When I had a solar-charged EV, taking transit to SF only made sense if I was going by myself and didn't need to do any transfers. Any additional people or modes and it was always better to drive.

I've found this to be the case nearly everywhere I've travelled, regardless of the kind of vehicle.

The only exceptions are the places with free public transit and expensive parking, like Luxembourg.

And this exact method is how we got minimum lot sizes, setbacks, FAR, and a burgeoning affordability and homelessness crisis. It's a blank check.

Yes, the ability to litigate is key. Only a few can afford it.

Ultimately the California Legislature and the CPUC (and therefore the governor who appoints them) are at-fault for rates. PG&E is a regulated monopoly, and in-theory the regulators are supposed to drive value for ratepayers. But our regulators simply do not care and do not perform. The legislature has larded a bunch of redistribution onto rates, and burdened the regulator with a bunch of conflicting goals.

The regulator has no accountability to anyone and just rubber-stamps everything the utilities put in front of them, allowing them to skimp on opex (maintenance) in order to turn everything into capex with cost-plus guaranteed profit. This incentivizes making everything as expensive and as brittle as possible.

Either we need to restructure the market to be more competitive, or we need to restructure the regulations and the regulator to be more performant and responsive to ratepayers. We're suffering a ruinous misalignment of incentives and the best the legislature can think of to fix it is to make it cheaper for the IOUs to borrow money.

The regulators also fail to force proper long term maintenance.

IMO the issue is the board is appointed, and it’s just full of political allies.

We should fill boards like this with experts. For example, make a majority of the board be tenured professors of engineering and finance from the university of California with no financial connections to the industry.

I built around this thing, which I run at 10% throttle and which consumes 6 watts at that level:

https://terra-bloom.com/products/terrabloom-10-inline-duct-f...

I want a self hosted proxy for podcasts that strips the ads and compresses the audio stream harder before my phone downloads it.

Same problem for me on Firefox.

Same. But disable JavaScript and you can see it.

JS code like that should be made illegal lol

There are a ton of them in Sunnyvale, so I expect that area to flip to public availability soon.

That's a weird and crappy arbitrary limitation when I could move an arbitrary amount of data between the two devices otherwise. It's the worst part of Signal.

On top of that you don't have that limitation on Android. It's like enterprise IT, where you put up restrictions everywhere on files and then people can upload files to their personal one drive.

It also does not work on Windows clients but errors out. Android and Linux are fine.

It does for me, sure why it errors out for you

It's not 2010 anymore. They will asymptotically reach approximately twice the price of a camera, since they need both a transmit and receive optical path. Right now the cheapest of the good LiDARs are around 3-4x that. So we're getting close, and we're already within the realm large-scale commercial viability.

Yeah all of that is a huge pain and fantastic to avoid.