LikeBeans

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by LikeBeans 4mo ago
Brilliant
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by LikeBeans 6mo ago
You are probably right. Surprisingly the first controller I tried didn't work. I assumed the voltage was too high since it worked in my other (much older) car. I found a reference online of people that tried a particular brand/mod
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by LikeBeans 6mo ago
Very cool. Over a year and a half ago I installed a towing brake controller in my Tesla Model Y. Found the location of the plug, how to access and the pinout online (confirmed via a voltmeter..) so the car's side felt straight forward.
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by LikeBeans 7mo ago
Yeah the Google Maps was my primary goal. But I was also thinking a person can add other options. For example different search engines. Or maybe your favorite AI agent search.
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by LikeBeans 7mo ago
A while back I wanted more menu options with Firefox so I made an extension [1]. Basically when you highlight a word or a sentence on a page a menu popups up with some options like to copy, search, or lookup on Google maps. Or whatever opti
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by LikeBeans 8mo ago
I think pulling for live pricing by inverters and appliances is not realistic on a grand scale. Using time of day pricing is much simpler imo.
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by LikeBeans 8mo ago
Great explanation about the grid being a giant machine that couple smaller machines with each other. About your last point, the buffer, I think batteries (chemical and also physical) seems to be the main key going forward.
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by LikeBeans 9mo ago
Good point. I was thinking more about areas without much water and a large field of poles each hoisting several blocks. Sort of wind turbines but without the blades.
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by LikeBeans 9mo ago
I wonder how does it compare to hoisting a concrete (or something heavy) block up a pulley system as an energy store? When you need the energy you let it slide down pulling some steel cable that turns a generator, or multiple cables into mu
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by LikeBeans 9mo ago
I like your idea. We can now generate substantial amount of power from floating wind turbines. Coupled with floating batteries (ie on cargo ships) we perhaps build floating charging stations along major shipping routes. There is no need for
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by LikeBeans 9mo ago
Actually thinking about it some more why not park a couple of dozen older cargo ships along major shipping route. Equip them with wind turbines and batteries in shipping containers. Now the actual cargo ships passing by can stop for a few h
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by LikeBeans 9mo ago
Clusters of floating wind turbines each with their own battery storage might be useful here. I imagine along strategic (ie major) shipping channels. Would it pencil out? I have no idea.
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by LikeBeans 9mo ago
Because of the rising tax rate relative to income. Ours is projected to increase to about 20% of our net income. That's why. So yeah nice on paper that the house is worth a lot more than we bought it... but that value matters if we sel
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by LikeBeans 10mo ago
Yeah. Unfortunately the real market value grew so fast that when the assessed value catches up over the next few years the property tax is going to take a nice chunk of my net income. Honestly, this is not a hardship but a nice problem to h
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by LikeBeans 10mo ago
It depends on the appreciation and in turn the property taxes. I own my house outright. Completely paid off. But the increases in property taxes is forcing us to sell and move, likely in the next 5 years. Too bad, love the neighborhood and
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by LikeBeans 10mo ago
No buddy, you're replacing the doer engineers that built your company and made you rich with some form of automation.
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by LikeBeans 11mo ago
For my EV, which I charge about once a week on average, with 4,000 cycles that means about 77 years!! That's a huge deal. CATL quoted 10k cycle battery too. Wow. Very cool. Yeah energy density and operating profile and all that. But co
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by LikeBeans 11mo ago
I'm skeptical too however I think AI can add value by increasing knowledge worker productivity. Maybe save some money by needing less staff for some tasks. Maybe to mine vast amounts of data looking for a pattern. So I think it is usef
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by LikeBeans 11mo ago
So perhaps the differential air speed between the intake and exhaust is a big factor in the efficiency equation? The bigger the difference the more work is needed..
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by LikeBeans 11mo ago
I'm surprised, at least for businesses, small cell wifi is not a thing. For example, if you walk into an office building everyone seems to have a physical phone on their desk that is hard wired. What if that is also a small cell AP. Li
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by LikeBeans 1y ago
Thanks for pointing that out. Yeah I meant Wh not kWh. Oops. I fixed my post.
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by LikeBeans 1y ago
We get 2-3 power outages every year where I live. Mainly due to trees with ice/snow/wind. My solution was to buy three power banks. A 500Wh, and a couple of 300Wh. I have a pluggable camp fridge too and a gas fireplace. So one bat
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by LikeBeans 1y ago
I think the problem is the loss of the middle class. The ones on top getting a lot of the resources while the rest have to fight for whatever is left. It doesn't matter how hard or how smart you work.
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by LikeBeans 1y ago
I think that's a neat idea. I often use Google Sheets as a database for my projects. I read 'setup' data and 'log' data. Works well. Most often just append a row at the end for writing. But I can see why a CSV can b
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by LikeBeans 1y ago
I think both are great. It depends on what you need and the requirements you want to hit. I use an RPi for as a Pi-Hole for example. It works great. Low power and just that one task. Performs nicely. And cheap. However for my firewall (PfSe
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by LikeBeans 1y ago
Often yes but sometimes they both go down. However bonds don't decline as fast. The actual strategy I follow is stock/bond/short-term. The short term is like a buffer currently invested in short term treasury fund. Think of i
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by LikeBeans 1y ago
Lookup VUSXX. It is a vanguard short term treasury fund. That's where I put my cash. It is currently paying 4.24% that is state tax free (I live in Oregon). Unfortunately it is hard to predict if that rate will stay high enough. Previo
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by LikeBeans 1y ago
MBAs and MVP (Minimum Viable Product)
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by LikeBeans 2y ago
Yeah, I think current tech assumes a server relay. However imo, and if I were to imagine a solution, in this case I think a message would need a ttl, say 24 hours. In a local mesh/hive everyone would store a copy of the undelivered mes
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by LikeBeans 2y ago
In simple terms, if I understand quantum computing, and please correct me if I'm wrong, the big benefit is parallel computing at a massive scale whereas classical computing is serial in nature. If yes likely both method are useful. But

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