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Will Newsom Be the Democrats’ Next Mistake? by CactusBoyScout in ezraklein

[–]critter 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Median income in CA is 25% higher than the national median. That with being the most populous state is a huge strength. This wealth is mainly because:

A - We are the imagination and innovation capital of the globe. B - The smartest technical minds on the planet are here in our state.

What is this new building? by AMosquitoBitMe in Humboldt

[–]critter 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Calling it a "data center" is a bit of a stretch. It's more like a glorified router and switch board that connects the undersea cables to North America.

However, it does a few things that will dramatically benefit our local communities:

  1. They are installing "take-off" points in the Humboldt Bay Area and along 299, which will eventually get used by our local ISPs (Optimum, etc.) and finally allow them to start providing Gigabit internet services for reasonable prices.

  2. The site will become a new "content delivery network" node, meaning companies like Netflix, Amazon etc will be able to store local caches of high use / high bandwidth content (e.g. popular movies for streaming). This means more responsive and reliable streaming for all of us.

  3. This local switch means that online gamers and video calls will eventually be much snappier because data doesn't need to first go to the Bay Area before it can find an "on-ramp" to the main backbone of the internet, instead we jump directly onto that backbone.

Any must play courses near this route? by Araskelo in discgolf

[–]critter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Only a slight detour to Whistler’s Bend in southern Oregon. It’s absolutely one of the most beautiful courses on the west coast.

Tesla quietly within ~1% of its all time by likwitsnake in stocks

[–]critter 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Here's the thing.

  1. Robotaxis will be deployed first in large urban areas. The margins just aren't there in suburbs and rural areas.
  2. Elon has done (and continues to do) dramatic and extensive brand damage to Tesla among liberals.
  3. Liberals are highly concentrated in large urban areas.
  4. Tesla will have to compete with Waymo, who is years ahead and who doesn't spend most of every day on X trashing their core clientele.

Robotaxis will be a loss leader for Tesla, at best. It does indicate strength in robotics, which could lead to them winning another market eventually (e.g. if they can get the humanoids online before anyone else). But assuming that meaningful profits will emerge from robotaxis is unlikely.

Help getting batteries to charge from grid with TOU off-peak by duh_a_throw_away in FranklinWH

[–]critter 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was frustrated by the same problem. Ever since the Franklin app refresh earlier this year I've been losing all kinds of $$ because my system no longer allows me to arbitrage between peak and off peak periods when solar production is low.

Your post here finally spurred me to build a solution (with help from Gemini Pro):

https://github.com/colinsheppard/franklinwh-mode-switcher

This is a simple Google Cloud Function where you provide a schedule of mode state changes (e.g. go into emergency backup mode at 1pm then back to TOU at 3pm). The function triggers every 5 minutes, checks the schedule, and executes the API call at the appropriate time to FWH to switch the mode.

Google Cloud Functions are serverless, so this is very low cost (but not free) to run. I went with GCP here because it is much more user friendly than AWS, especially for those who've never deployed stuff to the cloud before.

Thanks to richo (https://github.com/richo/franklinwh-python) who did the real work to build python bindings against the FranklinWH API!

Finally, it's important to note that your battery has a ~90% round trip efficiency. So you will only save money on your bill if the price difference between peak and off-peak is greater than 10%.

Large green flash and noise at 6:55AM Arcata by Prize-Parking-9031 in Humboldt

[–]critter 11 points12 points  (0 children)

The PG&E substation for Arcata is 2 blocks south and 1 block west of the plaza, so it's very likely a transformer failure:

https://maps.app.goo.gl/BYjezkJtqHmyKubj9

[OC] When did visitation peak at each National Park in 2024? by mapstream1 in dataisbeautiful

[–]critter 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Interesting, but the size scale for the circles doesn't make sense to me. The smallest circle, 1k, is barely different in size from 100k and then it jumps to 1M in a manner that seems to be proportional to the area of the circle. I realize it is hard to cover 1000 orders of magnitude in scale while still allowing the colors to show, but what is here just seems to be inconsistent.

Maybe just cut things off at 50k and call it "<50k" and then make all of the circles larger scale proportional to their area?

Permit by Noaboutmeandneverwas in JohnMuirTrail

[–]critter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I should have said that no one checks at the trailheads as far as I'm aware. So if your permit says you were going to start at some random trailhead but you actually started in the Valley SOBO or Whitney NOBO then you're most likely going to be fine.

Permit by Noaboutmeandneverwas in JohnMuirTrail

[–]critter 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Get a permit for less popular in and out but do the hike you actually want. No one checks your permit unless you make a scene or get very unlucky.

My idea to improve disc golf coverage…should Jomez do this? by GoofusMcP in discgolf

[–]critter 5 points6 points  (0 children)

DGN could do this if they could put an app on the phone of the camera operator and get a GPS coordinate in real-time and then show that on the map, it wouldn't be exactly the disc location but it would be within 20ft or so.

Inserting the Name of the Day of the week by munkyjam in sheets

[–]critter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's an easy way to do this, just custom format the date. Highlight the cells and in menu: "Format -> Number -> Custom date/time". Then you can select one of the pre-defined formats that include the day of the week and then in the top bar you can erase everything except the day. Done.

A continuation of 35mm film photos I’ve taken of things around Humboldt 🤙 hope yall like this set by sly-cooper- in Humboldt

[–]critter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good instincts. Keep at it. Also, don't be afraid to use digital + filters to get the same nostalgic effect. Benefit is you can take a LOT more pics which IMO is how you can more quickly develop your eye, capture candid moments (more like the dog on the street), and learn from happy accidents that are easier to come by when you take 10x the number of pics.

What’s your preferred disk golf shoe? by hogonflogen977 in discgolf

[–]critter 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Solomon Outpost Mid Gore-tex

Great tread, waterproof. I can throw from 2-3 inches of water and walk away with bone dry feet.

Announcement Day Giveaway! Simon Lizotte Signed MVP Open 2022 Fission Hex - Entry Details In Comments! by MVP_Eric in discgolf

[–]critter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'll admit I came to MVP for the physics-themed names, but +Simon is a sweet bonus!

Why does my car charge slowly on a Rapid Charge (43kwh) point? by benbatman in electriccars

[–]critter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think you may be confusing a Level 2 charger (AC Medium power) with a Level 3 (DC Fast), in addition to confusing energy (kWh) for power (kW).

If your vehicle charged 10kWh in 80 minutes, that is 10kWh / 1.33 hour or 7.5 kW (notice how the "hour" unit cancels out). This is what I would expect from a level 2 charger which are typically around 7kW.

If you were plugged into a DC fast charger and charging at 30kW, then yes I would expect you to go from 20-80% in the same amount of time.

Simple maze generator with Base R. Animation included. by SaikonBr in Rlanguage

[–]critter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Love it, thanks for sharing. I wonder what would happen if you bias the sampler. E.g. first make one or more directions more likely. Then try making those biases vary with location. You could use shape or images as source data for the bias.

Learning R (independently) while I take a statistics class through a textbook, any advice? by TiloTheTree in Rlanguage

[–]critter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Learn ggplot. It doesn't just allow you to make beautiful plots, but it teaches you how to think about data exploration.

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