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TFA never really addresses the question of, "given that 600-700W is about all that's going to fit on top of a car roof, how many days does it take to recharge a 50kWh battery pack?" Because that would also conveniently answer the question in the headline.

(And I'm being generous with the 700W on a car roof. I could squeeze about 450W on the roof of a 26 foot RV.)

Yeah, I read your comment.

IMO NIMB should be illegal, so long as…

And if a frog had wings, it wouldn’t bump its ass when it hops. But there are examples of data centers being approved with minimal public comment, if any. Musk’s data center in Memphis is frequently trotted out, and for good reason. When the “as long as” part takes place, we can discuss the legality of NIMBY.

This is about property rights and freedoms.

Your property rights stop where my ears are. Or I have the freedom to not listen to your gas turbine. Or however one wishes to flip that on its head. Whether you own the property or not, that property isn’t in a vacuum.

Why do you think other people want to hear you practicing songs that you're not good at?

I’m assuming people don’t want to hear me at all. To be clear, I’m just sitting at my campsite, not showing up to the campfire circle with “anyone want to hear poorly-played music?” Though if someone else is sporting a ukulele, well, I think all bets are off at that point.

Reminds me of when I play my mandolin when I’m camping. I’m sure fellow campers think I suck, despite having played for ten years. But I’m not going to play stuff I can play in my sleep, I’m playing stuff that still needs work. So, in consideration of others, once in a while I’ll rip off a fast version of Old Dangerfield or some other song I know really well just in case someone is in earshot.

This again? Yes, it’s in the spec. No, no one has been shown to have actually implemented it. No streaming box is going to allow random devices to use their connection.

It’s those $4.5MM Chevy Tahoes discussed earlier:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48969582

So, one example of a politician losing their job at the end of the article? Not exactly making the case for the headline, considering number of words in the article.

And the issue at hand, of course, is really data centers and not AI.

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

Even behind a pi-hole that whole site is a game of “find the tiny little x”.

BRB, the raspberry pi is sending CPU temp alerts now…

8% body fat, and I can run more in a day than most people do in a week. I’m taking statins. It’s not always as simple as you seem to assume. As others have said, genetics play role, for one.

My question is: why select a name that for most people, if they recognize the name at all, is a band from the 70s-80s? How many people other than old farts like me even know how to properly pronounce the name? (Because they'll think it's pronounced like the band name.)

It's one thing to ride on nostalgia, but how much nostalgia is there for a company whos heyday was 100 years ago, and went out of business (well, merged) 60 years ago? The only nostalgia this old guy has is remembering my grandfather talking about the Speedwagon he had back in the day.

You’re right, but the keyword in my post was “should”. If you have to look up “short selling” in the dictionary (as in OP’s case), naked options aren’t on the menu.

But to sell the calls, you should own the stock first. Puts can be bought w/o owning the stock. Granted, the put buyer pays the premium, so you don’t get guaranteed money in your pocket like you would selling calls.

That kind of international cooperation between the US and other countries is something we just don’t see anymore.

Man, that's nicer than houses in Redmond for the same money (though the SF one is a touch smaller), and you won't get that view. Bay Area house prices are insane, ya say?

I'm the last of the Boomers, and my parents are in their 80s and I was a prom baby (meaning "young parents"). There's no way 17% of Boomers are sponging off Mom and Dad, because the overwhelming odds are: Mom and Dad are dead, and have been for a while now.

OTOH, I guess that doesn't mean someone isn't still cashing that retirement check.

Eastern Canada, perhaps? Because B.C. wildfires have made Washington maps go to "very unhealthy" (AQI 201-300), so I'm sure B.C. was above that.

(I'm not sure what "yellow" means where you're at. It's "healthy" according to https://www.airnow.gov/aqi/aqi-basics/).

I created an Apple shortcut based on what I found here:

https://www.lifdb.com/posts/2024/12/17/how-to-create-an-inte...

It does “x minutes with y seconds recovery”, and for your use case you can set y=0.

Have you considered people can enjoy different things than you?

Things like peace and quiet? Assholes with loud exhausts have made it abundantly clear that our tastes differ, yes.

It’s been true for over twenty years that the majority of IPOs drop below their IPO price and stay there. Maybe your brokerage has some shares before IPO day that they’ll let you buy, but you’re still taking a big risk. Buy shares on the open market? Yeah, you’re the sucker they were looking for.

I’m a cold-dead-hands 13 Mini owner, but even I’ll admit to the temptation of replacing the last device I have that doesn’t use USB-C with something that does.

I vouched for this comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48891223

…as it looks pretty innocuous to me. And more importantly, your other comments aren’t obnoxious. :-) I’d love to know the heuristic that flipped that bit on that one comment.

First time reading The Register, is it? Because I would expect no less from such a pillar of journalism as them.

I don’t need to say it. If spamming didn’t work, people wouldn’t do it.

FWIW, every comment OP has posted has been spamming HN with this for almost a month.

Before. Source: born and raised Midwesterner.

The same “kids across the street” I reference in another comment needed translation from “quarter to eleven” when they’d ask the time. Makes sense given they couldn’t read an analog face at the time.

Ten years ago the kids across the street from us (who were 9-10 at the time) would ask the time, and I’d show them my watch. They’d still ask what time it was because they couldn’t read the analog face on my watch.

The oldest is in college now. Next time I see her, I’ll ask if she ever learned to read an analog face.

No one used 8-track for the quality. It was portable, and it would play continuously (it looped), great for sitting with your honey in a secluded area. And the physical quality of 8-tracks weren’t great. Based on the number of 8-track cartridges I saw on the side of the road while out running, the tape would apparently come loose from the cartridge and render it unusable.

By 1980, 8-tracks were relics being displaced by cassette.