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I can see that they are a bit caught in the middle here, but it seems insane that they can leave a package and send a COD bill later. That part is bonkers... doesn't COD stand for Cash on Delivery?

You can definitely achieve more if you can work the supply-side as well. In theory if the smart grid were well executed then it'd be possible for consumers to modulate their heat, charging, tumble dryers etc... to provide more elasticity.

Unfortunately in a lot of places the incentives aren't that high. I don't have that option where I live, but in denver the lowest consumer rate is around 7c and the highest around 17c/kWh. It's hard to invest in new appliances to exploit that difference, but if the off-peak number were 1c then I think you'd see much more take-up of smart car chargers and people delaying when they do laundry.

As a parent, I don't know if I agree. It takes significant effort to get my kid out on a bike as our road system isn't great for them. (My city is actually fairly good, but we still can't, for example, get to his school without needing to ride on the road)

If it could do 45mph and had a 40 mile range then it'd work for nearly all our in-town trips. We have a phev that can only do about 20 miles on battery and at the start of the pandemic we went 9 months without needing to put gas in it. I wouldn't want it as our only vehicle but it'd be pretty viable as our secondary one.

Their Oli concept car is probably even cooler and would likely work better in the US market.

It'll be interesting to see if Americans would ever go for a "City Car". I believe Citreon are bringing the ami to the USA and I'd be tempted to get one a second car - it's certainly well under that pricepoint.

As a resident of Longmont CO who's had municipal fiber for 5 or 6 years it's been nothing but a win for the city. Conveniently Centurytel and Comcast both offer gigabit (or faster) speeds, but they didn't do that before they were forced to compete.

Hard to say if the number of tech people buying homes here is a result of that or a result of the increase in prices in Boulder, but I'm sure it's helped bring people here (and further drive up prices). Plus it meant during covid that the city was able to give free fiber to low income kids who needed to switch to remote school.

Plus it's had a 60% take rate, which is way higher than the original projections. That did certainly increase the capital costs of the rollout but it's meaning the bond payback is ahead of schedule. I'm just trying to find a good excuse for why I need 10G service.

Narrator: There was no other option. It was Morgan Freeman all the way down.

Also the "Narrator" segments which are inexplicably read in Morgan Freeman's voice in my head

The camera hack is really cool - i love stuff like that.

From what i've read it's temperature dependent, and at room temp some dram cells might take as long as 10 seconds to decay. The 64mS refresh is a super conservative call because it's really bad when random bits go missing out of memory. The decay is faster at high temperatures, but some dram controllers might actually adjust based on temperature.

Some very early systems did do it at kernel level, but yeah you are correct. Though I'd also consider the dram chips to be part of the computer and DRAM refresh makes up a good part of your phones battery consumption at standby.

srsly... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_refresh