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by simfree 4y ago
Driving with an iced over window impairing visibility is illegal in most places, you have to address this with defrosting and perhaps scraping before moving the vehicle. Idling combustion vehicles is bad, but sometimes it's a necessary
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by simfree 4y ago
Letting the car consume a small amount of constant electricity to keep the battery above freezing is thankfully not very expensive compared to a standard space heater (usually 1.5kW at 720 hours a month, costing $150 a month in Seattle). De
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by simfree 4y ago
Large SUVs with overcooked engines to meet emissions requirements (lower PM2.5 emissions at the cost of slightly worse fuel economy) get bad mileage. Having all wheel drive or 4 wheel drive, high ground clearance, a poor aerodynamic design
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by simfree 4y ago
Here in the Pacific Northwest, driving both last winter in BC and currently in the mix of snow, freezing rain and slush. I'm using the same three peaks rated all season tires as I was using in the summer, and driving the same routes as
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by simfree 4y ago
If you plug in every night and miss a night you can almost certainly make it to work the next day, unless your a supercommuter with an older EV that had a small 24kWh pack.
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by simfree 4y ago
People have extremely high expectations of range estimates. These displays are known as Guess-O-Meters for good reason, they only account for past weather, driving conditions and style.
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by simfree 4y ago
18Mpg becomes 10Mpg or worse in the winter in my experience. EV driving can be more efficient if you don't let your battery cold soak for hours, or equally inefficient if you do leave your car unplugged overnight.
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by simfree 4y ago
Charging EVs is easy and simple if you just plug in when arriving at a location. Doesn't matter whether it's Level 1 charging at 1.5kW (120v) or Level 2 at 6.8kW, or if it's -11F out, just plug it in and give it time to charg
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by simfree 4y ago
OP should have gone by percentage of battery left, and just left the car plugged in. Not plugging in when arriving and letting the battery freeze (cold soak) overnight, unplugging after 30 minutes of 1.5kW level 1 charging and basing his en
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by simfree 4y ago
Looks like you usually need to be over 100kW to 500kW to qualify for (or be required to be participate in) demand response programs, and what your paid depends on your utility. Some utilities offer $3.25 per kW of load curtailed. https:&#x
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by simfree 4y ago
Their username is in the repository name, that seems pretty clear to me...
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by simfree 4y ago
OP should clean both microphones on their phone, usually a sewing needle or thin toothpick can do the trick, but 99% Isopropyl on a toothbrush might be needed afterwards if the grill inside that protects the microphone is also clogged up. B
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by simfree 4y ago
This is very neat! Have you done any profiling on what codecs and sample rates this performs best on? Just curious how the performance differs between PCMU @ 8khz compared to Opus @ 48k or IMBE and AMBE+2 (Project 25 Public Safety audio cod
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by simfree 4y ago
There has been plenty of noteworthy pushback against renewable energy has been significant, even for offshore wind farms that would have minimal view impact. Pushback against new infrastructure is high in general, causing society to lean on
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by simfree 4y ago
The pricing link under About leads me to your blog.
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by simfree 4y ago
Sounds like Amazon's relationship with Square. For the use cases they havent had their own engineers write integrations with their primary payment processor to cover, lean on the work of a payments focused company.
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by simfree 4y ago
Nevermind whole classes of apps like NewPipe and F-Droid.
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by simfree 4y ago
> We have never increased the price of a single domain name after registration in our entire decade of existence.
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by simfree 4y ago
It's usually a choose your own frontend registrar for the TLD. Whether that is Gandi, Namecheap, Google Domains, Cloudflare, etc. But the TLDs fix the price underneath, registrars are just resellers.
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by simfree 4y ago
So long as you provide ample time to transition and sound reasoning, firing customers you can't effectively service is the best thing to do.
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by simfree 4y ago
I was highlighting that pre-reserving domains is predatory and unethical. IIRC the domains that are reserved by registrars are usually moved into a temporary hold status with the TLD, so the registrar isn't paying to register the domai
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by simfree 4y ago
8.5 years is not a decade. Precision matters, especially when talking about money and time. Did you verify the actual payment processed by the merchant processor, or just the category it fell in and the price of that category when the domai
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by simfree 4y ago
Pre-reserving domains that have been searched is a common business practice. Some domain brokers implement this at scale IIRC. Unethical & Predatory? Sure, but it's not illegal.
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by simfree 4y ago
Replacing the discs on each wheel is straightforward, and the warping your noticing might be due to pressure from the mounting screws that tie it to the rim of the bike. Have you tried loosening these, applying the brakes fully, and tighten
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by simfree 4y ago
Have you tried Qwant.com? I've been happy with their results, but DuckDuckGo and most Google alternatives lean heavily on Microsoft's database and search engine from Bing, hence both performing much better at long tail LinkedIn se
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by simfree 4y ago
The Eastside dumps it's problems elsewhere, the current homeless situation and lack of facilities east of Seattle is but one example. Everett has made a huge effort with their rehabilitation and detox programs, but they have the same s
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by simfree 4y ago
Ideally the company's officers would be held in contempt and serve time, but realistically it will just be a monetary fine and no real justice will be had for the employees lives who have been disrupted.
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by simfree 4y ago
Hasn't the Ballard Alliance been employing ambassadors similar to the Downtown Ambassadors to defend the blocks (pick up trash, encourage homeless to not sleep on defended blocks, etc)? IIRC their grants and ability to tax local busine
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by simfree 4y ago
You have me laughing my ass off right now. I know one person who is in involuntary detox currently (then onto court ordered rehab). The King County Municipal Court is dishing these out left and right, but that still doesn't prevent rel
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by simfree 4y ago
It's gotten so much worse since Bruce Harrell has gotten into office. Wild to see the Seattle Chamber acting like he is making things better in Downtown when 2 blocks down the hill from City Hall 7-Eleven closed up shop due to all the

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