kgermino

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by kgermino 25d ago
Right there with the Milwaukee Marathon misspelling “Marathon” on their medals this year. https://marathonhandbook.com/milwaukee-marathon-handed-out-4...
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by kgermino 2mo ago
A big part of the issue is that federal funding drives probably the majority of significant projects at all levels. We have a completely broken system where every project is a targeted towards winning a grant as much as if not more than the
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by kgermino 4mo ago
That's true, but if you stay in the regenerative zone it doesn't (seem to) make that much of a difference in practice. All the braking power happens in the rear if you only brake the rear wheels
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by kgermino 4mo ago
I don't see why it would be an issue in most cases. Obviously you'd want AWD for proper off-roading, but for just driving around on streets it should be fine. My EV van is RWD and it's totally fine in everything I've dea
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by kgermino 5mo ago
That’s probably true but I wouldn’t count it out. I think you’re more likely to get answers like “we do 10:00 on tuesdays” (timed for schools) than “no”
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by kgermino 6mo ago
And the TSA wouldn’t do anything to stop that Hell the TSA doesn’t do much to prevent that on commercial flights, but requiring private flights to start going through commercial security would be completely pointless
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by kgermino 6mo ago
It does depend on what car you get. A RWD Ioniq5 can do about 3 hours on the highway with 20 minute stops (though the stops are a lot longer at the more-available Tesla chargers). There’s other good roadtrip friendly options out there too,
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by kgermino 7mo ago
Isn’t that their entire point?
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by kgermino 7mo ago
But it creates other issues, especially for a non-techsavvy user
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by kgermino 7mo ago
Pretty badly for both sides
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by kgermino 10mo ago
It's primarily done for security and secondarily a benefit making it easier (for everyone!) to identify denomination by feel
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by kgermino 11mo ago
That's fair, though it's not a given that the sprinklers are for turf-grass instead of something more important. More interestingly (to me): did it have a local interface or was the only way to update it tied to the internet?
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by kgermino 11mo ago
I agree? In both cases the control system is physically in your house. It sounds like the sprinkler system did work completely offline (though it's not clear if you'd actually be able to change anything without internet - that wou
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by kgermino 11mo ago
Are there any furnaces that do that? Certainly, the standard smart thermostat set up is that your ecobee is connected to the Internet, but controls the furnace using good old-fashioned signal wires
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by kgermino 11mo ago
Well that brings up two immediate issues A standard furnace and thermostat won’t even know if you pull the thermostat off the wall, much less have any way to handle it beyond “full blast heat 24/7” More challenging: you expected the sp
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by kgermino 1y ago
It wouldn’t _have_ to, that’s a political decision not a mathematical requirement. But, even if you did it would still help tremendously and possibly still be sufficient. There’s diminishing returns where lower income people get a higher pe
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by kgermino 1y ago
they're regularly revised up or down because they're (very openly) preliminary numbers released just days after the month ends and before many employers have even answered the survey. When the economy reaches an inflection point t
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by kgermino 1y ago
6600 lb towing capacity Towing range is an issue with all EVs and the battery on this one isn't that big, but if you're regularly doing long distance towing I'm not sure why you'd start with a city truck
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by kgermino 1y ago
it does depend a lot on what you buy it for, but obviously 8' is a good benchmark. But honestly... at 8' I'm not sure why you're bothering with anything (unless you're getting a lot of them), i usually just threw 8
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by kgermino 1y ago
What? Unintended acceleration happens _all the time_. It’s usually driver error or a stuck floor mat. The vast majority are drivers who hit the accelerator thinking it’s the brakes then panic when the car speeds up. Toyota had some design i
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by kgermino 1y ago
I don’t know where we’d draw the line for “quality first” but I’d argue Toyota at minimum qualifies That doesn’t mean they’re perfect: cars are incredibly complex machines and mistakes are inevitable. But the airbag issue was a vendor (used
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by kgermino 1y ago
May be my age, but I wouldn't say any of those brands are a mark of quality. Rather the opposite in fact. They are all interesting in their own way (especially Tesla), but certainly not quality/reliability-first organizations.
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by kgermino 1y ago
Miles (of range) per hour (of charge) is somewhat widely (and accurately) used as a metric for charging speed
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by kgermino 1y ago
Agreed. There’s an EV camper van with rooftop solar. IIRC it gets about 1000W peak, which isn’t bad for the home batteries but is basically nothing for the high voltage drive system
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by kgermino 1y ago
I don’t think you’d have to run the AC any more aggressively with the solar panels than with a traditional steel roof? If you’re suggesting it wouldn’t work in a garage, that’s obviously true (and another factor in whether car solar makes s
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by kgermino 1y ago
In theory those screens are regulated to be safe to use while driving - my car for example has a lot of more complex features disabled while the car is in gear - while the phone does not have the same safeguards. Whether those safeguards ar
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by kgermino 1y ago
I’m pretty sure they mean that the width of the panel is north-south so faces are due east or west
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by kgermino 1y ago
I do know a fair number of people who got married for health insurance (not really legal reasons, but maybe adjacent?). Though very few of those cases we’re people who otherwise would not have gotten married, rather people who got a legal m
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by kgermino 1y ago
Everything I've seen is that Hyundai/Kia's charge noticeably (though not massively) faster than Tesla's. I've never DCFC a Tesla to compare but my Ioniq is usually under 20 mins in practice
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by kgermino 1y ago
Yes on all of that. All Cash means Google is essentially writing a $32Bn check which is dispersed to the Wiz shareholders. (It wouldn't go to Wiz's bank account since Google owns the bank account once they send the money. Typicall

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