partial_accumen

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[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 5 points 8 hours ago

It’s paying to rebuild infrastructure where the state government has been neglecting.

Besides Texas, none of those states listed are population dense or otherwise rich. In fact the low population density may require the cost per subscriber to be significantly higher because more infrastructure is required to bring service to fewer people. This is a perfect example of good federal government spending.

Is your preference that if these regions can't afford to build/maintain this infrastructure they should go without?

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 11 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Except the tech companies are among the politicians’ biggest “donors”.

Public cloud computing companies that want to host government IT workloads still have to be Fedramp compliant. Doesn't matter how much their donors pay, if they aren't Fedramp compliant they can't bid for the work.

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 12 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Ugh, and if you don't mind selling your soul, she might not be wrong. Owens is apparently worth $5m. source Thats more money than I have.

Today's CNN is so useless, I'm doubting people will even try to pirate the content. After a year the stats on 12ft.io will still be single digits of use, and thats only because they're in the habit of reaching good new sources someone didn't realize they were trying to get over a CNN paywall.

Here's a great video going down to the hex level for how to extract the cleartext out of unsaved Notepad files using the temp cache files: video

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

This has me insanely curious as to where these are common and what are their emissions laws. Time for a trip down a rabbit hole.

I looked into getting one of these or converting my own car to be gasoline and methane about 15 or 20 years ago. Here's what I learned during that time. I don't know if any of this legal information is out-of-date now. During the really early days of bi-fuel cars, homebrew cars were very bad polluters because they'd skip the emmisions systems altogether. This changed when the law was put in place requiring catalytic converters on all cars that burned gasoline.

The challenge then with a bi-fuel car was you needed to build an emissions system that is compatible with two entire different fuels, with different combustion products. That is not a small challenge. This is fine for the gasoline side, however, there isn't really a catalytic converter for methane because the exhaust gasses were actually cleaner than exhaust from a gasoline engine even after passing through the catalytic converter. So there was no market to create a cheap methane catalytic converter because it would have been nearly useless. The law didn't care though and there was no exception for bi-fuel cars.

There WAS an exception in the law for methane only cars, which is why you could actually buy methane (CNG) cars from major manufacturers like the Honda Civic GX:

source

If you wanted to buy a used one of these, you can still find them and fill your CNG tank from your home's natural gas line.

Autotrader link showing Honda Civic GX for sale

Sure, and I do that too, but that a problem: you're limited to only a single line of text about 200 characters long

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (4 children)

One of my biggest problems with the new notepad is you've lost using it as a forgettable scratch space. Anything you put in the new Notepad now gets written to your drive, even if you don't save the file.

You can't type or copy/paste anything sensitive into notepad anymore as a temporary space even if you don't save the file.

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I would see it being similar to having 2 gas tanks in a car where one is for a high octane fuel and the other for a low performance fuel like ethanol.

And these exist completely separate to EVs. They're called bi-fuel vehichles.

"How Do Bi-fuel Propane Vehicles Work? Bi-fuel propane vehicles typically use a spark-ignited internal combustion engine. A bi-fuel propane vehicle can use either gasoline or propane in the same internal combustion engine. Both fuels are stored on board and the driver can switch between the fuels. The vehicle is equipped with fuel tanks, fuel injection systems, and fuel lines for both fuels" source

They aren't common in the USA because of they way emissions laws were written which made it uneconomical in many cases for auto makers.

There isn't the same challenge in EVs, especially where we're talking the "fuel" is just electricity which is common to both chemistry batteries. I see no challenge for EVs.

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 32 points 1 day ago (1 children)

My guess is he would use a wheelchair at home where the area is prepared to accommodate it. The exoskeleton is likely slower and harder to wear around the house, but can make him mobile in places where a wheelchair can't go.

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (4 children)

If you meant for a single car, that might be a bit lofty,

What difficulty do you see with this concept in a single car? This technically exists already as there are multiple charge controllers and BMS systems in EVs shipping today, they are just managing different modules of identical chemistries in the single car.

If you have solar panels on your house, and your car isn't at home when that sun is shining, then that would be a good use of one of these for a residential application.

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