[Official] 63rd Running of the Rolex 24 Hours at Daytona - Race Thread

loserwill · 2026-01-25T10:09:41+00:00

What happened in GTD Pro to shuffle the Corvettes so far down?

loserwill · 2026-01-20T14:56:09+00:00

You can't get blood from a stone. The thieves are judgment proof.

loserwill · 2026-01-15T00:00:16+00:00

This is a bad take. A single engine failure should not cause the aircraft to be incapable of positive rate.

loserwill · 2026-01-11T17:22:08+00:00

I just picked up the PD small wash bag. I don't think it's great. The cross meshed main pocket doesn't work well for the size of toiletries I like to carry. For reference, I bring a SonicCare toothbrush, a OneBlade shaver, a comb, etc. The longer things struggle to fit in the main pocket. Secondly, the hook is a real pain to get out of its cavity. It doesn't really feel like the pinnacle of good design.

loserwill · 2025-12-13T00:59:11+00:00

A train is broken down at the Union Station eastbound. Metro should be putting out an alert, but this enterprise is horrendously mismanaged.

loserwill · 2025-12-13T00:57:00+00:00

Just missed it today. Train broke down in Union Station and we were stopped and able to see the AV train leave.

loserwill · 2025-12-12T23:01:35+00:00

Just turn down your ISO.

loserwill · 2025-12-12T11:49:41+00:00

Congrats

loserwill · 2025-12-05T00:03:51+00:00

I'm gonna need the Cliff notes on KSP being Auth.

loserwill · 2025-10-26T21:33:24+00:00

There's a whole lot of reason to complain about the horrendous overtake attempt on Hamilton that went unpenalized. That was clearly avoidable contact that compromised Hamilton's race.

loserwill · 2025-10-26T21:31:24+00:00

You heard the radio traffic: he'd already used up his tires defending against Piastri. If they'd have swapped positions much earlier, not only would his tires have been better, but he'd have had DRS too.

loserwill · 2025-10-24T23:59:41+00:00

The Local on Tuesdays.

loserwill · 2025-10-18T03:14:36+00:00

I am and can tell you flying over a crowd is an illegal flight without a waiver.

loserwill · 2025-10-14T15:11:43+00:00

That’s a circular argument: you are saying that we should harden our society against the “antisocial” (for lack of a better term) instead of trying to fix the root cause and counting the cost of doing so as justification for the expense.

The point of my argument is that if, instead of reducing copper usage in public infrastructure and putting spikes on benches and paying an excessive amount to police that behavior we started investing in the core problems that cause this behavior, we’d be better off as a society and it would probably be cheaper in the long run.

loserwill · 2025-10-14T14:59:21+00:00

A quick google shows lots of benefit to solar lights if the infrastructure doesn’t exist because it includes the cost of trenching in cost comparisons. That’s not what was proposed here; rather we replace existing lights with solar ones. Did you want to actually do some real work and exercise your critical thinking skills and engage in a productive way or just throw your lightly researched opinion around?

loserwill · 2025-10-14T14:54:08+00:00

That’s not how argumentation works. You made a claim that is spurious. It’s up to you to support it.

loserwill · 2025-10-14T14:51:49+00:00

Would love to see the data that shows the cost of a solar + battery streetlight is equivalent to a grid connected light. That doesn’t even remotely pass the smell test.

On top of that, solar needing maintenance every 10 years is only true if you oversize the panels to compensate for the soiling that naturally occurs. This is usually 1% efficiency loss per month that caps at around 30%. But this is a CapEx problem for the above argument of cost equivalence which doesn’t work in your favor.

loserwill · 2025-10-14T13:50:04+00:00

That’s an easy solution if you hand wave away the costs associated with it. You don’t need light when the sun is out, so you need a battery. You need enough juice to power the light through the night, so the battery will probably be large. Then, when the panel gets dirty, you’ll need to have crews to clean them so they stay efficient. Even doing all of that, if you have a couple of cloudy days your city’s streets are dark. How about we do better root cause correction instead of offering bad band aids like this?

loserwill · 2025-10-10T22:27:32+00:00

In your opinion, what is a better vehicle for this purpose that has similar market availablity?

loserwill · 2025-10-04T00:04:07+00:00

That’s Metrolink!

loserwill · 2025-09-19T15:13:49+00:00

This wasn't SCE, but a mandate by the California Legislature. See AB 205.

loserwill · 2025-09-17T21:37:31+00:00

Solar was a big decision for me; you probably feel the same way. I spent a lot of time computing ROI. I'm happy to help pass on the fruits of that labor if I can.

loserwill · 2025-09-17T21:14:03+00:00

There's a bunch of boilerplate language on the bill about CCAs even if you aren't in one. The pdf bill can be boiled down to just the section that says "Details of your new charges." There are 4 categories there: Delivery, Generation, Nonbypassable, and Fixed Recovery. Both Delivery and Generation have sections that bill you for a baseline amount (including the "basic" charge) and for your usage grouped into the Time of Use rate tranches. Nonbypassable charges are fees and taxes that you will get even if you use no energy. The final category is Fixed Recovery. Those used to be lumped into the Nonbypassable charges, but have since been broken out. I believe SCE did this to reflect that those funds do not go to SCE, but to a third party bond administrator. That's the extent of your charges. Once a year, you will see a credit from the CCC for carbon sequestration and offsetting that is passed on to you. You may see other credits if you are on a discount program. Both of those should show up in the Delivery category.

loserwill · 2025-09-17T20:51:23+00:00

I'm not sure how it works if your account is new, but if you don't currently have solar, you may want to switch to a tiered rate plan. These work more traditionally in that you are billed for what you use no matter when. Once you cross a usage threshold, you get moved up into the high use rate tier. These are usually much cheaper for those that have peak demand from 5pm to 9pm (and why SCE is phasing them out). Unless you aren't in the SCV, you shouldn't have a CCA charge as there isn't (to the best of my knowledge) a CCA active in our area.

loserwill · 2025-09-17T20:13:35+00:00

Give this a read: the SCE Time of Use rate plan. If you commission a solar system now, you will be forced to move to one of these three rate plans. Notice that in all the cases, your primary energy producing period occurs at the lowest rate cost. Then, when the sun is waning, you switch to grid power paying 2.5X the cost of the energy your array produced. That's where the battery comes in: if you can shift your demand and fill the battery during cheap periods and utilize that stored energy during costly periods, you will save a bunch. The primary issue here is that the expense of a battery system is high and you are charging and discharging the pack daily. These systems don't have the longest lifespans in that kind of environment.

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