Comments by "B. Xoit" (@b43xoit) on "Technology Connections" channel.

  1. [snicker]
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  2. Something like that probably makes good sense for you given the conditions in which you live. Whichever version uses the best solution for mitigating mold and such.
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  3. Yeah, the only thing electric about a Selectric was the motor.
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  4. So I was asking myself that. I think nothing will happen. The pin for the song is already tripped. The magnet will try to trip it again, but with no effect. What I don't know is whether the credit accumulator will be decremented again.
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  5. I live in an apartment and use the same strategy. I have the low rate from midnight to 5am. I get the temp down to 80F then; any colder than that is uncomfortable for me.
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  6. With your lies you are actively working to assure the deaths of all my little cousins. You are not just my political opponent, but rather, my enemy, as you are working for the deaths of my families. I would be justified in any kind of self defense or retaliation against you and all your kind.
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  7. Yes, as other commenters have pointed out, it is exactly an automaton.
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  8. Obviously in alphabetical order, they way they are arranged on the carousel.
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  9. Electronics often need several voltages, e. g. +-12v, 5v, 3.5v.
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  10. Also, if you are going to burn something, you can use the heat directly for refrigeration and skip the conversion to and from electricity.
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  11. And here on Youtube, I learned that those tape drives used clutches and a continuously-running motor to move the reels in response to where the tape was being sensed in the vacuum columns. At the time I used the drives, I imagined some transistor-controlled power circuit running a motor on each reel.
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  12. The answer is no.
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  13. The only possible answers are through the glass, either as conducted heat or as radiation or both.
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  14. The radiometer will spin.
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  15. There are a couple of things that somewhat mitigate the losses. One is that at least many of them are open on top but shut on the front. Another is that they are located on the outer walls of the building and their warm side is outside. Thirdly, the temperature in the store where people walk around may be a bit cool for comfort, to reduce loss from the food coolers.
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  16. I live in the US and I often see the cabinets for milk, etc. along the outer walls. I have seen freezers grouped in the middle. I suspect that in those cases they run coolant lines to coils on the outside of the building.
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  17. h=3600s
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  18. Clearly.
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  19. Horses are made of flesh, and so is your nose; therefore, your nose is a horse.
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  20. Does "10X brighter" mean 11X so bright as?
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  21. "principle"
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  22. Lets say you put in your coin and make the machine start playing a record. Two more people want it to play their selections. Are they going to line up in front of the machine, like waiting to use the rest room?
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  23.  @vilx7259  As this vid shows, the plays don't go in fist-in-first-out order, but anyone willing to pay could add selections at any time.
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  24. Some of the "solutions" for evaporating water end up putting find rock dust in the air and it wants to settle on electronics.
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  25. It's no such thing. You can't set up a gunnery problem on it, for example.
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  26. He didn't cover that.
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  27. Inertia.
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  28. Yes.
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  29. Another YouTuber already does a fine job of that.
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  30. LOL
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  31. Yes and for a time, so did computer engineers.
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  32. What future generations?
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  33. Clearly not in this model.
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  34. The song is over when the pickup arm is pulled close enough to the center by the run-out groove or whatever it is called on the record. Some contacts close or open via mechanical link to the record arm.
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  35. I was on a party line where there was a different ringing pattern for each party. Later, we were on a two-party line, where the ringing voltage was biased differently or reverse polarized, something like one or the other of those methods, so your ringer would only sound if it was for you. This was all in the U. S.
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  36. The Shadow?
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  37. There are much better heat engines available.
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  38. Lets say you put in your coin and make the machine start playing a record. Two more people want it to play their selections. Are they going to line up in front of the machine, like waiting to use the rest room?
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  39. It doesn't have rest mass, but it has mass because it carries energy, and energy is mass.
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  40. How can a ground fault happen on a floating circuit?
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  41. Oh, yeah, that's right.
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  42. Next: single sideband.
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  43. Whom do you mean by "we"?
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  44. User: 1 Unix: One Bell System -- it works.
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  45. Looks like nowhere on this model.
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  46. In my teen years in Georgia, I had an aerial strung between two trees over the house and I had an old car radio in my room. I'd pick up New Orleans at night. The normal operation of the radio used a vibrator, but I fed it AC, so didn't need the vibrator. There was a gas rectifier for the power supply. It had a glass envelope and a lightweight metal cover. I removed the cover and I'd see that purple glow.
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  47. Whom do you mean by "we"?
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  48. Zimbabweans call a traffic light a robot.
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  49. Looks as though there is no queue. Each record side is either selected or not selected, and they get played in carousel order.
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  50. The best way to turn a small turbine is to direct a stream of fluid through it.
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  51. Yes. That is why another term for a swamp cooler is "desert cooler".
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  52. Yes, and so?
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  53.  @RedFathom  No doubt. Electrical tinkerers (like my father in his childhood) did not always have silicon rectifiers to play with. The wet rectifiers had electrodes and an electrolyte; I don't know what substances were used in any of those three roles. I guess they switched fast enough to detect amplitude modulation of radio-frequency signals.
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  54.  @RedFathom  What kinds of forward and reverse resistances would one see, for a small cell?
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  55.  @RedFathom  I see. Well, my dad had been monkeying around with some about the size of a baby-food jar, or maybe two or three times that volume. Since his primary interest was radio, I suppose he was trying to use them as detectors.
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  56. Kerbal Space Program, only the actions are a bit different. You build rockets.
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  57. I would say no. That big a magnetic field would probably jam stuff up.
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  58. Yes and some of them have special functions determined by magnetics.
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  59. You sure do "we" a lot. Whom do you include?
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  60. Capacitance?
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  61. I know of a case of such a method being used in an office building. Two tanks.
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  62. Maybe it was routed to the condenser and all evaporated thence.
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  63. Why is Hotel capitalized?
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  64.  @onebylandtwoifbysearunifby5475  Well, that's interesting. So, you are not talking about just some random hotel. You are abbreviating something like "The Such-And-Such Hotel" as "the Hotel." Like if I said, "the _Times_" as an abbreviation of "the New York _Times_."
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  65. The reason the magneto was called a magneto is that that is what it was.
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  66. Yes.
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  67. A right-handed person would prefer to dial with her right hand. So the handset goes in the left hand.
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  68. So the radiometer works from gas effects. Say you start in the dark and turn a light on it and keep the power of that light steady for a while. Does the speed peak and then fall some, due to conduction of heat from the dark side of each vane to the light side? Without a temperature difference across the thickness of the vane, there would be no difference in pressure from the heat-driven gas effects, and so no torque, so we should expect the bearing, even as good as it is, to absorb the rotational energy.
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  69. English-speakers use the Latin, "automaton", plural "automata".
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  70. [withdrawn due to proven ignorance]
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  71. It won't let you press two letter buttons or two number buttons at the same time. Some kind of interlock.
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  72. Too many "we."
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  73. Not Turing-equivalent.
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  74. Depends on which one you release last.
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  75. No, the buttons are latched somehow so you can't press two letter or two number buttons at the same time.
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  76. Probably no auto-defrosting feature built into the design of that one.
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  77. Which is why they are also called "desert coolers".
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  78. Why the apostrophe?
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  79. Typewriters used to not have a "1"; you would use "l".
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  80. The were not general-purpose computers.
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  81. A fan will not cool a dry thermostat.
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  82. No. A "bulb" has to have a bulbous shape.
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  83. What would that do? They only bend a bit and stop.
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  84. A term for this is "district heating."
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