> It says we're willing to give rich and powerful people a pass just because they make overtures towards something we care about.

Nah, the "pass" only exists because we're not allowed by govt to shoot at billionaires

solar + storage + water sheath fireplace can run pretty much till you run out of wood.

But yes, unless you spend serious money (own sewer, water from underground etc), it's basically solution for "the power pole is down", not any grid wide problems.

> so transformers with their huge requirements for copper and steel are no longer necessary.

smelting some copper and steel and wounding it up is far, far, far, far cheaper than replacing it with power silicon(which might be smaller, but overall needs tons more of energy to produce)

It will be also less reliable. Transformers deal with any overload far better and routinely run for like 50+ years

well aside from being effectively 20 times more expensive over entire operation...

DC switches (as in, just a power switch) are vastly more expensive because while in AC you have 100 breaks in current a second, DC is constant so it is far harder to break. So even if you had device that could use both (not hard with SMPS, they have rectification as first step), it's still essentially " replace everything".

And yet somehow the biggest electric grid in the world is running on them just fine.

That's both wholly different branches than finding software bugs

the crash would mean price of GPUs would go down, not up...

...why capacitor has 3 pins ?

Yeah, I had added it to make it compatible w/ my simulation system, just changed how I was handling the levels altogether, if it still has 3 try doing a hard refresh (Ctrl + Shift + R on windows, cmd + shift + R on macos)

But companies don't care. They don't want compliance for feel goods, they want compliance because their partners require it. They do the minimum amount required to check the box

Caring about security and comparing about some of the arbitrary hoops you have to jump through for some of these compliance regimes don’t always overlap as much as you’d expect.

I’ve been at companies where we cared deeply about security, but certain compliance things felt like gimmicks on the side. We absolutely wanted to to do the minimum required to check that box so we could get back to the real work.

Of course, giving money to terrorists also doesn't make the side giving money responsible /s

The delusions people establish to feel better about their or someone else they like mistakes...