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I was not surprised to see this article:
Google Drive users angry over losing months of stored data[^]
I have non-critical and non-personal (no financial data, etc.) in cloud services including OneDrive, but periodically save backups. I've been told I'm paranoid ... my response is that hardware failure is a "when" not an "if" ... and let's not get into human error ...
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Wordle 892 4/6*
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Wordle 892 5/6
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More yellows 🟡 than greens 💚.
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Wordle 892 5/6
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Wordle 892 3/6
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Wordle 892 3/6
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Wordle 892 2/6*
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Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. -Anon
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. -Frederick Nietzsche
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Wordle 892 4/6
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In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Wordle 892 5/6
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Ok, I have had my coffee, so you can all come out now!
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#Worldle #675 5/6 (100%)
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https://worldle.teuteuf.fr
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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I was looking for a specific piece of freeware.
A search engine suggested Tucows
In the past I have always had very good luck with Tucows.
Today I look and I see wow; major game change over there. Out with the old; In with the new.
Oh well, found a real winner on SnapFiles, so, all is well. In fact, looks like they are doing better than before. Hooray for capitalism and innovative thinking.
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Tucows, wow what a switch.
Haven't been there in years!
As the aircraft designer said, "Simplicate and add lightness".
PartsBin an Electronics Part Organizer - Release Version 1.3.0 JaxCoder.com
Latest Article: SimpleWizardUpdate
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Software aggregators (if you want to call them that) have all devolved to the point where they pretty much all include "a little extra" which may or may not trigger your anti-virus. YMMV.
I wouldn't trust any download they may carry.
If you can google for the software you're after, I'd say you're better off looking for the author's own web site and getting it from there. Which nowadays might very well lead to Github.
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From CP newsletter
Generating Power on Earth From the Coldness of Deep Space - IEEE Spectrum[^]
Presumably I am reading that wrong.
"Energy harvesting using the cold of the universe is still under development."
Best I can tell all of the examples are using the 'cold of the earth'. It has nothing to do with the universe.
And not very efficiently either compared to other technologies. Obviously if the roof is covered with that then it is not covered with solar panels.
The company mentioned, SkyCool, also claims the same thing on their site.
https://www.skycoolsystems.com/technology/[^]
"by rejecting heat into the cold universe."
Far as I can see the system is using heat radiation (versus conduction and convection) to disperse the heat. Is there something in that to insure that it actually 'reaches' space? Versus of course just being absorbed into the atmosphere?
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thinking out loud without any idea of all of this works...
could we harness the power of material contraction to generate energy in space ?
There is a big temperature difference between being in the sun and in the shadow.
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
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I can't imagine any system designed to harness what little power involved in that process would recover more than it, itself, would expend.
But, I'm no physicist.
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I'm glad I'm not the only one that noticed that seemed to be missing. I kept expecting them to have cord dangling from a satellite or something. It all just seemed to be handwavium.
TTFN - Kent
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'Handwavium the head into the orifice of darkness...' - author unknown, but possibly me. I like your 'handwavium'!
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jschell wrote: Far as I can see the system is using heat radiation (versus conduction and convection) to disperse the heat. Is there something in that to insure that it actually 'reaches' space? Versus of course just being absorbed into the atmosphere?
Technically, that's not heat - as that requires not being in a "near vacuum" that space is.
If heat is "just" the wobble of atomic particles, how do you radiate that into "nothing"?
Abusing gravity might give more energy. This would generate "heat" (wobble of atoms) that might be harnessed. Getting cold from a vacuum is something we could actually test on earth - I'm looking forward to fridges and air conditioning based on the principle that you can get rid of heat using a near-vacuum 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: If heat is "just" the wobble of atomic particles, how do you radiate that into "nothing"?
The same way the Sun emits heat into nothing - through electromagnetic waves/particles.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Richard Andrew x64 wrote: The same way the Sun emits heat into nothing - through electromagnetic waves/particles.
That's not particles, is it? Show me a "electromagnetic waves/particles" that cools stuff?
Radiation (which is more than magnetic kind, including x-ray, but not particles which have mass which waves don't have) is a form of energy; if it interacts with particles, it increases their "wobble", their temperature.
Find me a wave that decreases a particles wobble? What wave does that?
--edit
Silly me did not say that the sun looses heat, in forms of radiations and photon emissions. Just one small thing; it uses trillions of nuclear explosions to do so. So yes, if you can generate that amount of heat, you may loose a bit due to radiation (and actual gravity, pushing away mass).
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
modified 15hrs ago.
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Light is not one or the other, a wave or a particle. Light acts like both at the same time. That's why you hear about radio "waves" at the same time that you hear about photons.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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