Then there is the noise factor and the fact that the homeowner may need more electricity (electric car, pool, hot tub, etc).

I built my house. My builder pushed back on me when I asked for a 400A service. He said I'd never need it since I didn't have plans for a pool. Gave me a 200A service.

Now with 2 electric cars, a finished basement, and patio lighting I have two subpanels in addition to the main panel.

I know they must be peeing into bottles and just doing isometric stretching to prevent leg clots, but those guys must really have it rough if 30 minutes every 10 hours is not acceptable.

On the other hand, these fuel consumption numbers assume appropriate temperatures. You make it a little too cold and the fuel consumption goes up dramatically. Tesla car batteries don't like the cold. Source: I drive Tesla since 2014 and have two of them currently.

I'm under the impression that the way they solved that in German is to have the devices be equipped with a regulator that prevents feeding the grid during a power outage.

If it works in German, it should work in the U.S., right?

At least they are trying.

Hopefully next time they will closer to the 'right' solution.

Science is all about making hypotheses and testing them. Mistakes happen all the time. It's part of good science.

at first, but only for 12 parsecs or so . . .

M immediate reaction was to wonder if 3d printers will join C & Perl with annual obfuscation contests?

I am a physician. In particular, I am a cardiologist.

Not a (work-)day goes by that I don't get a new consult for someone who got a CT scan of the chest for screening for lung cancer (because they have a smoking history) that shows calcification of the arteries of the heart. Or maybe it's a self-pay coronary calcium score. Or maybe it's an elevated Lipoprotein (a).

These tests lead to unnecessary consultations and increased anxiety. Not with me, but a lot of other physicians will then order stress tests compounding the unneeded testing.

I spend (waste?) my time explaining to them that the best thing they can do is regular exercise and diet and be on the watch for exertional symptoms. Sometimes it clicks with the patients. Other times they come with the mindset that they need a stress test or need a heart catheterization and will give me a poor review or even try to report my to the hospital network I work for.

A total waste of resources.

Proprietary service drops support for proprietary protocol..

The problem with this is that some states want to tax not just the cars that are registered in the state, but all vehicles that drive through the state.

That being said, whatever rule goes into effect for EVs should be for all vehicles.

You want to do it by weight * miles driven? Great! Do it for all vehicles based on weight * miles driven. Make it payable every time you renew your car's registration.

Easily done.

>But in a good model, esp. a thinking model, one
>would expect it to think over which sorts of
>numbers are statistically over-chosen (birthdates,
>etc) and avoid them in giving its answers.

and even then, it doesn't affect the chance of *winning*, but rather the chance of being the *sole* winner, as opposed to having to share the price.

[there *is* another possibility, though, albeit unlikely: it could come across a flaw in the RNG that lets it avoid less likely combinations, or choose a more likely one. Again, though, this requires an RNG flaw.]

just like when it hit three digits?

>Mexico has a half peso coin, worth about 2 cents.

and a peso was like a dollar.

I recall my aunt feeling guilty about what she was paying down there when it dropped to about eight to a dollar.

And then they lopped three zeroes off to get the new peso.

I *think* this is half of those one-thousands of the prior peso . . .

After extreme inflation, small matters of rounding aren't even on the radar for what's important.

[Let alone the 27 or so zeroes lopped off in Germany {where, near the end, workers were reportedly paid twice a day, with their wives bringing wheelbarrows to collect, and rushing to spend it before it fell further! (which may be an urban legend; I've never been able to confirm it, but it's not inconsistent with the daily inflation)}. Or Yugoslavia, which lopped off 30 digits . . . ]

[cloudtrack, err, flare, verification? *REALLY*]

And of further interest, I've never seen one in the US that was a round number of cents--they all end in 9/10 of a cent. (although in years past, 4/10 was also common)

China calling Elon. Come in, Elon! :)

bah.

Let me know when they start making *autographic* 120 film again. I have the camera, and am dying to shoot a roll!

The last rolls were apparently made in 1932. The cameras had a flap that could flip up and allow writing directly onto the film with a stylus. When you see handwriting on an old picture print, it was likely shot on autographic.

[and, yes, in fact my autographic camera *does* have bellows!]