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   by zbrozek 3y ago

   The article is specifically about California, so looking at PG&E, SDG&E and SCE is appropriate. They all have eye-watering prices for electricity. For example, PG&E's default residential plan rates range from $0.41 to $0.54
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   by zbrozek 3y ago

   Fossil fuel in a generator completely solves that problem. Looking at my usage for last year, I would've needed to burn about 20 gallons of gasoline to cover my solar shortfall. All of it was in two tranches during atmospheric river ev
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   by zbrozek 3y ago

   When I use Google search-which is rare these days-I exclusively use verbatim mode.
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   by zbrozek 3y ago

   If that's true, why is self-generation (with storage!) cheaper than paying PG&E?
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   by zbrozek 3y ago

   I use my target cup to measure out how much water to boil.
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   by zbrozek 3y ago

   This reply comes to you via a Surface Pro on my lap as I lay on a couch. #1 is true but not as bad as it might come across to someone who hasn't used one. If they used a friction hinge range than a true flap this would be largely ameli
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   by zbrozek 3y ago

   If each transistor got 2 micropennies more expensive, that would more than double the price of a midrange CPU.
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   by zbrozek 3y ago

   In my town's it's to pay an infinite parade of the city manager's friends as consultants on various non-issues.
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   by zbrozek 3y ago

   Security isolation isn't the only possible goal of virtualization.
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    by zbrozek 3y ago

    I've only been in one car that did that. I turned off the tablet and left a negative review.
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    by zbrozek 3y ago

    It's our lived reality, not the SWE-centric reality. We don't really want new features, we want the existing features to work better. The voice output on Google Maps is simply bad. It calls out turns when there are other available
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    by zbrozek 3y ago

    My wife and I prefer navigating with Apple maps after Google Maps stagnated for years and years. Apple's voice instructions are incomparably better.
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    by zbrozek 3y ago

    It's true, but that'll take quite a long time and the advantage is unlikely to evaporate completely even if it erodes. And there's probably no amount of water use that humans can realistically achieve in that same time period
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    by zbrozek 3y ago

    Though the southwest is a great place to farm if you have the water to leverage the sun and the relative dearth of pests. Given the economic potential of a huge fraction of the country, I'd wager that getting water there will be worthw
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    by zbrozek 3y ago

    Here in the states, municipal construction hours ordinances usually force work to occur during the day.
16. 256.▲
    by zbrozek 3y ago

    Though probably not for steering a boat, which has some real-time constraints.
17. 257.▲
    by zbrozek 3y ago

    Thank you, this is the best explanation of the utility that I've seen. I appreciate it.
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    by zbrozek 3y ago

    I'd love to get a clear explanation of what libvirt actually does. As far as I can tell it's a qemu argument assembler and launcher. For my own use-case, I just launch qemu from systemd unit files: https://wiki.archlinu
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    by zbrozek 3y ago

    Ditto. My current laptop is starting to get flaky and I'm getting increasingly itchy for a replacement, so I might start looking for quicker-shipping alternatives.
20. 260.▲
    by zbrozek 3y ago

    DIY install is great. It's really not hard and saves a huge amount of money.
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    by zbrozek 3y ago

    There's one in the closet of my childhood bedroom in Kentucky.
22. 262.▲
    by zbrozek 3y ago

    We squandered the opportunity presented by PG&E's bankruptcy.
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    by zbrozek 3y ago

    I'm a hardware engineer, so my point of view is biased a bit towards atoms and what they can do for me: Cell data networks and Starlink are pretty awesome. Mostly-good connectivity just about anywhere is a huge advance. wifi is great.
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    by zbrozek 3y ago

    Oh sure, but I was responding to the comment above saying that desktop users in general shouldn't care about power consumption. That's too broad.
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    by zbrozek 3y ago

    Where and when electric energy is $0.51/kWh, one might care quite a bit.
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    by zbrozek 3y ago

    I hadn't considered such a widget until your post, but now that you mention it I would totally buy one.
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    by zbrozek 3y ago

    Thanks! That's exactly why I was looking into the comms side but didn't spend more than a couple moments on the cable side. I was considering building something that had board-to-board connected modules and used PD to negotiate th
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    by zbrozek 3y ago

    Good to know, thanks! I was interested in the comms side and not the cable side since I was considering building a widget that didn't use USB-C as the physical layer but did use PD for power negotiation.
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    by zbrozek 3y ago

    Oops; wrong guess then. Still, that's extremely high and I'm glad it wasn't a destination on my list. I'm thinking of moving from CA to the southeast to escape the cost of living. Probably KY, TN, GA, SC, or NC.
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    by zbrozek 3y ago

    Last time I looked at the comms protocol, it seemed possible to request up to 10 amps. I'm not sure there's a physical spec for a matching cable, but there's also no way for a cable to communicate its current limitations.