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  • In my lifetime, about the only rechargeable battery the average person had in their home was the one in their car. Now we've added 4 new major battery chemistries to the commercial space, some with multiple variants within them and all with improvements throughout their lifetimes. This is what science and technology looks like. The results you're looking for would be magic or wishful thinking.

  • I had the memorable experience of watching the first movie in the theatre's. When the apple scene happened a bunch of teenage girls started ooohing and aaahing and I laughed so hard. Then one of my friends smacked my shoulder. I have no regrets.

  • There are fixed costs and proportional costs. Property taxes aren't put on hold just because you aren't running. A certain amount of maintenance will be needed whether or not you produce a watt of power. Some maintenance costs will increase the more power you produce, including fuel costs. All of these factors need to be taken into cosideration when determining how much any given watt costs to produce.

  • Well, I suppose they could just take out the stretch of power line between me and my neighbors who use their service and cut down those maintenance costs altogether!

    This isn't like a driveway, it's more like a road. It's used by more people than the people whose property it's in front of. And where I live, the property owner is considered to be the owner of the lines that extend from the grid to the home, so guess who already pays the maintenance costs on that?

  • My work was using some MS-based account system, but I don't know if this was stock or something they modified. When you had to change your password, it would tell you if your new password didn't meet the password requirements, as usual. What it wouldn't tell you was what those requirements were...

    So yeah, the requirements the system won't tell you about would have to be the worst one i came across...

  • The particular example was getting clock-like behavior without a clock. It had an incomplete circuit that used RF reflection or something very similar to simulate a clock. Of course, removing this dead-end circuit broke the design.

  • Yes, resistive heat is expensive, but that's only part of what makes heat pumps in cars more effective. They don't just heat your cabin, they heat your battery so you maintain range while it's cold out. Here's an article with more details and some pretty infographics.

  • This would be a reason for me to start using Mastodon. I currently don't, and never used Twitter, because the value i got wasn't worth the pain. Mastodon looks like it would be less pain, but there isn't any real value drawing me in. If my country or province spun up instances with verified accounts and media releases, I'd be very interested. If they made their own crappy app, thanks, I'll pass.

  • So, if I read 80% female authors, from Indian, Chinese, African, African American, Japanese, Korean, Australian Aboriginal, Polynesian, and indigenous from North, Central, and South America, the suggestion I'm not diverse enough is okay? Not to mention that, if you're speaking English, if not the majority then a disproportionate minority is going to be white men. And there's the point. Your very statement implies there are only two groups, white authors and not white authors, which would be a lot more obvious if you hadn't replaced "white" with "(different colour)". So what was your reason for doing that, particularly in the context of punching up/down?