For an example one can look at California. Batteries deleted the duck curve.

I ran into him and the group of obsessed hangers on in 1997-8 or so. He was a nutjob then.

One thing I've become obsessed with is people trying to solve problems in the wrong domain.

I think these sorts of things are because people try to allocate resources according to the 'moral domain' instead of basic need.

Have read that in the 19th century there was constant attempts to means test welfare based on who was deserving. And it was basically full of fail and you'd spend more on enforcement than just paying out by need. You were paying able bodied people to go around and try and determine if the recipients were deserving.

It's one of the reasons everyone gets social security. You were a happy go lucky spendthrift and are now old and broke, here's your money. You were thrifty, wise and lucky enough you'll never need it, here's your money.

The issue of cliff is real and present for low income people. The loss or reduction of benefits takes a big bite out of marginal increases in income. Also the sudden loss for instance when someone goes back to work isn't great when usually they financially stressed and the new job comes with increased expenses.

On topic personally as a childless when I hear someone bitch about paying for someone else's kids I think yeah who's going to change my bedpan when I'm old, you? I doubt it.

There is the C.A. Thayer which is a restored lumber ship.

https://www.nps.gov/safr/learn/historyculture/c-a-thayer.htm

The ship they found "measures about 92 feet long, 30 feet wide and 20 feet tall. Experts estimate its cargo capacity was 300 tons"

The C.A. Thayer is 219 feet long, 36 feet wide and carried 453 tons.

Random off hand thought is the big difference between these two is the Thayer was longer. A problem I've read with long wooden ships is the flexing can open the seams between the planks to open up requiring the crew to bail water.

  Off Orford Ness she sprang a leak
  Hear her poor old timbers creak
  Pump you blighters, pump or drown

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFgAeXA0dJM

The deranged thing about RS485 and modbus is it's old cheap and just works.

Telling to me was Scott Adams couldn't get laid in San Francisco in the 1980's.

Hard not to conclude women found him repellent.

Something I've seen noises about is time of flight systems for traffic. I think the idea is you can put those systems on traffic lights, cars, bicycles, and pedestrians and then cars can know where those things are.

You can't do that though. Someone will not wear it - and they shouldn't have to.

Or instead of reinventing the world you could just use cameras

Having BART more frequent running with more stops running next to Caltrain faster with less stops would be interesting.

I've wondered about running BART from Fremont to East Palo Alto and Redwood City via Dumbarton. Not sure what the ridership would be though. I looked at the Dumbarton bridge traffic and it's the least of the three bridges and pales in comparison to the bay bridge.

Still if you built that the gap between Millbrae and Redwood city is 12 miles.