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by zbrozek 1y ago
There are a ton of them in Sunnyvale, so I expect that area to flip to public availability soon.
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by zbrozek 1y ago
That's a weird and crappy arbitrary limitation when I could move an arbitrary amount of data between the two devices otherwise. It's the worst part of Signal.
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by zbrozek 1y ago
It's not 2010 anymore. They will asymptotically reach approximately twice the price of a camera, since they need both a transmit and receive optical path. Right now the cheapest of the good LiDARs are around 3-4x that. So we're ge
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by zbrozek 1y ago
It's a server motherboard, not a consumer motherboard, so it doesn't surprise me that power management is not great. AMD Rome is also not exactly known for its low idle power. Looking at powertop, the various qemu virtual machines
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by zbrozek 1y ago
Yeah all of that is a huge pain and fantastic to avoid.
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by zbrozek 1y ago
My home server is a pig and draws about 100 watts idle.
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by zbrozek 1y ago
I'm a Californian in PG&E territory. My power is unreliable and expensive. I'd take the Texas outcome every time.
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by zbrozek 1y ago
Just directly regulate the externalities with measurable objective limits rather than ban all land uses but one.
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by zbrozek 1y ago
I wonder if there's a business model in leasing cars from Mexico to Americans and swapping around once a year to get around the problem of having Mexican plates. Then you can get Chinese cars into America.
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by zbrozek 1y ago
And that running businesses out of homes is frequently illegal, another casualty of zoning.
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by zbrozek 1y ago
I suspect solar + batteries will be dominant (but should not be the exclusive source) in places which get relatively good sun even in the winter. California and Hawaii, for example, will do pretty well with a mix that is heavy on those tech
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by zbrozek 1y ago
I'm not an expert, but I suspect there will be a few driving use cases. Electrifying places far from the equator means heat pumps and/or district heating and providing for their power demand in the dark. In some places wind can do
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by zbrozek 1y ago
Your experience matches mine. I also found that their coverage of products was simply too thin to be meaningful for me.
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by zbrozek 2y ago
I would be so, so happy if we returned to 18th or 19th century property rights. Euclid has been a century-long disaster.
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by zbrozek 2y ago
There's a lot of unusual and flaky design in the boring plumbing parts of these things that makes them prone to self destruction. For example, using the MCU to make discrete buck regulators that power the MCU is a o.O choice that I thi
46.
by zbrozek 2y ago
Their boards kind of suck. Poor quality control and poor support. I switched to Asrock Rack and never looked back.
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by zbrozek 2y ago
I figured the USB-C connector would be the most controversial of the idea list. Certainly there might be better options, but I was interested in trying to harmonize on something that could radically cut connector diversity and drive up fung
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by zbrozek 2y ago
I really want LPDDR5X (and future better versions) to become standard on desktops, alongside faster and more-numerous memory controllers to increase overall bandwidth. Why hasn't CAMM gotten anywhere? I also really want an update to
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by zbrozek 2y ago
My townhouse HOA decided it was totally worth money to replace our fob system with a system that's deliberately incompatible with Homelink. They claimed without evidence that used car sales were a severe security risk. Nevermind that y
50.
by zbrozek 2y ago
Heads up that this is from October 2022 and is not considering the recent urban fires.
51.
by zbrozek 2y ago
Is anyone aware of an effort to repurpose Echo hardware to do HA voice?
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by zbrozek 2y ago
Yeah, and they ought to be told to stuff it. I don't know why they deserve all the pandering that they get.
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by zbrozek 2y ago
It doesn't have to be remote. In fact, doing it locally would be preferable. I'm just wondering if there's a good solution to doing that with SolarEdge inverters.
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by zbrozek 2y ago
Do you have some other mechanism for getting telemetry?
55.
by zbrozek 2y ago
Is there a useful product I can buy to turn my excess solar electricity into water where the air isn't quite so dry? Around here, particularly in the mornings, the humidity is quite high and practically all surfaces condense water out
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by zbrozek 2y ago
We need to build enough to make housing depreciate with age. Speculative investors are only in the market because artificial supply constraints make it a good bet that prices will go up. If the market becomes free to produce supply, they wi
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by zbrozek 2y ago
I don't know why I got downvoted for a minor correction of an acronym along with a link explaining what it means.
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by zbrozek 2y ago
Yeah, I stopped getting to reuse plastic grocery bags as wastebasket liners and started buying dedicated liners. And even in the old days when the disposable plastic bags were still available here, I would bring back any bags I wasn't
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by zbrozek 2y ago
They removed CFCs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorofluorocarbon
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by zbrozek 2y ago
Solar panels are assembled with tin-silver-copper solder.

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