Its funny, but a fake tweet

DCs are like roaches these days. If you see two going in, there are probably ten more than you don’t know about also going in.

I want to say our estimated break even was about a decade at our current consumption.

That calculation also likely assumes electricity prices stay the same for a decade. If electricity prices increase, your payback date arrives sooner.

Our household has solar panels, two EVs, and a heat pump located in the Midwest. We still have 1:1 net metering so its nearly the ideal conditions as far as energy harvest and economic landscape. I know this won’t last, but I’m enjoying for the years that I can.

We also have a separate deductive meter where we can get about 25% discount on electricity that charges the cars. We only use it during the cold months because car electricity is free during the rest of the year from solar.

We have a small electricity bill in November, then big beefy electricity bills and for when the our location on Earth its tilted away the sun for the very cold months of Dec Jan, and Feb. March we get a bill but its about 1/10 of the cold months, and then usually electric bill until November again.

With the installation of our heat pump we cut off our natural gas connection. So the only energy bill we have is electricity during the cold months. No natural gas bill, no gasoline bill.

Much better pictures, thanks! I had suspected that both those ICs work together (and it looks like they do), but I couldn’t find any part that matches it in any searches. It could be a specialized ASIC they made, or they could have bought proprietary marked ICs specifically to prevent the kind of repairs you’re wanting to do.

Apologies I can’t help further, you may be stuck buying a new board. Maybe keep the dead one around in case you need a replacement part in the future.

I don’t understand those that have a home they’re going to be a long time, is viable for solar panels, can afford to install solar, and don’t.

My neighbor, who meets all of the above criteria, just replaced their electric water heater with a gas one. That’s the wrong direction.

For others looking at this, the damaged IC is silkscreened as IC7 (red square in my edit of OPs pic). OP, the fuse on this board is the green SMT device (that I put a green square around). Here’s the sales sheet for that fuse.

OP you gave a part number for the blown IC as HVS004, but from what little I can see in the picture I’m wondering if its something else. I’ve put a BLUE square around another IC8. I’m guessing thats in the same family, from where it is in the board. However, I can’t see what the part number is on that one. Can you share that one?

This may come as a shock to you, but most of the people in the western world have an energy surplus which creates other health risks. The most logical way to address this is to consume less energy, but here we are with other people being upset by my choice to not eat something.

Even better, you can have the card expire off-cycle from the book. Since both last 10 years, if you renew one at the 5 year mark, it means you’ll always have an active document that can get you to Canada or Mexico even while the other is in the renewal cycle.

I recently learned this after renewing both at the same time missing my opportunity. I’ll renew the card early in 5 years or so to get this off-cycle expiry benefit.

and if someone is making minimum wage or close to it they almost certainly aren’t getting paid time off, so now they have to come up with $130 for the fee and lose time off work.

A passport card is only $30 (plus the $10 or so dollars for the required photo), but everything else in your post is spot on.

Good. Rice/grain bowls are fucking burrito nihilism and the worst thing millennials have done.

That large tortilla adds another 300 calories by itself, which is about 25% of the calories of a large burrito. I like to skip those extra tortilla calories. A bowl does that.

Here’s another example of Landfill gas recovery/use:

Columbus Ohio uses its landfill gas to power its municipal vehicles like buses, trash trucks, and snow plows. The rest of the unused recovered landfill gas is piped into the regular city gas mains where the city makes $2 million+ per year that pays for more city services. They started doing this about 13 years ago.

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And another methane recovery system:

Just last year Columbus started recovering methane from waste water a treatment treatment facility. This allows an expansion of the digester and the extra methane produced and recovered runs a 6MW onsite methane generator producing heat and electricity to run the waste water treatment facility.

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“FBI will continue working 24/7 with our international partners to track down, apprehend, and bring to justice those who attempt to defraud American taxpayers—no matter where they try to hide,” Patel said.

“Unless those defrauding American taxpayers are in the trump administration, then they get a free pass.” /s

I’m also surprised there would be someone in 2026 willing to buy an NFT for $155.

That 2700 Kelvin lighting makes this gloriously cozy in this shot. Its like being wrapped in a warm blanket.

With as toxic as Orban (Hungarian Leadership) is to Ukraine, it surprises me that Urkaine would take the risk of transporting this valuable cargo through Hungary or Slovakia when bound for Astria. It might be a longer drive, but the path through Poland and Czechia may be preferred going forward.

How would an instance block an IP without storing IPs?

They could be blocking entire IP ranges. So they wouldn’t have to store specific IPs. I’m not in the hosting industry but I would imagine there are groups tracking the CIDR blocks (IP ranges) that VPN providers use for their exit nodes. If such a list exists, a host could simply subscribe to accept whatever updates occur to those lists and implement the block for them.

I’ve got a coworker that works in the Bay Area but lives in the Midwest. Another I know works in New Jersey but lives in the Midwest. Corporate RTO initiatives in High COL areas with a salary differential coupled with lower Midwest COL and housing costs make strange things viable.

The results of this study will undoubtedly produce a sea change in corporate culture while simultaneously creating opportunities for cross functional collaboration resulting from this paradigm shift. /s

Marketing is a different kind of hard. Coding has logic. Clear inputs, clear outputs. Marketing? It’s storytelling, psychology, timing, luck — and most of it feels like shouting into a void.

There actually is a bit more science behind marketing than your statement suggests. The Marketing Mix starts with the “four Ps”:

• Price - How is it packaged/tiered/price? Is it a one-time fee? Is it a subscription? Where does it fit in the price compared to other products you’re competing with in the same space?
• Product - What is it? What are its claims (things it delivers on)?
• Place - Where can your customers get it? Console only? Steam? Played in a web browser? What regions of the world?
• Promotion - How do people find out about it? This is mostly the part you’re talking about which include advertising, PR, influences, etc.

For those you’re trying to reach, be able to answer the first 3 “Ps”. If your game is sold only on Steam, then you don’t care about console players. You’ve now eliminated a huge chunk of customers you don’t have to try to reach. What kind of game is it, perhaps an RTS? Then you’ve eliminated all players that only play FPV shooters and you don’t need to reach those folks. Are you going to charge $40 for the game? Then you don’t need to worry about appealing to gamers that only spend under $40 for games.

All of this is a narrowing exercise to find where your customers are which lets you focus on streams or channels of communication specifically targeting those that would consider buying your game.