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You can get good batteries for a lot cheaper than a power wall. Just like when the Tesla family of companies tried to do home solar - big premium for the name.

30 kWh per day, while a clunky unit, is what most people would understand when talking about home consumption. It’ll be what their utility typically reports, how you’d want to size a battery, etc.

It’s not better for the country if congress signs off on it either, though. 8+ trillion under Biden is a disaster. 7+ trillion under Trump’s first term is a disaster. Obama’s combined 9 trillion is a disaster.

$119 or $139, not $200. It's also free via RMA if it was genuinely an accidental discharge. I've not had to replace one myself, but there's a YouTube short showing the replacement in what looks like 10 minutes, rather than a whole day - I've definitely spent more time shopvacing my floor after a project.

It's really not a problem because it's a reasonable safety feature, and I don't see any regulations that specify "SawStop". Harvey and Altendorf are making similar mechanisms, for instance.

Are you saying the government won't let you use a regular saw as a hobbyist, at a workplace, or with your employees? Those are 3 very different situations in my view.

That damn government can’t tell me not to cut my fingers off. I’ll show them!

There is no chance we will see lower government spending. Neither party is anywhere close in policy to what needs to be done to correct our spending problem.

The article says "A real fix depends on Nvidia, specifically on porting the platform controller’s power management logic into its Linux driver, which would effectively turn the laptop into a portable version of the DGX Spark."

My point is that's not Nvidia's responsibility. The article itself admits the laptop "ships with Windows on ARM", so support for another OS shouldn't be expected, even if NVIDIA supports other platforms and other product lines differently.

"In the context of child education, it doesn't matter at all if it will "materially shape how people work in 10 years"." is fundamentally wrong.

It absolutely matters. That's the entire justification for why society spends what it does on education: to enable individuals to contribute to society when they grow up.

K-12 education is not supposed to be a liberal arts education in the classics. It's already drifted too far away from imparting useful life and employment skills.

Do they also need to support MacOS, Chrome OS, and FreeBSD? They made these laptops to work with Windows. It’s not on them to ensure compatibility with anything more than they were marketed for.

It’s not the OEMs job to ensure compatibility with every OS. They shouldn’t have to ensure it works well with Windows XP, for example.

How useful is a set of encyclopedias from 1930? How useful is a set of encyclopedias from 1989 to answer a question about Russia today? How useful is a front end UI textbook from 2005, today?

You can choose to lock in a choice now: download a list of the top 10,000 websites or grab a local LLM. But realize that you will have to pay again as it ages out of relevance, or be left with a worthless out of date tool. The reality is you have to pay, forever (ooh, scary) for services. That’s what you’re renting: knowledge as a service. Whether it’s an LLM, continued program updates, or just an up-to-date encyclopedia.

A big part of education should involve preparing students to operate in future jobs and with the world. You absolutely need to know how to search the internet, discriminate between reputable and poor-quality sources, and arguably to use AI.

The purpose of education shouldn’t be to give an appreciation of Shakespeare for Shakespeare’s sake - it should be to speak and write the common language of the country, understand math, and prepare for their role in the real world. That role will involve the internet: only the Amish can really get away with someone else running their web presence.

If that’s the claimed concern, why do the students have any internet access then? Unsavory information is only a single google search and click away - while that doesn’t have the “satanic panic” aspect of LLMs, it’s the exact same information.

How do you not recognize that it’s a new tool that will materially shape how people work 10 years from now? For most office workers, I guarantee they will interact with it more often than a calculator.

Consider a CS student applying for a programming job but saying “nope, I absolutely won’t use any AI to code” - do you think they’ll be a competitive candidate at most companies? It’ll be like an Excel-sceptic financial analyst: you can do it by hand, but you won’t be able to compete.

They need search (not necessarily Google) for accessing essentially any resource on the internet. How many URLs do you know by memory? How many URLs do would you learn just by seeing a link from another site?

What’s the point of that? We don’t make students write their own dictionary or build their own calculator as a prerequisite for using those tools. To your point about Excel and Word, most students from 10/20 years ago don’t know what Lotus is or how to execute commands in the terminal, but are still able to use computers effectively in their lives. There’s a multitude of search engines and LLM providers available - if schools don’t like what Google is doing, they are free to swap.

It’s so funny how schools are consistently 20 years behind on things.

When I was in school, you were restricted from citing sources on the internet (regardless of reputation/quality) and had to look it up in a book instead. Now, apparently, you can’t make school work without searches, but don’t think about using AI.

There's a dozen alternative sports they can play with far lower injury rates.

Encouraging them to get a drivers license is fine (run cross-country), but getting them a driver's license and buying your 16-year old a sports car with bald tires and no seatbelts (football) is negligent.

Not sure what source that is, but that seems way too high to be non-athletes.

Still doesn’t mean you can’t look at those people as foolish, no different than if they handed a cigarette to their teen or let their kid get obese.

Is there any reason to believe that if this computer wasn’t used by an anthropic employee that it would be sold at retail price? That would imply that Anthropic’s computer is 100% utilized at all times, with no slack - something highly unlikely.

While I'm not a lawyer and this isn't legal advice, Florida's law seems to cover any electronic communication of threats like they made. Telling Siri off is quite different from what they did.

Antennas and the peltier/seebeck/TEC should also count.

That’s not really an LLM thing though - if she made the same comment on a Facebook post, she’d face the same consequences.

Solar panels

Enterprise GPUs have a lot longer effective life than these consumer chips (although even the old 3090s are reasonably useful, especially with the recent driver unlock tech). I'd argue that these consumer chips have only now gotten to the memory capacity/processing capacity to make local LLM use actually reasonable.

Eh, I think international production was already a thing for quite a while. I remember so many shows shot in Vancouver, for instance, even pre Netflix. But like every industry, remote work has gotten easier and the forcing-function of COVID showed that you can have some writers in Toronto, a crew in the Czech Republic, and post-production in India - you didn't need them all in LA on union contracts and payscales.

"It worked" for those in the union, for a bit, but the article itself shows 30% declines since 2022. If you're still working under the new, even-more-lavish contracts, I'm sure you're happy. If you're in that 30% now working as a barista or DoorDash driver, did the union work for you?

It's akin to the auto worker's unions, but without the same degree of government backstopping for the industry. The auto workers unions are an anchor around the necks of the auto industry, while government bailout dollars are a lifejacket - it's clear California (and more broadly the US) doesn't see the same need to subsidize the unions in TV and film.

Not keep adding to the taxes, expenses, and red tape? Work to address the outrageous cost of living in CA that indirectly drives expenses for labor? It's a million and one policies that all contribute to how running a labor heavy business in CA is increasingly challenging (bearing in mind that those factors matter less to a software shop or Apple).

As I mentioned elsewhere in the thread, CA's labor-pool's own hostility to the film industry (via strikes) also played a big role. They gave the studios the finger, then are surprised that the studios took their ball and went elsewhere.

Because very often the "peaceful protest" provides cover to rioting/looting/property destruction, and it's a lot easier to say/enforce no assembling on the street at 11pm on a Friday as part of a curfew, than to leave a carveout for assembling on that street for a "peaceful protest".