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Cake day: June 16th, 2023

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  • I’ve got a 11.64Kw setup it went live in July 2023 and I just hit 40Mwh generation. It does about 90% of my power needs. That’s including charging two EVs and a big AC.

    I would have liked to go bigger but where I live going above 11.7Kw requires a bunch of extra paperwork and insurance.

    Overall no regrets. I’ve generated about $6K in savings and it cost me $13K so I’m about halfway to break even. Power rates have gone up recently so my savings should also increase.

    As far as battery recommendations there are a lot of factors.

    If you have net metering and a good stable grid. It’s not worth getting a battery.

    If you aren’t able to export and are going to generate much more during the day then you use battery makes sense.

    If you can export but lack net meeting you have to look at the expected price difference between buying power at night and selling during the day. It may be more cost efficient to add more solar instead of a battery and use the extra generation to offset buying at night.

    For battery if you want backup when the grid is down you need islanding. Otherwise everything shuts down for safety when the grid does.

    The other thing to consider is a single line inverter vs micro inverters on each panel. If your panels are going to get the same amount of sun a single inverter is usually better.

    If you have something like a tree that is going to start throwing shade on one panel much sooner than the others then micro inverters are better.

    With a line inverter if one panel in the line has 50% shade and the others are in full sun the whole line is going to be at 50% generation. With micro inverters just the one is going to have low generation.

    Micro inverters are less efficient however and as you have one on each panel you have many more points of failure.

    Let me know if you have any other questions. I did my installation myself so I did a lot of research.

    Here is a recent generation vs usage day for me.




  • Dogs use scent more then humans. However they still use sight and sound much morfe then they use scent.

    Dogs use body language and vocalization to communicate with each other. Watch two dogs interact they look at each other and will growl, and bristle or tail wag and play bow to indicate what they want.

    They look at faces on humans because that’s a major component of how we communicate.

    Smell is not how they communicate. It’s just how they know where other animals have been.







  • It’s a side effect of the “no algorithm” philosophy. Without anything to suggest what you might like generating high amounts of new content let’s you dominate the feed. News is easy to generate on a daily basis.

    The thoughtful channel that puts out a video once every two weeks gets on the feed once every two weeks. Then low effort garbage like man carrying things gets on the feed every day.

    They need to at least let users block channels from their feed.





  • That’s stuff created by the government however there are also fair use provisions carved out for the government. I’ve had military guys claim the govt has complete fair use which I doubt.

    I know congress can ignore copyright for debate and argument. So a member of congress pass around copies of material to other members of congress regardless of copyright.

    I’m also pretty sure the government can’t legally start streaming all the Disney movies to federal employees without permission. I’m not sure where the line between these twoexamples is however.



  • So depending on why you might be able to train it. If you don’t have a lazy eye and have good vision you may want to look into it.

    If your brain is just not fusing two good images there is a good chance you can train it to do so. Having done experiments in this field I can tell you it makes a measurable difference in performance.

    A good read on the subject is below. The part where she first sees a tree in 3D is a good example of what you are missing.

    Fixing My Gaze: A Scientist’s Journey Into Seeing in Three Dimensions by Susan R Barry


  • That’s a much latter version. AFIK The Sun, Moon, and Talia is the earliest. Relevant bit below.

    After a time, it happened by chance that a king was out hunting and passed that way. One of his falcons escaped from his hand and flew into the house by way of one of the windows. It did not come when called, so the king had one of his party knock at the door, believing the palace to be inhabited. Although he knocked for a length of time, nobody answered, so the king had them bring a vintner’s ladder, for he himself would climb up and search the house, to discover what was inside. Thus he climbed up and entered, and looked in all the rooms, and nooks, and corners, and was amazed to find no living person there. At last he came to the salon, and when the king beheld Talia, who seemed to be enchanted, he believed that she was asleep, and he called her, but she remained unconscious. Crying aloud, he beheld her charms and felt his blood course hotly through his veins. He lifted her in his arms, and carried her to a bed, where he gathered the first fruits of love. Leaving her on the bed, he returned to his own kingdom, where, in the pressing business of his realm, he for a time thought no more about this incident.

    Now after nine months Talia delivered two beautiful children, one a boy and the other a girl. In them could be seen two rare jewels, and they were attended by two fairies, who came to that palace, and put them at their mother’s breasts. Once, however, they sought the nipple, and not finding it, began to suck on Talia’s fingers, and they sucked so much that the splinter of flax came out. Talia awoke as if from a long sleep, and seeing beside her two priceless gems, she held them to her breast, and gave them the nipple to suck, and the babies were dearer to her than her own life. Finding herself alone in that palace with two children by her side, she did not know what had happened to her; but she did notice that the table was set, and food and drink were brought in to her, although she did not see any attendants.

    https://sites.pitt.edu/~dash/type0410.html