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So Punk ihr auch seid, bitte lasst eure PV Anlage trotzdem ins Marktstammdatenregister eintragen! Um die Sicherheit des gesamten Stromnetzes zu garantieren müssen Netzbetreiber nämlich wissen, mit wie viel Einspeisung sie rechnen müssen 🥹

Would it be tacky to do this with an alligator or a caiman? Crocodiles are kind of hard to come by

How does that even happen? Don’t packages above a certain value require a signature?

godspeed

I’m not very knowledgeable on Inverters, they don’t come up much in the legal material I juggle around at work lol

Balcony Units have them built in as far as I know. The only big regulation when it comes to wiring is that anyone who has solar needs their Electricity Counter replaced with a bidirectional “Smart Meter”, because classical Counters can’t really count down when you feed into the Grid. I’m guessing that the Smart Meters themselves would have some sort of safety mechanism to prevent wildly miswired connections.

I think there was some sort of requirement to at least have an electrician check the solar setup before it gets connected too, but German law in most parts is “If you decide not to hire a licensed professional, then anything that happens is your own fault”.

Solar panels that cannot be connected to the grid don’t have to be declared, but it is based on ability, not intention. So a solar panel so far away from civilization that you physically couldn’t connect it is fine, but if it’s at your house and you could connect it, then you have to register it. (Registration is a 5min online form though, it’s very hassle-free for a system that the German Government came up with lol)

Yup, the reason is that undocumented solar panels plugged into the Grid could cause seriously dangerous power spikes and throw off calculations on how much Suppliers need to feed into the Grid. So the only panels that don’t have to be declared and registered with MaStR are ones on top of cars and ones that are so remote that you couldn’t plug them in in any case (but Germany has basically no places remote enough to meet that criteria)

Yess, the new regulations are awesome! Especially the recent simplification of the MaStR (Marktstammdatenregister) System has made everything easier for anyone involved.
But… just a heads up, if you don’t register your balcony panel, we can and do find you using satellite pictures 🔫🙂

Golden rice was the same thing, wasn’t it?

Designed for third world countries with actual issues of underconsumption of Beta-Carotine, it got regulated away by first world countries who went “ew icky GMO”

Not exactly all instances, but all instances federated with and cached by your home instance. (Sometimes it doesn’t sync quite right)

I find AI summaries so damn tedious to read, they just keep repeating themselves over and over again :(

That is so cool!! Thanks, it’s exactly the kind of fun fact answer I needed :D

I’m not a writer, and I only read Fantasy at the time so I’ve never encountered a Jewish Chinese character. What would be the right answer to this?

I mean realistically, it could be any combination of first and last names, depending on whatever the deal with the person’s parents’ heritage is (or whether they would even name their kid in a way that displays that).

But in fiction, you’d probably want a name that is memorable and quickly associates with the characters most important roles/traits. And thinking that a characters most important characteristic would be their race is kinda yikes

Related book recommendation!!

Kil’n People by David Brin - it’s a futuristic Murder Mystery Novel about a society where people copy their consciousnesses to temporary clay clones to do mundane tasks for them. Got some really interesting discussions about what constitutes personhood!

My homeoffice setup is right next to a window, so it’s too bright for dark mode during the summer. So I work in light mode from about April-September and in dark mode for the rest of the year

JS is absolute chaos programming and I love that way too much. You can just feel all the caffeine ingested by the guy who had to pull long nights to ship JS within 10 days. That’s exactly the vibe I’m going for with my code.

You’re right! That’s actually a really cool point about Generator functions too, them having while(true) loops is very unproblematic :D

I’m correcting myself to:

function* sorry() { while(true){ yield "I'm sorry"; } }

I’ll do you one better

function* sorry() { yield "I'm sorry"; }

Call sorry.next().value as many times as you need to baby, hell you can even use it in a for-of loop because Generator functions are Iterable. I fucking love JavaScript

we sure do lol

You sure have a creative way of reading. No, I mean the power grid, the literal cables in the ground that distribute power. There is no alternative option to using them, thus they are a natural monopoly. The fact that non-government entities own them (at least here in Germany, maybe the rest of the world is better) is a problem, because they are not subject to market forces or market competition and are thus incompatible with free market principles.

What you have in mind is the energy market, which is a more or less fictional entity that is overlaid over the energy grid to emulate a free market on top of it. Although energy producers are free to “sell” their energy on the energy market, they are not allowed to “insider trade” by directly selling to anyone. They are also either heavily taxed on energy they decide to use themselves or fully forbidden from doing so. The reason for that is that such practices would disrupt the market in a way that hurts the actual humans that are the end-cosumers of the energy by raising the prices for no other reason than profiteering.

Energy Providers and Energy Producers are different entities. Energy Providers are the companies who own, maintain and build the Grid, while Energy Producers are the Companies making the energy. Energy Producers don’t invest in research beyond what is directly beneficial to them. (There’s also an intermediate management step called Bilanzkreisverwalter in German, idk what their English name would even be. They direct Energy Producers on a smaller scale.)

So, by “renewable energy startup” you mean something like a solar or wind park? Those businesses are free to sell their energy on the market for a fair and reasonable price. As far as I’ve talked to colleagues who work in such parks, their reality is that they make a reasonable profit and pay fair wages to their employees and contractors. I wouldn’t call them as vast as the resources that Energy Providers have, but they’re perfectly fine for average businesses. To be quite frank, buying some solar panels and putting them in a field isn’t exactly the most complicated or unique business plan. It’s surprisingly good income for how simple it is.