What? Lots of states have cheaper rates than that:

https://www.electricchoice.com/electricity-prices-by-state/

And none of them are anywhere near 40-80c, so maybe that commenter is in another country.

Although your bill might only show one bundled price depending on who supplies and delivers your electricity, the cost of electricity in the US usually includes both a "supply" or "generation" charge and a "delivery" charge. Based on what I'm seeing on that page I think it's almost certainly only showing the electric supply rates, not the combined total of supply + delivery.

I don't live in California so the nuances are lost on me, but it looks like for SF county the residential delivery rate is about 19c/kWh, the supply rate ranges from roughly 12-16c/kWh, and "surcharges" are 0-1c/kWh, for a total of 31-37c/kWh. For San Diego county the delivery rate is 25-26c/kWh, the supply rate is 15-18c/kWh, and surcharges are 2-5c/kWh, with a total of 45-46c/kWh.[1]

[1] https://www.cpuc.ca.gov/RateComparison

Fair point, but SD in particular also has some of the highest electricity costs in the US. This BLS data seems to be the actual cost to consumers, and the average is $0.17: https://www.bls.gov/regions/midwest/data/averageenergyprices...

To be clear when I said 0.11/kWh in Chicago I was giving the total price, including both the supply and delivery.

California has some ridiculously expensive power costs. I moved to Chicago in 2021 after living in the bay area for 11 years, and the amount I spent on electricity absolutely plummeted.

I’m speaking about ComEd in Chicagoland specifically.

I’m currently paying 1.1 cent per kWh.

https://hourlypricing.comed.com/live-prices/five-minute-pric...

This is a wonderful response, both non-judgmental and wise.

Ideology?

They almost certainly don’t have that data.

Levels.fyi is the only semi-accurate source for TC that I’ve found, at least it’s pretty accurate for the public tech company I work for.

Retro.

The public tech companies (and hot private ones) all pay $250-300k and up for senior devs who can pass the interview process.

Only the megacap ones.

For the other smaller but still public companies you need to be staff+ to hit that, and even then no guarantees

I work at one that is definitely not megacap, nor do we pay at the top of the market, and that’s below our range for senior, which is more like $300k-500k, depending on specialty and geographic area. Staff is more like $500-700k.

Crazy, that’s approaching OpenAI pay… is it in the AI area?

Is the quoted range region specific or ”worldwide”?

This is a critical detail. GPT-4 is much better than 3.5 for programming, in my experience.

Yeah I really don't understand why research is still being published that uses GPT3.5 rather than GPT4 or both models. ~500 programming questions is maybe a few bucks on the API?

Because 99% of users and probably 95% of programmers are using the free version while almost no one is using the paid version.

I live in NYC and travel semi-regularly to both CA and WA, and this is completely overblown. You might catch a faint whiff every once in awhile, but it’s very far down on the list of annoyances a major city offers.

And no, I don’t smoke weed.

How’s your SaaS doing now, if you don’t mind my asking?

friendlyfire.tech is pretty much dormant :)

The benefit of being bootstrapped, of course, is that it's designed with costs in mind, so I don't spend more on hosting than I do on my Netflix subscription.

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