For longer runs, like along all the undercabinet + above cabinet spaces in a large kitchen, I just run the jumpers as 120V and put the transformer/drivers somewhere hidden at the start of each segment, so if I have 3 segments I prefer to have 3 separate drivers all controlled by the same switch.

Have you tried COB strips? They largely get rid of the need for diffusers if the goal is to simply not see dots. Diffusers are still useful if you want to change the "texture" of the light.

I tried to get into FSD but I felt that it made me an obnoxious driver. Chill is too slow and makes unnecessary lane changes. Hurry makes too many unnecessary lane changes while speeding beyond the flow of traffic. When you encounter a "mormon roadblock", e.g two cars going the speed limit on a two lane road, FSD goes into a loop changing lanes back and forth hoping for an overtake that never comes. If you're the type of driver who picks his exit lane early because you know they're prone to jamming and drivers blocking each other later, FSD will still try to get out of the merge lane to pass, ditto for busy intersection queues.

Removing the human driver makes one things SPECIFICALLY worse, and that is the ability to correct navigation errors and override sub-optimal routing. For example: there is one block on my commute where you can take either an uncontrolled left turn, or go up to a light. The difference is one block and the light is usually faster during rush hour because the uncontrolled turn takes forever to get a safe gap. Navigation always chooses the uncontrolled left to the point that you have to disengage. There's other quality of life issues too like wanting to approach your destination from the left or the right because you know the parking situation ahead of time. These can be communicated to a human driver. You can't explain that to Tesla FSD though. It's tapped into the car-machine-god hivemind and can't be bothered with instructions from mere mortals.

But I digress, I think the paid, semi-smart autopilot is their best product. I can set an objective speed limit. It stops at stop signs and red lights automatically. It stays in its lane until I tap the blinker so it changes lane. It can autopark. These things actually augment my driving and reduce cognitive strain while driving, while keeping me just alert enough. FSD is all or nothing while requiring full non-interactive attention like a sentinel.

>The statement was consistent with earlier remarks by South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Hyun, who, after traveling to Washington to negotiate the workers’ release, said that U.S. officials had agreed to allow them to return later to complete their work.

You dont suddenly allow to return someone who was justifiably deported, regardless of what the agent in charge said in the immediate aftermath at a press conference.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/u-s-will-allow-south-kor...

I think more governments around the world are catching on to the idea that your majority population can excuse a large amount of economic mismanagement and bad geopolitical strategy if you blame foreigners who arrived after your decline started.

If a satisfactory amount of foreigners are removed, the technology will still be there and the defense contractors will still need contracts. If there are no viable foreign adversaries at that point, then another domestic target will be needed.

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Model 3 or Y with 70-80KWH capacity battery ~~ $40-50,000

Powerwall price: ~$15,000 for 13.5 kwh storage.

You're paying around double for a fancy case and the UI.

An early 2000s US employee with a valid multi-entry business visa (i.e type M), flying to China on short notice and doing hands on work that goes beyond simple meetings is what is directly comparable to what happened to some Koreans on B1s in Georgia.

If the goal is to encourage more investment in the US for the purposes of developing industry here, then I believe the way this law was enforced was not tactful and dissuades other investments. If allies feel they are forced to do this(and not just wantonly breaking the law just because) then perhaps it's a sign that we're not doing enough to facilitate these investments.

If they come down too hard on Hyundai it doesnt guarantee this factory will go to 100% Americans, there may not even be a factory!

If I were in a Thucidian power struggle and trying to re-shore industry and all the new manufacturing processes developed abroad in the past 40 years I would consider making it easier for allies who want to invest in the US to do the same.

I'm less sympathetic to "the law is the law" because of the historical context of what's happening.

When US companies first started outsourcing their factories to Korea, China, and other countries, they were doing the exact same thing. They were just flying engineers over on business and tourist visas to jump start factories and train the workers. Typically only long term workers bothered getting bona fide employee visas abroad.

Open any Steve Jobs biography. "Jobs told me to fly to China tonight and deal with the problem"

You think he got a Chinese work visa in one day?

This is hubris-driven rule by law. As Americans we can't fathom a foreign company knowing something we don't. The shoe is on the other foot now. Foreign conglomerates have knowledge and processes and expertise that we dont have. There's literally no pragmatic way for Hyundai to get 300 employees here on short notice. They moved fast and broke things. They did what they thought they had to do to survive in a kafkaesque system.

If the US were more self-aware and honest it would expand existing guest worker programs and create new pathways for temp labor to work without obtaining citizenship the way Singapore and Middle Eastern countries do. They seem cruel but at least each side of the equation knows what it's getting and they can even visit home every year! But Americans' hubristic tendency is to look at a place like Singapore or some other new skyline in the middle east or Asia and declare smugly "borderline slaves built that."