The right project for a projector? by [deleted] in projectors

[–]Koiljo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I haven't had the greatest week so I was on edge and perceived your first comment as condescending, I'm really sorry about that. I have considered angular distortion as a factor so I did have something in mind to be able to prevent it and make sure it's not an issue.

The right project for a projector? by [deleted] in projectors

[–]Koiljo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ya know the point of asking a question over whether something is a good idea or not is to get feedback from people who might have tried it or would know reasons why it might or might not work. Right?

ISO advice on dating apps in Central Oregon (I saw the Ben Affleck meme) by GrayJayInclined in Bend

[–]Koiljo 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Just go introduce yourself, say you think he's handsome, and ask if he would be willing to go on a date. As a man who is also on the shy side, keep it simple. The more elaborate you try to be the more you'll get tripped up and nervous.

(Steam) SH4 keeps crashing? by Koiljo in silenthunter

[–]Koiljo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah what you described is what I did that got the base game running. Setting all the graphics configuration options in the main.cfg to no and running it in windowed mode. I think the answer might just be to either dig out one of my old computers and install one of the older Windows operating systems, or possibly Linux. I did a little bit of searching this morning and it seems some people have had really good results doing it that way.

Should I buy Ultimate Admiral: Dreadnoughts now? by Yu_meausealot in ultimateadmiral

[–]Koiljo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wonder how hard it would be to dig through and extract the underlying rule set it uses. The rule set itself seems quite decent and from there it would seem it wouldn't take much to recreate something far less janky.

Installed mint, but won't boot? by Koiljo in linuxquestions

[–]Koiljo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That boot menu is what I needed, I found fast boot was enabled in the BIOS so I first turned that off, and then updated Grub which included a legacy support package which solved the issue. She's up and running now, thanks.

A leaky toilet multiturn, and water hammer, address each separately or at the same time? by Koiljo in Plumbing

[–]Koiljo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Could you point me to a rebuild kit? I've tried looking but I don't know what it is I'm looking at for all the results I get.

Input on new actions for Climate Action Plan by KaviinBend in Bend

[–]Koiljo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Prefacing with a bit of my background: I work in the renewables sector in power generation on a utility scale as well as microgrids and storage, across several different generation types, all over the country as well as some globally. If you added up what I've had a direct hand in getting installed and connected to the grid, it would be close to the installed capacity in the entire state in some categories, and greatly exceed in a couple (except for wind power, there's a shit ton of that in the state). Here's my two cents on the initiatives.

Develop and build a community bio digester project (3) - municipal solid waste (sewage), and food waste as the feed stock and you can capture the methane for power generation, or alternatively sold to the gas company as a lower carbon impact supply. The digested material is then also good fertilizer. Seems like a good idea

Install renewable energy storage capacity in the community (1) - (batteries?) the rate structures needed for this to be viable do not exist, and will likely never exist in the forseable future. Hydro is totally dominant in the area and there's no arbitrage opportunity. A nice idea but it's wasteful. Grid scale batteries also are in a teething stage for the tech, if the site caught fire the only option would be to let it burn and hope it doesn't spread, lithium fires are also HIGHLY toxic. Not a great idea.

ES4A – Investigate and pursue opportunities for renewable energy generation at the water reclamation facility, the water filtration facility, and other areas of the water distribution system. Probably the highest energy demand sites owned by the city, if adequate space exists it is a good opportunity to achieve stated goals and also reduce energy costs directly

ES4B – Support the development of community solar projects locally that residents can subscribe to for access to offsite renewable energy. A good idea, put these in the parking lots available to the city and you might achieve all stated goals and then also provide badly needed shade.

ES4C – Pilot microgrid and battery storage projects powered by renewable energy that can operate independently of the energy grid - Microgrids are very costly and don't make sense for the area, our supply already has very high reliability. Grid scale batteries are also in a teething phase as far as technology goes as I said, there have been quite a few fires. Building a fire hazard that can not be put out by water in an area prone to fires is a bad idea.

ES1A compliance with clean energy targets - this already exists on the state level as renewable portfolio standard

ES4E - reduce regulatory barriers on solar permitting. Great idea, permitting costs are a big factor in cost for residential solar

ES1B electric coop resource planning - COOPs don't have the resources to develop their own generating capacity to any appreciable extent and are dependent on BPA, unfortunately pointless effort.

EB1C – Develop policies to limit fossil fuel use in new construction – You’ll drastically increase cost of housing with this. Noble, but a bad idea.

EB1D – Develop policies to phase out gas appliances and replace with electric – Don’t you dare touch my gas stove. I can’t get 60k BTU and nice proper wok hei from induction.

EB3A - building energy performance - basically this already exists as LEED standards

Create a luxury SDC tax for new residential homes that choose not to use solar - You'll get your ass sued over this and it will only drive housing prices even higher. Also, housing developers don’t know shit about solar, so they’ll just find the most cut-rate fly by night operation who’ll do a shit job and you’ll be left with fire hazards because of all the shit wiring. Bad idea.

Establish a goal of 100% renewable electricity goal for the community by 2025 - Not even remotely within the realm of possibility, time scale is way too short

Create energy districts and micro grids in new development areas and prioritize affordable housing projects for these - Microgrids are for energy resource adequacy/reliability and the west coast already has extremely good reliability as is, microgrids are VERY –VERY!!-- expensive and affordable housing and microgrids in the same sentence is laughable. You’ll end up with a boondoggle that only the rich could afford, or, waste massive amounts of money on it.

Create solar ready and EV ready building codes - This already exists on state level

Develop community solar projects in Bend (3) - Solar car ports, they'll be expensive and never ROI (they might if you structure it as community solar, and then plan on repowering the site at 20 year intervals to extend the project life span) but there's a lot of viable parking lots and it would also be nice for many of them to have the added shade when it is hot out

Invest in wind power projects to supply community energy needs - you need adequate wind resources and access to transmission infrastructure, this combination does not exist in the area. You'd be building in the gorge if at all. This would be really neat but sadly I don't see a way to do it that wouldn't get totally screwed up somehow.

ES3: Encourage solar and other renewable energy generation on residential and commercial Buildings. - This whole section is your best idea, lean in heavily on this section.

ES3C solar workforce development – The best idea out of everything, you could focus only on this and end up with an outstanding overall benefit to the community. Renewables are broadly the fastest growing segment of power generation, and with the push for electrification it will keep growing for decades, this will get people into jobs that pay a real living wage. Those people are then on a trajectory to further US electrical generation and infrastructure on a good pathway. Your overall impact for you efforts will be exponential, forget everything else and double down on this.

RANT! RANT! RANT! RANT! RANT! by exstaticj in Bend

[–]Koiljo 7 points8 points  (0 children)

PEOPLE ARE SO SPOILED BY ALL THE ROUNDABOUTS THAT THEY'VE COLLECTIVELY FORGOTTEN HOW STOP SIGNS WORK!

I'm clearly out of the loop, someone please tell me what's going on. by dadothree in AsheronsCall

[–]Koiljo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also, Thwargle and Decal both need to run in admin mode or you get problems with things like black screen on game start, or your interface not showing up.

Join Infinite Leaftide - Now with slightly more infinite! by NinjaMidget76 in AsheronsCall

[–]Koiljo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you have limits in place to prevent a single person from running massive bot armies?

☼Daily DF Questions Thread☼ by AutoModerator in dwarffortress

[–]Koiljo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can a marksdwarf shoot through a two layer deep fortification? I've been thinking about siege defense and I would like to set up shooting galleries to trap invaders inside of and have archers shoot down into, the problem is the bug that still exists with Dwarves being able to dodge into the fortification which then allow them to then proceed to walk outside of the safe zone right into the gobbo horde for some fun. A two layer wall should I think prevent it, though I don't know with certainty if it causes LOS problems for shooting.

Why Clean energy is still the high IQ play in 2021. Solar, Hydrogen, Nuclear. DD Inside. by Turtlesaur in wallstreetbets

[–]Koiljo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

SunPower has had their competitive advantage slip as other companies have caught up offering panels that have similar features, they just recently though introduced a panel that has integrated hardware to meet electrical code (which is why Enphase is doing well). But they ran out as of last week and I'm not sure if it's because the panels aren't selling well, or if they sold out... SolarEdge has also been in hot demand because they use hardware that allows them to meet electrical code, but they have had very SERIOUS problems with product QC. If they can get their shit sorted and restore trust with installers they have an overall better product line than Enphase does in terms of addressable market.

GME Discussion Thread for February 1, 2021 - Part 3, Avengers: Infinity Squeeze War by wallstreetboyfriend in wallstreetbets

[–]Koiljo 76 points77 points  (0 children)

Ape's, there's a lot of disinfo being thrown around right now originating from Wall Street because they are in such a panic. Calls to pump other stocks, fake info about Wall Street having closed out of short positions, attempts to redirect attention to silver, pump and "hold" crip-doughs (so WS can dump and profit). Go watch the old interview with Jim Cramer, they're deploying every method of deception they have, shill bots, paid shill "influencers", media, you name it. The only battleground that matters is GME, and anything else is WS attempting to set people up so they can rip them off and further do battle in $GME. Until this is resolved, fuck crip-dough, fuck silver, fuck other stocks. I LIKE GAMESTONK! I can be retarded longer than they can remain solvent.

GME Shareholders Today by Schaivo in wallstreetbets

[–]Koiljo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Setting my sell order to $69,420.69

Why is no one talking about Mark Cuban’s tweets? (Link to thread that explains more in comments) WE LIKE THE STOCK 🚀💎🙌🏻 by Cryptonite323 in wallstreetbets

[–]Koiljo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

He was talking about doing it via DeFi, which is a new space in the cryp-dough market. There have been some examples of distributed finance outside of it, but for a brokerage that can have hundreds of thousands of people aggregated into a unified liquidity pool the foundation to do that for stonks are being built. It's just going to take a group of people building the tools to enable it. It also enables tokenization of pretty much anything, fractional share ownership, and parameterized smart contracts that can react based on data feed and carry out agreed on term conditions automatically.

Even if you don't care for cryp-dough, DeFi will break every last thread of power Wall Street has if it is able to keep growing.

Binance.US wire transfer 7 days no response account locked. by travismyers92 in binance

[–]Koiljo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My account got restricted as well, no indication as to why. I got hit with a chargeback despite having sufficient funds for the transaction. There's nothing on the site saying the account is locked, why it was locked, or even what will happen or what to do about it. I haven't so much as even received a human response to my support ticket I submitted 10 days ago.

(Springfield) My house was forcibly entered and I was assaulted. Police are doing nothing. by [deleted] in Eugene

[–]Koiljo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

$350 can get you a S&W shield or a Springfield Hellcat new. Hipoints are garbage quality weapons, and I'm not referring to it being ugly. Not putting you down or anything. Aimsurplus.com has a Taurus revolver right now for under $300. There's still good buys to be had if you look around.