u/chrysrobyn

I'm pretty comfortable working on most DIY things. I assume you mean to check the voltage coming off the panels?

For now, I'm interested in getting any quote to the insurance company to get them to cough up some dough. If there's a delta between restoring production and something better, I'm open. Adding backup power is in the long term plan, but I'm guessing it's 3-5 years out, depending on other projects.

I think I'll need to work with my insurance company to see if this route can get them to help out with the cost to get the replacement hardware... I'm pessimistic.

Right. I found out they existed a few weeks ago and they look less than $500. Well worth the cost. Just not helpful today.

Yarbo should venmo you $20, slap their logo on it and repost this video on their channel.

Oh. I thought 4 passengers was enough to weigh yours down. Time to move the goal posts I guess.

I own a 2017 Kia Soul EV and regularly drive 3 “American Size“ passengers. It handles great.

When my first kid started Kindergarten, we weren't in the richest neighborhood. Not much crime, always felt safe at night, but a lot of people didn't have much -- and there weren't a lot of dads around. The elementary school was a member of a program called "Watch D.O.G.S.". It was basically a program to get dads to take a vacation day (or other day off work) to come into the elementary school and roam the hallways. Us dads were "security" (untrained of course), helpers in the lunch room and whatever they needed that day. The goal of the program was to make men more visible to kids and provide role models for how we wanted them to be dads when it was their tun.

I have been running R on Linux since July 2015. I have never needed to “debug build interfaces” or anything more than installing libraries. On occasion, I haven’t understood a library prerequisite and had to Google the error message, but I don’t see that as a big deal. If what you are doing is able to be broken into parallel tasks, take a look at %dopar% and makeCluster. Windows is not smooth here, and Linux is your friend. Spreading my task over 8 or 16 or 40 cores is very handy. Based on my experiences here, I am grateful not to need to think about using data.tables although it may be transparent for all I know. Data.tables just works without any of the makeCluster SOCK stuff that Windows needs.

Oh! I saw the white robes and burning crosses and made the wrong assumption. Carry on!

This is where grid scale energy storage starts to make real sense. Take money for storing the power, sell it back when the grid needs it.

And Distributed.net before that!

I don’t use Twitter because of hate speech and how they treat their employees.

My last Christmas I felt joy was the year my first child was born. My father in law was terminally ill and I realized it was all about to be on me. He died just after Christmas. Every year since then has been emptiness inside, with joy, holiday spirit and love on the outside. Holidays are now for my wife and three kids, not me.

The old “fake it till you make it” hasn’t been enough since 2003. Maybe this year.

I hope you’re kidding, but with all the stuff going on in Florida, I’m not sure.

Look who's not afraid to wear a mask now.

When I go into the one by me, the AC works. No disputing the rest of it though.

Russia is going to leave Ukraine.

Bezos and Musk are going to pay some more to make sure people stop starving to death and rationing health care.

Renewing a drivers license is going be more than just getting a new picture.

Do PokeMiners publish anywhere other than Twitter? I’m trying to avoid Twitter these days.

Biden is not my hero, not my idol, not even my preferred candidate, and I will undoubtedly vote against him in the primary. But… I will show up to vote for him in person against any conservative choice.

The original Pokémon Go + takes a disposable CR2032. I just got a 20 pack for $8 from Amazon about two weeks ago. They last me a month or three.

I upvoted Event Horizon because I was expecting a straight up science fiction adventure, not a trans dimensional hell.

As a young dad struggling with the balance between career and family, Click, straight up. The way Adam Sandler focused on his career and fast forwarded through his personal life so he could get ahead, and then the remote figured out how to automatically skip through family… This movie shook me to my core.

May have been on the losing side, still not convinced it was the wrong one. We’re all just folk now.

Wow.