janlin1999

Out of curiosity, why do you ask?

I have used Google Voice for years and generally like it, but an increasing number of businesses are no longer accepting it as a valid phone number to call or text. I haven't started migration away from it yet, though.

Thanks for your response. If the water comes in contact with the exterior of the filters, the plastic casing does seem to undermine the point of the move.

Do you have recommendations for glass water pitcher filter systems?

I think they use the cold water line to return water.

I bought a hot water recirculator. I'm curious how it'll work out, and hope that it won't leak!

The mental health journey of a software developer

Thanks for the link. It is not clear to me if the resource is geared towards cell phone batteries or if it also applies to EV batteries, but I wouldn't be surprised if the trends apply to larger batteries as well.

Having said that, this resource does not seem to support the magnitude of the numbers in LeifCarrotson's comment that I was replying to. First, I did not see a relationship between voltage and Depth of Discharge (seems unlikely to be linear, especially given table 4), which is what the page seems to mostly talk about. Second, comparing 4.2V to 4.0V in table 4 suggests a 4x difference in the number of cycles, not a ~10x difference. Figure 6 also seems relevant and suggests maybe a 2x difference.

> If you charge and discharge a lithium ion cell from 4.2V to 2.75V, you might get 250 full cycles. If you stop charging at 4V and call that 100%, and stop discharging at 3.2V, you might get 2000 cycles before capacity is reduced.

Is there literally an almost 10x difference in the number of full cycles? Where can I read more about this?

If you will have less than $250,000 in the account for the foreseeable future or don't mind splitting your money, you have a lot more options. We chose FirstIB for their free outgoing ACH. At the time, they also offered higher interest rates than the larger banks.

That would essentially be the government giving money away, since those bills are worth less than face value if sold now.

If that is done, you can imagine many others wanting access to the same deal.