maxerickson

Wild that you put it on the customer to reduce the sales cost.

I can see it being reasonable to explain during the initial contact that you want the standardized estimate, once that happens it's not really on the customer if the contractor goes out to chase the business even if they know they aren't going to do it.

They are saying that badly configured controls often run the resistive heat when it isn't needed.

It's not uncommon for a gas heater to have an always on pilot.

Well what capacity does each system have?

That they came back and added resistive heating suggests your contractor may not have been too worried about sizing the system correctly in the first place.

How is the insulation in the house? Poor insulation and an undersized system will be a bad experience regardless of the heat source.

If you read just a smidge of the context, it's a sizing issue, not a capability issue.

You have 8*10^10 in the numerator and 5*10^5 in the denominator, so the result should be roughly 8/5*10^5.

Still big number.

The federal efforts at prosecution were also hesitant more than "everything".

What's the proposed system design? For example, in January, I get about 9 hours of sunlight and have an average daily high of 25 F. I'm gonna need to store heat somehow or another.

Control vs want. If you don't have power in outer space, you simply don't control what happens. You can hope that whoever has power respects your desires.

No, it's the group in power in outer space.

Lets it soak up harsh bumps at at higher speeds.

I mean, I probably would do too, but it doesn't exactly speak to the integrity of whatever is being said now.

Is it hard to get a Corolla?

The hydration of stool varies considerably.

Probably tough to do much with just information about the outputs.

I buy my flush water from the city by volume.

I bought more or less the same dryer as the one from 1997 that it replaced. There's cost reductions in some of the parts, but the overall design is more or less the same (for example, the timer is a cheaper design, there's no little door on the lint catcher, the adjustable feet are plastic instead of metal). I expect many parts are directly interchangeable.

I guess I'm not sure what the 1997 price was, so can't really make a comparison.

Fun story with the plastic feet, the delivery drivers either didn't know that they screwed into the dryer or pretended not to know. They left them barely inserted into the bottom and then put a shim under one of them to level it. I was standing there and kind of mumbled "can't you screw the others in" but dropped it and did it myself after they left.

Car safety is tested fairly destructively.

Airplane mode on a phone is pretty feasible and probably has more upsides than downsides.

Could probably compile it in if discipline is a concern.

Solar is like 10% of electric production, which is about 20% of energy use.

So if you expect solar to replace most of that, at steady state you probably need more panels per year than are currently being produced. No reason to expect diminishing production to increase costs vs today (they might rise vs the eventual floor).

I agree that we have an enormous calorie surplus that we can turn the knob on.

Some of us live near the Michigan-Huron basin.

What's the benchmark for accomplishment?

A modern fighter jet can fly literal circles around one that was designed with a slide rule.

Computers have gained enormous complexity.

Medicine is doing all sorts of crazy stuff (biologic drugs and mRNA and so on).

I have a 2013 CRV with a EPA combined mileage of 25 mpg (AWD):

https://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/bymodel/2013_Honda_CR-V.shtm...

I get combined mileage of 26 mpg. That's a short daily commute and a couple trips a month to a town ~70 miles away.

I haven't taken particularly stellar care of it.

This has more numbers:

https://www.lendingtree.com/auto/debt-statistics/

The main pattern is that people are paying a lot for cars. Looks like a lot of 6 year+ loans in the new market.

Usually it involves swapping the new tires onto the rims. It's not easy to do.

The battery electronics aren't necessarily all that complicated:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZHN3fjDtpc

The precharge resistor has to be reasonably matched with the devices connected to the battery though.

And of course there could be additional converting electronics for charging or whatever.

Can we believe that consumers have any agency at all?

Like maybe the reason there are 200 varieties of single serve cups is that people like them.

People that live near gas stations drive to grocery stores for their groceries.

Ridiculous.

Most states use optical scan tabulators:

https://ballotpedia.org/Voting_equipment_by_state