Syonyk

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by Syonyk 4y ago
I'm working on what that looks like in a few forms. I'm not a licensed electrician, nor do I have the slightest desire to be one. But I do like helping people, who are capable of generally doing their own work, install dirt che
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by Syonyk 4y ago
This is one of many, many reasons I encourage people who have the land to do so, to do ground mounts. Zero chance of roof leaks that way, and the cost, even with the ground mounts, can actually end up being lower if you don't have a l
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by Syonyk 4y ago
> Yeah this is the only thing you cannot DIY out of the whole process... That depends on the state. In Idaho, you absolutely can. I 100% DIY'd my ground mount install (documented in depth here: https://www.sevarg.net&#
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by Syonyk 4y ago
I've seen that one before, and... as I mentioned, quite a few safety protocol violations in, bad things happened. They didn't force the line dead by grounding it on both ends, they didn't test to see if it was actually energ
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by Syonyk 4y ago
Yeah... that's about my logic. I know the person who's going to have to fight with it later, for sure. I'm just wondering how bad a typical solar install is, that what I consider "sane and reasonable wiring I can visu
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by Syonyk 4y ago
> A lot of people just don’t have that kind of money laying around. Probably because they approach finances in terms of the "monthly payment, I can afford it!" solution that's so profitable to lenders. Paying 50% more
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by Syonyk 4y ago
Eh... installing panels solo can be done, but especially on a roof, shouldn't be done. It's far, far easier with two people, even for ground mount systems. Three is some benefit over two, beyond that people are just standing
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> If that's even a possibility it's not responsible to allow DIY work in this area. At least in the US, in most states, you're entirely allowed to do your own electrical work on your primary residence, and it has to meet
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by Syonyk 4y ago
> There is a massive incentive to do this kind of work poorly, because it leads to being able to do it quickly and fitting in more jobs means making more money. I really, really want to go see some "contractor installed" sola
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by Syonyk 4y ago
I've been working on how to bring the cost of solar down, at least for "homeowner installed DIY" systems in my area (legal, grid tie, permitted, inspected, etc), and I'm fairly certain the latest iteration of this will c
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by Syonyk 4y ago
x86 virtualization is pretty nasty because it was tacked on long after the architecture was developed. The ARMv7, and especially ARMv8 virtualization, is a lot cleaner, with less "nasty corners in the hypervisor." https:/&#
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by Syonyk 4y ago
> It is slow as molasses on hardware where even Windows 10 and Gnome are both fast... I haven't had that problem. There's no GPU acceleration, so anything heavy on the GPU is a problem, but in terms of general use, I don&#x2
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by Syonyk 4y ago
> Honestly what is the benefit? Clearly, you're not in the business of selling high performance, modern computers with 8GB of RAM... Apple's base amounts of RAM are stingy at best.
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> Although something like QubesOS can theoretically dream of being semi-mainstream with support from hardware and OSS OS vendors like RH/Suse/Canonical or even Microsoft. I'm trying to encourage as many people as I can t
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> ...but the speed with which children change size soundly outstrips the lifetime of the average piece of clothing. So you swap clothing around to other parents who have younger kids, in exchange from clothing from people with older ki
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by Syonyk 4y ago
> What the fuck?! Sooner we can decouple from that regime the better in my book. "The Saudis, a despotic, murderous regime who... er, what's that? Gas prices are where ? The Saudis, a heroic, brave people, living in a won
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by Syonyk 4y ago
> How many times has SGX been broken now? Quite a few. L1TF/Foreshadow was pretty catastrophic, and Plundervolt was just funny. In name and execution. Plus various others. > When (if ever) could a reasonable person think
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by Syonyk 4y ago
I'm confused... Why is $0.025/mi sobering? That's about right for an EV. Gas is far higher, by an order of magnitude or so.
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by Syonyk 4y ago
> Add some, say, Chargepoint stations, set the price and off you go. Ugh. Please don't. You pay more for the charger and the ongoing maintenance fees than you'd pay for electricity in an awful lot of cases with a "free,
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by Syonyk 4y ago
If you're thinking of EV charging as it's commonly portrayed in the media ("You have to go to the fast charge stations and wait, or you have to have, like, 700A service to charge your 300 miles in an hour overnight!"), y
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by Syonyk 4y ago
No, it really won't. You're looking at about a 25% increase in annual energy use, and almost all of that can fit in the cracks of system capacity. Charge at work in the late morning to early afternoon, and it's a perfect
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by Syonyk 4y ago
I'll see on the order of 10k-25k hits (hard to say exactly, most of HN uses adblockers/tracker blockers and I use CloudFlare for caching) from an article on the HN frontpage. It's not that bad, and I could almost certainly s
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by Syonyk 4y ago
First, if you do a lot of the work yourself, "valued at" and "What it cost to build" are two very, very different numbers. Never forget that news articles will tend to be lazy about "Oh, XYZ cost that much new, O
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by Syonyk 4y ago
Yeah. :/ Well, I suppose I'll have to consider if one of the two "smart" devices needs to go, then. It's a bit disturbing just how much you can tell about a house from the floorplan alone, much less if you've
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by Syonyk 4y ago
> If you are reading this August column of Green is the New Black, it is very likely that you have either recently been away or have an imminent overseas trip. Of course it’s now a given that flying is seriously bad for the planet and t
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by Syonyk 4y ago
> There will be an economic cost for this - ensure it is carried by those most able to afford it. Meanwhile, in reality, the EU's jet fuel tax proposal seems to have exemptions for private jets. The problem, though, is that the
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> Eventually someone will start solar radiation management, and we'll plod along like we always do. I'm fairly certain that doesn't do a thing for ocean acidification...
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If there's a "high bitrate" (24-bit, 96kHz FLAC or something like that) master, often enough that will be the case. You can reasonably assume that someone who's buying that version of the track has something capable of
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And the reason that works is because HN is mostly hosted on its own stuff, without weird dependencies on anything beyond "the servers being up" and "TCP mostly working."
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> ...the prosecution is going to have a bad time. Probably not. Cop said it, court saw it written, that settles it. Now prove your innocence without the ability to face your accuser. They're a cop, of course they're 100%

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