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Cake day: July 21st, 2024

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  • I like Trilium because:

    • Docker based so I can access from a web browser on any device

    • Has both WYSIWYG and Markdown note-taking formats

    • Can display math symbols in WYSIWYG, essential for anybody studying STEM

    • Has a mind graph view to see linked notes in knowledge clusters

    • Storage system is intuitive as every note is both a folder and a note, allowing for extremely modular storage

    Helix could be cool, but it’s going to take a lot for me to transition off of Trilium now.









  • China are experimenting with what’s know as “market socialism”.

    Socialism doesn’t exclude trade. Any country needs to trade to survive. Market socialism is a loosening of the grip on capital by the state so that individual citizens can be entrepreneurial, inventive, and start businesses of their own.

    The difference compared to capitalism is that with market socialism, businesses that do amazingly well and which become massive corporations like Tencent eventually get nationalized and folded into public ownership. Profits from those corporations get distributed throughout the nation rather than hoarded by the top 0.1%.






  • The foundations used to support both pictures are the same: W6x9 or W6x10.4 W-beams.

    Carports are more expensive, though, because those foundations need to be just as long as the ground-mount ones + 14’ to support the panels above parking spaces. And often, ground-mounts can use alternative foundations like helical piles or ground screws which don’t need to be embedded as deep as W-beams. This shaves down foundation costs.

    Then, you have to consider the steel trusses needed to distribute complex carports loads, which are simplified or non-existent with ground-mounts.

    Then, you often have concrete encasements around carport foundations to protect the foundations from vehicles collisions.

    All of this contributes to carport solar PV being the MOST expensive out of any alternative.

    And if anyone is curious, for Commercial & Industrial (C&I) solar in urban/suburban contexts, cost effective PV usually goes roof-mount < ground-mount < canopy-mount. For utility/DG-scale, ground-mount is king.