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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.

Re:RIP Eric Binnion on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @10:06AM (#50087994)
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.
Re:What's Earth's dominant species by mass? on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @10:20PM (#49987227)
How is it debatable?
What are your qualifications to say that?
Re:An ongoing 3D-printer AGPL violation on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @05:36PM (#49456278)
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!

Re:GM Backs Sodium Ion Batteries for U.S. Grid Storage on Saturday July 25, 2026 @10:18PM (#49053985)
> 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?

Re:The complete IPv4 address space, mapped on Sunday June 07, 2026 @06:31PM (#48439246)
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.
Re:Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid on Thursday May 14, 2026 @09:48PM (#48143562)
from the last rental I had, they're not good at that.
Re:Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid on Thursday May 14, 2026 @09:15PM (#48143329)
That doesn't seem right at all, since my phone doesn't have tethering plan and I can still use CarPlay.
Re:MacBook Neo and How the iPad Should Be on Friday April 24, 2026 @11:13PM (#47898282)
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.

Re:Artemis II safely splashes down on Friday April 10, 2026 @10:37PM (#47726761)
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.

Re:Artemis II safely splashes down on Friday April 10, 2026 @10:16PM (#47726599)
Wai how is it weaker, like genuinely?
Re:Artemis II crew take 'spectacular' image of Earth on Saturday April 04, 2026 @02:29PM (#47641858)
> and if there were it would be accused as being fake and a ploy from American enemies to discredit them.

Yeah so, the soviets were pretty good at dodging things like that:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960_U-2_incident

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.
Re:Entso-E final report on Iberian 2025 blackout on Monday March 30, 2026 @11:33PM (#47582445)
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.

Re:What Young Workers Are Doing to AI-Proof Themselves on Sunday March 22, 2026 @10:01PM (#47484676)
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.
Re:RFC 9849. TLS Encrypted Client Hello on Tuesday March 10, 2026 @12:43PM (#47325693)
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.
Re:RFC 9849. TLS Encrypted Client Hello on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @12:39PM (#47251020)
> "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,

Re:Be Wary of Bluesky on Friday February 20, 2026 @07:51PM (#47096212)
> 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.

Re:Television is 100 years old today on Monday January 26, 2026 @10:08PM (#46775032)
Picture tubes started round, and then became rectangular:

https://www.earlytelevision.org/prewar_crts.html

They didn't really have the problem of picking an aspect ratio because motion pictures existed and that was already 4:3

Re:What a year of solar and batteries saved us in 2025 on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @11:05AM (#46602831)
20MWh is around what my house used in both 2024 and 2025.

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