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by zbrozek 3y ago
That's a good criticism. The comparison is more to cellular providers where there's open access to the same underlying infrastructure, and we have consistently good pricing nationwide thanks to competition. The point in referencin
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by zbrozek 3y ago
What seems to actually work is increasing market competitiveness. The open access rules that gave us MVNOs appear to have worked great. Texas electric customers have lots of choice and lower costs under similar rules. These broadband subsid
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by zbrozek 3y ago
In California we have the CPUC which regulates utilities. Our three biggest utilities charge around 3x the national average for electricity. The largest--PG&E--has also been setting the state on fire and blowing up neighborhoods. It doe
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by zbrozek 3y ago
Solar panels and batteries are so cheap now that I expect a lot of SFHes in California to go off-grid when the income-graded access charge hits. My SFH is in the south bay and I disconnected in November.
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by zbrozek 3y ago
I'm good about keeping my wrists straight; it's not a palm problem. I very frequently want to tap and then move, but end up erroneously dragging. Regarding the blanket; it's cool indoors here and so blankets are a fact of lif
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by zbrozek 3y ago
I've done that and have had zero errors after running as many loops as completed overnight (if memory serves, just under ten full loops of memtest86+). But I agree with the intuition; I was also suspicious of memory.
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by zbrozek 3y ago
Windows 11 and Fedora
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by zbrozek 3y ago
There haven't been any releases in the time that I've had the computer, and the board shipped with still-latest.
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by zbrozek 3y ago
It seems to retrain more often after a hang, but not every time.
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by zbrozek 3y ago
Deepest apologies; I meant to say grille. Regardless of the flow direction, I am constantly blocking the aperture with my legs or blanket. The touchpad frequently misidentifies movement as taps, something that hasn't been a problem for
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by zbrozek 3y ago
My AMD Framework 13 occasionally hangs and requires hard reset to come back to life. No errors are generated. As far as I can tell it instantly and unpredictably stops executing any instructions at all. There hasn't been a driver or fi
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by zbrozek 3y ago
How do you actually implement this? Waste pipes are huge compared to supply pipes, and rarely take even remotely similar paths. In my home, which I'm repairing right now, I have one water heater but three different waste egresses from
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by zbrozek 3y ago
LiDAR transmit power is practically only limited by eye safety. And retinas are fixed size while the aperture of your transceiver isn't. Get a big lens and you can transmit a lot of power and collect a lot of reflected photos.
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by zbrozek 3y ago
That model was on my list, but is now dead to me. Thank you for your help!
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by zbrozek 3y ago
Sensors and their ranges aren't the right thing to point to. Off-the-shelf options are typically geared towards the ranges useful for passenger vehicles because that's where the volume is, but with money and time one can design so
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by zbrozek 3y ago
Name and shame, please. I'm in the market for a dishwasher and would like to know what not to buy.
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by zbrozek 3y ago
I abandoned Ubuntu when they started pushing snaps. Zero regrets and Debian has been great.
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by zbrozek 3y ago
I would start by wanting to know about the impact and benefit relative to other activities which we already do. Like how's it compare to various flavors of farming?
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by zbrozek 3y ago
Is there a way to know how much to care? We do all sorts of things that displace species, so having some way of contextualizing and weighting the harm against the benefit would be helpful.
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by zbrozek 3y ago
PG&E is higher: https://www.pge.com/tariffs/assets/pdf/tariffbook/ELEC_SCHED... I think California's IOUs are selling the most expensive electricity of any major provider in the nation.
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by zbrozek 3y ago
Speculation on my part, but most memory chips (DRAM, flash, EEPROM) that I've seen sold are measured in bits rather than bytes. That might be because some of them aren't divided into or accessed in bytes. Or, as you say, it's
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by zbrozek 3y ago
As a passenger I'd love both, thank you. I do find it annoying to have to walk down the center stooped over or with my head turned sideways in smaller planes. I'm not even unusually tall--only 190 cm. But yes, I do value legroom m
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by zbrozek 3y ago
In PG&E territory- Summer peak: $0.61806 Summer off-peak: $0.53462 Winter peak: $0.51536 Winter off-peak: $0.48701 https://www.pge.com/tariffs/assets/pdf/tariffbook/ELEC_SCHED...
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by zbrozek 3y ago
Probably a lot of folks were simply not introduced to it. I would love to run an OS with support for current APIs but with the Windows 2000 UX.
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by zbrozek 3y ago
Good news, my California town makes terracing so difficult to do that it might as well be illegal. So when it rains there's rapid runoff into a creek that makes a beeline for the ocean.
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by zbrozek 3y ago
How do we get to a more decisive government that doesn't try to make everything a priority (especially things that are at odds with each other)? Is it to reduce direct participation and rely on representation (remove public hearings)?
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by zbrozek 3y ago
Sure does! That's why I used "electeds" rather than "representatives", to make really clear the connection. On the other hand, the state is losing population on an absolute basis (and relatively even more so against
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by zbrozek 3y ago
Our electeds simply don't care what anything costs, and as a result we have (probably) the worst cost disease on the planet.
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by zbrozek 3y ago
It's probably a good idea. But doing that alone--without substituting market incentives with something else--means that there won't be new products to use in that way.
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by zbrozek 3y ago
Wow this is amazing. Clicking on zones is also more informative than I expected. Massive kudos. Also, it's nice touch to let me turn on SimCity music. Fantastic all around.

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