We have the largest population in the country by a significant margin and around a quarter of our homeless came here from other states. Personally I think that the number should be considered to be higher since it includes people who moved here for jobs that weren't sufficiently stable to move for, and people who were self employed but it didn't pan out. People literally come here because they know they will be able to get social services. This is enabled by other states being allowed to refuse to implement social services.

A reasonable fix for this would be to eliminate the electoral college so that if other states want to have a say in elections, they should have to make their states not total fucking shitholes so everyone doesn't want to leave.

It's not arbitrary, it's designed to sell more PCs for their partners, who will include more Windows licenses, producing more revenue for both parties.

This happens when you're asleep? So a power event can destroy both your storage and the backup?

You got your causation in my correlation!

You got your correlation in my causation!

Did someone hurt your iFeeFees?

"The U2 thing wasn't an advertisement"

Yes, of course it was. It was an advertisement for music sales through Apple, and an advertisement for U2. Seriously, this is why consumers get taken advantage of, many are stupid AF.

Firefox on Android has a pathetic JavaScript-related memory leak that causes it to slow down my device multiple times per day, I have to force it out of memory. My phone has 4GB, which is not a lot any more (sigh) but it's still adequate for every purpose other than running Firefox for long periods. It's surprising its market share isn't lower.

Just try convincing people practically anywhere that noise is harmful, and most of them will tell you it's not that bad because they survived noise, and anyway you need to toughen up. They will have no awareness that it's harming them, too.

Unless you're arguing that they "gave" you the ad... no, it's not.

It is, however, stupidly arrogant and likely counterproductive.

I only had to build ZFS myself because I wanted to build a newer kernel myself, and the version of ZFS bundled with Devuan stable didn't support it.

I did have to install the system manually myself because the Devuan installer didn't support root on ZFS at the time, and I'm not sure if it does now either. However, I was able to do that mostly just by following the instructions on the OpenZFS home page. I needed to make a few tweaks for sysvinit instead of systemd, but they were not very complicated changes, they were obvious in context so anyone who knows they want to run Devuan is probably qualified to make the same changes, and most users won't have to do that anyway.

I chose ZFS because I wanted checksumming and simple snapshots which are well integrated. Being able to just cd into the snapshot is groovy. The checksumming was the primary reason I was interested in ZFS, my data started to get up above just a couple of TB and the odds of data loss became significant.

Having the mounting of ZFS filesystems be separate from all others is a bit weird, no question. On the other hand, if you have a shitload of filesystems (which is more appealing with ZFS than without) then it simplifies management a lot.

It seems apparent that several of his actions are not simply a matter of cutting regulations, but actually amount to active punitive measures against further development of both EVs and renewable energy - effectively equivalent to creating new regulations against the further development of EVs and renewables, the free market be damned.

Yes, specifically the ASE automotive electrical certification. I took the prep class at Yuba College from a multiple-decade industry veteran, and I got an A. I still have my notes. I passed the ASE A6 exam years later with a good score (someplace in the nineties, I forget exactly) when it was relevant to my employment.

Relevant if you had studied flooded batteries or automotive charging systems, which you clearly didn't

Irrelevant. I also have a ham radio license, so I know first hand how irrelevant that is to this discussion.

Your link is meaningless, but if it were relevant, what it would show is that alternator charging voltage CAN BE TOO HIGH. The documentation for my 12V nominal LFPs explicitly states that charging voltage over 14.6 is undesirable and should not exceed 14.8 for more than short periods, nor go over 15V at any time. Sustained charging at 15V could cause damage.

So to reiterate, you don't know about LFPs, you don't know about alternators, and as a result you don't understand the citation you've provided (which as a random blog post without any explanation of why alternator output voltage is what it is, is frankly the worst quality citation you could have provided.) And your EE clearly isn't relevant here either since you don't have enough related knowledge or experience. You could clearly hang the knowledge on that, but also as clearly haven't acquired it. Meanwhile my cert and the experience I have with LFP batteries as an RV tech and while creating my own systems is directly relevant.

Nonsense. I'm thoroughly enjoying my practical fusion power plant!

Wait... I thought we were talking about America.

You can't possibly really be in the US. :-P