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by zbrozek 4y ago
I'd really like to know how to buy their cells or get custom packs as a small volume vehicle manufacturer. AFAICT they're impenetrable unless you're a very large customer.
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by zbrozek 4y ago
If you're the property owner it should be easy for you to build whatever level of residential density you want and think the market will make profitable. Why is it illegal for me to build townhouses on my land? I'm in an area wher
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by zbrozek 4y ago
It's a stifling regulatory environment that's landed us here. Zoning is restrictive, planning commissions are slow and restrictive, councils are slow and restrictive. All of the agencies involved want to capture value from constru
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by zbrozek 4y ago
PG&E pricing is higher than that, ranging from 37 to 49 cents per kWh on their default residential plan. That's more than three times the national average. It's unclear why the state expects folks to electrify when electricity
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by zbrozek 4y ago
Local zoning regulations don't allow it. But backup power systems? No problem.
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by zbrozek 4y ago
Los Altos Hills resident here. Sign me up for one in my yard. There's an empty lower acre begging to do something useful.
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by zbrozek 4y ago
That could be difficult in places with $8M homes.
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by zbrozek 4y ago
Whoops, my bad. I'll be sure to get my condemnation right next time I find a class of deserving product-folk.
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by zbrozek 4y ago
It's been at least 15 years since I've touched a DVD, but I recall the menu system to be the worst feature of it. I've never once wanted anything but the main feature. Also may the product people who decided on "unskippa
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by zbrozek 4y ago
In case the jargon isn't transparent, in automotive a 'skateboard' is roughly a flat frame with batteries, motor, motor controller, and suspension onto which you can bolt the rest. A vehicle platform, really.
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by zbrozek 4y ago
I have very few use cases for a voice assistant, but like them quite a lot. Setting timers and controlling the lights without having to touch anything and while moving around the house is fantastic . Having the voice assistant actually tal
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by zbrozek 4y ago
I did check that out, but it's a bit narrower and deeper than I'm ready for. But maybe that's sort of the point - there's not a great general-purpose way to examine device flash memories.
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by zbrozek 4y ago
I'd really like to learn more about analyzing images dumped from nonvolatile memory, something which this write-up glosses over. Any resources folks would recommend?
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by zbrozek 4y ago
They're both very relevant. Recent CA state housing laws have snipped away at red tape, but with a lot of conditions and loopholes. So they're not going to be as impactful as they could or should be. And more broadly, in light of
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by zbrozek 4y ago
I do, but not every time. I got a DMCA takedown notice on one replacement part I designed. I challenged it and got it reinstated, but it left me a little bitter. Regarding spending hours on design... yeah, that part is a drag. I've don
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by zbrozek 4y ago
I've gotten excellent utility out of my 3D printer for stuff like that.
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by zbrozek 4y ago
There's thousands of products in the category, I'm sure something can be found. I clicked right past flat ferrites and wasn't seeking any particular stamp.
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by zbrozek 4y ago
Powerline networking is <100 MHz and a pretty pedestrian filter will effectively block it. I'd wager that a pair of clamp-on ferrites[0] between your meter and your panel would work just fine. [0] https://www.digikey.com&
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by zbrozek 4y ago
CA is much bigger than SF and is estimated to be short 3-4 million homes[0]. The state's population has been in net decline for the last two years, primarily resulting in domestic outmigration[1]. The entire US had around 142 million h
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by zbrozek 4y ago
Yeah, in the past I tunneled everything through a VPS. These days I no longer bother, but I'm also getting service via a small ISP. It's a co-op and I got voted onto the board, so I have reasonable confidence against shenanigans.
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by zbrozek 4y ago
California is broadening its housing crisis to the rest of the United States via remote working NIMBYs. It's a national problem now and it deserves a federal response. A century of property rights erosion has made it extremely difficul
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by zbrozek 4y ago
Carriers do all kinds of filtering. They've blocked mail, file transfer, network discovery, and others for a long time. cgNAT blocks half of everything.
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by zbrozek 4y ago
But if they use that additional quota, doesn't that break compatibility with older devices?
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by zbrozek 4y ago
I went to a restaurant on Friday where the sit-down experience was identical to the online-ordering take-out experience but with a table in front of the pick-up counter. The food was fantastic but I hated the experience. Some time ago I had
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by zbrozek 4y ago
I sort of wish that we used something more like this[0] for add-on module power connectors. And a better mechanical design. The perpendicular card form-factor is silly. [0] https://www.farnell.com/datasheets/1716278.pdf
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by zbrozek 4y ago
The consequences are vast. Would you abandon much of the American West?
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by zbrozek 4y ago
Our solution wasn't exactly cheap, however. It was the only good option for homes on a couple of private streets adjacent to mine, so we did it anyway. I pay $155/mo for now, getting a public static ipv4 address and symmetric 10 g
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by zbrozek 4y ago
I found the online checker result surprising and figured I should call to get more information. On the phone I was told that all of Summit Wood Road was able to get service, including my future address. That particular home had just never a
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by zbrozek 4y ago
Absolutely! And more people should have it (no matter what the IOUs are convincing the CPUC to do). But particularly for cities, there's too much demand relative to rooftop to reach self-sufficiency this way.
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by zbrozek 4y ago
I suspect a lot of that is what we've been building in the last 10 years, but that the low-hanging fruit is taken. Some next-level fruit is solar shade structures over parking lots at existing retail and office sites. Big wind projects

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