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2022-12-17 19:45:21
2022-12-17 19:45:21
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silverwizard
1 year ago
silverwizard
1 year ago
It is intensely my fault that my son says turning on both his flashlights at night having a "hot spare"
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silverwizard
1 year ago
I told him he needs a "cold spare", so if the first runs out of batteries, the second will still work, but he says he likes hot spares
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Dave
1 year ago
Nonono, a cold spare is a flashlight sitting next to a fresh unopened package of batteries on a shelf in the closet.
Tell him the optimal redundancy strategy for a flashlight is a warm spare (ready to hand with the batteries in but not powered on).
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silverwizard
1 year ago
I dislike the cold/warm distinctions. As the tradeoffs for warm usually make it cold or hot.
I think I agree if you use warm, my definition meets warm not cold
Also, if you can't put batteries on the flashlight, it's definitely not a spare when unbatteried
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silverwizard
Dave
Tell him the optimal redundancy strategy for a flashlight is a warm spare (ready to hand with the batteries in but not powered on).
silverwizard likes this.
silverwizard
I think I agree if you use warm, my definition meets warm not cold
Also, if you can't put batteries on the flashlight, it's definitely not a spare when unbatteried
Dave likes this.