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Comment Re:Backfeeding kills and injures line repair crew. (Score 1) 190

Evidently this was not thought through.

Indeed something wasn't thought through, namely your post. None of these systems provide power to grid if they don't have a grid to sync from. They all disable themselves during power loss.

Even if they didn't have a bit of a thought about what it means to be a 1200W generator at a time the grid is down. You will effectively be attempting to provide 1200W of power to a load of an entire neighbourhood. As a powersupply if you don't fault out on your own protection system you'll be generating a couple of volt at the most, and be lucky enough to light up and LED much less excite a linesman.

These systems have been used in many countries for many years, and no linesmen are not dying.

Please, trust that someone has thought about this rather than blindly taking sniping shots from the top of Mt Ignorance.

Comment Re:Split phase power (Score 1) 190

The companies selling these products like to imply that you will be able to power your whole house with their systems.

Precisely zero companies selling these products are implying anything like that. There's so much to be angry about in the world already, you don't need to make up outrage.

Comment Re:Why did they have to? (Score 1) 190

Since when are your borders in my home?

Oh are you one of them "sovereign citizen" nut-bags? Sorry kiddo but laws very much do apply in your home as well.

Here's the place for the State legislature as I see it: Telling the utilities that they need to ensure their connections can handle power coming from a customer. Something that should have been done when it first became possible and may be a matter for the PUC anyhow.

I'm guessing the only reason you're alive is because of a world of laws that keep you safe. These include among other things how your house is wired and how devices that you plug in to that wiring work. There's a reason the laws require your wiring to be certified and for devices that aren't explicitly permitted to, to not put power back into your socket. The design and wiring of your house can very quickly lead to you burning your house down if you feed power back into the wiring improperly, protection systems are designed to protect you when power travels to you from the grid, not the other way around.

Instead of being all grumpy say "thank you man" and realise the government isn't always there to keep the working man down.

Comment Re:The sequence of events is fascinating (Score 1) 61

There are zero "technical barriers" that prevent someone performing insider trades on the stock market.

Precisely zero people here claimed the stock market was designed to not allow insider trading. So what point were you making?

I mean other than you highlighted different words than the ones under discussion.

Comment Re: Who's money is being spent here? (Score 1) 65

Cool. That doesn't work in all of the US. Fast charging stations are not plentiful enough.

Thanks for your comment. But were you trying to reply to a Slashdot post from 2016? Because you seem to be clueless to the state of charging infrastructure in 2026.

Yeah, and they're absorbing most of the tariff without passing it along to the customers.

Errr no, they passed it on in full, but thanks for your attempted gaslighting.

ArchieBunker, up there, quite literally implied it.

I missed that, but he's an idiot.

I mean, it depends exactly on the make/model, but that is just fundamentally untrue. There is always at least one thing that is low quality on every single car in existence - EVs and ICEs.

I really don't understand what you were saying here. First you say it depends, then you say it's untrue, then you say there's always one thing that is low quality, which seems like a goalpost move which is strange since it seems you haven't decided where to put them in the first place.

Comment Re: Who's money is being spent here? (Score 1) 65

They aren't claims, they are statistics. But also what's your point? Precisely zero people (other than you) have suggested that EVs should only go 50 miles. Also there's no single vehicle that is suitable for all situations, and no single vehicle that suits all people. The reality is that EVs have long been good enough for virtually everyone. People only need to actually apply a bit of thought to their use case.

It's like how twice I year I go off-roading in an SUV. But I don't own an SUV, I have a small city car. How does this work? I'll leave this as a through experiment to the reader. Suffice to say not owning an SUV is cheaper over the year than the rental costs.

There's no arrogance here, there's just your fucked up interpretation of what other people have written, and the lack of thought you seem to be putting in.

Comment Re: Who's money is being spent here? (Score 1) 65

The US lacks a real infrastructure to allay range fears

No what the US lacks is people who look into the current situation and instead repeat a trope that hasn't really been relevant for a long time. The great American roadtrip can very easily be done by EV at this point. Heck the first coast to coast coverage was provided by Tesla well over a decade ago and there are many orders of magnitude more charging options now than back then.

Unless you're taking a trip out to some true wilderness (as opposed to driving through on the highway) an EV is perfectly suitable even for long family vacations in the USA. But a lot of people seem to think they aren't.

Comment Re:Do no good (Score 1) 203

What are you arguing? Because the US is not the authoritative source for the names of Lake Ontario or the Gulf of Mexico.

Except it very much is. Within any locale the government dictates names. Now the US government is not the authoritative source for what something is called here where I am right now, which is why it still very much says Lake Ontario when I look at in on Google. Governments maintain databases of naming systems for all navigation. The USA government has multiple such, defer to states for some. In this case it's the GNIS managed by the USGS. They are the authoritative source for USA based landmark names. You may not like it (and yeah fuck authority and all that) but that's the way it is. The GNIS has changed the name so any map based in the USA not using the updated Lake America is objectively wrong.

The US government is not an authoritative source for the naming of bodies of water that are not within their control.

Of course it is for it's locale. In fact half of the lake belongs to the USA. You seem to be stuck with the concept that one place can have multiple names from different authoritative bodies. That's a thing that can happen, and in this case does.

The GNIS lists it as Lake America. Any map used in the USA that doesn't say Lake America is wrong.
The GNBC lists it as Lake Ontario. Any map used in Canada that doesn't say Lake Ontario is wrong.

It's not that complicated, especially for a system like Google Maps where naming has been geofenced by locale since basically it's inception.

Really the only difficult thing is what do you call something in a locale that doesn't define it, and Google's response to that has been pragmatic by listing all options (thought it seems they've yet to update Lake Ontario to follow the same naming convention as they applied to the Gulf which recognises there are two different *official and authoritative* names. )

Your last paragraph is quite apt; should the president of the United States be able to change the names of things that don't belong to the us, on a whim just because he feels like it? No.

I agree. But we don't live in a world of "shoulds". We live in a world of laws. The president should not have the authority. But he objectively does have it. Also he can't change the name outside of America, the ruling only applies to what America calls these places. That is it. Cross the border to Canada and Google maps displays Lake Ontario. Governments have always maintained the authority to call things how they see fit in their own locale. Hell sometimes that name sticks internationally and evolves through the eons. The Germans didn't call their country Germany. They called it Deutschland. The English didn't call it Germany either, Julius Caesar in Rome called them Germania in Latin, and the term was adopted by the Roman Empire.

The only reason to adopt someone else's naming convention is politeness. Do you still call it Turkey in English or do you use their preferred name Türkiye? I'm guessing you don't even know how to write an umlaut on your keyboard.

Comment Re:We used to mock this (Score 1) 65

You're forgetting the obvious: lack of dedicated VRAM. The graphics memory has a 256 or even 384 bit bus width which is significant for something like gaming. The MacMini doesn't have the same memory architecture as a PC, it's CPU is designed more like a GPU in that regard.

It's simply not possible to make integrated graphics perform similar to high end while also preserving the traditional PC architecture with DDR memory modules that the user gets to plug in to the motherboard.

We can do all sorts of things when we lock ourselves into a single nonstandard nonupgradable platform. That used to be why game consoles were so powerful for their price.

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