If they are house-bound, organise with a local taxi driver to get to the shop and get some things for them.
If they are mostly-mobile, same thing, but organise a drop off and pickup time and get a hand with getting groceries into the house and up stairs, etc.
A lot of the older "career" drivers will happily do regular stuff like this. Especially during the middle of the day in suburbia when it's pretty quiet. Beats sitting at a taxi rank reading the paper.
It was semi necessary at the time, there is a window of boomers who have very little super as the majority of their working life was before mandatory super requirements got to useful levels.
So - get them into cheap investment property with negative gearing and CG discounts, let them build up equity, sell the family home/pay off mortgage when reaching retirement, use the cash and investment property to live a better life than just the pension.
It's not particularly necessary now, but we've let that horse well and truly bolt and every man+dog is into investment property now.
What do you expect from running 10 and more amperes through a cord?
Well , I expect enough engineering behind it that the cord and connections don't melt. I am an auto electrician, I routinely deal with 12v systems that draw much more than that without melting, using connections that aren't much bigger. It's not like it's some mystical technology, it's just that this setup has been done on a budget.
But it doesn't help that every single logic gate in a graphics card is run at a speed/currents that are literally just below meltdown.
Inertia, mostly.
Of course Plex then takes advantage of that with the slow erosion of the free edition.
It's difficult on the back end of the charger as well.
A shopping centre or rest stop can't just spring for a few high capacity chargers for the car park. A single megawatt charger is 50 houses worth of consumption, so they now need a substation upgrade to provide what is basically a whole neighbourhood-equivalent of power.
standard practice to find these potential leaks with intensive pre-flight checks to identify and solve these issues before they escalate into a catastrophe.
Except these particular leaks are due to vibration modes (on the newly designed vacuum jacketed fuel lines) that seem to be only present at high g's towards the end of the burn.
After the first ship to use these new lines blew up, SpaceX made some changes and conducted a minute-long test firing on the ground of the second ship. A minute of the rocket going through various thrust levels on the ground is plenty of time to pick up issues if it was going to be visible on the ground.
Presumably it looked ok, so they launched it, and the second one blew up. They probably added more sensors on those lines, because they seem to be pretty sure that vibration modes are the issue on those lines now.
Yes, you could model this, and no doubt they did to some extent, but nothing beats testing in real life unfortunately.
Well, I did delete a company-mandated image from the bottom of my signature after I realised that it made even just a one-line "Thanks" email balloon out to 800kb.
You've got it all wrong, in traditional computer terminology the "hard drive" is the box that sits under the desk that collects cat fluff and cigarette tar.
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There is an empirical way of doing it - best one I've seen online so far is this:
I don't understand it. If I was a politician right now, I would not, under any circumstances, hitch my political wagon to the shitshow that is going on in the US. But Dutton and that "Trumpet of Patriots" crowd - bless their 1950's White Australia hearts - are all for it.
Labor would be wise to stall the election for a month or two, just to let things unfold a bit more over there.
It doesn't have to be "buy local", per se, it just has to be "buy non-US". But there are few tangible things I actually buy from the US. I don't mind stuff from the EU, it's a little pricey due to our exchange rate, but for the things I buy it's generally OK.
There are heaps of services that are bought from the US though - just about every streaming service, Google/Apple, Starlink, and so on. Those can fuck right off , if possible. Sometimes that's not practical (eg google/apple's ecosystem), but at least have a look for alternatives.
Aldi has a presence in Australia in major cities, they are generally seen as an alternative to the major duopoly of Coles and Woolworths.