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by sowbug 1y ago
https://www.google.com/search?q=intentional+interference+wit...
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by sowbug 1y ago
Smart water heaters are interesting, too (though not grid scale). They can use a power surplus during the day to overheat water, reducing the power demand at night. I assume they're smart enough to keep delivering water at a safe tempe
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by sowbug 1y ago
There's some similarity here to US medical/dental insurance. Some work obviously needs to be done, but the entity that promised to pay for it won't. The system adapts (or fails).
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by sowbug 1y ago
I have friends who complain that they are engineers, and had to take so much math in school they don’t use. Every liberal arts major could make this complaint. The curriculum is supposed to teach you to think, not necessarily to teach you
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by sowbug 1y ago
Thanks, I think that answers my question. It seems like there is a lot of regulation to enforce a behavior that was already necessary for microinverters to work at all. But given the risk (utility worker electrocution during outages), I als
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by sowbug 1y ago
Curious: is anti-islanding an actual feature, or a necessary behavior of any power source that adds power to the grid? I can't imagine how a second power source would work at all if it weren't syncing to the main source's AC
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by sowbug 1y ago
Your site, the source of the data, could also include a TOS. Plenty of working examples in the commercial world where licensees are allowed to use data but not compile or resell it.
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by sowbug 1y ago
None of the equipment in this article does that. It takes power from the grid the way any appliance does; it optionally charges by solar; and it provides power the same way a UPS does, using ordinary female power sockets. But there are devi
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by sowbug 1y ago
Same reason Basic Starter Economy Lite airfares exist: to rank higher in lists. Once they have you in the sales funnel and don't have price competition anymore, they can start upselling you on things you're missing.
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by sowbug 1y ago
Reminds me of my first eye exam as a nearsighted youngster. The doctor told me to go look out the window with a pair of temporary lenses. I exclaimed to my mom that those dark splotches on hillsides were trees !
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by sowbug 1y ago
A friend of mine who might be me came up with a similar model during an acid trip a few years ago. Imagine your mind's eye traveling down a hallway of pictures. Some are memories, some are what your senses are actually experiencing, an
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by sowbug 1y ago
I can imagine future solar panels sending spec data to the MPPT using Power Line Communication (PLC), allowing the system to shut itself down gracefully rather than dying. Rapid-shutdown systems already send keepalives using PLC today. But
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by sowbug 1y ago
Instead of Subscribe and Save, which is almost useless for the reason you give, I wish I could place a standing limit order to buy up to X of something every Y months, but only if it's price Z or better.
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by sowbug 1y ago
Try "camera field monitor." Example: https://www.amazon.com/FEELWORLD-Monitor-1280x720-Peaking-In... I used one of these to make a teleprompter-style videoconference setup at home during the pandemic, so I could m
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by sowbug 1y ago
The terminal font reminds me of the Apple II game Drol. https://www.mobygames.com/game/9314/drol/screenshots/apple2/...
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by sowbug 1y ago
Has anyone invented something like the TLS three-way handshake, or a U2F challenge, that can use spoken words as a transport layer? People could then be "safely" tricked into reading back "correct-horse-battery-staple" o
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by sowbug 1y ago
How about using AI as your battery? When your PV panels are producing excess power during the day, spin up a GPU and rent it out through a cloud provider. Spend the money on the power your home consumes at night.
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by sowbug 1y ago
They earned $1.2 billion last quarter. That drain must be in a very nice part of town.
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by sowbug 1y ago
*whoever who is for subjects, whom is for objects. The answer to your query is the subject that is buying the electricity.
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by sowbug 1y ago
The campaign talking point wasn't that Americans should consume less.
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by sowbug 1y ago
Bomb pulse: a global increase in atmospheric carbon-14 resulting from the large-scale nuclear bomb testing conducted primarily between the 1950s and mid-1960s. Used by scientists as a chronological marker to date a wide variety of materials
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by sowbug 1y ago
When I bought mine, I appreciated that they seemed to be pricing it to make a profit as a product, not as a loss-leading foothold for future subscription revenue. How naive I was to think they wouldn't do both.
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by sowbug 1y ago
It's regressive taxation, so for the "party of low taxes" it's totally OK.
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by sowbug 1y ago
Thanks, I missed that! Excellent discussion there.
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Lithium May Be the Key to Stopping Alzheimer's(scitechdaily.com)
14 points by sowbug 1y ago|2 comments
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by sowbug 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room
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by sowbug 1y ago
When red-light cameras are installed at an intersection, the number of rear-end accidents typically increases as drivers unexpectedly slow down instead of speeding up at yellow lights. The cost of these accidents is borne by just about ever
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by sowbug 1y ago
You probably don't, as your current phone ought to last for years. But hardware manufacturers, like software developers, benefit from faster release cycles.
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by sowbug 1y ago
Interesting idea. If you're of age, then arguably there would be no material deception from using a fake or borrowed ID to prove that you're of age. I don't believe for a second that this argument would stand up in court, b
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Croatian Freediver Sers Record for Longest-Held Breath(sciencealert.com)
3 points by sowbug 1y ago|0 comments

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