Isn't that like saying we should compare the energy stored in coal to the energy stored in the sun? Seems a nonsensical nonsequitor.

Yes the grid connectivity is key, just as we are not each of us burning coal at home and office and let the power plant do it.

You're not wrong about tribalism, but as a fellow American, Europe can either trade with a brutal dictatorship for EV chargers, trade with a brutal dictatorship engaged in war on their doorsteps for natural gas, or keep on depending on a insipient wannabe brutal dictatorship's military to keep oil trade via sea going. I think the EU is techie enough that if China turned off the chargers somehow for some reason they could nationalize and lobotomize the hardware, but compared to America and Russia they aren't really as likely to come to blows.

That's what buffering means yeah, you can exceed the capacity of a buffer in software or chemistry and then what happens and if it is a problem depends on the rest of the situation. Lots of employers, like mine, have free charging at work now, too, it washes out in the rest of the electricity a big campus consumes during the day.

Summary says it has an onboard battery so it'll buffer the local grid itself.

On the one hand, probably not, on the other, they're dependent on foreign oil for transportation otherwise and they can presumably run some domestically owned EV charging infrastructure in parallel without much issue.

For rural use you'd probably want to put in a charger at home and charge overnight. Just needs what is essentially a heavier duty dryer outlet. We just got an EV and haven't gotten around to the home charger yet because we're in a metro area with lots of charging, but even so we're paying "$2.70 a gallon" vs a tenth of that to charge at home once I get around to writing the diagram for the permit. For regular road trips along the freeway even Wal Mart is starting to put in superchargers but if you're deep backcountry might need ICE for a bit longer until those gas stations upgrade their electrical service.

You're not wrong but at least mobile apps are largely replaceable with web apps. Can't run an entire enterprise on web apps, you'll need to in-house it or use COTS and FOSS.

I know nothing of the ICC's IT setup but if they were doing all their auth through Entra, their documentation in SharePoint, and internal workflows via PowerAutomate then it is not as simple as uninstalling Outlook and installing Thunderbird. Now that is has been 8 months they may have the scope of work planned out and started an RFP process for doing the work to shift over.

What he means is not all companies care for the overhead it'd take to do this much monitoring of their staff

For now, anyhow, you can literally download the data and analyze it yourself, as well as see links to the research generated: https://oceanobservatories.org...

It is good at search! But in his example, no one would spend a week of linear time searching for things. You search for things in between getting other tasks done, over, say, a week. Is that worth $5k a month license to help the worker out? I guess it depends on how much their time is worth and if saving them that search time actually increases their productivity or just leaves them more time posting on Slashdot when they need to unwind before tackling the next complicated task.

It is a bit of that, but compared to the start of things when everyone figured Ukraine was going to be doing a guerilla campaign, Russia is out of armor, out of ships, running out of aircraft. Only their willingness to suffer huge infantry casualties has them continuing to contest things. So they'll continue to Zap Brannigan against Ukrainian killbots for the foreseeable future but things have still been changing wildly even though the fronts have stalled.

Other than the barcode module it isn't any bigger than my fold4 was my point, and sure, making more fragile and user hostile devices is certainly cheaper. I could make a really cheap car if cost is the only concern.

Awaiting them wanting to tear down the weather radar systems.