Comment Re:So how do these work? Phase matching? (Score 1) 98
There are mini clip-on current sensors. For measuring potential you still need to either also know resistance, or probe the points between which you want to measure it. You could measure differential current, and then if you used that measurement to break a circuit, you'd have a GF[C]I.
Comment Re: Dont let the door hit ya. Bye Felicia (Score 1) 78
Sad I could justify dropping $20k on a Mac Studio if one was available north of 128gb these days (check the site all above 96gb are gone)
I believe they are advertising the 512's gbs are coming in a few months.....
Comment Re:"leave the world better than we found it"? (Score 1) 78
The reality is Apple very much positioned their product line as fashion items,
Having an Apple product hasn't been a "status' symbol of any sort for decades now....
They're just commodity products, nice ones....but commodity products and no one buys them or sees them as a fashion or status symbol purchase...
That's been a thing of the past for quite awhile now...
Comment Re:Looking forward to this (Score 1) 99
if you get the roof replaced, get in-roof solar that replaces the tiles with panels,
Maybe we're using different words/meanings....but if we both consider a tile a "tile"...then in the US, most house roofs are NOT done with tiles....in fact I'd only seen roof tiles on old houses when I moved to New Orleans....it isn't common to see roofs with tiles.
Asphalt shingles are the most common roofing material in the US.....when I think "tile" I'm thinking like terra cotta, or the like and that's not common. You used to see wood shingles too back in the day, but not so much anymore.
So, not sure if a solar 'tile' replacement type thing is really offered here in the US (it may be)....but if it is, I'm guessing it would be sky high in price for materials and then add on specialized labor would be $$$$.
Comment Re: So how do these work? Phase matching? (Score 2, Informative) 98
Yes they match phase obviously.
For safety they output nothing unless they see a power signal.
Comment Re: Looking forward to this (Score 0) 98
Utilities in California really only make money on new generation projects, which is why PGE killed residential grid tied solar here by making it unprofitable.
Comment Re:The only way to win (Score 1) 267
I think google should pull their virtual head out of their corporate ass and realize that sucking up to Trump isn't good for a future in which they get to continue to exist.
Comment Re: If we're wondering why (Score 1) 115
State driver's licenses exist, at least today and for decades (as long as I can remember is itself, alas, a significant number of those now — but longer than that) alongside state ID cards which resemble them and perform the same function.
SSNs were never intended to be used for anything else, and should not have been. But here we are with allegedly non-social credit scores.
Comment Re:Installed, and disabled Google Maps (Score 0) 177
How about buy a non-Google phone if you don't like it.
Typical anti-consumer, corporation-fellating clown shit from the usual source. We get it, anything the corporations do is great and we should all look up to them. If we were righteous, we would be as successful as they are!
This is why antitrust law exists and applies to more than monopolies.
Comment Re: If we're wondering why (Score 1) 115
No, and in fact we should never have used SSNs for anything but social security and taxes.
Other nations presumably have National ID because they don't leave so much up to states. States are actually relevant here.
Comment Re: Apple?!?! (Score 1) 30
Maybe he has experience with one of the Navy things they have done to fuck over customers
Comment Re: Who's money is being spent here? (Score 1) 49
That's deluded bullshit. China produces items at all quality levels.
Comment Re: Not their primary fear (Score 1) 24
That problem is literally years behind the problem discussed in this article, which is here NOW.
Comment Re: Silly (Score 1) 177
I want everything I associate with to resist fascism. That's how people against fascism behave.