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by bradfa 3y ago
TSBs are just that, technical service bulletins on how to fix a common issue. There's no requirement for a dealership to perform the TSB on a new car, a majority of cars with outstanding TSBs won't ever experience the problem the
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by bradfa 3y ago
Same here in upstate NY. Mostly smaller businesses like pizza joints and such but pretty much every gas station has been doing this for years. The only cashless place I’ve seen around here is the major sports stadiums, everyone else seems t
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by bradfa 3y ago
2MiB could be enough space for an EFI implementation, but some features definitely would need to be disabled and it would definitely depend on how big the code for interfacing to the specific hardware on the board actually is. 4MiB is ofte
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by bradfa 3y ago
RasPi 4 requires some special files in the EFI system partition and a special non-stock EEPROM, at least for the older RasPi 4 boards, maybe the newer stock come with the UEFI-enabled EEPROM image? Regardless, in my experience with other E
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by bradfa 3y ago
I didn't see any mention of UEFI in my first read through about the Pi 5. Did I just miss it? I would like to have a quiet and reasonably performant ARM aarch64 box at this price point, but only if it supports UEFI without needing to
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by bradfa 3y ago
It depends. If the point of the VC money is to go after enterprise customers and to expand into other enterprisey software security products, then $100M seems reasonable to me, especially for the time when the investment happened. The VC
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by bradfa 3y ago
Nalgene make HDPE water bottles now. They’re really durable. I’ve had two as my daily use bottles for about 4 years and they’re as durable or more durable than the hard plastic Nalgene bottles I used before.
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by bradfa 3y ago
Yes. This. In my past in situations like this I have given the sales team the line “I can answer truthfully or you can write your own answer to the customer.”
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by bradfa 3y ago
Because the grid needs a very large consumer to stop RIGHT NOW and be under contract to do so when told. To get this contract, the grid promises money. There is no guarantee that adjusting the power cost for a customer will make them stop c
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by bradfa 3y ago
For grid stability yes. The ideal grid stability solution is a customer who can sink AND source large amounts of power for a reasonable amount of time and very quickly. Like a giant battery farm can, although these are quite expensive.
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by bradfa 3y ago
I’ve never done anything useful with Christmas lights or bitcoin. But Christmas lights are much prettier to look at than bitcoins.
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by bradfa 3y ago
Wait till everyone being negative about bitcoin miners getting paid to not mine learn that sometimes the grid operator is going to pay the bitcoin miners TO mine. Effectively the bitcoin miners will sometimes not only get free electricity b
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by bradfa 3y ago
The Watt is a unit of instantaneous power. Watt-hours are a unit of energy.
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Presumably the bitcoin miners were the cheapest way the grid operator could buy this stability. If the grid operator chose a different solution to achieve grid stability then power may cost more for all consumers. It’s a trade off.
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by bradfa 3y ago
Grid stability is not free. This concept is not new. Historically things like aluminum smelting had very similar contracts to ensure grid stability.
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by bradfa 3y ago
Really important documents are paper and stored in a filing cabinet into labeled folders. Every so often we go through these and discard the papers we no longer need (old tax records beyond 7 years, utility bills more than 6 months old, et
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by bradfa 3y ago
The people who run the site now are adding new material to it. I built a new bike this year and actually found a lot of useful info for modern components on the site. Maybe our bike types don't overlap much, but I've personally
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by bradfa 3y ago
Your local water authority may publish their test results, including their testing to detect such forever chemicals. Mine does: https://mcwa-wordpress-media.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/upl...
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by bradfa 3y ago
I've been sticking to reading https://text.npr.org/ and my local PBS/NPR-affiliate's local news coverage. Yes, both are biased and lean towards the liberal end of the news spectrum, but neither seems to push
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by bradfa 3y ago
Corelle is owned by the same conglomerate as Instant and Pyrex, it seems.
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by bradfa 3y ago
A nice advantage of PCIe switches is that device-to-device transfers are required to be supported. Many/most PCIe root ports don't support device-to-device transfers through the root port. So if your use-case requires PCIe devic
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by bradfa 3y ago
For doing manual labor like construction, look into joining a union. The better unions provide a LOT of services and benefits for laborers. A friend works for a local union's benefits group, they have very good health insurance, unem
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by bradfa 3y ago
I believe AM commercial radio broadcasts in the USA are medium frequency, not low frequency. My AM radio tuner on my desk goes from 530 to 1700 kHz. Making good antennas for this frequency range generally requires rather physically large a
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by bradfa 3y ago
I used to have 768kbps down / 128kbps up cable internet. There was some buffering on Netflix at the start of a stream but it was fine. When we got upgraded to 1.5Mbps down / 256kbps up there was basically no buffering at the sta
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by bradfa 3y ago
It depends. If the charity is doing amazingly good things and the executives in question are making a big impact on being able to do those good things, then yes I'd be fine with that.
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by bradfa 3y ago
YouTube, Netflix, music streaming, most video conferencing, and general web browsing all work fine on a 1.5Mb/s link in my experience. It's certainly not fast, but it's fast enough to do the basics.
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by bradfa 3y ago
It's not unavoidable. This is my point. You could just say something like "multiply the number of dependents entered previously on form 1040 by $2000, enter value on line X" and you'd still have a child tax credit and t
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by bradfa 3y ago
If they're single, have only W-2 income, and have no children, then maybe... Just the child tax credit for 2022 requires filing an additional schedule 8812 (which is somehow referred to in some places as schedule 8) and in order to co
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by bradfa 3y ago
For electric cars, I don't believe there's an ownership period required. But for example of the right way to do it, in New York if you buy an electric car then at the time of purchase the state will pay $500 to $2000 to reduce th
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by bradfa 3y ago
If the federal government really wanted to save money on tax collection, improve the accuracy of tax collection, and drive the tax preparation industry out of business which would save every person and company significant money, then the fe

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