TwiztidK

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by TwiztidK 2mo ago
My company operates two Jupiter Power owned LFP batteries in the MISO market. Each of them draws .5 - 2MW constantly for the HVAC system. If the cost for sodium batteries is similar to LFP, that alone would be a reason to switch.
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by TwiztidK 2y ago
Not too long after Parler was kicked off AWS, I was on a call with hundreds of representatives from power utilities about a modeling tool we were transitioning to. It was mentioned that the tool was hosted on AWS and someone suggested they
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by TwiztidK 2y ago
Actually, it seems like a great time to get involved with the grid (at least in the US). In order to comply with FERC Order 881, all transmission operators need to adjust their line ratings based on ambient temperatures with hourly predicti
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by TwiztidK 2y ago
> I suspect most grids are extremely easy to hack I’d expect the opposite. All companies controlling equipment that is part of the “Bulk Electric System” have to be NERC CIP compliant and are audited regularly with large fines for non-co
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by TwiztidK 2y ago
Same link confirms that only 11% of undergrads are international students.
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by TwiztidK 2y ago
The era of Twitter/X status pages needs to come to an end given how unusable it is if you aren't logged in.
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by TwiztidK 2y ago
Cantina Royale’s Tomasa hot sauce (more of a chili oil) is my favorite for eggs or potatoes. It has a nice smoky chili flavor and decent heat level. https://cantinaroyalhotsauce.com/collections/frontpage/produ...
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by TwiztidK 2y ago
I'm really curious how this would've looked if he'd taken a mid-range budget approach to vision instead of being able to throw (tens of?) thousands of dollars of industrial motion capture cameras at it. Something like 2-4 glo
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by TwiztidK 2y ago
Similar website for those in the US: https://www.gridstatus.io/home Shows fuel mix, load, and price data for all of the ISOs. It's been really exciting to watch lately because you can see the huge uptick in solar and b
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by TwiztidK 3y ago
I have a Google Photos album (shared with a few close family members) that automatically adds photos of my daughter and syncs them with the Aura frames her grandparents have. We've had this setup for the last two years and it works rea
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by TwiztidK 3y ago
You're dead on about rigid mounts for the pedals. One of the first issues many sim racers run into with regular cheap pedals and a desk mounted wheel is that they pedals slide once you start braking hard. And with load cell pedals the
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by TwiztidK 3y ago
This is the route I wish Apple had taken with the Mac Pro.
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by TwiztidK 5y ago
I highly recommend the Dell UltraSharp U4919, of which I currently have four (two at home and two at work). Almost my entire department switch to them as soon as they came out. My other ultra-wide is an ASUS PG348Q. It's crazy how that
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by TwiztidK 5y ago
I really love the concept of NEVs but the speed is just a bit too limited to be useful for me. Almost every place I go regularly (work, grocery store, etc.) requires that I briefly travel on a 45/55 MPH speed limit roads where I think
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by TwiztidK 5y ago
Many products are released on a yearly basis, but very few people are upgrading every year.
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by TwiztidK 5y ago
Worth considering in many places (especially due to the additional hassle of having a car in some cities) but not viable in others, at least without considerable hardship.
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by TwiztidK 6y ago
I used to use this feature all the time when I was in school. When I lived in the dorms they limited our external connection speed to 8Mbps but all of the department servers I had access to weren't limited (by anything other than the s
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by TwiztidK 6y ago
The difference is that cocaine use is only really harmful to the user whereas murder obviously involves a third party. You also have to consider the impact of the policies themselves. Cocaine prohibition may reduce cocaine addiction but it
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by TwiztidK 6y ago
That was the point. Despite London being a much larger population center with much higher cost of living, engineers are still paid more in Detroit.
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by TwiztidK 6y ago
You sure? I just did a quick search for EE salaries in London[1] compared to Detroit[2] (the closest large city to me) and Detroit comes out ahead by a lot. And I'm sure rent is cheaper. However, I agree that salaries are ridiculous in
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by TwiztidK 6y ago
The time scales it operates in are usually quite a bit larger than systems that would typically be discussed here, but I don't see how "online" would be a descriptor than "real-time".
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by TwiztidK 8y ago
And Isle Royale which is currently closed for the winter. The park is free to enter two days a season but that wouldn't include the $136 ferry ticket (unless you take your own boat).
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by TwiztidK 8y ago
I used to order candy boxes occasionally when I was in college. My weekly food "budget" was $80-$120, so spending $30 a month on candy just meant skipping takeout a few times.
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by TwiztidK 8y ago
This was my experience throughout my K-12 education and I graduated in 2010. Every time I was sick or injured the nurse was at different school, so they'd just send me home. The only exception was when my gym teacher suspected I had a
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by TwiztidK 8y ago
I'm currently teaching an electronics class and have used this site heavily for in-class demonstrations. Some of the concepts (like a Push-Pull amplifier) are much easier to understand when you can see a visualization of how it works.
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by TwiztidK 8y ago
I work at a power company. For portable ladders, we use both wood and fiberglass. However we don't fight fires so we don't take fire or heat ratings into consideration and we maintain a minimum distance of 10' (or OSHA minimu
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by TwiztidK 8y ago
So, doing the "right thing" might not be the way to phrase it, but there are many athletes who lived within their means themselves and were taken advantage of by people they trusted. A recent example of the is Jack Johnson [1], wh
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by TwiztidK 8y ago
Maybe just an American thing, but we kind use the term for both but usually call the larger ones "mopeds". If there was a change, I don't think it was too recent either as I had electric (similar to the Bird scooters, but muc
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by TwiztidK 8y ago
A few years back my company installed a few thousand capacitor bank controllers on the bottom utility poles. Sometime last summer, we started doing routine inspections and found a few of them covered with ants. Turns out that something in t
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by TwiztidK 9y ago
I'm going to assume you mean 'in years when 4% exceeds $80k, leave the excess invested'. As the whole point of using 4% as a safe withdrawal rate is that it allows the good years to balance out the bad years.

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