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by secabeen 2y ago
> You're posting a random day in winter in California, where overall consumption is low even at its highest, because there's very little demand for cooling. You're just seeing the data for today. You can select any day yo
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by secabeen 2y ago
Peak load without solar is not midday. Here's an NYT article from 1975 about introduction of Time of Use billing describing peak rates being in the morning and evening: > Mrs. Wells changed her housework habits because for part of
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by secabeen 2y ago
Eliminating the delivery of kWs doesn't change the grid costs one whit. Grid costs are driven mostly by the number of customers, the max demand that the grid has to support at one time, maintenance, and the distance the lines have to
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by secabeen 2y ago
Do you pay for metadata accesses? Does running a `find` across the filesystem cost anything? What about system calls that don't transfer data? Can I move or rename a file without paying to copy and then delete the associated S3 obje
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by secabeen 2y ago
> I think that voter ID laws are probably fine. I'm in a state that has them, and I suspect that I would feel weird if the requirement were repealed. > I don't know if IDs are free in all states, but if they are, I would be
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by secabeen 2y ago
It's important to recognize that the US system involves many more races and questions on the ballot than in other (especially parliamentary) systems. Electronic-free counting in many states would significantly extend counting times; m
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by secabeen 2y ago
Vendors don't always want to do this. I've seen 6-figure instruments stop working after a major update, and when we go to the vendor for an updated version of the software, their response is "we don't support that hardw
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by secabeen 2y ago
If any device with physical buttons didn't also support screen touch as well, this would be an issue, but that's not the case; every competitor device with buttons also fully supports screen touch, so you get both!
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by secabeen 2y ago
Thank you for providing the data to back up my original unsourced claim. America is a very diverse nation, and people live very different lives across the country. Yet all of them have a right to vote. I would expect that 99+% of people o
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by secabeen 2y ago
< you generally don't see Dems pushing for such a free and ubiquitous system, either Yes, and this seems like a huge missed opportunity for Dems. I would strongly support such a system, and I would be willing to temper my oppositio
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by secabeen 2y ago
In the United States, the lack of citizen identification cards is largely due to Republican opposition. People who lack ID are more likely to be democratic voters, so there is an incentive to oppose getting them ID. There's also a re
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by secabeen 2y ago
Less than half of Americans have passports, and of the remaining half, a significant fraction do not have the necessary documents to obtain one. Many of these people are poor, people of color, or marginalized in other ways. Government ID
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by secabeen 2y ago
I also want to be able to export my passkeys to a format that is not technology dependent. Ideally I'd be able to physically print them out and put them in a safe for my family.
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by secabeen 2y ago
Yet they still market themselves as visualization systems. An open source/free NMS-first product like Zabbix or Nagios (and its successors) is plenty.
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by secabeen 2y ago
Network visualization tools have generally been a solution in search of a problem for me. At both work and home, my network is very stable and unchanging.
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by secabeen 2y ago
I got GRAMPSWeb working out of 3 containers pretty easily. It's worth checking out as well.
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by secabeen 2y ago
Business electric service often has a demand charge in addition to the usage rates; superchargers could easily incur a lot of cost on that element.
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by secabeen 2y ago
Unlike tech companies, the DMV also has to serve everyone, even the high-cost citizens.
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by secabeen 2y ago
> In 2022, there were 150,107 robbery incidents ... reported ... by 13,621 law enforcement agencies ... cover(ing) 76% of the total population https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/LATEST/webapp/#/pages/explorer&#x
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by secabeen 2y ago
All this exists from Decent Espresso, but they are the 1% of the market that is the exception.
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by secabeen 2y ago
Strange that they're buying back that which they were forced to divest of in 2009 and 2016.
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by secabeen 2y ago
The insurance companies are already using AI to generate denials, might as well use it to appeal them too.
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by secabeen 2y ago
Sadly, this also means the end of the Google Maps Timeline feature on the website. All location data will only be stored on-device. I really valued the website feature, I would regularly ask Google what restaurant I ate at in Chicago 5 ye
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by secabeen 2y ago
They can already do this via the cellular phone networks, which need your location to provide the service. Yes, they could discard that data once it was no longer needed, but that is subject to subpoena and preservation orders, so it'
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by secabeen 2y ago
Yeah, or they just tell the solar plants to "curtail" production and not deliver power that they are generating.
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by secabeen 2y ago
They're part of the western grid, which helps some, but the sun is up broadly, so if Arizona has excess power, so do California, Nevada, and other Western states. Likewise, if they need power in the evenings, so do those other states
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by secabeen 2y ago
A big factor is that battery storage wasn't there technologically until recently. You could cover Arizona in solar, but that just pushes the price of power down during daytime hours to $0. It doesn't help during the pinch times
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by secabeen 2y ago
If you are clearly a family, and miss family boarding, I believe they'll let you board whenever you're ready. As long as you get on sometime in the "B" group, you should find an empty row or two at the back of the plane
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by secabeen 2y ago
They create a single-file queue, with what is supposed to be a strict linear sorting. Instead of a group, you get a boarding number from A1 through C60. There's some flexibility in this, generally most people don't mind #44 goin
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by secabeen 2y ago
Tuition is not the only cost; room and board are significant, and go to those loans too. If you take the average loan balance, divide by 4, you get about $8k/yr, which is pretty close to rent for a single student in many college towns

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