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this seems like it makes sense. how do you keep the dispensed water from being too hot? is there such a mechanism?

I think you had me until you mentioned long term storage. How do you store significant amounts of energy across seasons? I'm just not aware of anything other than pumped hydro power that has anywhere near the cap as capacity to do such a thing.

related tangent: install costs of batteries and solar in California are insane. I recently had battery and solar installed, and labor and permitting were 60% the cost of the system. Systems without either of those markedly bring down the cost.

Yes, I think the key thing here to to not guarantee that pricing like they did in California over decades. Yes, the benefit will eventually be reduced. But that is considered success is it not?

The thing we should be incentivizing people to use here are batteries, in the exact same configuration. We do not in many places, need more solar power generation, but we need devices that slurp down power at 2pm and dump it out in the three hours after sundown. Utilities should be paying anyone who dumps power to the grid at peak post-sundown demand hours, so that it is a no-brainer to install such a thing.

It is comical to think that AI has developed enough to replace the phone. This project is doomed without a protracted legal battle.

Do any of the tools other than Lightroom produce hdr photo formats, like jpeg or avif with hdr gain maps

Yes, anthropic and openai have really been brought to their knees and ipos cancelled because of the legal consequences of obtaining their training data.

What sort of algorithms do you run on SAR images?

classic! Used the same thing to solve for the rigid transform of an April tag for a calibration problem years ago.

what work are you doing in computer vision that isn't entirely ML these days?

This is kind of a bummer. I have a nice co2 meter. another reason to be skeptical of everything.

Thankfully all this stuff has been or is being killed by ebikes and escooters which are vastly better technology.

So is this all bullshit?

The hardware has some open documentation. You don't actually need to read the kernel source to find some of the method documentation or qmd formats. See https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-doc/blob/master/classes/c...

lol, I have 40 megabit upload

Please tell me what your ISP is. I don't even have 300mb upload in the San Francisco Bay area.

wow! that is way cheaper than what I would have expected. thanks china...

You actually can! See libultrahdr and all images that come out of pixel phones.

I think I was more referring to the switches with sfp and the transceivers themselves. I have never tried to get something "low end".

So tell me... how much did you spend? Is fiber doable without insane money.

Cooling doesn't really take more energy than warming, because cooling is warming if you have a heat pump. Are you not just observing here the usage of fossil fuels for heating, which is extremely common?

unfortunately this trolling has caused trump to try to halt all large offshore wind projects in the United States in federal land grants. it's terrible.

If you look at that YouTube channel, Tim hunkin is still making content in 2026!

I clicked on this just because of the name reference to the most glorious show of my childhood, the secret life of machines: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtaR0lZhSyAPLuoSbMA29s3Ry...

hmm, dynamo did not support torchbind last time I looked. when did support for torchbind get added? I need to know what version of torch to upgrade to.

there's 3000 waymos running around.soon there will be 10000. This prediction may really only be five years off. Do you find it unrealistic for there to be 100000 waymo vehicles by 2032?

I looked to see if any of these tools support the hdr gain map export that Lightroom supports, and of course, absolutely none of them do. I can't use these.

uncritically believing this design will succeed, despite having all the signs of Elon interfering and massively shifting requirements, isn't "hard" either

Just because you defeat popular consensus of what is possible in one place doesn't mean you can continue to do it again and again. This stuff is hard.