The problem with stack overflow is that you need to know enough about the domain you're working in to describe it accurately enough to search and find that previous great answer.

If you have no clue, and then naively ask the no-clue kinds of questions, because you have no clue, then you get beaten over the head about not searching for the existing answer that you don't know how to search for.

If you're interested in the systems behind Apollo, go find and read "Digital Apollo".

It goes all the way through the project and describes in good detail everything, how they developed the control systems, the computer hardware, how the software was designed, how they implemented one of the first real computer systems project management, all the interactions between astronauts/test pilots who still wanted to "manually fly the lander", the political back and forth between competing teams, the whole thing.

It's a great read if you have a technical mindset.

Horn switches switch to ground. Power for your original horn relay is supplied from a fused battery source, passes through the horn relay, and when you press the horn button the button completes the circuit to earth, triggering the relay.

So, you need to wire your relay coil like this -

12 volts from a fused battery source to:

Your relay coil, to:

The horn switch, which then switches to:

Ground.

Just like how your current horn relay works.

This also works for older cars that do not have the really. They supply power to the horn, and then a single wire runs from the horn back to the horn button, which then completes the circuit to ground when pressed.

They also came from a time when hard drives could draw several amps while in use and much more on spin-up. There was a good reason why SCSI drive arrays used to spin each disk up one-by-one.

Molex connectors are good for 10 amps or so, SATA connectors couldn't have handled that amount of current.

Excuse me, "UXers" is not the preferred term any more. You should be using "HXers", as per the article.

In my opinion, replacing "users" with "humans" feels wrong in much the same way as when incels replace "women" with "females".

They are reducing the accuracy of the description. All users of computers can generally be assumed to be human. All humans cannot generally be assumed to also be users.

"Have you tried formatting your PC and completely reinstalling Windows? That often fixes icon misalignment on the desktop. Please upvote if this helps you!" - every "volunteer Microsoft Support Forum" representative ever.

Usually iterations of:

"Closed and locked due to duplicate of: (question asked 9 years ago about Visual Studio 2011 and Visual Basic, when you're using VS code '22 and C#)"

"This seems like an XY problem, what are you really trying to accomplish?", after a one thousand word post describing in detail exactly what you are trying to accomplish and the many different reasons why you can't just use #GENERIC_EVERYDAY_METHOD.

Either that or the quick and dirty method that I want for a one off data conversion that uses standard libraries is heavily down voted and lost while the elaborate, all-cases-considered, 7-third-party-library-using answer becomes the top result.

Letting it ring has no impact. They have autodiallers that call, and when someone picks up, only then is that call assigned to someone in the call centre.

You can often tell this because there is a marked delay in the response to your initial "Hello?". Long enough that you can reliably just hang up if you don't hear a response in two seconds.

If it's a real person who actually wants to call you and they you call again straight away, you can just shrug off your hang-up as a network issue.

how the IT team tries to justify being locked into Microsoft, and then telling me I could potentially become a point of vulnerability

Because they can manage and control all the windows PCs , pushing updates automatically, restricting what users can do locally and on the network, they have monitoring tools and whatever antivirus and antimalware tools they have, and are able to easily manage and deploy/remove software and associated group licensing and so on and so forth.

Meanwhile you're a single user of unknown (to them) capabilities that they now have to trust with the rest of their system, basically.

The first rule of corporate IT is, "control what's on your network". Your PC is their concern still, but they have no effective control over it. That's why they're being a bit of a pain in the ass about it.

They could have hooked the phone up to a windscreen wiper motor (a high torque motor with a crank arm) and left it to run for a few hours, that would have given them about 10,000 open/close cycles. But no, it's "let's hang a 5kg weight off it and use the phone as a bit of a hammer".

"Hey Pizza Shop, it's The Law here. Did you have any orders for an 'A. Tate' recently? You did? Where did you deliver them to? Ok, thanks."

Stupider things have happened and if I was a detective you'd be damn sure I'd at least give this a try.

"Old timey journalism" was usually when someone with a political axe to grind started a local newspaper to try and counter the other guy who had started a newspaper. That's when you get editorialism and a particular slant on your news.

You probably want something like large public-funded-but-relatively-neutral news agencies, who have the resources, time, and budget to allow proper investigative journalism to take it's full course, and are large enough that they don't have to pander to the politicians of the day or big business.

So we're talking at this point about BBC, ABC (Australia), Al-Jazeera, Deutsche Welle, and other similar organisations.

None are without bias - it's very difficult to actually be bias-free, most will have a home country bias, for example. But they're better than the billionaire's media circus.