heavy cast-iron pans had this problem.
It would be easy to turn the power on and off more frequently than once every 30 seconds. It wouldn’t be much more difficult to have a mode that delivered less than full power.
A thick iron plate under the pot smoothed the power delivery to the pot, but then it’s not really induction heating of the pot: just a hot plate.
Pancakes, steaks and simmering anything were my biggest frustrations.
It’s good to know there are some decent productions. That’s what I was expecting. I understand the technology. I know what is possible. It was very frustrating and disappointing. The largest appliance manufacturer in the world is selling poorly designed rubbish. The documentation doesn’t describe essential parameters. If only there were a practical way to distinguish the good from the bad before buying… try before you buy is my advice.
I had a terrible experience with one just last year. Had to replace it. Went back to an electric cooktop with simmerstats just last month. We’re much happier now. Can cook again without all the burning and boiling over.
I know an induction cooktop could be much better but the one we had couldn’t simmer anything: it could only intermittently overheat it. And occasionally it would switch to either full power (very dangerous - it was very powerful) or no power (absolutely ruins a steak when you’re trying to sear it). Technicians came multiple times and concluded ‘there’s nothing wrong’. Fortunately, after almost two years, they agreed to an ‘upgrade’.
I expect commercial induction cooktops are much better than consumer grade but they’re too expensive.
I wouldn’t buy another that I hadn’t tried first. I know one place that has a showroom with everything powered. Not that they would let me actually try cooking anything, but at least one can put a pot of water on and try out the controls.
I haven’t used 13/trixie but with 12/bookworm I use jmtpfs but it’s also available for trixie.
Only if the companies / people developing it are allowed to continue stealing IP without compensation.
Between Putaruru and Tokoroa. I see many more Tui since the enclosure on Maungatautari, but these are the first Kākā.
It leaves out the steps where all the users’ data is sold to data brokers and leaked to criminals.
Rescued Slaves Crowd the Deck of the HMS Daphne, 1868 explains the circumstances in a little more detail.
Most of the images in the tutorial don’t load: access denied. Makes it a bit hard to follow.
Thanks. I see that is in the linked article. My mistake was to read the article linked in the first paragraph: with the link text ‘restricted the approval’, thinking that was the details of the restriction.
According to the linked in the article, the restriction is a requirement to revise the warnings
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday it has expanded existing warnings on the two leading COVID-19 vaccines about a rare heart side effect mainly seen in young men.
In April, the FDA sent letters to both drugmakers asking them to update and expand the warnings to add more detail about the problem and to cover a larger group of patients.
I don’t see any indication that the vaccines are not approved other than that the accompanying documentation must be changed. The companies have now had several months to make the required changes.
The linked article suggests that the conduct of the FDA and resulting requirement to change the documentation was inappropriate. But there is no restriction other than the requirement to update the documentation. Or am I missing something in the article?
On Debian 12 and 13 with xfce, I am using ibus and Intelligent Pinyin (ibus-libpinyin) for Chinese and English. In the past I have used fcitx5 and various other IMEs. Once they’re configured there isn’t much difference between ibus and fcitx5, for my simple use. My Chinese is rudimentary but my Chinese wife is happy with the configuration. I switch input methods with a configurable keyboard shortcut (Ctrl-Space is my preference) or menu on the ibus item in the Status Tray Plugin of the xfce panel. Changing is easy.
I have task-chinese-s-desktop and task-chinese-t-desktop installed. These bring in fcitx5 and various fonts, which suggests that whoever created these tasks think fcitx5 is better than ibus. And I installed ibus-libpinyin, which brings in ibus. I don’t recall why now - it was long ago. So I have ibus and fcitx5 installed but have been using only ibus for the past few years. It works well enough that I haven’t revisited it. If I were installing again now, I might choose fcitx5 instead of ibus.
I see there are also task-japanese-desktop and task-korean-desktop, which you might find helpful.