Our grid uses the same voltages as Europe. Our houses even generally receive 240V from the line. It’s just that we went with 120V for most appliances and electronics for some reason.
I’d also argue a lot of Americans technically do have electric kettles, and they just don’t realize it because they’re advertised as coffee makers. It’s not ideal, but you can definitely use a drip coffee machine to boil water, and it’ll still be faster than a stove.
Yeah, the Weddell Sea is basically in Antarctica
Queer in the literal/archaic sense
What if I’m both? I know expiration dates aren’t literally when the thing instantly stops being edible, but if the date is from months ago, I know it’s probably not worth it, except for maybe canned/frozen food.
Automatic transmission from 1901 huh
It seems like you’ve been asleep for 15 years if that’s the version of Android your phone is running
I don’t like the Windows 11 button in the Windows 7 dialog.
My brain is entirely unable to estimate the scale of this photo
Your family brought the curse with them
Holding the use of a less restrictive license against the project because some unrelated party could come along and fork it without contributing back seems like a strange position to me.
I’m also not really sure what that criticism of MIT is trying to say. Third party contributors don’t get paid for their work? GPL projects also don’t have to pay people submitting changes.
Whoever wrote that article really couldn’t decide if it’s Guaíra or Guairá
Pizzacake characters or right wingers?
Every time someone complains, another package manager is created
Is cat on gaming PC the new cat on CRT?
OCR of fonts used to be a solved problem, but now we have AI, which can sort of do it sometimes
It’s mostly for commercial installations, but you can get 3-phase 480V here if you want it.
I don’t think this has much to do with the grid, though. It’s more that we started with 120V appliances, so that’s what we built our homes to support.