When people talk about “smart thermostats” in this context, they’re saying they want the utility company to be able to set the temperature in your house in exchange for pennies off your electric bill.

By reducing the delta between peak and baseline energy demand, the utility can sell the power generating facilities that only run & earn income on the hottest/coldest days but which are a constant expense even when they’re not running (i.e. most of the time).

The plan is to make poor people uncomfortable on the hottest and coldest days in order to lower everyone else’s electric bills.

FYI - the Factorio devs think we should all listen to what the nazis have to say, and give them platforms to say it.

We should probably stop giving them money and attention.

looks like a power inductor

IDK, I think we’ve seen adequate evidence that a lot of people out there are unswayed by facts and logic, and many of the ones who can be reasoned with are vulnerable to sophistry, sealioning, and other bad faith propaganda/debate techniques.

Even an informed public seems incapable of making good decisions.

The 97 per cent limit was chosen for a specific reason. During a demonstration, BYD chairman Wang Chuanfu explained that ending the charging process at 97 per cent is a deliberate energy-saving measure. The remaining three per cent is reserved for regenerative braking, which helps reduce the vehicle’s overall energy consumption.

There are some good reasons for designing the system that way, but its irksome that its framed as an energy saving measure. The energy required to accelerate a vehicle is always greater than the energy that can be recovered through regenerative braking due to thermal and mechanical losses. Therefore, if you start driving on a flat road, you’ll create sufficient space in the battery as soon as you move.

That last 3% charges slower, and BYD gains a competitive advantage by moving the goalposts to say that 97% counts as “full” because reasons.

It does mean that a car charged on top of a mountain can still do one pedal driving on the way down. Consistency of how the car responds to pedal inputs is a safety feature.

This is The Way.

Would it be better if the oligarchs who own the political right wing and the private schools were given exclusive creative control over the curriculum, while elected progressives and the popular majority they represent have none?

That article is light on details about what exactly a “solid-state hydrogen energy storage system” is? How does it work?

The tech specifically mentioned in the article and called “AI” has been around since the 1970’s. Its just a database lookup. SQL.

It seems like these municipal governments are telling on themselves for using vibe coded software for which better alternatives have been available for at least the last 50 years.

Bezan sounds like a grifter trying to funnel money to his owners.

There is no PR stunt that will cleanse the stain dripping from the owner & CEO. Hopefully their sales finish tanking the rest of the way to zero, sooner rather than later.

its gross, but there’s value in knowing how your enemy thinks

a blue flash, a pop, a wisp of smoke, and then your computer never turns on again

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Thanks for the text, but this is a copy/paste of the link:

https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260216-live-ukraine-names-ex-minister-galushchenko-suspect-laundering-probe

And the article is what it says in the URL - a discussion of former energy minister German Galushchenko.

It looks like that link goes to a different article than the title suggests.

Two inventory spaces is potentially an extra 10 All Res and 40 Life if you’ve got the charms.

And if you do have the charms, you’re probably using them already and put TP scrolls in a belt slot.

Overall, it seems like it could be a nice QoL boost, freeing up extra belt slots for potions and you never need to shop for scrolls.

I haven’t found one yet, but its real AFAIK.

I was able to get around Blizzard’s website not taking credit cards by using the mobile app to buy the DLC.

It looks OK so far. I like the stackable inventory pages, and entire Acts getting Terrorized.

There’s a bit of power creep with some of the new items. A couple mid level items seem interesting too:

Jury is still out on the Warlock class. I think we’ll need time to learn how to use it.