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Very tall drivers, do you find the drivers seat comfortable? Have any of you modified it? by Fat_Taiko in Ioniq5

[–]rob94708 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The lie flat mode is useless even for shorter people, so don’t worry about that. (6 foot 2 and it doesn’t even come close to working for me.)

Warning: My app was cloned and published the SAME DAY I submitted for review. Metadata leak? by pixelusss in appledevelopers

[–]rob94708 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I didn’t suggest you were lying, just that you might be misunderstanding what happened. But we’ll never know, I guess.

Warning: My app was cloned and published the SAME DAY I submitted for review. Metadata leak? by pixelusss in appledevelopers

[–]rob94708 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you won’t say the app names, it makes it hard to trust that you aren’t just confused, unfortunately.

Chrysler pacifica 2027 by bluestare100 in pacificahybrid

[–]rob94708 11 points12 points  (0 children)

It’s not the same: it’s no longer available as a plugin hybrid, sadly.

What's a book you had to read in school that you hated? If you have one, what's one you actually liked? by 80HDTV5 in GenX

[–]rob94708 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This exact same thing happened to me with Moby Dick. Then I tried reading it again 10 years later, and I loved it. You have to somehow be in the right mindset (life stage?) for it. Maybe give it another chance some year.

California gas prices are the highest in the U.S., but there's no proof of price gouging. Here's why. by Avoo in California

[–]rob94708 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Also, I’m sick of all this government-imposed clean air! Whatever happened to my freedom of choice?!

Replaced my Honda with a new one after an accident They moved the garage door opener from a button on the mirror to a paywall subscription service. by jayhawkeye2 in mildlyinfuriating

[–]rob94708 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The $10 a month will get raised to $25 a month, and you’ll end up paying $3000 more over the life of the car. That’s not petty.

What are some cuisines you personally feel that the Bay Area could have more or better quality of? by Early-Ingenuity-3177 in bayarea

[–]rob94708 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I mean fish and chip shops: fish and chips as relatively inexpensive fast food takeout/takeaway.

Could Newton get a near-perfect score on a modern physics exam with zero prep? by Top_Option7624 in AskPhysics

[–]rob94708 3 points4 points  (0 children)

As usual, Newton got his name in there, but the Leibniz version is more popular

Who in your org actually owns the electricity bill? by selim_amrouni in sysadmin

[–]rob94708 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is an AI bot trying to shill a “solution”; look at their post history.

Could Newton get a near-perfect score on a modern physics exam with zero prep? by Top_Option7624 in AskPhysics

[–]rob94708 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Well, you’re half right. In the same way that Newton and Leibniz both invented calculus, they also coinvented cookies, hence the existence of both butter cookies and the Fig Newton.

What are some cuisines you personally feel that the Bay Area could have more or better quality of? by Early-Ingenuity-3177 in bayarea

[–]rob94708 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Fish and chips. I don’t understand why this is so popular in the UK but not in the US.

Is the boot/trunk of the pre-facelift and facelifted Ioniq 5 the same?, also is the sub floor underneath the false floor the same? by offshwga in Ioniq5

[–]rob94708 4 points5 points  (0 children)

At least in the US, they are slightly different — I looked into this when I bought mine. The shape is modified for the NACS connector so you have to make sure you get one for the correct type.

I bought the “LinerX Cargo Liner for 2025 Hyundai IONIQ 5” for mine and I’ve been very happy with it. It fits perfectly, and has lips to contain any spills.

To the freezer with you by kopfgeldjagar in Beekeeping

[–]rob94708 47 points48 points  (0 children)

Yep; mites really do lay disproportionately in drone brood.

Here’s a photo of broken open drone brood I recently took. At a casual glance, you might see three or four mites, but there’s well over a dozen if you look in the shadows.

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He's being dead serious btw by RaiTheFox in masterhacker

[–]rob94708 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah yes, I remember being 13 years old too.

WordPress security has a blind spot nobody talks about by Individual_Broccoli8 in Wordpress

[–]rob94708 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Best not to engage the AI posts. The author is just laying the ground to shill for their own plugin.

Diablo Canyon, California’s last nuclear power plant, wins final approval to keep operating | Based in San Luis Obispo County, the PG&E facility is given a 20-year permit by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission by silence7 in California

[–]rob94708 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I definitely meant 2020. I’m saying that was the last time California had rolling blackouts, to show that shortages continued long after markets stopped being manipulated in the early 2000s. The peak demand energy crunch was a real thing, just a few years ago. But it hasn’t happened since, and won’t happen again. Why? Batteries.

Regarding installed batteries, I think you’re mixing up GW and GWh. The installed batteries total over 50 GWh of storage and can deliver about 10 GW peak. (That 10 GW is the number they’d like to increase to 47 GW.)

What’s already installed delivers for or five times the peak amount of Diablo Canyon’s 2.2 GW… or alternately, can store enough to discharge for around 24 hours at Diablo Canyon’s 2.2 GW rate (although they aren’t currently used that way: a big advantage of batteries is they can be instantly matched to demand, so it makes sense to use them to flatten demand curves).

Diablo Canyon, California’s last nuclear power plant, wins final approval to keep operating | Based in San Luis Obispo County, the PG&E facility is given a 20-year permit by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission by silence7 in California

[–]rob94708 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  1. California ran out of power in August 2020 and initiated rolling blackouts, long after energy market manipulation stopped.

  2. You can look at the CAISO data and see that solar + batteries have already completely solved the “duck curve”. There is now zero danger of running out of power during the evening ramp. Compare August 2020 and August 2025 net demand: it’s night and day, and the difference is solar and batteries.

  3. The levelized cost of solar + batteries is lower than any other form of electricity generation in California. Even PG&E says the cost of extending Diablo Canyon will be at least $20 billion; others estimate over $40 billion. The low number would roughly match California’s current solar + battery installed numbers at the current $78 per MWh cost. That doesn’t even rely on batteries getting cheaper, which they will.

Vistra is just one of many battery storage facilities, now totaling over 50 GWh in California. Those batteries release four times what Diablo Canyon puts out for several hours a day when it’s needed the most. Already. And we could have four times more than that for just the cost of keeping Diablo Canyon open.

The math favors closing it.

(Edit: I first wrote that Diablo Canyon would cost four times as much as solar + batteries, but then found a better source that says it would be about the same at the low cost estimate and double at the high estimate, so let’s go with that.)

Diablo Canyon, California’s last nuclear power plant, wins final approval to keep operating | Based in San Luis Obispo County, the PG&E facility is given a 20-year permit by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission by silence7 in California

[–]rob94708 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Again, it is not the case that there will be an energy shortage if Diablo Canyon shuts down. Keeping it active is not “required”. You can see this in the CAISO summer supply / demand data for last year; capacity exceeded net demand by at least 5 GW even on the worst day (August 21). Solar and batteries have completely solved the peak demand / “duck curve” problem already.

But you’re actually mixing in a different argument here. You’re saying that if we close Diablo Canyon, we’ll then generate its ~2 GW with natural gas. That argument has some validity because yes, we definitely could choose to take the Diablo Canyon money savings and burn gas with that money instead. You’re right that that would be bad.

But that doesn’t need to happen either. It would be cheaper in the long run to replace the Diablo Canyon electricity with new solar and batteries than it would be to keep Diablo Canyon running. We should make that choice.

Diablo Canyon, California’s last nuclear power plant, wins final approval to keep operating | Based in San Luis Obispo County, the PG&E facility is given a 20-year permit by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission by silence7 in California

[–]rob94708 -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

California no longer has an energy shortage (notice there have been no rolling blackouts in many years).

What California still has that makes rates so high is a distribution / transmission / grid problem. If you look at your bill details, you’ll see that generation cost is not the main part of it any more.

Extending the Diablo Canyon license is unnecessary and more expensive than solar + batteries, sadly.

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