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- Minecraft was solo in the early days

- Dwarf Fortress

- Stardew Valley

- going way back, Tetris

My domain is firstnamelastname.me.

"You need a minimum 3 phase 480v electrical source to charge even a small battery in under an hour. We are talking 150-200Kw?"

The Tesla 3 Long Range AWD has a 76 kWh battery with a range of 358 miles (576 km). The average European car drives 18,000 km/year, or 72 km/day or 10 kWh/day with Tesla's efficiency.

If everyone has giant EV pickups with 200kWh batteries driving 500 miles every day, yeah you have a problem. But that's the tiny minority.

How much space do you think an EV charger takes? They are the size of parking meters. They are built into lamp posts.

If you don't charge at home at least 90% of the time, the EV loses most of the benefits. This will slowly change as more EVs are sold and the charging infrastructure improves.

I discussed this with an Uber driver with a rented Tesla. I asked him how much it cost to charge at home. He said he doesn't, he only uses pay chargers $10-$20 per day.

Some people don't charge at home, even if it would save them money long term

One step closer to wireheads, with a trickle current going across a wire inserted into the pleasure center of the brain, in Ringworld.

We already have a leap year, where we add an extra day every four years. So why could we not adjust the clock every 500 years when it gets out of sync by 20 minutes?

Solar powered 'reefer' trailers have been around for a long time, just not economically viable until recently. Dozens of companies showed new designs last year.

> Curtailment cost money, you still need pay the wind operators to the energy you told them not to produce

Why? What are the real costs? Isn't it just a simple disconnect switch? Why do the wind operators get paid for not delivering power? Is it a contractual issue?

Mine are in groups of four...

> Is it important that midnight is actually midnight?

Midnight is almost never at midnight.

Let's talk noon, specifically solar noon, as it is easier to visualize. Solar noon varies throughout the year, and based on the position in the timezone.

Solar noon for two cities in Eastern Time Zone: 11:29:16 - Boston 12:22:36 - Atlanta

Tomorrow, solar noon in Atlanta will be 12:22:50, 14 seconds later than today. No one notices a 14 second shift from one day to the next. As you can see, solar noon is almost never at clock noon, yet no one complains about that. Who would notice a 1 minute shift over 100 years?

The programming problem is made vastly more difficult because the leap seconds are not known in advance. When a new leap second is announced, every dependent system has to be updated.

How much new code does a 280 character tweet require?

I'm for that as well. Some minor issues that I've thought of. Currently the day changes (Mon -> Tue) at midnight local time. If the day followed UTC, then would California change from Mon->Tues at midnight UTC, which is 4pm currently?

And you can still use UTC as your indicator for day and night. In 100 years, it would only drift around 1 minute.

It's a minor problem. One minute off in a hundred years is something we can all live with.

Maybe we could power the trains along the rail, or in catenary above? Add a very small battery to power it maneuvering around the rail yard?

Computer assistance can prevent over-votes and warn of under-votes. It also resolves any "voter intent" questions (i.e. hanging chads). It can also format the printed ballot to increase the speed at which a machine can read them.

We need a voter verified paper trail, based on an open standard, that can be read by different tabulator machines running different software, and still be hand counted just in case.

I understand your frustrations. But nothing here is anywhere close to a RICO violation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racketeer_Influenced_and_Corru...

But the idea keeps popping up.

https://www.desertsun.com/story/news/environment/2022/08/14/...

https://grist.org/agriculture/drought-water-pipeline-cost-we...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/08/15/climat...

Yet the West wants to "solve" their drought by shipping Mississippi over the Rockies. Maybe just stop farming water-intensive crops in the desert?

Wrong. Everyone loses when I refuse to pay $20 for a package when I only want one channel?

I realize I can't pay $1 per channel (20 channels for $20), but I'd be willing to pay $5.

"Hobby projects can make up to 3000 API calls per month for free."

How many API calls on a page view? One? Many?

That's a bad example. The unoccupied hotel was vandalized before the homeless were moved in. Yes, it a boondoggle, but nothing to do with homeless.

I don't see it as a replacement for sendgrid.

I believe the API is more for the management of a FastMail mailbox. For example, this might allow IFTTT to monitor for emails and take an action.

WoW $60m for initial release, $200m a couple expacks later. The list is missing many games.

DF is noted in the article

Stock Grants are not an "expense" under Generally Accepted Accounting Principles. So by paying in stock, instead of salary, it increases profits on paper. It does help with cash flow and other tangible benefits.

Most employees would be wise to divest much of their company stock as soon as they are allowed. Don't have all your eggs in one basket.

Theoretically, the Department of Interior can impose cuts if necessary to protect reservoir levels. This would likely be challenged in courts all the way up to SCOTUS, and take years to resolve. It's a huge mess