I’m bullish because many of these models rest on the consumption of copyrighted material or information that wasn’t intended for mass consumption in this way.
Also, I like to think for myself. Writing code and thinking through what I am writing often exposes edge cases that I wouldn’t otherwise realize.
If you decide on battery and then decide on a generator, you can get a lot more bang for the buck. Most of the time you don't need the full output from the generator and running it just burns fuel to keep minimal power delivery. Replace that with just charging batteries as needed and you will have the best of both worlds and ... it's quieter.
Take in account, you may be speaking to a American, and there the whole solar/battery vs Generator can be extreme different.
Solar prices are still extreme expensive in the US (from my perspective), same with batteries, while gasoline is like 1/3 the price of Europe. So from that US point of view, its one or the other but both is more expensive.
Here going big with solar is way easier, and just a small backup generator is the norm for off-grid or grid-disconnected homes. People going 50, 70 ... battery Kwh installations is not uncommon anymore for the off-grid/grid disconnected homes. Especially when the batteries cost you barely 6k Euro.
I balk at seeing the US prices and that may be because of the much higher import taxes on Chinese panels/batteries (that and some extreme scrupulous installers).
Now to be honest, what people also ignore is that fuel prices are going to go only one way, and that is up. While a fix solar installation has only one cost, the few times you need to run a jenny. Batteries, especially large setups, easily do 20 year before they hit 80%.
Another US caveat, is that US households use way more electricity then Europeans. That is also a factor...
In california, where electricity routinely reaches 50c/kwh (and rising) with PG&E, the economics are upside down.
That said, a battery + generator system allows a smaller quieter generator (maybe even DC), and possibly fewer batteris, so could be very efficient in other ways too.
It kinda doesn’t matter; Individuals aren’t making foreign policy decisions day-by-day, Republicans leaders are. Until we effect change in our government, we are hostile to most of our allies.
One bad news (for everybody) is that I believe a lot of citizen of those "allied" countries don't see the US as allies anymore. The US are now seen as this unstable "partner" that threatens becoming an enemy (e.g. by invading those ex-allies militarily) and may well become an enemy.
It matters to me, as a person who travels frequently, that people in the countries I visit don't believe that Americans writ large voted for the foreign policy we see being enacted. Even among the ones who voted for Trump, there seems to be a lot of shock at the aggressive posture toward our allies. I think it's important to convey that a majority of Americans are not on board with this 180 degree turn in our position toward Europe.
But yes... individuals don't make foreign policy, and we are subject to the whims of our polity. That's exactly what I'm asking the parent poster to take into account.
It matters to me too. However, it still doesn’t negate the fact that we are hostile.
There is always good news and bad news in the world. Our judicial branch is (so far) working to reverse illegal moves by the executive branch. People are protesting across the US and across the world. Our allies are currently putting pressure on us that is reversible.
The bad news is that our country is losing trust every day. We voted this person into office twice. We are deporting people for voiced opposition to the regime. There are now travel warnings to the US from multiple countries. Ironically, it’s now harder to leave the US. MAGA is trying to spread into other countries given the foothold it has gained here.
There isn’t a lot of comfort to give when the guy who holds the nations nuclear codes is questionably coherent and actively hostile.
that's really the core struggle with learning games: not being too boring, not being too repetitive, not introducing stuff too fast, enabling user choice but also making sure learning is achieved...
will take both your point and parent poster's point into account :)
Hey, you can indeed push to someone’s knot if they’ve invited you on it. The knot server will automatically populate your ssh pubkeys (if you’ve added them) allowing you to push. :)
I had to look this up, and I found the answer interesting because I used to develop software to accurately report magnetic declination at any point in time, for directional drilling oil wells in Canada. https://www.geomag.nrcan.gc.ca/mag_fld/magdec-en.php has some great information on why. For example, Yellowknife can experience declination changes over one degree every three years.
I haven't used a compass since I was a kid and at that time declination where I live was 21 degrees. Now it's down to 13 degrees. I had no idea it changed that much.
> Technology hasn't changed is a political problem due to lack of... money.
Tell me you haven’t worked in aerospace without telling me you haven’t worked in aerospace. There is plenty of money sunk into all corners of the field but progress is slow because the risk of change is lives lost. At some point, the risk of not changing means more lives lost… and that’s when things will change.
Money only does so much to improve your life. Stress is a way to shorten your life. Long term chronic stress literally makes you ill in ways that medicine can’t fix.
Paying more money can make a huge difference to stress. Obviously it can't make an hour of doing the work less stressful in itself, but more money could do one or more of the following:
- Allow people to retire after a decade rather than several decades of work
- Allow (or require) people to only work part-time (eg 2 days a week, or 5 days of 2 hours a day, or...) while still earning a full time equivalent salary
- Allow a work day to be 10mins on, 50mins resting for every hour (requiring 6x as many staff), while paying as if the full hour was work
- Pay for therapy, stress-management lessons, etc.
- Pay for a professional cleaner at home, a part-time chef or lots of restaurant/takeaway meals, or whatever else helps
to minimise the amount of work you need to do outside the job
- Probably other ideas that haven't come into my mind in the two minutes I've spent on the subject of how more money can help fight issues caused by stress
Actually, I think it was Musk. If you consider the Issacson biography in which Musk (basically) said to remove enough of something until it breaks, and you have to add something back. What I call the move fast and break things mentality is a very, very bad idea for government, but it seems to be what they are doing. Pause everything, and see what is really needed; Get rid of as many employees as possible, see what stops working, then bring people back in.
That plan works just as well as the equivalent "tighten the bolt until you hear the crack, then back off a quarter turn" does with fasteners. The thing tends to stay broken!
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