You forgot to mention he was acquitted on all 20 charges.

I appreciate the effort, but it also highlights the problem with commercial monitors in a home space. That one has only 3 HDMI ports, so one of the better ones. Some have only 1 or 2 HDMI ports. By the time you connect your Tivo (or whatever device you use for streaming apps because this device is just a monitor), plus a DVD player, plus a computer (and I don't have a game station like some do for #4) you can quickly run out of ports. So that monitor may be what many need, but one always has to be careful of the details and how you plan to use it.

I see they make a 75" and 86" version too. Thanks for the link and it's something I'll consider when my Samsung dies one day.

To make scrollbars wider on FF, goto about:config in a new tab, change the widget.non-native-theme.scrollbar.style entry to 4 (or 3 or 5 depending on what you want). I think that will be immediate, if not restart FF.

I am not a grid engineer :) but the easy answer to your question is to install a Tesla Megapack (or equivalent) and charge from it. Then refill the Megapack from solar panels on top of the warehouse, or from the grid but at times of lower prices or just trickle it in. The destination will know how many trucks are coming in at what times and so that can be planned.

Perhaps they aren't ready for "long haul" routes yet, but ~40% of trucking is regional and last mile. EV semi-trucks are very capable of doing that. They would only need chargers at their destinations and use them either overnight, or during loading & unloading. Let's change those trucks over first and we can worry about long-haul later.

The peak charge is nice, but what matters more is the whole charging curve -- which they don't show you. If it only holds 1.2MW for a few minutes then slacks down to 800KW until 80% then dives further, it's not as impressive.

Tesla won't be "finalizing" autonomous driving any time soon, at least if we use their FSD for cars as a guide. FSD works well in many cases and then does a critical disengagement when you need it most. (Note that they still have to have a safety driver in their faux-autonomous ride sharing cars.) Since Tesla won't release the numbers (which indicates they aren't as good as they need to be), driver sourced data shows something like 500-600 miles between critical disengagement (which could lead to an accident). For comparison, human actions leading to accident is something like 700K miles.

You are aware that EV semi's are allowed to carry an extra 2000 pounds that a diesel truck can't, right? They also take the same trailers, so the same volume. So cargo capacity isn't the issue you think it is.

Fair enough, at least you've considered options.

I do live on "expansive soil" or as the soil survey called it "active clay". The engineering fix for that is geo-piers. I have 54 of them going about 16' down under my entire house (extra jut-outs require extra piers). It added to the cost but is the real solution as the house rides on them while the clay swells/contracts depending on how wet/dry it gets. During the summer, in parts of my yard I get cracks so deep I can put a 4' piece of rebar into the crack without bending it or forcing it. By Oct/Nov they're all gone until next Jul. Lovely soil.

Yes, I did read your first comment carefully enough to understood you lived in a desert environment where the problem is caused by bad drainage and rainwater. I've visited AZ, it's nice in its own way. That FEMA changed its standards so you're now hit by this sucks ... you have my sympathy. Nevertheless, your problem should be fixable so you don't to have that extra flood insurance. (BTW, thanks for the info that it's so expensive, that was news to me.) I pointed out a fix for a slab in my first comment; I just searched and found out you can raise slabs too (surprise to me); I'm sure there are other fixes. Of course, it might be cheaper to just pay the premiums; it all comes down to money. The point is you do have ways to get out from having to pay for flood insurance. Good luck in figuring out what you want to do.

What you mean to say is that you have an engineering problem you refuse to fix. I'm sure flood insurance isn't all that expensive, but you could get rid of it if you wanted to.

If you're on a pier & bean foundation, have the house raised a foot; the tech to do that is well known (though a bit expensive). Then add an extra step for your porches.

If you're on a slab foundation, have a solid wall a foot taller than your foundation poured around your house, to be a barrier like your foundation is supposed to be. Sure, you'll have to probably redo your steps to your porches, but the overall work shouldn't be all that expensive considering the alternatives.

As long as they put it on tall enough stilts and cover their own insurance, sure. :)

A lot of bats, birds, fish, frogs, spiders, and other animals would like to object to your proposal as they'd have less to eat.

We're better off working on vaccines, like the one that was created for malaria a few years ago.

It'd be interesting to see the data behind that stat (if it's really true). From the Indians I've seen in the workplace in the US, they tend to go into the high tech sector which has better playing jobs). If you compare that to all American households, then that includes a lot of low paying jobs too. So not a fair comparison. You'd need to limit the comparison to each job sector. Also, I've noticed a tendency for some Indian households to have multiple families in it; so does that figure include 3+ incomes households?

So they might be succeeding in the American dream, but the stats may be cooked to make it look that way.

Yep, it happened to me recently. My previous company was bought by a PE company then the squeeze for profit started. I got hit in round 2 and most (3 full time) of my project team was laid off to be replaced by about 12 Indians. It was completely the PE company's fault with greed at the root; I blame them. Finding something new isn't going well and my age doesn't help (I just want 7 more decent years of working so I can retire). Knowing all of that doesn't help the emotions and feelings.

Knowing there are a lot of people over here on H1Bs taking jobs that prevents me and others like me from being hired? Yeah, that doesn't help either. Send them all home unless the company is willing to pay double the going rate to show how great the person is. Of course, that won't stop outsourcing to a foreign country, but sending the "extras" home would still be a good start.

The older Star Trek series (TOS, TNG, Voyager, DS9, Enterprise) had 24-26 episodes per season. There were a few exceptions like Voyager season 1 had only 16, and TOS season 1 had 29 (like you said), and Enterprise season 4 had only 22, but for the most part "Star Trek" was 24-26 episodes per season that were "hour length" (ok, really 42-46 minutes but on broadcast TV they were an hour). I suspect that was a bit of a grind for the actors, but I appreciated it. :)

I'm slowly working my way thru Picard, which has a disappointing 9 or 10 shows per season. I haven't seen Discovery, but a quick check shows only 10-16 per season and usually on the lower end. Nor have I seen the Strange New Worlds (Pike) series, but it seems to be a solid 10 per season too. :(