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901.
by zbrozek 6y ago
I think the short answer is that society simply doesn't value it as much today as it did in the past. We're just seeing the consequences of that slow change in attitude. These days it's more important to have low-effort, smoo
902.
by zbrozek 6y ago
Nice sentiment, but hard to deliver. You have a dishwasher and a fridge, right? They've been running firmware you don't get to inspect for a couple of decades already. Luckily they don't have network access.
903.
by zbrozek 6y ago
I'm sure that's quite common, but so is the reverse. Almost universally, CSRs have no idea how the product works or have any technical knowledge whatsoever.
904.
by zbrozek 6y ago
Usually you have a crummy-but-good-enough encoder on the wheel in the form of a steel tone ring and a magnetic pickup. If you know the steering wheel angle and can observe the relative rotation rates between wheels, you can infer which tire
905.
by zbrozek 6y ago
The grandparent comment is advocating for sufficient levels of taxation to substantially change behavior, and I'm cautioning against unintended consequences of such a policy. I don't follow where the current cost of water is part
906.
by zbrozek 6y ago
Or you'll get more-and-deeper wells and a race to the bottom of the aquifer, as you see in California's central valley. And of course folks will advocate for tiers and caps and exemptions and incentives and all manner of other mes
907.
by zbrozek 6y ago
It's not remotely practicable. Go on and try. I look forward to the report proving otherwise after a year or three. You can't buy things, have accounts (including banking), get healthcare, or get anything done with local governmen
908.
by zbrozek 6y ago
What do you do that wears them out so fast? I've been running the same NVMe disk as my daily driver since 2015 and it's not showing any signs of degradation.
909.
by zbrozek 6y ago
I'd argue against that. I was in the solar industry (as an intern) 2008-2009. The amazing decline of the cost of crystalline silicon shortly thereafter was overwhelmingly the driver of panel cost reductions. The basic recipe of tempere
910.
by zbrozek 6y ago
Flight Simulator 2020 was something around 120 GB. I think Call of Duty is pushing 200 GB and it made the news when they managed to shrink it. On technical merits it makes more sense to implement a good QoS system to ensure fair and respons
911.
by zbrozek 6y ago
Where will that continued cost reduction come from? I think there's still a bit of room left, but not a whole lot. The panels themselves are commodities now where many of them are close to materials cost. There's probably a bit of
912.
by zbrozek 6y ago
It seems likely that different folks may have different needs or wishes or different circumstances and that "feeling safe" isn't the only reason one may want such a permit. I have an amateur radio license for no particular re
913.
by zbrozek 6y ago
You mean your Google router? There will be an Android app or some new device setup pseudo-standard that Chrome will support.
914.
by zbrozek 6y ago
My completely-uninformed bet is that the ability to access sites with self-signed or expired certificates will get hidden behind a flag and ultimately removed from Chrome. Probably in 2-3 years?
915.
by zbrozek 6y ago
You started with protection and ended with performance, but I don't see where you connect them. Could you clarify? I see these kinds of features sort of like padding on football players. It enables (encourages?) carelessness. Maybe the
916.
by zbrozek 6y ago
I agree; I think bricked is a fine word for this, even if it's reversible. Once you give up it's permanently bricked.
917.
by zbrozek 6y ago
Yeah, but oftentimes loads (e.g., A/C or cooking) are not shiftable. And since there's no "EPA drive cycle" for TOU pricing or marketing standards, everybody quotes the lowest-possible rates that aren't representati
918.
by zbrozek 6y ago
I work at an Alphabet company, so at work I use Chrome. Lots of internal tools are really buggy on anything but Chrome, so I have little choice. There's lots of copy-paste of URLs, including fragments, and it's really jarring to h
919.
by zbrozek 6y ago
Why not just bold that part and leave the rest?
920.
by zbrozek 6y ago
I also hate talking to machines, minus some exceptional circumstances. I find it especially annoying when phone menu systems insist that I talk to them. Some of them don't even respond to mashing zero.
921.
by zbrozek 6y ago
I'm less worried about grid collapse and more worried about localized hot spots leading to localized failures. What happens when everyone in my neighborhood comes home and plugs in two Teslas? Looking at the markings on the transformer
922.
by zbrozek 6y ago
I lust after such a thing. But here only AT&T copper is available, with a max speed of 20 mbps, and apparently they're no longer accepting new accounts: https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/columnist/2
923.
by zbrozek 6y ago
My experience with colored rooms is that they absolutely drink light and require an outrageous amount of power to keep bright. But they're fun and I love being in them when someone else is paying the power bill.
924.
by zbrozek 6y ago
e-waste is among the worst flavors of post-consumer waste. If a lack of corporate attention span is meaningfully driving up its creation, then it's probably in society's interest to pay attention to that issue.
925.
by zbrozek 6y ago
The weight checking drives me up a wall. I use this primarily at hardware stores and I frequently can't fit large/heavy items on the output scale. Or the opposite problem, I'm buying a shim or a screw and it simply doesn&#x27
926.
by zbrozek 6y ago
Because companies are really good at optimizing and the outcomes are usually bad behavior that is not-yet legislated. It's a cat and mouse game. Much better to have a plethora of competition so that the competitive market provides the
927.
by zbrozek 6y ago
Fines are probably harder to deliberately mislabel as capex, and therefore less likely to get approved by the CPUC to be passed on to ratepayers. That said, I think these proposed fines are silly. PG&E did actually try really hard to
928.
by zbrozek 6y ago
You're comparing the wrong things. Those weights are of energy stored, but with light it is in motion. Maybe if you manage to get some light stuck in a crystal we can have a meaningful comparison.
929.
by zbrozek 6y ago
I was really excited for the IQ8 until I realized it was three years behind schedule with no release in sight. Elected to go Solar Edge instead. I wonder if Enphase just pivoted to something else entirely and never thought to formally annou
930.
by zbrozek 6y ago
Yes except the last one. Your windmill is not starved of space to make a big dynamo that uses a lot of copper and is very, very efficient. If the superconducting material is cheap you might be able to do it without using nearly as much mate

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