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In many cases, they’re just going to build behind-the-meter generation and batteries, instead of funding grid upgrades

Hmm…the fact that Waymo pulled all freeway driving because of safety concerns suggests there may be something serious that’s not being detailed to the public. I remember looking up AV incidents that had been reported to the DMV a couple of years ago, and they were much higher than we’ve been told

Aside from fuel costs, my car requires fully synthetic oil, and I’m now up to $430/year in routine scheduled service that I wouldn’t have on an EV

The Democratic presidential debates need to have spring loaded traps underneath each candidate and any time one of them says "we need to move on" or "I'm focused on the future, not the past" they should be immediately launched through the roof of the auditorium.

One really difficult task would be how Wikipedia shows locations on maps. It’s my understanding that I t programmatically draws the red dot on top of a pre-rendered map image. CSS and/or SVG could do it, but it definitely adds complexity

Efficiency and scalability are actually good things that we should care about. We live in a world finite resources, so just throwing increasingly more hardware at problems is an unsustainable approach

Yeah, your experience definitely doesn’t follow the norm for LED bulbs

I also use my bulbs that much. What you’ve experienced is not normal. I’d suggest measuring the voltage at one of your wall outlets. I used to live across the street from an electric substation. My desktop computer’s motherboard failed within a year of moving there, and I measured 127v at the outlet

I bought a set of 3 Philips Hue bulbs in 2015, and they’re still working fantastically. In January/February, 2022, I swapped out all of the other bulbs in my apartment with Hue bulbs. That’s now 20 hue bulbs ranging from 4.5 to 11 years old, and I’ve never had to replace a single one

I built one that is basically at beta-test stage. The problem is that even when sitting completely idle with no active users, the infrastructure costs several hundred dollars per month. I don’t know how I’d scale it without external funding

I would like automatic route planning, but range is more important to me. If I can do a 6 hour drive without charging, I don’t need route planning. I leased a car once, and hated the experience. I much prefer owning. I’ve had my current car for ~5 years, and probably won’t replace it until I need to

@hankgreen.bsky.social I’m watching your video from yesterday on The Jevons Paradox. “We all know algorithms can get more efficient” well yes and no. Having studied Analysis of Algorithms in college, there is a limit. But more importantly, that’s just not how AI is built. Happy to talk about it.

I suspect this won’t have as much impact as most people think it will, because of the economics of building here. There’s currently ~60k units of approved housing in the pipeline for SF that aren’t getting built either because the developers can’t get financing, or the costs aren’t penciling out

Happy Pride month! Bernstein, Copland, and Stravinsky were all queer.

Someone fed the film, “All About Lily Chou-Chou” into the training data

I didn't recognize this as the problem for a while, because some cables worked and others didn't. Having previously worked in the field of hardware repairs, I found the best tool for the job is the Wiha 26008 slotted screwdriver. It's tiny, well-made, and very effective.

“If war crimes were committed” the evidence is in broad daylight, and has been broadly called-out. They were committed. Even Trump’s social media posts threatening attacks on civilian infrastructure are war crimes. It’s time to stop pretending there’s an “if.”

That’s such a weird premise. For most people in the US, we went from having never heard of the internet, to everybody having the internet in their house, in about a 4 year period in the mid-‘90s. That was a much bigger shift than generative AI

“Let’s kidnap a bunch of women and force them to marry us: The Musical!”