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maxerickson··on Hyundai Paywalls Brake Pads replacement on Ioniq 5 N
Plenty of vehicles will have a simple procedure for disabling automatic engagement of the brake.

Unfortunately, most people don't care about this stuff, so the companies that don't do it don't really pay a penalty.

maxerickson··on Reservoir: Smart electric water heater
Yeah, I expect that's small portable heaters rather than whole house.
maxerickson··on Reservoir: Smart electric water heater
It's comparing it to EV charging. I expect part of the point of the linked study is to examine readiness as more people adopt EVs.

With the heavy use of direct combustion for home heating in the US, heating wouldn't be hugely interesting in that context. I consume more natural gas for heating each month in the winter than I do for hot water annually.

maxerickson··on Reservoir: Smart electric water heater
A lot of US houses have forced air for heat (I guess because it combines well with cooling).
maxerickson··on Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux
Having org wide joinable channels is useful.

Splitting small group chat across more than a couple of chats is insane.

maxerickson··on For-profit healthcare is the problem, not (just) private equity
We can probably take costs out too. Crazy that it costs $1500 to go to a sleepy ER and get 20 minutes of attention from a PA. And then the hospital bills you.
maxerickson··on Being poor vs. being broke
It was during the pandemic, the family did not have good phone service at their home...

https://navajotimes.com/edu/hill-becomes-makeshift-classroom...

maxerickson··on The last-ever penny will be minted today in Philadelphia
It's probably the case that the real risk is being suspended from SNAP for failing to comply with their rules.
maxerickson··on Waymo robotaxis are now giving rides on freeways in LA, SF and Phoenix
If there are vehicles going slow due to capability, you are pretty likely to be in an area where traffic density means that there's lots of vehicles in all the available lanes.

Plenty of people do not follow the rules about staying to the right.

maxerickson··on Work after work: Notes from an unemployed new grad watching the job market break
That isn't what happened at all. The SNAP funds have to be appropriated by Congress. Congress has not appropriated the funds. Some groups sued and some judge was asking the Executive Branch to break the law using some emergency fund or funds from WIC or other pots of money that aren't truly earmarked for SNAP.

The SNAP contingency funds probably are earmarked for SNAP. Whether they can properly be spent on benefits if there isn't a budget appears to be a harder question to answer. I see arguments being made in both directions.

maxerickson··on Things I've Heard Boomers Say That I Agree with 100%
Were you replacing them because they got dim or because they burned out?

I haven't replaced my lights for an extended period and am wondering if that's why they are dim, but if they burned out that fast they were probably getting some kind of contamination on the bulbs (which concentrates the heat).

maxerickson··on Things I've Heard Boomers Say That I Agree with 100%
A lot of organized running events give everyone a medal as they cross the finish line.

Part of my brain thinks it is a racket. The organizer buys them for $X and sells them to the event for a multiple. If that isn't the case, it still makes sense for whoever makes them to promote the idea, because they get to sell more of them that way.

maxerickson··on I was right about dishwasher pods and now I can prove it [video]
People who do it more or less don't care about the price of energy (except maybe in the abstract).

It's for comfort and convenience.

maxerickson··on The Mack Super Pumper was a locomotive engined fire fighter (2018)
They are related by the shaft speed anyway.

The reason that a lot of applications consider torque is that's more efficient to operate near the required shaft speed than it is to run faster and gear down. You fight more inertia in the engine at higher speed, and you add rotating mass with your gearbox.

maxerickson··on The Mack Super Pumper was a locomotive engined fire fighter (2018)
It could draw from 8 hydrants. So average of 900 feet in that case.

Which still seems like a lot, but not so incredible.

maxerickson··on The problem with farmed seafood
The color in the farmed Salmon is the same compounds as the wild:

https://www.dal.ca/news/2023/03/21/farmed-salmon-colour-heal...

The amounts differ, and the farm feed may be synthetic.

maxerickson··on Amazon Rivian electric delivery vans arrive in Canada
No idea how popular they are, but they certainly exist.

https://leisurevans.com/wonder/chassis/

maxerickson··on Why does Swiss cheese have holes?
Did you form this picture of US cheese after visiting a hot dog cart?
maxerickson··on 'Do not trust your eyes': AI generates surge in expense fraud
Shorting someone who is getting funds for lunch by a couple bucks is not in fact "screwing them".
maxerickson··on 'Do not trust your eyes': AI generates surge in expense fraud
If it's daily, why not just do a per diem and forget about tracking it?
maxerickson··on Addiction Markets
So this is sort of a gotcha question, but I don't mean it that way.

Is it advertising when the announcer for a game talks about gambling? There's statements that obviously would be advertising, so the interesting thing is where and how to draw the line.

maxerickson··on You can't refuse to be scanned by ICE's facial recognition app, DHS document say
Removal of administrative restraint is different than limitless power.

I think it remains to be seen how broader US society responds to the approach being taken. Hard to say how close the Senate will be next year.

maxerickson··on Moderna has unraveled
It likely could have been a lot faster for relatively minimal cost.

(Like double what we spent on it would still be relatively minimal and easily would have sped up wide availability in the US and around the world)

maxerickson··on Moderna has unraveled
The vaccine was mostly developed before the pandemic and then was designed in a day or 2 after the virus was isolated and characterized. Then they started testing it for safety and effectiveness.

Warp Speed was about being ready to make lots and lots of it once the testing was complete. It did a lot of good, but they probably should have spent more on it.

maxerickson··on Using AI to negotiate a $195k hospital bill down to $33k
Which they? The comment I replied to literally says:

"If you have a FSA I strongly suggest that you get an HSA instead."

Did you mean to reply to them?

maxerickson··on Using AI to negotiate a $195k hospital bill down to $33k
You think it's obvious that "lesuorac" was scoping their comment to people that have an FSA with an HDHP?

Doesn't read that way to me.

maxerickson··on Using AI to negotiate a $195k hospital bill down to $33k
Artistic expression isn't the standard in US law.
maxerickson··on Using AI to negotiate a $195k hospital bill down to $33k
A lot of people with FSAs will have insurance that disqualifies having an HSA.

I have the paranoid idea that they designed FSAs in such a goofy way for budget scoring and it drives me nuts.

maxerickson··on What if tariffs?
The other thing that happens is that a buyer doesn't buy anything at all. Deadweight loss.
maxerickson··on Harnessing America's heat pump moment
Ground source is largely going to maintain capacity independent of the outside temps, so the resistive would turn on when the heat pump isn't keeping up with the heat loss.
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