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kwf

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Engineer who converts solder, Ethernet cables, and firmware into entertainment.

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My partner has put over 800 miles on her new plug in hybrid, and she still has over half of the original tank of gas from the dealership.

PHEVs are seriously the best of both worlds if you're not ready to take the leap to a fully electric vehicle.

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@phpete I wouldn't start worrying about gasoline in a modern car gas tank for probably something like 9 months.

Modern cars have MUCH tighter tanks than things like lawn mowers, so you don't need to worry as much about moisture contaminating the gas.

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That being said, charging a PHEV or full EV at home is no joke. Even just the PHEV is tripling our total household electricity usage.

Being in freaking California means the cost savings is only maybe 20% vs gasoline, but the convenience factor of plugging in only taking 10 seconds when she gets home is a huge win compared to visiting gas stations.

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My only two electric related complaints for the Volvo XC90 are:

  1. The on-board charger is only 3.6kW, so even at level 2 it takes a long time to charge and any public chargers which charge a fixed "per session" fee take hours to amortize that fee across enough kWh to make it worth it.

  2. Volvo removed all of the charging management UI that seems to be available in the full EV models, so I have no in-car control over avoiding peak rate time charging. I have to implement all of my desired logic in the EVSE.

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@ChuckMcManis I could only fit 3kW on my main roof. I'm clearly going to need to come back and add panels to all my out buildings

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@m0vfc We have an EV TOU rate plan, which saves you a few cents per kWh... https://www.pge.com/assets/pge/docs/account/rate-plans/residential-electric-rate-plan-pricing.pdf

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@keiko I'm planning on expanding my solar myself. I just need to build the roof to put it on first

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https://circleid.com/posts/20240523-unexplained-glitch-disrupts-root-server-raises-security-concerns

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@woody Cogent not being a solid steward of C root? Someone fetch me my shocked face.

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Company reorg is nice.

You get new responsibilities. Oh you get to keep the previous ones.

Because nobody actually got reassigned to do the stuff you were doing 6 months ago.

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@baloo The backfills will continue to be delayed until... I don't know. I have no idea what they're waiting for.

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One of the fun parts of being a mirror operator is that you get to deal with China Mobile using ISO download mirrors to fix their traffic ratios with other ISPs at peering points.

Looks like they've moved to using Slackware now...

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@baloo No joke.

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@ascii158 step 1: block a bunch of international sites at the edge of your country.

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@ascii158 China Mobile and China Telecom are the only ones who have resorted to this tactic.

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@iaintshootinmis the larger Internet carriers have agreements where they will exchange all of their network traffic for free, as long as the volume in both directions is roughly the same.

So if the traffic isn't naturally the same and China Telecom doesn't want to start paying to send their traffic to other carriers, they can just synthetically create a bunch of extra traffic towards their network to even out the ratio

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@jloc0 I need to set up some easy tooling to ban hammer it faster. I found it easier to just throw 40G at our mirror and weather it.

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Pop quiz: you're installing a two pole 20A GFCI breaker for a NEMA6-20 receptacle.

Do you bother hooking up the neutral pigtail or not?

If you don't, do you leave it loose in the breaker box or do you cut it completely off?

kwf,
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@jakob @gsuberland @azonenberg there's 240v receptacles that have a neutral and ones that do not.

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Millie is spoiled rotten.

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100G free space optic QSFP transceiver.

kwf,
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@litchralee Looking at loose UPC surfaces with barefoot transceiver powers poses significantly less risk to you than a red laser pointer.

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This Google spinoff aims to remove 500 tonnes of CO₂ per year from the atmosphere, which is a time machine that takes us back less than a second each year. 🙃

https://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/2024/05/google-spinout-lands-in-oregon-to-suck-carbon-out-of-the-air-fight-climate-change.html

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@robpike @davidho The tech bros would disagree.

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So I've got this empty concrete pad on the side of my house.

It used to have a rotted out 12x24' shed on it, but I demolished that last fall and figured I could do something better... 🧵

kwf,
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Driving Tapcons freaking sucks and I don't want to talk about it.

kwf,
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@mcdanlj I'm making do with a 1/2" hammer drill atm, but yes. I am filled with regret that I didn't go with something larger.

kwf,
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@bobmcwhirter I keep hitting rebar or breaking the tapcons half way in

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@bobmcwhirter yep

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