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by don-code 4y ago
I once worked at a greentech firm. Someone's hackathon project one year used energy usage data to predict customers' stock prices. Will it work on the micro level of an individual home? Maybe, maybe not, but the potential for that
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by don-code 4y ago
While you're definitely not wrong, there are probably better vehicles for home energy users to meaningfully affect emissions. I make ~7 SRECs (7MWh) per year, and assuming I'm average, it'd take close to 100 homes not selling
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by don-code 4y ago
Are you still able to sell your SRECs with the system disconnected, or are you foregoing that as a cost of being offline? I'd probably lose out on $500 per year from my system if I didn't sell them. At this point, though, it might
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by don-code 4y ago
This. I'd not expect to become advertisement fodder for a product that I pay regularly for. The inverter, on the other hand, is something I paid for once, so for years two through 25 (the expected lifetime), I'm essentially a cost
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by don-code 4y ago
Some of these features probably lead actual usage. If you'd asked in 2009 how many people wanted to adjust their air conditioner temperature remotely, command their vacuum to clean, or see video of their front door when the delivery dr
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by don-code 4y ago
> the manufacturer states that not having it connected to the internet voids their warranty I was aware that my inverter could connect to the Internet, and probably would be connected to the Internet during setup, but my full intention w
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by don-code 4y ago
I still have a 90s LaserJet printer, back from when they were made like tanks. The college I went to got rid of a bunch of them in the late 2000s, so I ended up pulling the toner cartridges out of the discard pile. I haven't bought ton
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by don-code 4y ago
I figured Gericom was an off-brand until reading it here. A friend of mine in high school had a Gericom Hummer - desktop P4 chip with some insane heat pipes and a large fan, and a single desktop DIMM slot for memory. The bottom came off in
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by don-code 4y ago
Functional - I'm leaning into the "analog horror" genre with some fake newsreels of things like the COVID-23 pandemic, $6 per gallon gasoline, and (of course - I live in Boston) the Red Sox losing the World Series to the Yank
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by don-code 4y ago
I've found it pretty rare to _not_ find something I'm looking for on Boston Craigslist. As something of an "out there" example, I found ten old tube TVs for my Halloween decorations just a few weeks ago. Also: I got an a
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by don-code 4y ago
My home lab sounds pretty similar to the author's - three compute nodes running Debian, and a single storage node (single point of failure, yes!) running TrueNAS Core. I was initially pretty apprehensive about running Kubernetes on the
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by don-code 4y ago
Slack probably doesn't care about this, but I do find it slightly disingenuous that Signal offers a "delete message" feature, given its focus on security and not misleading the user that they're doing something that prot
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by don-code 4y ago
Tangentially: this answered a long-standing question I've had, why the long S disappeared, which also incidentally served as a great example of how the wrong learning environment can completely kill a child's curiosity. I came acr
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by don-code 4y ago
There are a couple of tricks I've figured out. There's room in your setup for asymmetric screens. I currently have three 24" monitors set up side by side, with a much smaller 7" screen underneath, showing Grafana dashboa
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by don-code 4y ago
Pure coincidence, perhaps not (see the other comments on this thread), but this did come across a few times as being a hack. For instance, on the OS ABI field in ELF headers: > Fortunately we can get around this by just setting it to t
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by don-code 4y ago
"Make money" in many energy markets is a misnomer, because not all markets pay out. For instance, I have home solar in Massachusetts, where I get a billing credit at the end of the month for excess generation. I can't cash th
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by don-code 4y ago
I was personally surprised that maintainers would "be brave" at all with a codebase as widely used as the Linux kernel - just as much as to hear Linus suggest that this sort of thing happens time and time again.
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by don-code 4y ago
While I certainly appreciate what both the author of this project and the WINE community have put together, how far _have_ we come? My last copy of Photoshop (albeit Photoshop 7, pre-Creative Suite) in the late 2000s worked just fine under
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by don-code 4y ago
For what it's worth, I use a Zenfone 8 and regularly get 2-3 days of battery life off it. I came from older, sanely-sized HTC phones, and am actually pretty happy with it - I was lucky to get a day off any of the prior three HTC phones
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by don-code 4y ago
This actually gave me some new context on why Web technologies can be slow: fast as the runtime might have become, it spends useless cycles converting hex to ASCII, thrashing the stack, and so on. I wonder if it wouldn't be faster to e
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by don-code 4y ago
Coffee ended up being much more than just the beverage for me. I've never been the type of person to pay for coffee at a coffee shop each morning, which took most of the social aspect of it away. And at the time, I was buying, yes, bad
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by don-code 4y ago
While not cooking, per se, Grocy ( https://grocy.info/ ) is able to store recipes organized by ingredients, and do interesting things like tell you what you can cook without running to the store.
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by don-code 4y ago
While I can't speak to either the iPhone or the Walkman, the quality of the digital-to-analog converter is significantly more important than raw horsepower or other capabilities. Where they're analog devices, there's much les
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by don-code 4y ago
> Slack prioritises whoever is first to reply and no one wants to read a 50+ message thread to figure out if they have relevant input. My personal belief is that Slack provides a perverse incentive to reply quickly, rather than thoughtfu
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by don-code 4y ago
You may enjoy reading Neal Stephenson's _Anathem_.
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by don-code 4y ago
In addition to just loading and querying data, spreadsheets are great as database mocks in integration tests. I long ago used XLSQL (note: there is a new XLSQL project unrelated to this one) to mock an Oracle database: https://so
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by don-code 4y ago
It might be overkill, but you could run https://zoneminder.com/ in unauthenticated mode, with a single webcam as an input. It'd at least give you a nice Web interface, as opposed to some other solutions which use raw s
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by don-code 4y ago
> Imagine if mass-storage devices were cheap enough that you could afford 307 gigabytes for a single movie. Your hardware would still have to support a sustained data rate of 1 Mbyte per second to play it back. I recently bought a $20 fl
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by don-code 4y ago
There's an awkward, intermediate step, sort of like what we had with 1G cellular: while the signalling was all digital (but not IP), the actual voice payload was carried on a dynamically-provisioned analog channel. We had Merlins at my
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by don-code 4y ago
One of my engineering professors still has a Web 1.0 site, "best viewed in Netscape Communicator 4.0 or higher at 16 or 24-bit color". It's actively updated, but hasn't fundamentally changed since the late 90s - some pag

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