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Re:Bidirectional Charging During Grid Outages
on Sunday November 01, 2026 @11:46AM (#50327268)
I really wonder if part of the reason this isn’t more widespread is that utilities with variable rate electricity pricing would get burnt on it. Imagine charging during cheap time then dumping 5-20kWh back onto the grid during expensive time. You could have a positive ROI on a vehicle you regularly drive (timing permitting)
Re:Police chief unplugs Flock cameras after company ignores contract c...
on Sunday November 01, 2026 @11:37AM (#50327192)
Isn’t Bill Gates’ daughter in a tight legal spot for things she did? And didn’t that medical upstart lady get put in prison for several years?
Re:‘You Are Done’: The letter sent to King by the F.B.I (2014)
on Thursday October 29, 2026 @10:52AM (#50290097)
Are you talking about Title VII in Universities?
Re:'It's offensively cheap': Solar power is quietly becoming bigger th...
on Monday October 26, 2026 @11:57AM (#50245958)
I am desperate to find a battery inverter that can be used to supplement my existing grid-tied home solar setup. I only need about 5kW and 10kWh of batteries, but everything I can find is geared towards whole-home power at like 12kW. Way way more than I need. I understand I’m in the minority and there’s probably not a market, but I’d love to find something
Re:AI use leads UC Berkeley math professor to see 'no point' in gradin...
on Sunday October 25, 2026 @01:03PM (#50233679)
Maybe AI will be yet another disincentivized for higher education. When I was considering law school a decade ago, the overwhelming advices from existing attorneys was “unless you’re in the top 10% of the top 10% of universities, you’re wasting your time getting a law degree”. Seems very similar to university today (at least in the USA)
Re:Apple Security Research Device
on Saturday October 24, 2026 @08:09AM (#50220511)
What’s the difference between bribery and a simple agreement? Secrecy?
Re:What I Self-Host
on Thursday October 15, 2026 @10:41PM (#50113300)
Pfsense and maybe openwrt allow split horizon DNS that allows Wireguard tunnels to work seamlessly whether you’re on or off your home network. Took me years to figure out but it’s what I use now
Re:U.S. Treasury Announces Record Enforcement Actions Against Bank of ...
on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @10:46AM (#50088525)
The only positive outcome I’ve ever heard from a DEI program is being a good hedge against groupthink, and bringing different perspectives that can solve problems more efficiently. But most DEI programs don’t seem to set that as their goal. They typically use a physical characteristic as a proxy for finding “different thought process”, with mixed results.
Re:DOJ arrests 2, seizes 187 devices in North Korean laptop farm crack...
on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @11:22PM (#50081996)
Is the real motivation for these folks to “work and earn money for the North Korean Government”? It says the proceeds were $3M over 5 years…what’s the value of that at a national scale?
Re:Apple HomeView
on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @10:49PM (#50081798)
“Additional apps. HomeView supports compatible third-party audio and video apps from your iPhone for a familiar experience across devices.9”
Re:Nearly 200 People Under Observation After Irkutsk Lab Worker Dies f...
on Monday October 12, 2026 @11:58AM (#50058299)
I am intensely curious as to what you think the US FBI does. You don’t think “covert espionage to determine the origin of a potential foreign bioweapon” isn’t within the FBI’s core competencies?
Re:AI firm HUMXN offers free plumbing and HVAC service in Minnesota to...
on Monday October 12, 2026 @11:54AM (#50058239)
Maybe swage is not the right word. I spent several weeks attempting a flare fitting connection and couldn’t get it right. I had another HVAC tech out to attempt a flare fitting and he couldn’t do it. The second tech I called did…whatever the other kind is. Expand one side of the copper tube, insert the other side, use heat and flux and solder to join them. By this point I didn’t want to invest more time into the project (again, I did every other part of the install, including multiple other flare connections). I vacuum pumped the line sets and am pleased to report they work great now.
Re:Solar Panels That Plug into Your Wall
on Monday October 12, 2026 @11:32AM (#50057907)
I hope the next step for this is plug-in battery storage. All the on-grid battery hybrid inverters I can find in the USA are either single leg 120V or 12kW for $5k. I just want like 3kW dual-leg with support for a dozen kWh of batteries
Re:"Robot" Is a Social Construct: Why Your Dishwasher Is Not a Robot
on Sunday October 11, 2026 @11:47AM (#50044519)
My washing machine detects when the wet laundry inside is imbalanced and will do a slow half rotation to evenly spaced the wet laundry before a spin cycle
Re:What driving across Europe costs in tolls, vignettes, bridges and fuel
on Sunday October 11, 2026 @11:39AM (#50044445)
If you never plan on visiting Austria again, is this something you could simply ignore? Is there an appeals process? Very interesting situation! In USA, many tolls are basically commercial debts that can be ignored with moderate success
Re:US Man Given Prison Sentence for Bot-Farming Music Streams
on Thursday October 08, 2026 @10:47PM (#50015382)
Nancy Pelosi isn’t in the White House?
Re:AI firm HUMXN offers free plumbing and HVAC service in Minnesota to...
on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @11:55AM (#49994616)
An HVAC tech charged me $750 to perform one swage connection on a mini-split install I was working on. $750 for $0.10 of combustibles and 45 minutes of time. Service workers are willingly pushing their customer base into these robotic solutions and I am thrilled at the idea of a robot coming out to do some work for 1/3 of the cost
Re:ASOS app users receive push notifications apparently sent by hackers
on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @08:06AM (#49977260)
Maybe the hackers were trying to do us a favor?
Re:Nearly 200 People Under Observation After Irkutsk Lab Worker Dies f...
on Sunday October 04, 2026 @11:52PM (#49960492)
Do you have any thoughts as to why the FBI disagrees with your perspective?
Re:Nearly 200 People Under Observation After Irkutsk Lab Worker Dies f...
on Sunday October 04, 2026 @11:51PM (#49960489)
Copy and paste this into Google:
Wuhan lab leak fbi
Re:In Ukraine, distributed renewables foil Russia's assaults
on Sunday October 04, 2026 @08:41AM (#49953432)
We’ve been a few years away from personal helicopter transport for my entire 34 year lifetime
Re:We Investigated Starlink. The Corruption We Found Will Shock You
on Saturday October 03, 2026 @11:44AM (#49945248)
I love my Starlink. It sits on the roof of my truck and is a backup ISP when I’m home and a nice way to stay connected when we go camping. 10/10 I recommend to everyone
Re:We Investigated Starlink. The Corruption We Found Will Shock You
on Saturday October 03, 2026 @11:43AM (#49945240)
Wasn’t Kamala Harris part of a big push to provide better internet to rural American? I thought I remembered reading $25B in federal funding with essentially 0 marginal positive outcome
Re:FTC is investigating OpenAI, Anthropic and other AI companies over ...
on Thursday October 01, 2026 @11:01AM (#49922553)
I assume you’ll keep the same disdain when the ombudsman is replaced by the democrats in two years and continues the same work with new talking points?
Re:Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes
on Thursday October 01, 2026 @10:40AM (#49922296)
Why limit yourself? Engage in rage, unfettered!!
Re:Google breaks promise to provide 10 years of updates to Chromebooks
on Thursday October 01, 2026 @10:38AM (#49922281)
School vouchers are the only fair way to do schooling. Rich people paying for more expensive things isn’t bad. They just shouldn’t be forced to pay for the more expensive thing that they use as well as the less expensive thing they don’t use
Re:Nvidia wants to put a watchdog chip next to every AI agent
on Monday September 28, 2026 @12:24PM (#49880492)
Probably repair, refuel, what happens in a tornado. There’s an infinite amount of complexity in the world and a finite amount of computation
Re:Why is the liver so weirdly regenerative?
on Friday September 25, 2026 @08:45AM (#49843878)
“High intake of provitamin carotenoids (such as beta-carotene) from vegetables and fruits does not cause hypervitaminosis A.”
From Wikipedia
Re:Regeneration of used batteries via electrode–electrolyte interphase...
on Sunday September 20, 2026 @10:50AM (#49776441)
Where can I get cheap recycled lead acid batteries?
I like them more the li-ion because they’re more forgiving to temperature changes and have a much lower chance of catching on fire
Re:Building a Linux GPU Driver for the M4 Mac Mini in One Month
on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @07:11PM (#49720120)
That’s the most abstract and esoteric argument I’ve ever heard I think