This is great stuff. I fell away from web dev for a very long time because I have always been a developer who focused on building from the database first and outwards while using very light amounts of business logic. This feels very old web and I encourage others to try this approach. The lightweightedness of the approach is the beauty of it and you will get much, much better at your database language of choice.
Thanks! And yeah the other inspiration is that in the last 27 years of making web apps, I've gone from PHP to Ruby to JavaScript back to Ruby, considered switching to Go or Elixir, but my PostgreSQL database was at the center of it all, throughout.
So it makes sense to notice what's constant, what's ever-changing, and organize accordingly.
OOC how did you land on PostgreSQL 27 years ago? That’s before I was doing this sort of thing but 7 years later MySQL definitely seemed like the “no one got fired for choosing..” option.
PS been a big fan of your writing over the years and it’s a little intimidating to just respond to one of your posts asking a silly question haha
As someone that was kicking around back then, PostgreSQL was seen as more of a proper database, but MySQL was both faster and came with batteries included replication. Those really motivated its mass adoption with LAMP style stacks vs PostgreSQL.
Some years down the road however this was changing. PostgreSQL began to catch up in terms of simple performance, but also MySQL stumbled on transitioning into a multicore world, while PostgreSQL scaled better due to some of the hard work already being done in the architecture. Additionally we got an included replication option, as well as all the main PaaS vendors providing automation around it. So MySQL's previous advantages became less compelling.
And today, hardware is so incredibly capable that just scaling vertically on a single server is totally viable for a ton of apps. For this swath of the market, just running PostgreSQL has become a bit of a no brainer in the way that MySQL was during the peak of LAMP.
my vague memories of ~2000 were that postgres was acknowledged as the way to go if you wanted to do it right, but mysql would let you get set up quickly and easily so you could get on with your actual application, and postgres had the reputation of being harder to set up and administer
Same memories here. In the late 90s I chose MySQL over Postgres, at the time for its speed and replication. And at least partly because I got to talk with Monty Widenius at an Open Source Conference (or perhaps even a Perl Conference) in the late 90s about replication, and asked how hard it'd be to make replication use SSL - and he sent me a beta MySQL version with that implemented a few days later. So I had a quite serious "feel good" reason for using MySQL. In the subsequent 5-10 years or so I regretted not choosing Postgres instead over it's stored procedure handling, but we had way to much deeply embedded MySQL tech and skill by then which made switching always end up on the too hard list.
I created an account and tried it but it didn't detect any issues with, SAST/cpp/posix-buffer-overflow.cpp
I also don't see anyway to verify its reasoning for its output so I'm left skeptical of its effectiveness. Maybe that's what the downloaded report is for but thats a premium feature so that's not helpful if so. Cool idea, but monetization of this seems like it will be very difficult for you.
Hey thanks for the reply. Right now it is only compatible with python, javascript, typescript, JSON, and TXT files. The pay wall that I have set up now lets users see how many issues and vulnerabilites are detected, but not the details. Will definitley consider changing this as it is the first iteration. Would you be interested in testing and offering more feedback in exchange for free lifetime pro access?
My girlfriend owns one so to share our experience, the cybertruck is an unreliable POS. She's had it three, four months now & we have had it in the shop for suspension repair, an ECU computer which fried itself at a charging station (2k), a coolant leak part replacement from the cyberbeast rear engine (1400), the passenger window falling inside the door after the wire used in the gear window retraction snapped or tangled in the gears (450). We have gone through something like 8-10 tires and rims because they can't handle a pothole, or slice themselves after some tech put the wheel cover on wrong (tried leaving it off but a tire caught debris and was punctured that way too).
She had about two or three tires slashed or had the air nozzle cut off and sentry mode didn't catch anything except the back of the persons head. The self-driving jerked itself into a barricade on the interstate when someone cut her off, she wasn't able to stop it from doing so fast enough, it was all just faster then her reaction time (thankfully the other driver admitted fault but if they had contested I wouldn't put my faith in self-driving laws to side on a drivers side in a dispute). We have put roughly 10k into this truck for service.
We bought the truck because she lives in the mountains, she drives 200 miles a day for work if not more 5 days a week (regularly up at 4am on the road at 6am and home around 7pm - 9pm depending), and its probably the biggest purchase regret of our lives.
She needed a vehicle and I just spent 15k on a used RAV, we made the decision for her to get the truck because self-driving sounded very exciting (its all 'corporate puffery' now though), and her being in the mountains left us looking at roughly 80k vehicles anyway so we figured let's take a chance on the truck and self-driving. I mean most cars you get a good five years out them anyway right? Turns out that paint it black tesla ad was even faked, and my personal opinion is Tesla used the reservations to get this news piece.
I truly don't see the cybertruck as being desirable for the average American, I believe it's a novelty which will die once Teslas early adopter advantage for self-driving dies up. I believe it should. We are currently looking to buy her a 8k commuter beater for local 60 - 120 mile work days and using the cybertruck just for the work out of state. We'd sell the truck but its depreciated so much and she still travels out of state once or twice a month minimum and all over the place once there so we still want something electric for those trips. We would sell it if I had about another 50k in the bank to be comfortable with taking the quick loss from doing so, we still might once the relatives house sells. Don't buy Tesla, that's my advice. We never will again.
I'm guessing they were covered under warranty, but the cash-equivalent costs were listed.
I think the bigger problem here is the inconvenience. You don't get much value out of the thing you purchased if it's in the shop most of the time. Plus you have to take time out of your day to bring it to the shop (if it's even possible) or wait for a tow truck to come get you if the vehicle is immobile or unsafe to drive, and then find a way to get home.
Warranties pay for parts and labor, but they don't cover incidental expenses, or more importantly, your time.
Isn't that like asking if Boeings flights aren't covered by life insurance?
Car insurance companies know the costs, and they have open listings of the car brands. They have literally all incentives in play to stay truthful. Compared to whatever PR we are force-fed a jour.
Don't call someone here a liar unless you have clear and convincing evidence of it. The OP never said that they laid out cash for these repairs.
On a repair invoice, the shop usually lists the cost, then it's paid for by the manufacturer at the bottom. It's all normal accounting for the back office. If you've ever owned a car that had warranty repairs, regardless of make or model, you'd see this.
>Don't call someone here a liar unless you have clear and convincing evidence of it.
The post in and of itself is clear and convincing evidence.
>On a repair invoice, the shop usually lists the cost, then it's paid for by the manufacturer at the bottom. It's all normal accounting for the back office. If you've ever owned a car that had warranty repairs, regardless of make or model, you'd see this.
That's not how any of this works for Tesla though, there are no "shops" you take it to, only Tesla service centers do warranty work. The prices listed for warranty work are always "$0.00", never listing how much any of it costs. The post is clearly a LARP.
> The post in and of itself is clear and convincing evidence.
I'm pretty sure no jury would agree with that.
> That's not how any of this works for Tesla though, there are no "shops" you take it to, only Tesla service centers do warranty work. The prices listed for warranty work are always "$0.00", never listing how much any of it costs.
I admit I'm not a Tesla owner and don't have direct experience, but I do see posts that contradict this assertion:
We are in agreement about the bottom line. Again, the poster did not claim they paid out of pocket for any of this work. The experience of whether they're seeing estimated values (even if not paid) seems to vary by customer.
I should have been clearer: they didn't claim they paid for the work that was covered under the warranty. Slashed tires and other vandalism and body damage due to accidents obviously aren't covered and those repairs would have to be borne by the customer. (It's also true that those things aren't the results of defects and thus aren't directly Tesla's fault.)
Except none of those problems happened because the GP just made it all up. The post is a great example of Elon Derangement Syndrome. LARPing as Cybertruck owner, fabricating posts about the experience of owning one to virtue signal.
Go check out the cybertruck forums, you'll see plenty of owners have issues with their trucks and some who have pursued their state lemon laws, guess those are all made up. Guess the NHTSA investigations, or the dead families are all made up too.
Go check out the [vehicle] forums, you'll see plenty of owners have issues with their [vehicles] and some who have pursued their state lemon laws, guess those are all made up. Guess the NHTSA investigations, or the dead families are all made up too.
Wrong. Check their warranty online, they- like most other warranties- very deliberately leave out tires, vandalism, and problems with the electrical system.
I'm betting it's anti-Musk people or depending on where OP lives, perhaps an area that's gentrifying and is filled with people who dislike said gentrification.
Emotionally unstable people. She was at a bloody hospital out of state and someone slashed her tires in the garage there. We can't speak to their motives but angry at musk or angry at the appearance of wealth wouldn't be too big of a hypothesis.
If your state has "lemon laws", maybe you can get some help. https://www.atg.wa.gov/general-lemon-law TLDR: recourse when mfg sells a defective, unsafe, or both, vehicle.
Not that this helps you...
IMHO, current CyberTruck is in the alpha testing phase. It has multiple disruptive innovations. Tesla wisely chose the relatively low volume CyberTruck to mitigate risk.
I'm concerned (but not surprised) Tesla is aggressively ramping up production.
Esthetics aside, CyberTruck has so many exciting, long overdue technology innovations. Better gigacasting, modular etherloop (replacing CAN bus), switch to 48v, drive by wire, no rear view mirror, etc.
(I think the stainless steel exterior will prove to be a mistake. Mostly for safety reasons.)
I would definitely suggest at least getting a consult from a lemon law lawyer if it's been in the shop this much. Especially if you also have buyer's remorse.
See what needs to happen to qualify, document what's already happened, and get an idea of the process and recent interactions between your lawyer and the specific manufacturer.
I had a probable lemon on a new model that I didn't do that for because we liked it despite its faults, and some of the early problems reasserted themselves before (after warranty) engine problems led me to get rid of it. I regret not pursuing a lemon law return and replacing it with a later in production model. Might have still ran into early engine troubles, but they probably figured out how to apply paint in the meantime.
VA so unfortunately we it requires contiguous time in the shop. Very much appreciate the input though, I know other owners in other states have pushed back with the lemon law.
> I mean most cars you get a good five years out them anyway right?
Uhh no? You should absolutely expect a good vehicle, hell most vehicles, to exceed 10 years without serious failures. Many vehicles come with 7 year warranties on manufacturing defects… It sounds like you need to take better care of your vehicles or buy better vehicles. I did notice that you said she drives 200 miles a day and that will certainly contribute but if you take care of it, most cars would probably do that for 10 years assuming it’s mostly cruising. Either way that statement of 5 years is nuts. I bought a 5 year old car with 80,000km on it and it was in damn near new condition!
I’ve owned 6 vehicles, including one motorcycle, none of them from brand new mind you, and all of them were still reliable after their 10th year lol. Currently I have a 5 year old car which you can’t tell apart from the brand new 2024 models because it has no wear and the model hasn’t had a face lift, and I have a 35 year old ute (truck)… 5 years is nothing. I think the average age of cars on the road would be older than 5 years
Certainly correct. My old Prius made it like 14 years so yes. vehicles should be looking at ten years, I just threw out five years out of irritation or even a worst case scenario. I just meant our absolute minimum expectations were fove years.
> hell most vehicles, to exceed 10 years without serious failures.
I do that with cars, usually 10 to 15 years (camaro-15, ford exploder-12, wife's chrysler sebring-14 (which was surprisingly problem free considering chryslers quality stats)).
One of my friends loves to get new ones every few years, but I'm more focused on the cost.
early production models of any tesla are generally garbage quality, remember the constant issues with S/X panel gaps, model 3 panel gaps, home depot plastic in the model y, etc.
This isn’t even close to true, fwiw. You can easily find stats on EV batteries. There are early Teslas out there with 200k+ miles after 10+ years with minimal degradation.
Those are outliers. It's like saying there are people who live upto 106 years easily.
These batteries are subject to extreme temperatures routinely including fast charge/discharge cycles and we simply can't escape the physics with our wishful thinking alone.
How are they exactly temperature controlled? To control temperature, we would need to circulate something around the cells and that something has to be heated or cooled whereas every tear down I have ever seen of EV batteries contains nothing as such.
Not to mention that such heating/cooling would additionally draw energy thus taking a toll on both the range and battery life.
Tesla has liquid cooling around the cells, a fairly advanced system that can move heat between battery, motors, cabin, and environment in arbitrary directions.
Before just claiming no EVs do this, you could have typed “Tesla battery cooling” into Google and gotten this from the AI thing:
> Tesla vehicles have a built-in battery cooling system that uses an electric pump to circulate coolant and keep the battery's temperature within an optimal range. This helps the battery perform well and last a long time.
If you read my comment, you wouldn't find any claim or falsehoods being spread rather a question.
With the conclusion that such cooling/heating wouldn't be free lunch and would take it's toll on the battery itself reducing both range and requiring more charge cycles because all those compressors need power too.
> you wouldn't find any claim or falsehoods being spread rather a question.
> whereas every tear down I have ever seen of EV batteries contains nothing as such.
You've either pretty much never seen any recent-ish battery teardown or you just weren't paying attention to them. Acting like active cooling is some rare oddity in EVs is pushing a falsehood. It's an argument not based in reality clothed in the slightest amount of deniability by acting like you're someone who would be informed (supposedly watched some significant amount of teardowns) but just haven't happened to see it at all.
> would take it's toll on the battery itself reducing both range and requiring more charge cycles because all those compressors need power too.
You're largely misunderstanding the amount of energy needed to actually operate the car at highway-ish speeds and the amount of energy needed to keep a battery pack somewhere in the range of acceptable temperatures. You'll use far more energy maintaining the cabin than what you'll spend managing the battery in the majority of climates. And even then the actual locomotive power needed to drive the car still dominates the overall energy usage.
And FWIW when it's really cold or hot my battery preconditions using wall power so it's leaving the house at a good temp. Then it's a pretty solid mass of stuff, a good amount of thermal inertia. So it's only those trips where it's been parked for a long while and it's fully cold/hot soaked that it's really using much of the battery. And even then it's still far less than even 25% for all cooling (cabin + battery) energy use of it's overall usage even when it's >100F out here and is totally heat soaked.
And even then, assuming it's not over 100F or under freezing a lot of the cooling needed for the battery can be done by regular radiators and airflow without needing compressors. If it's 50-90F outside it's probably just cooling itself by airflow over a radiator for the liquid cooling loop so all it needs is a water pump circulating, maybe a fan. It's not like there's massive amounts of waste heat being generated like in an ICE.
> whereas every tear down I have ever seen of EV batteries contains nothing as such.
You're massively misinformed. Practically all EVs have active liquid cooling through their batteries and have for quite some time. You should actually research them instead of being so confidently wrong.
For actively cooled car batteries, they’re not outliers. At this point, the onus is on you to show the generally accepted data about EV battery lives are wrong.
You aren’t going to be able to find legit data that says EV batteries regularly fail around the 3-5 year mark, like phone batteries.
I guess I should post...something. Lack of relevancy. I don't watch the news, don't even watch the weather, I don't vote or care about politics, I don't listen to the radio in the car, I went years without even looking at Hacker News, don't use reddit outside of work-related subs, don't use facebook, or other social media. I don't even use youtube except when I want to see some highlight video of Iverson or Pippen or a player soccer highlight (but not match recaps), or the occasional music of an artist stuck in my head. Why would I? The news isn't going to mow my yard, politics won't change a single thing about my life which couldn't be changed through more hard work. There is just nothing in the news for me. I suspect this feeling will continue to grow sharply with the youngest generation (I'm mid thirties personally but my teenage daughter has shared her classmates feel apathetic towards current events etc).
The truth that is unfolding is that people today have much less agency and influence than people had in the past, resulting in that news don't matter anymore. You are in your mid thirties and should be at the peak of your influence and agency in the world, and dependent on accurate information (news) to make the best decisions. But everything in the industrialized world is owned and controlled by geriatrics, including all and every aspect of government.
> teenage daughter has shared her classmates feel apathetic towards current events
So, a teenager feels apathetic... and you're claiming this is a new development?
> politics won't change a single thing about my life which couldn't be changed through more hard work
Hard disagree. It won't immediately change anything. But on the scale of months, years, decades? It has the potential to change nearly everything. If not for you, then surely for the marginalized.
If you're from the UK - Brexit was not an inevitability. Different parties in power, even a different PM at a certain point, and it wouldn't have happened. And it's demonstrably wrong to claim that isn't changing the lives of everyone in the UK by a huge amount.
If you're from the US - are you really so dumbly apathetic that you're going to claim that the choice of the next president won't affect your life?
There are a few countries that are stable enough (currently) that an argument could be made any political actions like voting won't change much. But these countries are few and far between,and even those are not guaranteed to stay stable.
These kinds of comments are always good times to repost Michael Huemer's "In Praise of Passivity", which tackles these arguments against not following the news in a generalized but imo very effective way.
> politics won't change a single thing about my life which couldn't be changed through more hard work
Maybe that is true for you, but this is not true for minorities and people who are fighting for a cause (abortion and trans rights, for example). Not being willing to cast a vote because it doesn't change anything for you doesn't seem like a virtue.
Highly regional dependent. Some places in the U.S. you could do without any weather reporting. Hot yesterday? Probably will be hot today. Cold today? Probably cold tomorrow. It all comes from NOAA anyhow. You could just drink right from the spigot like the meteorologists do, cut them out, and not miss anything.
I live in Tokyo so during the rainy and typhoon seasons it’s the difference between staying dry and getting soaked - but it is definitely like that in the winter (except instead I pay attention to the snow forecasts in the nearby mountains to know when I should pack up and go snowboarding…)
Perhaps you do in fact care about some selection of specific news, such as tech news, sports news, news of cultural tends, business news, and arts and entertainment news, for instance. Just not "news" news. And perhaps you get your news in specialist or indirect ways. I imagine you have an idea of what's going on generally, somehow, and keep up to date with more than the length of the grass outside.
You don't pilot the boat though. You are trapped in the current with the rest of us controlled by moneyed forces unknown. Americans are docile cattle in comparison to other peoples who have the passionate collective culture needed to actually totally unseat an unpopular government.
I worked for a strategic marketing consultancy & I couldn't tell you the number of times I saw the above properly misconfigured for clients or government tourism entities. Like 90‰ of what I ran into.. luckily for them configuring SPF, DKIM, & DMARC is like the one thing I'm actually good at in this computer career thing
I now use Windows professionally & use Debian on my older home laptop (and server), & I previously used a Mac professionally--last year. My thoughts can be summed simply, Macs are toys.
Windows is the king of business productivity; I've never seen someone with a mac do what I qualify as real business work using any applications outside of the Adobe ecosystem- If you took someone who works heavily in Microsoft & gave them a Windows machine, they'll be vastly more productive then they are in Mac OS even though Microsoft works on both platforms.
I suspect this is a core design issue more then anything as in Windows the work you do is forefront, in Mac using the Mac OS is forefront, and with Linix open source is forefront. I can tweak my Debian all day long but it won't ever run Rufus; while my Mac might run some windows applications it also won't give me the same terminal power as Debian will. Debian however won't allow me to run windows apps, will have driver issues (like my completely incompatible-still audio drivers for a laptop from 2008). Package management is and likely always will be a nightmare in Debian. However if I baby Debian and focus on particular workflows, I can set up a workflow for what I want-aka a writing environment or my golang environment but it lacks the robustness of jumping between applications seemlessly like Windows has. Linux continues to fail by not providing a superior desktop environment, however I'll still take Linux over Mac OS for any real work.
My next personal desire is to move my home computing towards purposed servers- one for writing, one for programming, etc while going either super-light laptop or portable screen & usb keyboard / mouse for maximum flexibility. That way I can setup at the multi-monitor command center if I want, or move out to the porch lightly.
I'd even go so far as to say that with the exception of gaming setups, beefier laptops / desktops isn't needed at all- just build home servers.
> I can tweak my Debian all day long but it won't ever run Rufus
Why do you need to run Rufus instead of using dd or mkisofs?
> if I baby Debian and focus on particular workflows, I can set up a workflow for what I want-aka a writing environment or my golang environment but it lacks the robustness of jumping between applications seemlessly like Windows has
This sounds like something solvable by switching to a different desktop environment or using a window manager with more configurable options
> Debian however won't allow me to run windows apps, will have driver issues (like my completely incompatible-still audio drivers for a laptop from 2008)
Perhaps this is a Debian-specific issue because of restricting non-free repos by default and other less principally stanced distros wouldn't suffer from that issue? Also many Windows apps that don't even run on Windows anymore will run perfectly fine under Linux with Wine or other compatibility layers.
In this particular case dd did not accomplish what I wanted & mkisofs is for ISO's which doesn't encapsulate all cases. Dd also has a particular drawback in that running it incorrectly can wipe your entire hard drive...oops I guess... Linux is like this everywhere- rough & poorly designed from an end user standpoint. In no world should I be using, or even able, to run a command so freely which could f up my system without not only elevated permissions but also confirmation of the very bad thing I'm about to do. That conceptsfollows into package managers with a dozen random dependencies to download or setup some utility you are likely downloading to solve some other problem. Like I said, linux suffers from a poor end user experience & that is their biggest failing...next to the absurd file system standard- thankfully some distros are moving away to something more sane but that will likely be ten plus years before it sees better adoption. Linix should have focused on the desktop environment long ago & as a community stopped looking at distributions as 'a hundred ways to do the same thing' to instead focus on a more cohesive operating system. I could go on but that's enough, they just don't have a great vision & their claims of server OS dominance mostly have to do with it being free more then anything else.
> Windows is the king of business productivity; I've never seen someone with a mac do what I qualify as real business work using any applications outside of the Adobe ecosystem
I agree but I feel that’s a very unpopular statement. There’s also counter examples. The OpenAI teams run on Macs, and it’s VERY hard to say they’re not productive. But in general, if you use excel or outlook, yah, there’s no way to replace that with a Mac. Even if, as you said, the apps are available.
So much wasted effort. Just create an account on Upwork, play by Upworks rules & get complete unferreted access to any number of servers and websites run by small businesses and marketing consultancies. Sure you might have to do a bit of Wordpress dev to keep the illusion going but...there you go.
One meter. She has a barn with putside light on a seperate meter but those charges were seperated on the bill.
Her January bill listed
222.84 in generation services.
188.86 in fuel factor at 0.0413900 per kWh.
176.04 transmission services
101.02 distribution services
Some taxes etc and a final charge of 1359.78. I'm remembering now that they did overcharge her & we talked about that w the power company getting a credit for the next bill. My mistake on that. But for the last several months her bill has consistently been extremely high, 900 this past month, 1100 a prior month.
Her kWH usage is 4562 per month & I'm really not sure how she gets to that, she literally drives between 1 & 2 hours to work and back every day depending on location so she's only home in the evenings.
If my math is right, that's an average load of 6 kW. You should be able to track down big loads like that pretty quickly, I'd think.
Watch the meter, it's likely spinning quickly, turn off breakers and mark which ones have a big effect on the rate. Sometimes meters count too fast, but usually it's a couple % and more often is in the other direction especially with mechanical meters.
Which state is she in, and who's her electricity provider? If she used 4562 kWh this month and her bill was between $900 - $1360, that means she's paying 19¢-29¢/kWh, which is quite high (but not impossibly so, especially in California or Hawaii): https://www.electricchoice.com/electricity-prices-by-state/
I'd first still do what everyone is suggesting (identifying the actual loads that are using so much power), but on top of that, it might be worth looking at the details of your utility's rate plan and comparing different ones (if they have them), or maybe even a different electricity provider if your state and jurisdiction allow those. (It's usually a case where you end up paying the electric utility for transmission, but someone else for generation... there are a lot of third parties that build out big solar/wind farms and then contract with the utility. But be careful and do your research carefully if you choose to go that route, since many of them are nearly scams that lure you in with an cheap upfront cost and then drastically raise your rate later. But then again, the utility itself can do that too, depending on state laws...)
At the end of the day, once you identify the loads, you can better assess what combination of 1) conservation 2) time-of-use shifting or possible rate plan changes 3) insulation & lighting improvements 4) home solar/hydro 5) equipment upgrades to do (in order of least to most out-of-pocket costs).
You're using enough power (as in abnormally so, unless you have some commercial/industrial loads on that land, like for ranching/processing/growing operations?) that you shouldn't just blindly throw solar at it without understanding what's using that much power to begin with. The solar should pay itself back regardless, but if you can lower the power draws to begin with and size your array accordingly, you don't have to get as big an array. Oversizing a solar array not only costs more upfront, but may have very limited returns because many jurisdictions cap what the utility pays you for home solar. If it's much greater than your actual usage, basically you just end up providing free (or nearly free) electricity for the grid.
If she's usually away from home and there's no unusual loads going on, the house really shouldn't use that much power just idling. Check the circuits, major appliances (heating/cooling/refrigeration/space heating), lights (any old incandescents lying around, especially porch lights etc. that might be left on 24/7? grow lights for weed or other crops?). Hot tub? Heated driveway? Anything having to do with heating/cooling? For any plug-in appliances, you can also get a plug-in power meter (like a "Kill-a-Watt" or similar) to see exactly how much energy they're using over a day.
Thanks. Yeah I was drawing up off memory & an old screenshot from January.
Her bill listed
222.84 in generation services.
188.86 in fuel factor at 0.0413900 per kWh.
176.04 transmission services
101.02 distribution services
Some taxes etc and a final charge of 1359.78. I'm remembering now that they did overcharge her & we talked about that w the power company getting a credit for the next bill. My mistake on that. But yeah for the last several months her bill has consistently been extremely high, 900 this past month, 1100 a prior month.
Her kWH usage is 4562 per month & I'm really not sure how she gets to that, she literally drives between 1 & 2 hours to work and back every day depending on location so she's only home in the evenings.
Thats a good point, its actually not listed & I'll need to make sure they are usage. I believe they are from the amounts. We are looking at a grid tie-in solar system to avoid the upfront cost of batteries but we aren't committed either way.
