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there’s an interesting side to this that better cell coverage, starlink, and others have made burning man more phone friendly. purists will say don’t bring a phone. or the event only works because no one has phones that work

but the event isn’t possible to run without internet. DPW has wifi at every station. internet has become a core planning and organization tool

how do you own a herd

i’m ok with this and an $80 battery replacement in exchange for better waterproofing

even SF to LA would have trouble with a high speed rail because the price would likely be the same as a flight

mount signal, the largest PV plant in california makes 1,200GW/hrs per year. it would still take ~15 copies of mount signal for a single diablo canyon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Signal_Solar

my whole point is solar is great, but the insane scale it requires to get reasonable output is really underestimated. you would need solar fields 100sqmi big. probably many of them. solar alone won’t be the future of humanities energy needs because it’s not efficient enough. we should still keep building solar. but if we aren’t building nuclear too its not enough growth

diablo canyon has 2 reactors that can make 1.1MW per hour continuously. about 2.2MW/hr they both aren’t always on but that’s the goal. It’s closer to 2MW/hr actual

the largest solar plant in california is Ivanpah. It made 85GW/year. Thats 97MW/hr.

It would take 20 clones of Ivanpah to match one diablo canyon. Ivanpah took 4 years to build, cost 2.5B and was in discussions to close because it’s not cost effective.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivanpah_Solar_Power_Facility

we already have premium tsa pre with clear

we already have this with TSA Pre

as a sora user:

- sora was not great at making what you asked

- i probably got 3 good videos out of 100 gens

- every video that was good needed editing outside of sora (and therefore could not be shared within sora)

just my experience

there’s a huge component to gamers that they are emotional and resistant to change. gamers hated steam when it came out. and now the backlash against epic store is huge. they haven’t done a good job fixing the perception of epic store the way steam did

same lancet that tried to bury covid lab leak theories in february 2020

this kind of deal timeline management happens at all companies. this is why contracts get structured in complicated pricing structures to make it easier for revenue recognition to occur in the quarter it’s supposed to. the timeline can move from 3 months to 6 it’s still going to be a huge focus area for a lot of people at every company

this is the “types make me slow” argument that everyone self debunks after they program that way for a handful of years

no one wants to believe this but there will be a point soon when an ai code review meets your compliance requirements to go to production. is that 2026? no. but it will come

> Greenpeace maintains it only had six employees visit the protest camps, and that all worked for Greenpeace USA, not Greenpeace Fund or Greenpeace International.

> The jury found Greenpeace USA liable for almost all claims.

how does this happen? did greenepeace just run a bad trial? or lose all public trust?

in a way, the death of genuine reviews online may be a great way to bring it back to real life at a more realistic scale

“everyone” could be one person. these internet reported movements rarely have meaningful impact

this article claims humans will review code. there will be a date where the ai code review will meet your SOC compliance policies for change management

this is like a tiktok rage bait way of thinking. western nations have largely peaked on carbon emissions. china is slowing down and will peak soon. there are a lot of countries that still are growing in emissions, sure, but you are not looking at this scientifically.

it’s a standard feature on all models for many brands today

* “all your money lives on the internet and it’s safe”

* “internet voting is insecure”

who wins?

dams have trade offs that they stop sediment outflows which can cause faster erosion. this is a big reason many california beaches have gone from mostly sandy to mostly rocky

strange because this is one of the warmest winters in decades. snow levels are far below normal, i saw 8% of normal in truckee. full reservoirs now are great but keeping them filled depends on a long snow melt going into june. i don’t think this is going to be a good year for that

there are still people today who roam neighborhoods collecting bottles and cans

ai ethics was/is useless. it felt a lot like the movie industry of the 1930s saying they will police themselves just to keep any bigger regulator away

or maybe we can let people think for themselves

bob page did nothing wrong, he just wanted to be a god like everyone else

it’s more than that. it’s any device that can present itself as a possible base station. this is how trumps lawyer was caught in a place he claimed to not be: https://www.reuters.com/article/world/special-counsel-has-ev...

this also helped confirm the identity of the 2022 killer in idaho https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_University_of_Idaho_murde...

the biggest things to change java have been type inference, lambdas, records, streams (functional ops on collections), and pattern matching. these are all must-have features for any modern programming language. at this point any language without these features will feel old and legacy. it’s impressive java was able to add them all on decades after release, but you do feel it sometimes

we are going to become very good at this. eliminating genetic errors, choosing to be straight, tall, etc