I'm going off the article summary:

> The batteries charge in the afternoon when solar power is cheap and release energy in the evenings when Californians get home and crank up their air conditioners.

I pickup from this text that people are waiting to turn on their AC until they get home, after the batteries stopped charging. That seems backwards.

No timer at all or just that you can access?

It will take a couple hours to bring the temp down. Do that during the afternoon while the solar is working at its peak, then by the time the solar loses efficacy, the temp is down and can be kept down using a battery. There's no reason to wait until early evening to start, when the whole process would have to be off a battery.

I pre-cool my apartment to 65 until 10AM or so, when energy is cheap, then let it slowly rise until the evening. It's comfortable almost the entire day and saves me from peak pricing during the afternoon. In other words, this isn't a fantacy I cooked up, I've been doing this for years and it works well.

The article implies the AC is off during the day, when there's sun, and then people turn it on when they get home, after the sun has started setting. The article also implies these batteries are part of the public service. If they have surplus during the day to charge batteries, they should instead use at least part of that surplus to run AC systems to bring the temp down ahead of when people need it, and avoid the inefficiency of converting to chemical then back to electrical.

Residence should turn their AC on in the afternoon, powered by solar, and skip the trip through the battery and all the inefficiency that brings.

I wonder how this will tie into ATT famiy plans.

So many comparisons with other technologies but not consistent units to use? At least stay consistent with the SI prefix

The benefits of this filter will last only as long as it will take for all the spam apps to incorporate useless widgets into their apps.

Why would they only measure the performance of people working from home?

Don't forget the energy and capital investments involved with the AI options. Those responses cost a thousand times as much as stack overflow queries. If and when the AI bubble bursts and the true cost is charged to the user instead of the venture capitalists, usage may change.

And 4k at 240 or higher without DSC.

Hopefully 8k at 60 without DSC and 8k at 120hz or higher in some fashion. The monitors may not exist now or might be hard to find, but that is likely a chicken and egg problem with sources for such content and interconnects between the two.

That's a weird way to say "I underinvested in IT and security."

This seems risky to disclose considering the nature of sqlite being embedded and how many things that use SQL don't use a shared library or get updated often, if ever.

They have already done all of this once before: to install the machine