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pstrateman··on Backblaze Scales Storage Cloud
the server to support the hard drives is quite a large part of the total cost, so replacing drives is probably an economical solution to increasing storage
pstrateman··on Dual antibacterial properties of copper-coated nanotextured stainless steel
ICE vehicles are getting larger because they're exempt from fuel economy requirements.
pstrateman··on America's dramatic shift from gas power plants to batteries
You're right they're on the eastern interconnect, which is even larger and harder to reason about.

Edit: After the 2003 blackouts the Eastern interconnect got much more... connected

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d4/UnitedSt...

pstrateman··on America's dramatic shift from gas power plants to batteries
Iowa and California are on the same grid.

They're both the exact same resource mix because it's the exact same grid.

Here's the resource mix https://feature.wecc.org/soti/topic-sections/resources/index...

The difference in cost is entirely contracting and last mile transmission.

pstrateman··on Zombie 2nd mortgages are coming to life, threatening 1000s of Americans' homes
Title insurance is great... if you're buying a property, but not for monitoring the liens registered against it once you own it.
pstrateman··on Zombie 2nd mortgages are coming to life, threatening 1000s of Americans' homes
In most places it's quite annoying to identify what liens are even on a property.

Take a trip to the country treasurer's office and spend an afternoon reading through property records from 1850.

pstrateman··on America's dramatic shift from gas power plants to batteries
I didn't say that, it's from batteries and solar and wind.

Pretty in Texas is 0.02/kWh right now at wholesale. https://www.ercot.com/content/cdr/contours/rtmLmp.html

pstrateman··on America's dramatic shift from gas power plants to batteries
The 0.08/kWh includes delivery, it's more like 0.04/kWh without delivery.
pstrateman··on America's dramatic shift from gas power plants to batteries
Their example is California, where electricity prices are about 0.40-0.65/kWh.

Sole source advanced cycle natural gas plants are about 0.08/kWh.

That's quite a lot of cost.

pstrateman··on Air Quality Monitors Compared: AirGradient vs. Purple Air
If you're getting values lower then atmospheric then the readings are if by much more than 20 to 50 ppm.
pstrateman··on Air Quality Monitors Compared: AirGradient vs. Purple Air
An indoor CO2 meter that never goes outside will be miscalibrated almost immediately.

They have self calibration routines that assume they see atmospheric CO2 levels at least once either per day or per week

If it's always inside that assumption is wrong and it will always report lower than true CO2 levels.

pstrateman··on My Mother's Letters Should Belong to Me – Not a Company That Works with Prisons
This man is in prison, likely for life, for murder.

Instead of acknowledge his fault and working towards a better life, he's advocating against the law that put him in prison.

I'm not sure the copyright over his mom's letters is what he should be focused on.

pstrateman··on Cost of Living Index by Country 2024 – Numbeo
Salaries in the US are substantially higher then Canada.

Switch to the purchasing power index to get a more clear view of the relative wealth of people in the countries.

pstrateman··on Can turning office towers into apartments save downtowns?
Public intoxication would seem to be the only example of that though.

Can you think of any other?

pstrateman··on Can turning office towers into apartments save downtowns?
Of course it's falsifiable, start prosecuting again and see if the arrest rate goes up.
pstrateman··on Can turning office towers into apartments save downtowns?
Yes because the police stop arresting people for it.

If you don't prosecute, it effectively stops being illegal.

pstrateman··on Fire for Water: A tribe in California is helping to reshape fire management
In California to do a controlled burn you needed(need?) to schedule it way in advance because of environmental review.

Sounds fine, except that CARB can declare that day a clean air day and ban burns on the same day.

Both of these things individually are fine but together it's a problem.

pstrateman··on A place I've never been to. A place I'll never go
surprise heritage listing?

that's not a thing, you would 100% know when buying that a building was listed

pstrateman··on Fallout1-ce: Fallout for modern operating systems
I don't know if this fixes it, but fallout 1 on faster cpus has issues with event timing on the map.

If your cpu is too fast it's basically impossible to play because of the frequency of encounters.

pstrateman··on Wrong couple divorced after computer error by law firm Vardag's
I think he missed the Mr vs Mrs
pstrateman··on Oakland officials vote to rename airport despite SF threatening to sue
It's much easier to get to downtown from SFO than OAK.

Double so if there's traffic.

pstrateman··on Oakland officials vote to rename airport despite SF threatening to sue
That's just straight up scamming.
pstrateman··on An open source initiative to share and compare heat pump performance data
It's quite often cheaper to purchase a completely new unit than to fix an old unit.

Factory supplied parts disappear fairly rapidly after products are end-of-life and labor to repair can be quite expensive.

pstrateman··on I discovered a critical exploit in ZeroMQ with mostly pure luck
I don't know if the ZMQ people have ever admitted to it, but you'd be crazy to expose ZMQ to the public internet.
pstrateman··on I discovered a critical exploit in ZeroMQ with mostly pure luck
One the bug is in curbezmq not zmq.

Two do not expose zmq to untrusted networks.

edit: lol their website doesn't even have a valid cert http://curvezmq.org/

pstrateman··on Is It Dry Yet?
Yes before drying my clothes I'm sure to blend them to a consistent mush.
pstrateman··on The largest deep lake water cooling project just got bigger
Yeah today the gas usage is higher then usual and it's still pretty low.
pstrateman··on The largest deep lake water cooling project just got bigger
It's especially dumb in Ontario where electricity is almost entirely from nuclear and hydro.
pstrateman··on Terraform makes carbon neutral natural gas
I assume the whitepaper missed details of production that they have since had to account for.

I'm quite curious what their cost is today.

pstrateman··on Terraform makes carbon neutral natural gas
Did I miss it or does this not actually say what the cost of methane priced by them is?

I see H2, DC power, and CO2 DAC, costs but no total.

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