And these vehicles released into the wild in Austin are their R&D project to fine-tune things, for corporate overlords whose wet dreams are of a dystopian future in which they monitor and sometimes prescribe the movements of all 'average' citizens. FTFY.

Feel free to tell me that I'm wildly exaggerating, so long as you provide a convincing argument. I'd really like to be wrong, but I think that level of control is where the world is heading.

Elon? Stupid? Nah, couldn't be! Why, he invented the Hyperloop fer chrissakes!

Thanks. I seem to recall some spectrum analyzer plots that suggested that ultrafast and Schottky diodes made it easier to suppress the RF created when the diode switches. It always seemed counterintuitive to me.

Now I understand why you called a B+ of 750V "conservative". 845 is a brute of a tube, and I'd love to hear an amp using one.

Cool! I have some questions - no expectation of answers of course, 'cause we all have things to do beyond posting on Slashdot.

What output tube did you use in the SET amp? Did you use ultrafast diodes in the HV bridge? In your current amp, are the output tubes EL84?

Regarding triode-wiring, I've read good things about connecting the screen grid to the plate using a Zener and cap instead of just a resistor.

Love the toroidal output transformer idea, but I imagine it's a bit expen$ive...

170 million? That's fairly close to being half of the combined population of USA and Canada!

When you adjust for the people who don't have driving licences, that would seem to be pretty close to the total number of legal drivers in the two countries. Ouch!

Just curious - push-pull or single-ended? Are the outputs triode, triode-wired pentode, pentode, ultralinear, or OTL? Tube or solid-state rectifiers? Stereo or dual-mono?

Not being nosy - just have an interest in the subject, as you can probably tell. If you're interested in the circuit topology angle as well as enjoying the sound of tube amps, you may find this site worthwhile: http://nutshellhifi.com/ My personal favourites are "The Hidden Harmonics behind THD" and "Evolution of THD".

You and I must be of a similar age. I too remember when they were simply called GFIs rather than GFCIs. I came across the acronym before I knew what the 'C' stands for and was confused.

Fun story: I remember a Reader's Digest article from back when GFIs were first introduced. Somebody who was selling or promoting them used his own daughter as a test subject for demonstrations. She was sitting in a bathtub when Dad dropped a plugged-in-and-playing-music radio into the tub with her.

Beyond jerking off the elites, do these lists accomplish anything useful or relevant in everyday life?

I was kind of surprised that DeSantis, of all people, was ditching Flock. Then my wife mentioned that perhaps he's concerned about his own comings and goings being tracked...

The legislative approach chosen here is for pretty much the same reason that people can't re-wire their homes without approval and inspection: because doing it wrong can endanger the lives and property of other people. In this case, feeding power INTO an outlet may have bad consequences which are not immediately apparent.

YOUR right to rugged individualism and doing whatever the hell you want, ends abruptly at the border of MY right to safety and security. That's a precondition of cooperative, civilized society.

Legislation is needed to enforce that border in cases where people make mistakes or act in ignorance. It's also needed for people who tend to not understand the necessity of such borders. You know - those folks who feel that their selfish pride "Trumps" such trivial considerations as community safety.

I suspect that plugging the panels only into GFCI-equipped outlets would address a large part of this problem. These outlets don't care whether the power is going from breaker panel to outlet or vice versa - they only care whether the currents on Line and Neutral are equal.

Of course, an electrician could get caught across Line and Neutral, in which case the GFCI wouldn't trip. But the best electricians, (or at least the best ones still alive), test for voltage before they put their bodies between Line and Neutral or Line and Ground. And in general, they reflexively avoid touching Line and (Neutral or Ground) at the same time anyway.

It wouldn't surprise me if this practice of feeding power into domestic outlets gave rise to miniature Non-Contact Voltage Sensors; these would clip to a wire, and would light up and squawk if an AC potential suddenly appears.

Will it "surface" an end to Google raping our privacy and shoving LLMs up everybody's ass? No? Then it's not "surfacing" anything which matters to me.

This seems like the perfect tool for creating perfect tools who live in echo chambers of their own making and think their farts smell like roses.

In other words, there is now an even more complex mechanism - with an even higher likelihood of failing - which could trap a passenger in the car, resulting in injury or death. Bravo!

But can the rainbow chip fart a unicorn out of its ass?