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but hardly reliable on the scale of years.
I’ve had similar experiences with “enterprise”-grade hardware.
But sometimes the “price” isn’t just the hardware, but also having someone on-call 24/7 to support and possibly fly-out to investigate within X hours.
Generator attached to the flywheel instead of the starter motor, and then find some way to squeeze a drive motor by the rear diff (probably more complicated, but surely not impossible).
Some vehicles have this as a “battery starter generator” where the “hybrid” functionality is entirely on the accessory belt.
https://www.bosch.com/stories/48v-hybrid-battery/
https://hackaday.com/2025/01/24/bosch-starter-motor-freed-fr...
I was thinking of a “feature” on manuals that ran electrical and accessory-belt stuff full blast during engine braking.
The best time to run your a/c or turn the seat warmers: when you’re trying to expel energy.
Would give you some extra braking without heating up the engine and take a small load off your brakes.
That or turn any vehicle into a mild plug-in hybrid for all electrical loads and flywheel the alternator until that time. Gasoline-powered generators are not very efficient.
Might get a few percent extra efficiency without having to touch anything mechanical.
I just bought an ESP32-C3 with a tiiiiny 0.42" LCD screen for CAD$3 from Aliexpress off their "Choice" items menu.
I just mix rolled oats into my yoghurt. Much cheaper.
You might be missing out on any benefits from statins that are independent of the cholesterol reduction. It’s non-zero and debatably substantial.
Canada is moving away from moving regular mail by air to cut costs.
Dunno if it will move by train or truck.
Probably too late to add much volume on the ground.
I know windows likes to start blaring my music in the middle of the night when my wireless headphones finally die
You can do similar math with building above ground oil storage tank capacity aaaaaand giving everyone free gas cans.
And you can get out every drop. And it’s always ready to go. Do need to cycle your inventory.
Fire departments probably wouldn’t be happy about it.
Similarly some AV software would “listen” to your IRC comms to check for c&c indicators which meant you could paste it into a channel and a pile of people would disconnect (and you’d be quickly banned).
This needs a blog post & HN submission
That’s me. I’ve gone through $2 on deepseek in a month as i’m doing 1 project.
Same for washing the panels. Could even work a system onto already-running trains.
And the RightOfWay is already maintained to keep thin grasses & trees away that may fall on a line.
Often the line is already built-up for flood prevention.
In some (most? All?) countries, the railway has free reign and doesn’t need to answer to city/municipal/states/provinces for approvals on anything.
A main “downside” is the poor production in winter/mornings/evenings on ground-parallel panels. e.g. France has huge solar capacity, they tend to be heavy electricity exporters in summer and heavy importers in winter. One of their new tariffs offers discounts except for 22 days in winter.
https://www.rte-france.com/en/data-publications/eco2mix/powe...
0 degree panels produce the most when electricity is valued the least.
Output should be measured in currency, not MWh.
Then you get situations like a last minute (ie: knew 30 days in advance) trip from Munich to Berlin where we found it cheaper to rent a newish mid-range Mercedes and it for two.
Sure we had to actually do the driving, but hard to turn down a journey on the autobahn as a tourist.
That’s why pharmacies are allowed to give them out directly here for shingles (Ontario Canada and possibly other provinces)
I can’t wait to see what happens when we have an Epstein-Barr virus vaccine.
I tried coding with Deepseek
But soooooo cheap. Especially for those of us where a monthly sub doesn’t make sense.
I had a vendor acquired by one of these types of outfits.
I looked through their assets and it clicked: “this is where software goes to die”
I’ve used it to combine excel spreadsheets pretty well.
Got a bunch of comments in one spreadsheet but now I have an updated version without comments, move those comments over.
Can give it some pseudo-code type of prompt. There are probably better ways to do it but this requires less cognitive load/skill for most.
Mass (low-value) testing is only more affordable if you value people’s time at $0/hr
Same joke in the rust (aka pothole) belt
Must be close to actually worthless if they’re not shipping them out-of-state, no?
Now that my vehicle is approaching 20 years old, I’m so so so happy it has more interior comfort upgrades rather than mechanical ones like 4wd or a turbo.
Dunno why these programs never took a sampling approach and data-mined which makes/models/years to target the next year/cycle.
but its sensors don't always read the signs very well, so you'll often slow to 50 km/h (about 30 mph) for no reason.
Ah, did your car pick up the speed limit sign on the French auto-route for… motorcycles filtering between lanes too?
You wouldn’t download a bookmarklet on your car
Heh, some landowner near me owned a piece of contaminated property. Technically worthless but was getting some lease money for a shop on the property. I think their game plan was for the city to grow and it being valuable to excavate one day for a condo or other building. Soil remediation is a lot cheaper when you dig anyway.
Transit agency tried to expropriate for a train station at market value: ie $0.
Looks like it got settled out of court: https://canliiconnects.org/en/commentaries/88178
I suspect their IPO is a sign that they’re throwing in the towel existentially.
My dad realized that instead of paying the high rail rates past Thunder Bay, oats could instead be loaded into a Great Lakes freighter designed to haul iron ore pellets (like the ill-fated Edmund Fitzgerald). Lake freighters typically unloaded their cargo in Thunder Bay and had to sail empty to pick up more iron ore on the U.S. side of the border. If you could fill them with oats in Thunder Bay, deliver the oats to Duluth, Minnesota, and then load the oats on U.S. rail lines, you could substantially cut shipping costs.
The fun part about the “upper” Great Lakes is that some ships were built on it that can go through the Soo Locks, but not the Welland Canal. So they’re just stuck there moving ore (and I guess oats).
https://saultstemarie.com/the-ultimate-list-of-1000-foot-fre...
But in Toronto there was 10/10gbps for $30
Who? What? Where? When?