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The conops for this doesn’t make sense to me. Not only is it in a weird orbit but after the first lunar landing, which will have two astronauts, the rest will have four. With all 4…

Yes I could see deals being worked out where gateway partners instead build parts of a lunar base. The international partnerships a likely the biggest piece going for gateway in te…

I have fond memories of the time I visited Jura. It’s an island of 100 people and 10,000 deer. When we stayed at the one hotel there we had an amazing hostess who showed us to our …

What are your favorite games? I’ve enjoyed super hot and beat saber. Those two have been the most compelling so far. Do you recommend some others?

To add to this it’s not only cosmonauts assigned to this soyuz it’s 2 Russians and 1 American. Doesn’t change making the right decision for protecting crew but may add complexity i…

I’ve been using Cryptomator for a few months now. Very happy with it. Closest to “main stream” file encryption tool that I’ve used. Confident anyone in my family could use it witho…

Typically when seeing recommendations for browsers that respect privacy I see recommendations for brave or firefox or the like. I’m not sure why I don’t see safari recommended. I l…

Lower cost to transportation is key for pretty much any economic growth. People and companies have significantly more plans than just a couple probes every few years. Exploration, …

SpaceX has drastically lowered cost/mass to put something in orbit with Falcon 9. If they are successful with Starship they will do so again. Already lowering cost to orbit is incr…

Ford claims three days based on 30 kwh per day usage.

I hope the ability to use your EV battery to backup your house power becomes an expected capability in the future. Glad Ford included it. Too bad Tesla backed away from it, i’m gue…

I recently moved photos from google photos to icloud using google takeout and it removed meta data from the vast majority of my photos. Photos with correct dates and locations in g…

If they don’t switch to another provider they are automatically switched to a provider of last resort (POLR) which is a predetermined provider based on ERCOT policy.

can’t edit my post but to clarify: I’m NOT convinced raising prices to $9k/kwh improved the outcome of this disaster

The basis of this argument is that there were generators who were waiting for prices to go higher before going online. I don’t believe that was the case here. Plants weren’t able t…

Couldn’t have said it better. This was the same experience I had. Unfortunately a lot of the bad press came from examples of people who signed up and agreed to Griddy’s terms (whic…

Griddy is/was an electricity retailer that sold at wholesale prices to customers. The cold front in texas lead to extremely high prices. This impact has been most evident for Gridd…

Oh for sure, especially if they had electric heat instead of gas. I just think a more rounded article would speak to the usage not just the final price.

They provide real-time information through their app and also online. Here are some examples of what that looks like https://www.griddy.com/texas/app . They also provided warnings …

I’m a griddy customer and am still happy with the service after this past week. Griddy is not for everyone not by a long shot but I think it’s getting unfair press on this past wee…