I KNEW it!
The Illuminati are controlling our new robot Overlords!

There is more than meets the eye.

I am in Sacramento, so we have a very high solar ratio for home rooftop, 4% of power last year came from PVs

There is no talk of charging us extra, they are still giving incentives on new homes and existing homes to add PV. But again, we are customer owned, not corporate.

And you have to have a pretty big system to get 100% of your power needs even in winter. Mine would have to be at least 4-5x bigger than it is, which would have cost $80 to $100K pre rebate. Winter output is just so low, in January, my system generates as little as 2KWh per day, 1/20 what it does in June/July

The best method is to get yourself under the Tier 1 cap, usually 1000Kwh per month. The rates are low because of the tier-ing system, and it pays itself back very quickly.
So my bill is generally around $70 per month, which means I am at about 70% of Tier 1 usage.

Thank $DEITY I have SMUD. They are probably one of the few reasonable utilities in California. It is "customer owned" not a public corporation like PG&E

You got that wrong.

If you are producing more power during the day, the meter runs backwards. Or at least it should, they installed a second meter to measure what I generate so they could subtract it from what I used.

So if you generate 10 during the day, use 5, and then use 5 at night, your net cost is zero.

The 3.2c they pay me is just gravy.

At least where I am, they pay me something like 3.2c, but it also runs my meter backwards. If I put an extra 10kwh on the grid during the day, I can draw that same 10kwh at night for net zero. And I "made" 32c.

I don't need a battery system, the "grid" acts as one, and with one year billing cycle, power I put on during the summer I can draw back in winter for no charge.

But perhaps not too late.

Rather than teach CS as a separate subject, teach the other subjects in the context of CS.

If the goal is to train the kids today for the jobs of tomorrow, there will be CS elements to every job, even if it is just using computers.

Case in point: Wife was an attendance clerk at the local school. When the new attendance tool was rolled out, it came with no pre-defined reports.
Clerks were sent to a class, and then were expected to write their own reports.

Did not turn out well for a lot of clerks who have had zero CS experience, which was pretty much all of them. Including my wife, who went and found another job.
From what she has heard, all the report writing has been done by two clerks out of about 100, who just happen to have some CS experience from previous jobs.

Pretty impressive for a transgendered goddess.

Do you know the key strategic weakness of the human race? The dead outnumber the living. - Missy

Yeah, but I don't remember them complaining when they diverted the Lava to miss villages using modern technology.

Isn't that thwarting the will of Pele?
Kinda kills the argument for offending the gods.

Vae Victis.

Soylent Green... it is MADE OF PEOPLE!

If people had heard it enough they would not have bothered to write the original article about a Consumer Group "bemoaning" the practice.

OF COURSE they are doing that, that is the whole point of providing a free product, to monetize you. Don't like it? Don't use it.

then you are the product.

No, we are just saying it is like the Oscars now.