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  • My solar panels & battery are part of a Virtual power plant that our electric utility can pull from during peak power events, which is basically summer afternoons with high temperatures. They pay a premium for power supplied during VPP events. Last year we received over $5000 for participating.

    During normal non-peak hours when our panels are generating excess power it goes back to the grid as well, and this is paid in the form of credit on our bill. Between winter & summer months that equals out so our bills average close to $0.

  • You wouldn’t want this video stored on traditional SSDs though. You want it stored on media in a black box like the voice & data recorders so that it can survive crashes, fires, etc. Not sure what the costs associated with that would be though…

  • I had one a couple weeks ago. Where I went I had to be buzzed into a waiting room then buzzed into the MRI room itself. Without a card key or an escort there was no way for me to enter the room.

    And yeah, I was also asked more than once about having any metal on me.

  • Terrorism is all about terror.

    Imagine a major league football or baseball stadium packed to capacity. Two or three drones, each with a relatively small explosive charge surrounded by shrapnel fly in, crash into the spectators, and detonate. You end up with a small number of immediate casualties like what happened at the Boston Marathon. But the stampede of tens of thousands of panicking people trying to rush out of the stadium will probably injure and kill many more. Have a car bomb or two strategically located a couple blocks away where you expect those crowds to run and you’ve succeeded in your terror plans quite nicely…

  • Frankly I was hoping to see a lot more… Back in the early 2009’s my employer was hit hard by the capacitor plague - we had something like 700 server motherboards recalled. Before the recall we had a handful of servers suffer “thermal events”. Long story short, the on-board video chip would erupt in a geyser of smoke & flame about 6-8 inches high.

  • LLM tools are quickly going to become the propaganda spewing things that conservative lawmakers have often claimed search engines like Google & Bing are. Only in these cases it’s hidden in the code used to train these models rather than just websites that are scraped. Just look at the examples we’re already seeing like Grok relying on Elon, and the Missouri AG insisting that AI’s praise Trump.

  • A cop where I used to live resigned in disgrace after a dashcam caught him pulling over a car while off duty (possibly drunk), pulling out his gun and threatening to shoot the driver.

    Wouldn’t surprise me if he worked for ICE now.

  • Wait. I thought all those student loan forgiveness programs had been torpedoed by Trump.

    Or are they waiting for some super-wonderful forgiveness for ICE employees only that Trump plans to bribe them with? I hate to break it to them but if they’re waiting for this then Trump will very likely rescind it the moment you tender your resignations.

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