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I'm glad I'm not the only one who found the title and content disconnected. Seems like the author got a chance to talk about their interest in literary history by adding a paragraph at the end and an enticing title.

Hence the reason this hasn't taken off yet. Add in the geographical requirements of heat close enough to the surface and costs go up higher. Because it's baseload power, its ouput has higher value than intermittent sources per mwh produced.

This is a joke right? It journals updates to disk and has a well-defined recovery procedure.

It would be worth looking at your investor-owned utility which has had an energy monopoly for half a century and has little incentive to innovate.

Any opinions on mozilla's DXR?

Giving me a heart attack reading this

> All you would need to do is to collect them with an electrostatic precipitator – a device that exposes the charged particles to an electric field and efficiently sweeps them away.”

How do they propose to do this? A little device mounted near each brake pad? A skim of the paper doesn't appear to show an opinion from them beyond citing this prior study [1]. The conclusion of the cited paper appears to show a progression towards a target:

> This study is our first step to install dust collectors in actual vehicles, in order to reduce the brake wear PM emissions. In this study, we evaluated the collection efficiencies of an inertial separator, an ESP, and a hybrid precipitator, independently. In the next stage, we will design a suction system that considers the structure and space of the brake system; then, the full dust collector system setup will be installed on a vehicle. At the final stage, the actual collection efficiency of the dust collector will be measured under various on-road driving conditions.

[1] https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4433/13/7/1121

The "phased rollback of net metering" is a bit more extreme than you suggest. Have you heard of income-based billing? [1]

[1] https://www.cbs8.com/article/news/local/working-for-you/sdge...

One solution, you schedule pumping during times when the battery is charging, because presumably there is far more power available than can be used to charge the gravity battery anyways.

Along my long destination driving routes through rural areas, the charging stations rarely have a car in them. So yes and no to this. Obviously urban and near-urban areas are always packed.

Isn't it now two weeks not six months?

I love this. With a bit more free time and experience this would be me.

If the CPUC is going to establish statewide policy on the claim that solar is taking from the poor and giving to the rich... incentivizing non-tax-paying churches is a really bad idea.

Granted, the CPUC's position is untenable. I think any entity should be incentivized to invest in distributed energy generation. But let's not kid ourselves that churches need special carveouts versus residential in the current climate of CA politics.

More on cars than kids? Wow. I am genuinely surprised.

Yep. So much double-speak and lying through the teeth here. The audacity to mention "we're investing in assistant" in an announcement about how they are decidedly de-investing is rich.

Thank you. I can't believe how much FUD is out there from IOU (investor owned utilities) lobbyists that the general populace has accepted uncritically as fact. We need to encourage distributed generation by policy for so many reasons, not the least of which is a reduced need for transmission and land use.

The semiconductor industry is split into two key components:

- fabs

- engineering design centers

Broadcom is hardly a semi company anymore after all its high-margin software acquisitions (see: VMWare, Computer Associates/"CA Technologies", etc).

Qualcomm doesn't operate any fabs that ship to customers.

Nvidia doesn't make anything.

Many of the others in your list have found profitable niches at scale that are huge value-adds to their customers. The semi space is known for consolidation and many of these players are the last survivor in their field, which lends itself to profitable operations that don't have competitors due to the costs of entry.

I have found Tesseract to be both better than I expect (it feels great when it works most of the time) and worse than I expect (not quite enough correct data to fully rely on).

The two situations are different. The Thai rescue had Elon exhibiting strange personal behavior. I never agreed with it.

When he admitted he built a staged rail company to subvert public high speed rail and encourage more sales of his cars, it strikes directly at the heart of his "mission" and "values" that are so adored by the auto & tech industries.

I'll try to take this as a serious comment, but I'm unsure because it displays a lack of awareness.

The goal of the project is to go where people want to go. The CAHSR project took in a lot of feedback as well as local political involvement to get to its alignment. Because of this process, it hits many major population centers and destinations throughout the state. It eventually will connect all three major metro areas (SD, LA, SF) as well as the capital city (Sacramento). Once complete the HSR will be the fastest door-to-door mode of inter-city transit for many of these destinations.

And when I found this out, I lost a lot of respect for him. All his talk of sustainability is junk when you see words like this.

i found some docker images here: https://github.com/themattman/mongodb-raspberrypi-docker

Are you me? This list enumerates many specific pains I've had over the years. Adobe Acrobat might be next on this list.

we saw that with crypto and they took a hit for a quarter or so and moved on

Mine serves as a fun party trick. I never built this out but I always wanted to build a little display that shows the overhead plane's src/dest, speed, and altitude using the antenna.

It's a drop in the bucket and mostly symbolic, but my state recently passed one: https://wabikes.org/index.php/2023/04/26/electric-bike-rebat...

Sounds like the Google product is doing its job - awaking you and getting you out of bed :)

This hits so hard. Remembering to spit out the right incantation these days is exceedingly difficult.

Commenting here for sympathy.

My only advice is to find every regulator from the local to national level that governed financial and consumer issues where you used to live in the US. State level ones are usually the right balance of having enough resources and heft to fight for you, yet still small enough where your complaint might reach a person. If all else fails, contact the state attorney general for the state you used to live in, many have online forms. File complaints everywhere you can. Eventually the bank will be forced to reply to some of these regulators and CC you on snail mail.

When all else fails, do your best to guess email addresses of those at the bank and work your way up internally that way. Cite dates, support ticket #s, transaction #s, etc to prove you're the real deal and won't go away until it's fixed.

If you're persistent enough it will get resolved.

> 2,400 queries per order? That's not that crazy IMHO.

Isn't that off by at least an order of magnitude though? It forces them to operate a much larger cluster than should be necessary.