22:4322:43, 5 May 2024diffhist−530
Trusted Computing
→Users unable to modify software: the browser wars add-on was pure conjecture, and poorly reasoned at that. A web site is intrinsically a mass media broadcast that seeks to be available, not to exclude viewers. The browser tag is used to overcome incompatibilities. Making a site incompatible with a browser is too easy to do unintentionally to need TPM to do it intentionally.currentTag: Visual edit
15:2215:22, 3 April 2024diffhist+1
Copper tubing
Replace repeated word with the word that should be there. The entire section is at once both an over-wrought “call to action” piece used to sell a high cost service and reasonably informative on a practical basis if closely read but the technical details aren’t quite there. It probably belongs in an article about pipe corrosion. decorating an article about copper tubing with every related topic will cause it to grow to 100’s of pages.Tags: Visual editMobile editMobile web edit
20:4720:47, 12 March 2024diffhist+8
Residual-current device
automatically is superfluous, isolate was mistaken. only the powered conductor is interrupted in the single pole devices that are 99% of those in use. When the ground connection of the grounded power conductor (aka neutral) is damaged a human can still receive a fatal shock carried by the conductor that is not interrupted.Tag: Visual edit
20:3720:37, 12 March 2024diffhist+390
Residual-current device
The description of the device as detecting current reaching ground was incorrect, it detects that the current isn't flowing out and back, not where its going. These devices are not designed to protect equipment, only to reduce the severity of injuries. The word "isolate" is misused, only the powered conductor is interrupted the grounded (power) conductor (aka neutral), the equipment grounding (aka PE, safety) conductor are not. The injuries not protected against were poorly stated.Tag: Visual edit
18:0218:02, 12 February 2024diffhist−10
Silicon carbide
Remove “expitaxial”, the word means surface and in this context without distinguishing a specific feature of the catalytic interaction of the surface molecules to be expanded on later it was only duplicative with the effect of making the content less accessible to a broad audience.Tags: Visual editMobile editMobile web edit
17:5317:53, 12 February 2024diffhist+60
Silicon carbide
Describe the type of levigator bring referred to. Levigator in a literal sense means smoother, a thing used to make something else smooth. As trade name used for levigating tools used by lithographers it’s a specific style. Levigating is from a Latin word that means to make smooth. Many trades have a specific name for a particular type of shaft driven round plate mounted eccentrically used as a smoothing tool by that trade, sander, buffer, lapper, and hone, are among the more common.Tags: Visual editMobile editMobile web edit
20:2820:28, 3 July 2023diffhist+127
Ground (electricity)
Restate the low impedance grounding transformer connection. The “zig zag” 9 winding transformer is variant of the common wye connected transformer with split secondaries. The discussion of it as necessary for returning ground fault current may have been an incomplete understanding of the connection spreading unbalanced current that would otherwise appear on the delta connected source between only two phases to appear on all three phases.Tags: Visual editMobile editMobile web edit
16:4416:44, 2 July 2023diffhist+881
Copper tubing
Do some rewriting to reduce the copying, also correct the erroneous identification of the cathode as the site of metal loss. It’s the anode.Tags: Visual editMobile editMobile web edit
15:4215:42, 2 July 2023diffhist+142
Copper tubing
Supply missing distinction between bonding and grounding, it isn’t actually subtle, the two intentions are distinguishable.Tags: Visual editMobile editMobile web edit
15:3215:32, 26 March 2023diffhist+91
Electric motor
→Bearings: replace awkward phrasing that failed to state that the bearings let the shaft rotate by transferring forces from the shaft to the housing through an interface with a low coefficient of friction.Tag: Visual edit
16:2716:27, 16 March 2023diffhist+1,426
Non-return-to-zero
Improve discussion ignorant of NRZI-M and NRZI-S as actual standards and discuss the need for frequent transitions as a property of asynchronous decoders (e.g. UARTS) and state the transition rate as a fraction of bit clock error. A discussion of synchronous receivers and more sophisticated bit clock recovery methods would be of little use to a general audience, but the information presented should include the scope of its applicability.Tags: Visual editMobile editMobile web edit
13 March 2023
22:2222:22, 13 March 2023diffhist+579
Cigna
Edit to reflect the February 2023 name change to The Cigna Group etc. cite Forbes article, selected for its brevity and clarity.Tag: Visual edit
20:4120:41, 12 March 2023diffhist+279
Synthetic fuel
→Fuels emissions: Include important information omitted, 2005 (high sulfur diesel std.), trucks, urban, dynamometer simulated, not actual driving, CARB diesel, catalytic converter, 10% increase in fuel consumption. NB: Policy changes have removed sulfur from diesel and reduced Natural Gas supplies. A 2023 low sulfur diesel vs Synfuel study would be undifferentiated for emissions, but synfuel cost would be very high and divert limited nat gas supplies to produce, i.e. not presently viable.Tag: Visual edit
19:3319:33, 12 March 2023diffhist+153
Synthetic fuel
→Classification and principles: Refine the initial definition using the essential contrasting distinction, chemical synthesis instead of selection. Modern refining chemically "reforms" undesired distillates into desired distillates burring the distinction. Functionally the term has come to denote products eligible for a government subsidy, but the qualifications for subsidies are not easily summarized.Tag: Visual edit
19:1219:12, 12 March 2023diffhist+369
Linde plc
→History: Complete the narrative begun by citing the 1981 NYT article. The NYT article was accurate except there were no direct connections between the Linde Gas Tonawanda sites, the Hooker Chemical Love Canal site some 6 miles away and other sites in the Buffalo area other than the radioactive sites all being related to the Manhattan Project.Tag: Visual edit
18:5918:59, 23 February 2023diffhist−1
Birchfield v. North Dakota
Correct the tense from past to present: the case and the court's decision continue to exist in the present even though the acts that brought the case and the decision into being are in the past. If some circumstance were to retroactively void the entire matter expunging it from the court record by universal acclaim leaving nothing about it in the present it might be reasonable to choose the past tense, but an encyclopedia article would be about the erasure, not the case.Tag: Visual edit
22 February 2023
00:1000:10, 22 February 2023diffhist+473
Estate tax in the United States
→Exemptions and tax rates: revise inaccurate description and include some of the often ignored Pacific territories. also make it clear that the territory must give rise to citizenship to be exempt from the tax, just being a being resident isn't enough. [This is over 100y old, and territory likely to evolve soon but for now...]Tag: Visual edit
22:5822:58, 21 February 2023diffhist+11
Estate tax in the United States
revise paragraph for accuracy and neutral tone. Its not a perennial political football. Every issue has its gadflies, this one becomes a prominent political issue once a decade, or less, so 'periodically' is more accurate than 'often'Tag: Visual edit