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ffmpegy commented on EVs Are Essential Grid-Scale Storage spectrum.ieee.org/electri... · Posted by u/rbanffy

dahfizz · 3 years ago

> most cars aren't used every day

Huge citation needed.

> most cars are parked during the day

Yes, parked somewhere where there is no V2G infrastructure. By the time we pay millions of V2G charging stalls, we would be better off just buying actual grid scale storage.

ffmpegy · 3 years ago

https://www.reinventingparking.org/2013/02/cars-are-parked-9...

ffmpegy commented on EVs Are Essential Grid-Scale Storage spectrum.ieee.org/electri... · Posted by u/rbanffy

jonplackett · 3 years ago

All you need is a ‘no selling electricity today please’ button.

ffmpegy · 3 years ago

I use an app for my home heating that lets me define a schedule every day. If I'm going out I can turn it down or off, and if I have guests over I can boost the hot water.

It already has an EV charger plugin, so I'm in complete control of my selling energy back to the grid if I want to use it.

Some of the comments on this post feel like the "government is coming for your guns" level of foaming-at-the-mouth.

Remember the ultimate aim is to use energy more efficiently and reduce our dependency on fossil fuels, not make it pointless or difficult to live life.

ffmpegy commented on EVs Are Essential Grid-Scale Storage spectrum.ieee.org/electri... · Posted by u/rbanffy

dtech · 3 years ago

That is going to be an expensive habit in the future once time-variable pricing is the standard, which I think is inevitable. Charging your car at 6PM is going to be super expensive compared to 3 AM or 1 PM.

Also note you'll still have fast-chargers, you don't always need to charge immediately at full capacity at home, just as you wouldn't always top up on gas after every drive.

ffmpegy · 3 years ago

Just a note for any UK readers that this is coming in sooner than you think. There are already proposals on the Ofgem[1] site to force mandatory half-hourly meter reads that mean energy companies can offer pricing that more closely matches demand.

https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/energy-policy-and-regulation/policy...

don't want to be part of that? run your house off your EV and charge it back up at night. my house takes about 6KWh a day, so I could run it for almost a week from my car even if I didn't charge it.

ffmpegy commented on Ask HN: Where are all the parties? · Posted by u/throwaway_party

ltbarcly3 · 3 years ago

How many parties do your parents go to? When you went to parties when you were younger, were there a lot of 50 year olds hanging around?

ffmpegy · 3 years ago

my parents have a way busier social calendar than I do. It's almost like when you're finished with work, the late hours, unusual shifts and occasional weekend call-outs, professional development and week-long 'team strategy' off-sites you actually have time to live life, have friends and enjoy their company in a relaxed environment - who knew!

ffmpegy commented on Amazon set to begin new round of layoffs affecting over 18,000 people cnbc.com/2023/01/18/amazo... · Posted by u/SirLJ

ffmpegy · 3 years ago

grim reading. hopefully this won't become a wider trend in the sector.

ffmpegy commented on Secondments at Zapier zapier.com/blog/secondmen... · Posted by u/theresistor

awb · 3 years ago

One lesson from Branson’s Apprentice that always stuck with me:

He was hoisted up in a capsule with different contestants above Angel Falls. Branson encouraged the contestants to abandon their fears and press a button that would release the cables and send the capsule plunging to the water below. Whoever pressed the button was kicked off the show. The drop was high enough to kill them both and Branson said he couldn’t afford to have people around him that were afraid to tell him no.

ffmpegy · 3 years ago

> Branson said he couldn’t afford to have people around him that were afraid to tell him no.

So the lesson here is even for a decision that will kill him and everyone around him, he would still rather not entertain debate and challenge from his subordinates?

ffmpegy commented on My Youtube earnings brickexperimentchannel.wo... · Posted by u/tpmx

jesuscript · 3 years ago

I immediately noticed a dark dynamic based on the analytics. Lucky for OP, they are making Lego videos. However, if you are in the business of selling your opinion or sexuality, and you start to see that people click on certain hot takes or less-clothes on, you will start to morph to cater to that traffic. I wonder how this destroys a person (the greed).

Totally taking the convo in the darker direction, but you can see this dynamic in play with Rogan‘s podcast. He’s a liberal, but those hot button right wing takes are probably what brings in the clicks. Every trans critique he makes caters to that traffic, so he milks that audience often.

What does one become when you effectively sell out to the analytics?

Your thoughts and perspective are no longer driven by your convictions or experience, but by this shit.

ffmpegy · 3 years ago

Performing artists have for centuries had to balance catering for popular opinion and tastes versus a more faithful realisation of their vision in order to make a living. I don't see a difference with this at all.

ffmpegy commented on T-code – A protocol for implementing UART serial communications to an adult toy stpihkal.docs.buttplug.io... · Posted by u/_chendo_

ZiiS · 3 years ago

Chess will never be the same again. https://twitter.com/mrbeast/status/1574483980207865856

ffmpegy · 3 years ago

utilising teledildonics to cheat at chess is the most cyberpunk thing I have ever seen on HN.

ffmpegy commented on Convert SimCity 2000 cities into Minecraft worlds github.com/jgosar/mine-ci... · Posted by u/notpushkin

ascagnel_ · 3 years ago

SimCopter wasn't the only game that allowed you to import from SC2k -- the city import is the only notable feature of the otherwise-unremarkable Streets of SimCity[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streets_of_SimCity

ffmpegy · 3 years ago

that game had so much potential, so many bugs...

ffmpegy commented on Ask HN: Hobby coding that doesn’t feel like work · Posted by u/_benj

luma · 3 years ago

Playing with embedded devices (microcontrollers etc) has become my favorite coding-related hobby. The barriers to entry are hilariously low, the parts and tools are cheap and the code and documentation and tutorials are all free. At the end of the day, what you are left with is a physical thing that you can touch and which Does What You Told It To Do.

ffmpegy · 3 years ago

This - the use cases, end products and way of thinking about Arduino programming is so different that it doesn't feel like work at all.