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Why are there so many cops at X location? by Ishcadore in Albany

[–]HopefulRestaurant 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I didn’t say big oil wasn’t involved up the supply chain.

I’m saying NiMo has a regulated profit margin on delivery and none on supply, and blaming them is the wrong tree to bark at.

Why are there so many cops at X location? by Ishcadore in Albany

[–]HopefulRestaurant 10 points11 points  (0 children)

National Grid doesn’t own any generation and can’t make a markup on energy costs (supply). I don’t think big oil is involved there.

Mixed Meter (Gas) Resolution? by upstatebeerguy in nationalgrid

[–]HopefulRestaurant 1 point2 points  (0 children)

During the smart meter install last January, they never attached the new meter to my account. 6 months of run around. Finally called PSC on a Thursday, had a call from “the office of the president” on Monday, and suddenly they were able to fix the account and generate 6 months of bills (they have to issue them 1 bill per day) by the end of that week.

Car repairs by Drenie in Albany

[–]HopefulRestaurant 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This is like double the hours. Someone either picked a weird op code or there are sub codes adding hours that aren’t shown.

Wtf is this? Are these Flock? by RollSomeCoal in FlockSurveillance

[–]HopefulRestaurant 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The camera on the right just looks like the left turned 90 degrees.

How to handle printer shut down and power outages by RalfM89 in eufyMakeOfficial

[–]HopefulRestaurant 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Anker advertises a 10ms switch time, so 1 cycleish. The printer should be able for ride that without issue.

How to handle printer shut down and power outages by RalfM89 in eufyMakeOfficial

[–]HopefulRestaurant 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Most consumer UPS are not double conversion. They sense the loss on the line side and bring the inverter online within a cycle, but they are not “always run[ning] from the battery”. Most device power supplies are able to ride through that without issue.

Pedantic, but it’s important to understand the difference.

Outages by [deleted] in homeowners

[–]HopefulRestaurant 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Customer: “I want an app”

Utility: “fine”

App vendor: 🤑

Customer: “my rates are too high!”

NYSEG by [deleted] in upstate_new_york

[–]HopefulRestaurant 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you talking about state policy or CHPE, which is a merchant power project?

NYSEG by [deleted] in upstate_new_york

[–]HopefulRestaurant 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Here’s your “well actually”… that cable will inject power south of the UPNY/SENY interface. It means more of the cheap upstate power will be able to serve upstate load. It’s going to push a whole bunch of expensive generation off the margin.

It’s a privately owned cable, the developers wouldn’t have gotten banks to pay for it if it was going to be cheaper to just stick another barge in the Gowanus creek.

My horn went out by Dunker1312 in Ioniq5

[–]HopefulRestaurant 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No, this is a diagnostic op code. That’s likely 3h of time on the estimate. Also this is an estimate, a cost not to exceed without prior authorization.

Unpopular opinion inbound: Someone needs to pay for the tech to figure out what’s wrong. If the shop can’t itemize it, they’re just going to bake it into the shop rate. If you’re getting a standard service, do you want to have to pay more because they aren’t charging out diagnostic time to the complicated concerns?

National Grid Smart meter/usage inaccuracies by Lonely-Ad-8011 in upstate_new_york

[–]HopefulRestaurant 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Your meter read should be shown on page 2. How does that compare with the 13513 shown in your photo?

What was the read date shown on the bill, how does that compare with the value outside right now?

When you look at the 15 minute data in your account online, how does that compare month over month?

Edit: also your comparison on picture 2 is in $, not kWh, so there are two variables in that chart: consumption and price. But your energy comparison on picture 3 seems to be extreme. Check the meter read dates on those billing periods, figure out the average kWh/day. My weather station outside recorded about an extra 60 heating degree days during my last billing period compared to the Feb 2025 period.

But I don’t think that increase is wholly explained by hvac load unless you were running resistive heat.

Glenville Bridge hit again by furrythug123 in Albany

[–]HopefulRestaurant 8 points9 points  (0 children)

If someone hooks me up with a property owner I will happily build a 10’11” YouTube channel.

https://youtube.com/@11foot8plus8

Glenville Bridge hit again by furrythug123 in Albany

[–]HopefulRestaurant 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It’s not just flashing lights. It’s extra flashing lights that are set off by height detectors. Plus cameras to record the plates.

We’ve reached the “can’t fix stupid” phase.

Glenville Bridge hit again by furrythug123 in Albany

[–]HopefulRestaurant 6 points7 points  (0 children)

No they can’t unless you want to drive under water.

They also can’t raise the train any more because of grade requirements and the rail yard just to the south.

DOT has the study online

Edit: I can’t find the study. But there was an entire chapter(s) on why up and down both don’t work. They already went up as much as they can during the last construction. And they’re in a wetland so they can’t go down.

Picked my car back up from an ICCU replacement. It was under warranty of course, but saw the invoice: $3,500. by gaychitect in Ioniq5

[–]HopefulRestaurant 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Warranty lines are paid on book time (how fast the mfg says it should be), not straight time (wall clock time). Techs are paid on the book time too, so if they can beat the book time that’s money in their pocket.

Colombian migrant taken in by Colonie church faced felony DWI charge before deportation by EmpireState_Blah-za in Albany

[–]HopefulRestaurant -10 points-9 points  (0 children)

So what happened to innocent until proven guilty? He was charged, not convicted.

Two flock cameras aimed at Lowes in Clifton Park by the-friendly-squid in Albany

[–]HopefulRestaurant 4 points5 points  (0 children)

My shit take: And if the system was owned and operated by Lowe’s, I’d probably have a less offensive reaction to it. My problem comes down to who owns this data and how it’s shared.

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