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The device in the article isn't a home appliance.
This isn't your single compressor/evaporator/condenser coil appliance that sits in your kitchen. These are far larger and more complex systems.
The AK-SM 800A can control 170 different refrigeration devices. This is more akin to the entire freezer section (and probably meat and dairy) in your supermarket.
It's not about whether the dead care. It's not for them, just about them.
That analogy might be good, but doesn't resemble reality: the robot vacuum I had never made it anywhere near as clean as when I just hired people to come in once every two weeks to vacuum and clean floors.
What are your qualifications to say that?
How does that work when the buyers have already paid?
Why would it be fun? What do you think could be accomplished?
As a guy who does HVAC as a hobby, this post is hilarious, nobody should take it seriously.
I can see exactly where the practical experience would be invaluable.
> To produce a watt of electricity using natural gas actually produces less CO2 than a watt from solar that far north
What about the watt after that? I still got the solar panel for that next watt, and with natural gas I have... well I don't have anything, I need more natural gas!
> This is bad in that when the battery malfunctions, the energy is released at 30x the rate
Got a study you can link about that?
Hmm it says my ASN has 512 IPv4 addresses, as the guy who filled out the paperwork for that from ARIN and got a /24 (256 addresses) afterwards, I think this has some major bugs.
Oh and it doesn't even properly consume the geofeed information I have published.
It's SolarOS 4 --a pretty well-layered joke.
from the last rental I had, they're not good at that.
That doesn't seem right at all, since my phone doesn't have tethering plan and I can still use CarPlay.
Cool, I don't. iPads are so useful for drawing, and I hate having to use a terminal app on an iPad.
Different horses for different courses.
We can't build a TV from 50 years ago, much less a space rocket.
Because we stopped, we get to do everything over again with hardware from this century.
Wai how is it weaker, like genuinely?
At the time they were ~57,000km out and I calculated it was at least 380ms RTT to the ground receiver, so bad but not unusable.
I don't think you understand how a swiss cheese failure happens. They're not independent or semi-independent. Latent failures, expose active failures, like:
"Committed hard to an assumption that was wrong"
Then causes damage to the seawater pumps along the shoreline, and flooded emergency diesel generators.
That causes total loss of AC and DC power.
Loss of AC and DC power causes the reactor to overheat.
Except that there are a LOT of people that want to work in video games (which is the supply) which then depresses the price (wages)
All of my developer friends in the gaming industry have had far worse working conditions then what I've had.
I may have a positive personal opinion of the GDPR, but I ignore all GDPR requests for the website I have that you can just visit, because I don't want to be seen as doing business that makes me subject to GDPR
I live in the present, and not the past, so I'm not sure what your argument is here.
ns1.he.net - 216.218.130.2, is simultaneously in
Texas (measured from Texas):
8 port-channel13.core4.dal1.he.net (184.104.196.170) 1.830 ms 1.969 ms *
9 ns1.he.net (216.218.130.2) 1.539 ms 1.560 ms 1.555 ms
Virginia (measured from Maryland):
11 port-channel2.core1.ash1.he.net (184.105.222.174) 19.666 ms 24.395 ms *
12 ns1.he.net (216.218.130.2) 16.748 ms 17.268 ms 20.507 ms
And California (measured from California):
8 port-channel13.core1.fmt2.he.net (184.104.188.144) 3.830 ms be7.core1.sjc1.he.net (72.52.92.132) 5.197 ms port-channel13.core1.fmt2.he.net (184.104.188.144) 3.901 ms
9 ns1.he.net (216.218.130.2) 2.600 ms 2.435 ms 2.728 ms
The speed of light doesn't lie, IP addresses don't have any sort of physicality.
> "we don't want IP's from Frankfurt showing up somewhere in Dubai"
From a network perspective statements like that make no sense. IP addresses don't have any sort of physicality,
> That's the same argument people made about Twitter. "If it goes bad, we'll just leave." We know how that played out.
Yeah, it played out with my whole social circle leaving, as evidenced by the fact that all my friends link me to the bluesky post whenever there's something happening now.
20MWh is around what my house used in both 2024 and 2025.