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by jdeibele 3y ago
I would have said that Japan was not great for solar but surprisingly (to me) they have almost 20X more solar energy produced than wind. Renewable sources of electricity would seem to be solar, wind, hydro, geothermal, biomass, and nuclear.
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by jdeibele 3y ago
I finally (after a year) got my Bolt EUV with the lesser (200,000 miles of roads instead of 400,000) version of GM's SuperCruise. I've used it to drive 250 miles for a long weekend with my wife, then the 250 miles back home. Volu
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by jdeibele 3y ago
A couple of benefits to the apps: one is that you get exact information on the charging session. The bigger benefit is that some charging stations will stop charging once your battery is "full", wait a bit, then start charging an
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by jdeibele 3y ago
When the realtor called to say that the previous offer had fallen through and wanted us to buy, he said a couple of times that the owner didn't have to have flood insurance. We hadn't said anything about flood insurance. So it se
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by jdeibele 3y ago
Plus another $24 or so in fees. I seem to remember there not being any fees the first time I signed up, which was over two years ago but they were there 18 months ago. I’m assuming they didn’t charge them at the start to make the price more
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by jdeibele 3y ago
https://riskfactor.com We were going to buy a house overlooking a creek but were told that an offer had just been accepted. A few days later, we got a call that for some strange reason the sale had fallen through. My wife and
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by jdeibele 3y ago
It seems like this is great for producing a car as cheaply as possible. If one of those 3 parts (front casting, rear casting, structural battery) is damaged in a wreck, it seems probable that the car would be totaled by the insurance compa
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by jdeibele 3y ago
I don't know if they have but charities (nonprofits and churches) lobbied against increasing the standard deduction or to make an exception for charities. Which didn't happen. https://www.philanthropy.com/article
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by jdeibele 3y ago
I've had a Chevy Bolt EUV for 3 weeks. We are moving to a new house that has a 240V outlet in the garage. This house does not, so I'm using the stock Chevy portable charging cable with the 110V adapter, not the 240V one. Settin
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by jdeibele 3y ago
I've lost a lot of confidence in Apple's keychain. I had been using iCloud Keychain and backing up username and password into BitWarden. I say "had been" because 189 lines of garbage entries are in iCloud Keychain and I
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by jdeibele 3y ago
On the grid issues: it seems like battery storage is either massive or individual. What doesn't seem to be happening is battery storage at the substation level. It would take planning but substation batteries could run low during th
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by jdeibele 3y ago
Came here to post something similar. I just got a Bolt EUV, which does 0-60 in 7 seconds, plenty fast enough to get me in trouble. I'd pay $90 to have a month of driving 0-60 in 3 or 4 seconds to impress my in-laws. After that, exp
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by jdeibele 3y ago
We stopped taking cabs years ago when the cab we ordered for very early in the morning didn't show up, ending in a scramble to get to the airport and parked. What most people like about Lyft or Uber: known price, known route, and backu
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by jdeibele 3y ago
Over time I've switched from Dropbox to Google Drive to iCloud as my primary way of storing files I want backed up and/or able to be shared. Replacing the Dropbox client with Maestral https://maestral.app meant a much
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by jdeibele 3y ago
I paid $1.99 for Vinegar and on my iPad (and Mac) I get ad blocking, videos playing in the background, etc. It can be a little clunky because autoplay of the next video doesn't seem to work and there are times I'd like to use a m
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by jdeibele 3y ago
Side note: I use 1/1/70 by default when entering birthdays. Only if it's something that I expect to matter - financial or medical institution - do I enter my real birthday. Entering random dates is not a great idea because
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by jdeibele 3y ago
I hadn't known that. Is that a center engine? Intuitively it seems like more would be better so that in the case of that engine failing you could use the other engines to push up and maybe light another engine. Of course, if there&#x
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by jdeibele 4y ago
That was my argument to my primary care doctor. He then arranged for a CT scan of my arteries that showed there was significant blockage. I'm now on statins for the rest of my life to keep cholesterol in the blood down and hopefully
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by jdeibele 4y ago
Not the poster but the Hush extension for Safari seems to work well on this site because I didn't see any notices. And that's what it's supposed to accomplish. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hush-
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by jdeibele 4y ago
The first two references are to the same case. An ex-employee kept his Tesla laptop with confidential information and turned in a personal laptop as his work laptop. That seems worth suing over.
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by jdeibele 4y ago
https://www.energytrust.org/residential/incentives/furnace-a... Some of the incentives may be limited if you have too much income. I was able to get the latest Ecobee thermostat for $90 instead of the list price o
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by jdeibele 4y ago
My wife subscribed to The Economist but we weren't reading it. I tried changing my address to California, which has worked for some subscriptions because of California's consumer-friendly subscription cancellation law. That di
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by jdeibele 4y ago
I don't know AntennaPod but the reason that I use Overcast is that it has three important features: 1) Adjustable playback speed. Probably other apps have this but my default is 1.75X So an hour podcast is cut down to more like 40
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by jdeibele 4y ago
Many years ago, I started an ISP. I labelled every cable on both ends. My more technical partner came in one day and started ripping off the labels. His reasoning? "They're going to be eventually incorrect so let's just
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by jdeibele 4y ago
Oregon has a slightly different approach: the photograph has to show the driver. They then mail a notice to the registered owner. The last I knew, it was possible to say "no, that's not me" without being required to say w
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by jdeibele 4y ago
I took a trip to Fairbanks in February a few years ago. I was warned to plug in the engine block heater whenever I could. There were outlets many places. There was no charge for using the outlet but it was just the typical 110 volt US o
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by jdeibele 4y ago
I'm guessing Individual Contributor. Someone who is not management but also not support (administrator, sales, HR, etc.)
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by jdeibele 4y ago
I installed BackBlaze years ago for my 88-year-old mother-in-law. She has a binder besides her computer with a sheet for each account, some with 7 or 8 passwords scratched out and replaced. I really should have her write out a few key pas
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by jdeibele 4y ago
Our family was in San Jose last week when our Southwest flight was cancelled. It used to be that my first priority would be to go into the terminal and try to talk to somebody. I figured they were the experts. From what I've read, t
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by jdeibele 4y ago
I had actually bought a Nest but never installed it. I sold it on eBay when it was announced that Google was requiring people to use Google accounts with Nest products. What I installed instead (myself) was an Ecobee 3+. I've been

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