I think the coolest part of this era was the ICs were developing so fast that in a short amount of time there were more powerful chips on the fucking cartridges than in the base system, so as new games came out they extended the capabilities more and more.

Ze Frank and Joel Harver

Add PBS Spacetime to your list, it is dope af even if I have no idea wtf they are talking about most of the time.

Not a good look. I can empathize with not wanting right wing propaganda machines to profit from your work but it should at least be opt in and not curated by a single person.

Kid wouldn’t get it if it bit him on the ear.

If I fall asleep on my back I will probably start to snore, she will poke me and I will probably roll onto a side without waking up and stop snoring.

They didn’t have pressure relief valves and pieces of the thermos became projectiles bad enough to cause serious harm.

Totally worth it to find all the propylon keys, I think there is a dude in Caldera that starts you on that path.

Masterpiece stuff is great, I really like “all creatures great and small”. Nova and Nature are usually pretty dope. I throw on antiques roadshow for background noise but we also use it as a game like the price is right.

Y’all don’t just do everything out of your Downloads folder?

I feel like your likeness should be protected by default, is it not?

To be clear, not under copy protection but is there some other protection from impersonation such as fraud?

Anything by an artist that turned out to be a pedo, RHCP, aerosmith, etc. It makes me sick knowing they’re still making royalties and not facing consequences.

I don’t understand how 20 gallons of diesel used 110 gallons of water and the source site wouldn’t let me scroll very far. Wtf am I supposed to take away from this? Don’t drive a fucking sprinter van to get groceries?
Some dude’s AI usage is fine because he used unexplained trust me bro math? FuckAI, fuck cars, and fuck this article.

Ah, that’s the disconnect. Typically the electric company is the local provider here. Some provide service all the way from generating stations, some broker power contracts from neighboring generating stations but you typically only have one company to buy power from and they are the ones that build the infrastructure to the home. My utility lets you buy power from partnered solar farms, that solar farm would not have any idea what my home size is, but the utility that physically runs the power cables to my house sure does.

The square footage is incredibly useful for estimating the average demand for similar sized units. They are almost always going to have the same basic appliances and heating and cooling, or close enough that it averages out. The demand for a larger unit will be more than for a smaller unit, mostly because they will need a larger HVAC or heater but also because there are more rooms, occupants, stuff plugged in. So we establish an average demand profile for homes of similar size groups.

And the electric company that later actually sells you the electricity doesn’t even need to know the load value of the house, but only the address and meter ID.

They absolutely need to know the demand of each unit, if another home off the same feed is built later or upgrades their service they need to know if the existing capacity is sufficient or if components need to be upgraded.

They really don’t care what you do with your power, they absolutely do not give a shit what you do. They just need the info to estimate the demand for infrastructure at the time they turn the power on, if you are an outlier they don’t really care as long as you don’t create problems for the system.

60A service
40kW to resistance-heat

Lol, good luck with that.

I was a power engineer for a municipal utility, non-profit government entity, they don’t have shareholders or profits, the cost to provide the service is the cost of the service. This is not a capitalist thing, this is an engineering thing. They have to estimate the power demand of their customers to efficiently size the power equient and forecast power generation requirements. Them having this information lowers the cost for all customers. Do you expect them to guess if you need 100A or 200A service?

Peg+cat opening theme. I don’t think I’ve seen or heard that show in years but that song will just pop in there.

Calm down nerds, it’s a library book and won’t even be his problem soon.