This post deserves Lemmy gold.
The key takeaway from the article;
Hyundai: *Buys Boston Dynamics in 2021
Trump: “We’re going to bring manufacturing back to America!”
*Imposes tariffs on car imports
Hyundai: OK
*Deploys robots in Alabama plant to do tasks usually done by humans.
Damn. Epic’s on a roll in my news feed this morning.
Power company regulations allow for some estimation on a handful of meters, but not that much.
Consumers (retail and commercial) are also entitled to contest their bills so if there is no data then there is no proof.
There are also severe penalties to providers for not uploading their data to the market. For example, a small customer (power company) is penalized $250k per hour for data missing.
How will the power company know how much power they need to purchase from the market if they do not know what their demand is or how it is tracking.
Etc. etc. etc.
EDIT: By “regulations” I meant government regulations.
I don’t understand what you mean.
Don’t worry. If the transmission fails, the meter will try again, and again, and again, and again…
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Grid management is currently my business specialisation. I can assure you that maintaining a grid operational is a lot more complex than keeping backup generators at a few key facilities. For example, the smart meters collect data all the time. Even with a power and communication loss, they will continue to collect for a while, storing the data internally. When communication is restored, they will send all their stored data at once. Now multiply that by millions of meters and days of data. The servers are not going to be able to ingest that torrent information. Now, what if the outage was extra long like this one, and the meters ran out of internal storage or charge? How are you going to manage the data gaps?
That’s only meter data. There’s a ton of other systems in play. Very few people realize how delicate and complex power grids are. I can’t speak for Spain, but the US grid is held up by spit, duct tape, brute force and prayers to the old gods. May Cthulhu have mercy on us.
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Actually, yes. It led to a huge lawsuit and changes in legislation regarding 401k contributions.
These types of requests always backfire. We got a similar request when I worked for a very large corporation and the very first thing I did was create a backup of our Lotus Notes and take it home. Just in case.
I thought about getting an M4 MacBook Pro with all the bells and whistles for that same reason but I just don’t need it.
You can self host a lot on something like that.
The one place I see a huge leap is in MacBooks. The capabilities of a 2015 Intel based MBP are laughable when compared to an M4 based 2025 MBP. I use an MBP for my music production and I just cannot make it choke, no matter what I throw at it.
I remember when a ten year old laptop was just trash, unable to even boot a modern OS. Current hardware capacity exceeds our actual demand by so much that a ten year old computer is still adequate for most users (assuming you aren’t on Windows).
My 8 year old 1080ti graphics card can run most games perfectly fine on a 1080p/60 screen (still the most common spec budget monitor). I would not be surprised if it that PC hits 10+ years of gaming without a real need for upgrade.
Windows 11 on 4GB of RAM? Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight…
I genuinely thought this was an Onion headline.
I saw the headline and for a split second got excited for X-Com news. Instead, I got xitter.