Dan

Pittsburgh (formerly Boston) SWE at Google (tweets are my own views). Living in Squirrel Hill. Aviator, weather geek, transit lover.

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On the other hand, it's less effective demand management when we're talking about running residential heat pump loads. Sure, thermostats can be changed a bit but the load can't be deferred entirely until there's less pressure on the grid.

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My take on the Griddy thing is that it's pretty neat that residential customers can access spot pricing, but allowing naïve people to use it for their primary electric is problematic. Suitable regulation might allow it but only for secondary garage electric meters or something.

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In fact, the theory is that spot price buying is perfect for demand management, and this theory holds true with knowledgable customers who watch the price carefully and are quite flexible about energy use (eg, can delay charging their cars or other discretionary uses).

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@schmangee I would suspect a job situation that leaves two partners commuting in opposite directions with no good solution but maybe that’s just my own experience biasing me.

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@JasonT I used to think clowns weren’t real but once when I was a teenager I was driving on Nichols Rd on Long Island & stopped at a traffic light and a hatchback with two clowns in full getup on board pulled up next to me. It was in fact a small car. The driver was smoking a cigarette.

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@DanJosef @dmoren @JasonT Back into their tiny cars.

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@ofsevit Progress is looking good 👏

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@mjg59 It is, of course, notoriously hard to tell sarcasm over text.

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When I was out on paternity leave, still in Boston, and killing time on the weekdays I took the older kid into school I was desperate to capture a video like this. Unfortunately the second new train only ran a few days at that time. I'm loving seeing it now!

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So this is a pretty regular thing on the #MBTA Orange Line now 💁‍♂️

(Only 3 new trains running right now, tho)

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@Theophite Our house has something like this in one of the third floor offices and it’s because it’s cantilevered above an oddly shaped bay window front, and underneath the benchy part there’s just... outside.

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@sandypsj .. like people might do with, say, cowboys or other historic occupations that have substantially disappeared many generations ago.

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@sandypsj That's still only enough generations to have people alive or recently dead who worked in them, I think ultimately it would still decline (also depends on how much cross migration into/out of the region). Or still have some level of nostalgia but really view it as history only, ..

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@AirlineFlyer Should have been outlawed in the Airline Passenger’s Bill of Rights

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@mjg59 @sweharris How do you handle delaying some of the signals so it doesn’t get mushy? Or is there enough audio attenuation between each room that it doesn’t matter? I’m most familiar with PA systems where it’s easy to tell how to delay but in a house the listener is moving around...

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@lizthegrey Is this your ARM workstation? I’ve been thinking of getting one and I’d definitely want to use the 10 gE if I did.

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@WelcomeToDot just a year ago I would have thought committing insurrection with a *masked* mob would be the worse thing.

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@DaveDiCello Really neat shot and I always appreciate when you share the technical details Dave!

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@Sorcyress Topologically that armor protects from what... like people underneath attacking upwards from below? It's on the bottom! I don't understand. It's like the skid plates they put on the bottom of off road trucks to protect the oil pan.

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@CAR123411 @KDKA Did you read the article before tweeting? 🤔