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It's not a hidden charge because as you said, you can still travel without paying it. And it provides a method of price discrimination between people who care where they sit and th…

Most of the van life you see depicted on social media is actually this though - people who've rented a van short-term for as much as a hotel room or who live in a house and have a …

If people want to use less electricity, they need to have reasonable options to do so in the marketplace without needing a computer engineering degree to figure what sleep states t…

Red tape is definitely an issue, but freight costs to Nepal are also extremely high. It's a landlocked country with very poor transportation networks. Air courier (eg DHL) to Kathm…

Any audio encoder - lame is an open source option for mp3 - will have low pass filters. Most encoders will filter inaudible frequencies to improve compression even if not told to, …

An important and related fact, addressed in the article, is that Amazon currently escapes consumer product liability laws because they are neither seller nor manufacturer. But they…

Search for any Costco-exclusive item on Amazon and you'll find exactly this strategy at work, complete with 300% markups on the Costco price.

Air source heat pumps are fine for the places where most Canadians live including southern Ontario & Quebec and coastal British Columbia. If you live in Winnipeg or Saskatoon it mi…

Are GP mentioned, the safety procedure to protect you from a line you're working on becoming inadvertently energized is temporary protective grounding. A grounding jumper is connec…

> I personally believe that DHS should make this sort of thing illegal for critical infrastructure. I can't speak to non-electrical infrastructure, but the NERC CIP "high impact" s…

Thanks for articulating this as I never understood why iOS suffers from this phenomenon. The only other place I've seen "typing too fast" result in garbled input is on Android base…

No, but you at least realize an analog filter is a thing that exists. You don't remember the specifics, but you could study them if you needed to.

As a practicing EE (power systems), I agree. It often becomes clear when someone is unable to distinguish a practical limit (this equipment is not rated for X, our operating proced…

The ostensible benefit to DC distribution in homes is to be more economical and simpler for devices that already run on DC - not to redesign ever device ever made to accept mains-v…

As you note, for facilities like data centres that are engineered for a specific type of load, a building-level rectifier makes sense. For a home where you have many devices using …

Even if power generation is distributed and localized, you still need higher voltages than what is in a home to transmit it unless you're talking about not having a power grid at a…

As it is, typical home electrical systems have no active components. There are just wires, panels and bimetallic circuit breakers. These systems are nearly maintenance-free over a …

In several instances I've seen, it's because that function has been outsourced but the company doesn't want to advertise that, even to its own employees. If you could talk to that …

You should check if your device can run a third party ChromeOS distribution that is still updated, like Cloudready. That's what I did with my Asus CN60 that would otherwise have be…

Some of the EOLed devices are commodity x86 hardware and can run the latest Linux distros or Windows 10 if the bootloader is unlocked, which really shows how arbitrary Google's end…

Diesel engines for power generation will have a governor control that sets the throttle based on the load to maintain whatever rpm is required for 60 Hz (constant speed control). T…

Correct, most modern locomotives are diesel-electric and not fundamentally different from a large standby generator that would be found in a hospital or data center. The locomotive…

I have both a technical and a practical answer for you. The technical answer is that demand response resources are considered dispatchable or interruptible load. Load shedding is t…

Load shedding is implemented at the distribution substation level, not individual customers (unless they are very large customers connected directly to the high-voltage network lik…

A significant gap in culture between the United States and many other developed countries is the idea that there can ever be an "entirely you thing". Even your own health and well-…