At least here in California, having solar panels on a non south facing roof usually only reduces production by 10-20%, as long as it’s not entirely north facing. Solar systems are often slightly undersized - it’s more cost effective to size it so it handles average load rather than the summer peaks you only see for a few weeks per year - so the actual difference for a given system may be less.

With my system, I see the best output from south-east facing panels since they get the morning sun. West facing panels are also fairly popular here due to time-of-use electricity plans. Some electricity plans have peak pricing from 4 to 9 pm, so people want to try and collect as much sunlight as possible during that period before sunset.

They’re installing ridiculously small systems so that they’re barely compliant.

Who is “we”?

What do you consider small? A lot of people know Cupertino California because Apple are based there, but it’s only got a population of 57k. It’s arguably more recognizable than the closest major city (San Jose), which has a population of nearly 1 million.

850k isn’t really small though.

And then let me guess… Of course the QA testers get the blame, when in reality it’s either management or marketing that wanted to pushe the app out.

I don’t think I know enough to answer that question, sorry!

They use a mixture of Windows and Linux. They do use Linux quite a bit, but they also have a lot of Hyper-V servers.

The GUI is optional these days, and there’s plenty of Windows servers that don’t use it. The recommended administration approach these days is PowerShell remoting, often over SSH now that Windows has a native SSH server bundled (based on OpenSSH).

Linux isn’t a UNIX flavor. It’s UNIX-like.

Microsoft could technically get Windows certified as UNIX.

I don’t think they could now that the POSIX subsystem and Windows Services for UNIX are both gone. Don’t you need at least some level of POSIX compliance (at least the parts where POSIX and Unix standards overlap) to get Unix certified?

Sounds like you did a thorough job as a QA tester. As a software engineer, I love to see it.

I used to make calls through MSN Messenger and it was a much better experience than Skype. Skype always seemed lower quality.

AI makes it different because this is likely dynamically synthesized speech that sounds real. Previous TTS engines wouldn’t have sounded real enough to be believable.

A phone company built this? Based.

Lenny isn’t AI; it’s just a collection of prerecorded messages.

Self-synchronizes to GMT by passively receiving continent-spanning radio time signals.

Why don’t other watches do this?

I have a Galaxy S3 somewhere, which is apparently supported by PostmarketOS. Interesting.

Hart

My wife bought a Hart brand shop vac and it nearly caught on fire the first time we used it. We swapped it for a DeWalt branded one (which are not actually made by DeWalt) and haven’t had any issues.

Open source is good because it means it can be maintained even if the manufacturer shuts down. One of the biggest issues with keeping older tech alive and in a useful state is proprietary firmware.