Why are people stocking up on food anyway? this is not that kind of event. A solar storm or EMP that knocks out all electronics would be that kind of event.

It's not like the government would leave you to starve to death if you are quarantined, either the military would organize handing out of food or they would organize some kind of mobile groceries van or something like that.
It would make sense to have food for a couple of days before everything gets organized, but that's all.

I mean if we can get food and water to people and areas that are totally snowed in in the winter, I think we can handle this.

You seem to have misunderstood my post, I said that it was "too much" I was not referring to the price of the smartband whatsoever, it is rather the concept, and now you are suggesting even "worse" options such as getting merit notifications on car's dashboard, for me the only use for these bots is to actually help me keep up with the different discussions I enroll in.

I am so in love with the forum, but I also have a real-life to live, when I turn off my PC/Phone I wouldn't want to be notified about anything related to the internet, the idea of having these notifications 24/7 for every single merit I receive on my wrist and car dashboard is annoying, but that is just me:).

With that said, I highly appreciate the efforts put by fillippone, sent him a smartband merit for the efforts.

But but, it's in our DNA to pass info along the blockchain.

Talking about AI's, where the fuck is JJG?
He's already messing up WO statistics.

I will say from personal experience that the government cheese is fucking delicious.

I'm interested in seeing what the death rate per capita is in the various US states.

Will Red states suffer more due to their ignorance and love of "real facts"?

Will Blue states suffer more due to their Godless ways and lack of prayer?

Reality exists, time to place your bets.

Hello dev! Why yo dont do pill for RTX20 series?? 

Similarly the people who do declare themselves female in here are likely to be 11 yr boys trying to sell their grandmother's underpants passed off as some lithe gym bimbette's workout clothes.

Is it evil that I take pleasure in this?

Been thinking about it a bit more. Bitcoin does not produce anything. There is no dependency on any supply chain being functional or not. Dumping your precious bitcoins like a company stock because of a non computer virus makes absolutely no sense. It is an irrational decision unless your purpose is to try an buy them back cheaper, and we all know how that worked out over the last 10+ years for Joe Average.

I did a search from previous years male female
source archive org
There are variables that can lead to error in this data suchs as,not include sex in the registry or not tell the truth of the gender.

What’s the trade off between buying a tracker v buying two fixed panels and pointing  them in different directions.  I can see the tracker being useful if you have limited roof space, or you are a Mars rover   

I don't want to come off as snarky, I know I can be an ass sometimes...

System complexity, in my experience there are exactly two kinds of trackers; those being installed, and broken ones...

I have heard rumors of there being a brief intermediate state of "working tracker", but I have never encountered it in the wild.

Yes in an emergency we would loose the beer fridge, which should significantly reduce our load.  As you point out, aircon is the real killer.  Our system draws at least 6kw so would be a definite no.

A key is not to fully optimize your panels, don’t point them all due South because that will give you a weak feed on the shoulder periods and a big spike in the middle of the day when you just have to dump it on the grid. 

Instead you want 1/3 pointing south east and 1/3 pointing south west and 1/3 south.  This allows you to pick up the early morning sun and the late afternoon sun which is much more valuable than the midday sun. 

Battery is a Tesla Powerwall 2 with 13.5 kWh with 5% capacity reserved for intermittent grid trips - it comes on in less than a second. Sometimes you actually get more than 13.5 out of it in a day if there is a storm and you draw down and then recharge in the afternoon

Other days it doesn’t get a full charge if it is cloudy and we are running the aircon non-stop - household consumption can peak around 70kw/h per day which exceeds panel capacity even in full sun if we abuse aircon, run the stove, dishwasher, clothes dryer.

Panels cost very little these days, they seem to be halving in price every five years.  If you put your system in awhile ago, you might try and see if you can economically add more panels.  Of course you will need a converter but if your string inverter doesn’t have enough capacity you could consider adding microinverters which allow you to add panels piecemeal. 

you ever spilled any?

ever had the hydrogen gas over a battery light up?

trust me, it is nasty stuff, I moved to gelled electrolyte years ago and accepted the lower energy density just to not have it in my life

One of my secondary DNS servers for >100 zones + backup resolver for ~80 nodes, doing 2 queries/s over 24h avg runs on an embedded 486-class embedded system with no complaints since years.

For home or SoHo, an old embedded system that can run Linux w/ at least 64MB RAM will do just fine.

Think we are at a bottom. Sell orders have not been increasing and are in fact decreasing slightly.

I keep an 8 inch floppy disk at my desk, beside my 5 pound IBM Model M keyboard. Winderrs keys are for losers! The Model M is a daily driver, the 8 inch floppy is just a momento.

In other news, watch out: Latest Mozilla update wants to route your DNS queries through cloudflare. Which since it's an internet provider means the Govt will be able to see all of your queries without a warrant.

(Run your own DNS servers ffs)

Well, the canonical example would be to package a disk with a 'paddle card' protocol converter which sits between the drive and the system's SCSI | ATA | Fibre Channel | 1553 | Ethernet | InfiniBand | whatever bus. The canned boot sector would be resident in the FW of the paddle card. Used for things such as allowing contemporary HDDs to be used as boot devices on legacy systems built before the dawn of large HDDs.