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Start by banning disposable vapes. The sheer waste of lithium from those fucking devices is insane in 2026. We need every scrap of it we can get!

Compare to Santa Clara, which has their own well run utility, and charges less than half PG&E rates.

This. Lived in Santa Clara. SVP is the best utility in California.

We don't need a VAT. Taxes on consumption are insanely regressive.

Put a tax on the value of land instead of the property improvements. Then you'll start to see some wealth flow away from the UHNWIs.

Yep. Take every seat, make it 15 seats. Ideally we’d have ranked choice and STV. Something like how Australia has a quota system for Senators being elected. People who achieve 1/16th of the votes get a seat, distribute preferences, repeat until all seats are full.

The problem is that open codecs can still be encumbered by patents and the holders will sue. VP9 and AV1 have their own patent pool for that very reason. Google may have open sourced its codecs but if they don’t indemnify users people who think they’re safe might be in for a bad time.

The electorate does give control but they get bored after a few years and want to wreck everything all over again. It's goldfish levels of political memory in this country.

Getting pristine resampling is insanely expensive and not worth it.

If you have a mixer at 48KHz you'll get minor quantization noise but if it's compressed already it's not going to do any more damage than compression already has.

And we learned zero from the change after shutting down the Purdues. The electorate just wants to see drug users punished, not treated. Even though treating cheaper, more humane, and has way better outcomes.

Given that xAI only has a few billion in cash on hand? Very fucking low. It'd bankrupt Elon before reaching that stage though.

It's a wonderful day on the Internet. A beautiful day for a CVSS 10 exploit!

Fuck him and people like him. There's no good reason to have a 70 hour work week other than insecure management needing it as a security blanket like some nine year old child. Researchers keep showing how human beings have a maximum productive time each week but instead he and his ilk want to go against this research for the sheer optics of it.

Errors work just like exceptions especially if you use the ? operator and let the error bubble up the chain. This is the Rust equivalent of an unhandled exception and the ripcord being pulled.

Probably because our desire to help and not let down a person we care about gives us courage. That courage serves as motivation to go outside our comfort zone.

The mod injects only in the process Winlogon.exe, and exits once the handle of the memory area is closed. It does not hook any functions.

Yep. Sure. Going to let a Russian utility fuck with winlogon.exe. Excellent idea.

^ This. I'm waiting for an LLM where I can just point it to a repo, slurp it up, and let me ask questions about it.

Normally this would be handled by a wider synchronized network. The EU has a continent wide synchronized network and the UK isn’t part of it.

There are also other ways to store energy. For polar regions sand batteries are capable of storing heat for months. High grade heat to the point they can siphon off that heat for power generation.

But you cannot use this anywhere where the ultrasound would be blocked by other organs.

Yes you can. If you had an array of ultrasonic transducers around the body you could have each of them in phase targeting a single spot. Beamforming is a thing we've been doing for years with RF. It's even more trivial with sound.

GPUs are literal SIMD devices. Usually 32 or 64 ALU lanes.

Need to go Apple style where the AES engine is on die. Only the AES engine and the Secure Enclave know the decryption keys. The CPU doesn't know the decryption key. Nothing is sent in clear text over the bus.

For me it's because I learned Ada in college.

18 year old me couldn't appreciate how beautiful a language it is but in my 40s I finally do.

The ability to make number types that were limited in their range is really useful for certain classes of bugs.

Yes! I would kill to get Ada's number range feature in Rust!

What could possibly go wrong? /s

Because the A18 had its L2 and LLC caches slashed in half. Frequency and uarch improvements don’t matter if you can’t keep the ports fed.

It's a double edged sword. The problem is that there's a lot of bad actors out there. You know why Apple doesn't let companies get access to the raw camera data on the Vision? Because Meta is salivating at getting inside people's homes and being able to get even more data.

Some of us are able to navigate the minefield through a lot of hard won experience acquired over years if not decades. I lived through the J2ME era with compromised JARs, premium rate scams, carriers monopolizing things, and all the bullshit that came along with it. The App Store, for all its MANY faults basically solved all that for normal people in one fell swoop.

A lot of people aren't going to realize what they might be giving up until it's too late. Apple is at least trying to mitigate this by keeping as much processing as possible on device and trying to secure those devices as best they can. For a lot of people who aren't technically inclined this is a godsend. DMA somewhat counteracts that because it forces Apple to give up some of the control that is keeping these bad actors at bay.

They can do it with 3D NAND because the electrons are injected into the charge storage medium through brute force. The problem is that the capacitance scales with area. We're reducing the node size but now the aspect ratios are insane and the trenches for the storage wells are >3um high. That's over 1,000 times thicker per layer compared to NAND.

Just about all of them.

nearby (40 Mpc)

Perspective is always so interesting. I’ve never thought of anything 130 million light years to be nearby but on a universe spanning scale it kind of is.

I have a Finnish Lapphund dog and from the right angle AI thinks it's a cat.

That too. Coal piles froze. Cooling pumps froze. Water vapor in the natural gas production pipelines froze because it's all fracked.

But if they were connected to the East and West interconnections they probably could have rode it out.

I say all of this as someone with a 14kW system on his roof:

The problem with supplying power back to the grid with solar is that it's utterly random in terms of supply and output. The only thing you can count on is that the frequency is rock solid. In aggregate it's (mostly) fine but the system operator still has to build out stuff behind the scenes and also manage the cacophony that this chaotic mess creates.

If every rooftop PV is putting out more than an area needs during the day the wholesale price of power can swing negative. This is how virtual power plants make their money. It's almost impossible to disconnect all those PV panels automatically. Plus you still need a grid forming base load generator on the grid because all those PV panels are grid following. Plus that grid forming generator needs to have enough a big enough inertial mass to keep frequency consistent during transient supply and load spikes. It's a nightmare for systems operators.

If you want to not pay the utility disconnect from the grid and do your own storage and load management. It's going to cost a lot more than a monthly utility bill for 0KWh. If you want to use the grid as a backup during long stretches of overcast or winter then you have to pay the bill.

That being said, monopolies on poles and wires are abhorrent. Even regulated you're putting a drag on the economy just to enrich a middleman. Generation? Go ahead and give it to the market. Retail? Give that to the market. Transmission lines? Arbitrage is A-OK in my book. But government should own the poles and wires of the consumer distribution network where there's a monopoly.