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The Pi zero is dead to me. Price might be one thing but lack of availability makes it useless. I like running Merves on it but will move to AtomVM and Esp32 where I can.

Your edit made me laugh. I had to delete a sales rep contact I used to deal with but no longer because Siri would call her instead of my wife as they both have the same first name. It was embarrassing and then I thought started to look creepy. But she has a common name and would call the others with the same name. Siri is bent out of shape.

It’s been a long time since I did the work and lost for details. The biggest issue we had was noise reduction when there was an upstream event. Could be a network issue and so meter reads were not expected to come in, so don’t send someone out to check the meter or do deeper analysis. Storm or other related outage, both diagnose and then quiet follow on events with a service ticket to acknowledge. Further we would build the history of events and if a meter or device wasn’t responding without the other broader events then create a service ticket to analyze or to send a technician out. This was all custom rules. Not sure how transferable it is as different utilities will have different ways of viewing and actioning. Interconnected are somewhat different. North America is also very different than say Germany or Brazil which I had a little bit of experience with. Wish I had more details.

I've used rete based CEP tool in the past for utility operations event management. We could tag the rule used to the event or event aggregate, but it was on a single node basis and a basic aggregate. If there was more coverage in understanding it would be a big help to operators. Based on say a set of outage events, can it further understand if it weather event, equipment failure, scheduled maintenance, etc. Linking it to possible operating procedures based on a broader understanding of the state would be very useful.

I think this is where Carney landed. Trust is gone. Further, the US and the world would have a precedence in dealing with Canada. Accepting a bad deal would maintain an illusion that this was good enough and to continue on in this direction. Once Trump is gone the negotiations could restart but at a much less valuable position to Canada.

Canada has had a long term investment and productivity challenge with too much focused on North and South. I suspect that this is now the catalyst for East and West investment.

I think the calculation was that no deal and the natural consequences are not that much worse than the deal on the table short term. And taking into account the future of the above it was going to be worse.

I’m in my fifties and taking a break from work and have now found myself reading Macbeth, Doctor Faustus, along with Gibson’s Sprawl trilogy. My movie watching is now much more auteur and reaching for the unconscious and immaterial experience.

I’ve wonder if I was taught Shakespeare too early, but see it more as an Easter egg or gift waiting for me to catch up. I think more so I was so focused on the rational I was ignoring the other parts though fully immersed in being the other part. Now I see it and appreciate so much have the right lens from early teachings with my experiences. And to your point continuing to learn.

Cool to see a history of engineering development of something I take for granted. The present game of engineered complexity and incompatibility would make an interesting second part.

It isn’t clear but did metal mining get more efficient or just more of something else got in there like plastic parts reducing demand (+metal prices work off big cycles)?

Food is an interesting one as substitutes like pink slim and wood pulp seem to be replacements for real food to keep prices down. Natural fibers for clothing is another area where plastic and almost plastic fibers are replacing natural.

I have generally two problems with clothing. I’m in the 1% for height and I get skin rashes on my upper body from mostly unnatural fibres. Sizes have tended to narrow, particularly pants. And it’s getting harder and more expensive to find clothing with all or very high percent of natural fibres.

If looking blind at an object like an inflation statistician might look at it, all is good, but a little deeper and I suspect we are having a lot more inflation when we look at apples to apples. (And I get the point that replacement is part of the ingenuity of people but not all things are living there).

It isn’t that straight forward but I use Firefox on Linux along with my iPhone and Mac. My workflow is to use Passwords and Hide my on safari and then Firefox there after on the Apple device. Firefox then saves the login details and it shows up on my Linux + Firefox desktop. Not ideal, kinda dumb, and takes away a little bit of faith in humanity, but I don’t have to type in the details.

Is the death of the AI race in the US? Did we already reach the end? Peak AI. If so this will kill the speculative hype on data centres and GPUs. It will be interesting to see how the market absorbs and reacts to this.

Yawman, being on Linux for everything else feels great. In a personal way (rather than technical) it’s like being back in my 20’s hacking Redhat and FreeBSD. I also find the community support is great when I’ve run into the odd issue. My FPS are good and I don’t think about it.

I select games based on ProtonDB. There’s always constraints and I’m cool with the limitations that this brings. BF6 is a no-go due to its anticheat tool, no problem. Got lots of other choices.

Ya, I want it even bigger. All commercial claims should be accessible for your own determination. Fastest, biggest, longest, widest, shortest, most liked, doctor recommended, any empirical claim must have the data used and calculations to make the claim available for examination. Data storage is so cheap now. I don't see it as a dent to anyone's profit.

When you say just Cortex it is ambiguous as there is Cortex Search, Agents, Analyst, and Code.

Cortex Code is available via web and cli. The web version is good. I've used the cli and it is fine too, though I prefer the visuals of the web version when looking at data outputs. For writing code it is similar to a Codex or Claude Code. It is data focussed I gather more so than other options and has great hooks into your snowflake tables. You could do similar actions with Snowpark and say Claude Code. I find Snowflake focus on personas are more functional than pure technical so the Cortex Code fits well with it. Though if you want to do your own thing you can use your own IDE and code agent and there you are back to having an option with the Codex Code CLI along with Codex, Cursor or Claude Code.

Tried it out, works flawlessly. The basic process cycle is clean and easy to follow. Kept it to CC Haiku with a bit of discussion on approach.

Only thing that wasn't 100% clear was the locking mode. Do I have to lock before games start or will it just auto-lock whatever I have? Claude assumed it would auto-lock.

I don't get why we just don't cut it down the middle. Go +0.5 offset and get a little bit of both. Love the idea of no one being able to do the math when talking to people outside the province. I can't tell you what time it is in mountain time, NFLD, or Saskatchewan. Nothing bad comes of it.

Amazing start and look forward to see it evolve. Reminds me a lot of MIT's Open Government Information Awareness [0]. But really like the different track that this takes. I really hope to see this become something people go to.

Suggestion that you increase the education of what you're doing and how. For example looking at the Home Energy Freedom Act [1] some direction to more understanding for each of the sections would be great - what is the process for Legislative Progress - how is the Impact Analysis done. I also couldn't quite figure out if there was a narrative that was being pushed by the parties and how that aligns with media. I like the media ratings though.

[0] - https://www.media.mit.edu/publications/open-government-infor... [1] - https://govbase.com/policy/bill-119-hr-4758

Anyone check out the site? Wild that freedom right now is basically a gif of a cowboy riding a horse with a gun pointed out front. Just shooting our way to freedom seems reasonable 'in these times'.

What's the meaning of this? Is it just theatre? And what is the message of the show? Is it a real fear that people have of lack of information that will set them free and they need to cowboy up and get there no matter what? Struggling to get this.

You are the project, and getting through your idea to something, is about building a better you. Which points back to the beginning: -- Publish that novella, build an OS, converse in Mandarin, release an indie game, publish that other novella, dominate a continent -- --

Seem to be a lot of complaints about this post, I'm enjoying it. Interesting flow of thoughts and share similar frustration with all my ideas and trying to channel them, and get to something. If I get to something close to my thoughts that's a huge win for me.

I don’t think a lot of people here have been in the typists room or hung out with the secretaries. There were a lot of people taking care of all the things going and this has been downloaded and further downloaded.

There was a time I didn’t have to do my expenses. I had someone just know where I was and who I was working for and and took care of it. We talked when there was something that didn’t make sense. Thanks to computers I’m doing it. Meaningless for sure.

Similarly ignorant of what think tanks are and where they came from and their influences. This was eye opening. I've since followed up reading Quinn Slobodian and he described his interest in the supply side rather than the demand side. He is mentioned in the article and has so far been interesting to listen to as it puts a clearer lens on the source and multiple dimensions of think tank outputs.

“That's why having goofy names for them matters so much, because it reminds me not to believe the biggest bog lie of all: that I'm stuck in a situation unlike any I, or anyone else, has ever seen before.”

I’ve had some version of the consumer and producer problem in my head for a while and this is a good articulation of it. I would use Brazil and Venezuela as examples of it where there is a democracy that struggles to keep up with the majorities consumption desires vs its producer ability. Venezuela has since capitulated and unbelievably since I first thought about it been invaded.

Is this just all rent seekers? Is it a tipping point of wealth distribution and economic mobility? Is there a limit to how much imbalance a democracy can handle? Where the floor is on social services?

Enjoyed the essay for kicking up some thoughts.

I’ve seen a few versions of this. One thing that’s missing is a post analysis section or later learnings. When should we come back and look at this… How did the decision do? How good were the assumptions? Was this really the problem to be deciding on? Ultimately how do we get better at setting up for better architectural decision making in the future.

Without the later analysis it tends to be an authority without accountability.

This is a feature to get you to stop typing and to just speak. I have a couple friends that are almost exclusively speech to text. One friend is ESL and just finds the brain work easier and the other just figured it worked better.

Seeing this video has convinced me it’s a feature. I can’t see iOS development practices that shit and to read comments here about similar Android issues.

I’ve only read The Road and found it extremely difficult because of the nihilism. I put it down in the middle of it and stewed for 6 months before I picked it up again. I am so glad I did. I think his detractors are right, it is violent, nihilistic, masculine and whatever else. Through that the other side of the contrast becomes so vivid. Maybe there are better ways to get there. For me it hit.

My daughter and I talk about the message in the book regularly. Though she has yet to read it. I see more clearly my purpose as a dad and as a member in my community. Totally worth the read.

I was trained with regards to realtime control systems to put salt in the messages to reduce repetition. Many systems just repeat a status or number from which you could more easily get the keys. Never knew if it was a real concern or not. Interesting to see from the post and comments how old a concept this is. With today’s encryption is this still a concern?

As a thought, not tested, using wifi probe requests might be better through more dense material scenarios. Using a specific AP probe request "SOS Request" from the device would help discover over all the other AP requests that others are throwing. No idea if iOS or Android would let you hijack that process.

This is a bit more extreme, but some type of triangulation from multiple rescuers could be useful in closing in on a spot.

This is really interesting and thanks for sharing.

There are several ontologies already well built out. Utilities and pharma both have them as an example. They are built by committee of vendors and users. They take a bit to penetrate the approach and language used. Often they are built to be adaptable.

I’ve had good success with CIM for Utilities to build a network graph for modelling the distribution and transmission networks adding sensor and event data for monitoring and analysis about 15 years ago.

Anywhere there is a technology focussed consortium of vendors and users building standards you will likely find a prebuilt graph. When RDF was “hot” many of the these groups spun out some attempt to model their domain.

In summary, if you need one look for one. Maybe there’s one waiting for you and you get to do less convincing and more doing.

I wonder how much of this padding is for the next flight and due to all the other services needing to get a plane going like luggage, food services, fueling, deicing etc. The past two years have been a mess, but it doesn't always seem to be the flight crew or the plane itself. I've been on dirty planes, stuck at the gate due to no one to clear us from the gate. So much more outside of the airlines direct control is a mess too.

At first I thought that substack was part of the Thiel/Musk enterprise or some other messed up billionaire club of political engineering, but not much was offered. Say "Substak is . . . a political project made by extremists . . ." Can't see any evidence of it here.

The other angle I could see is Substack is algo'ing neo-nazi content to folks. But I can't go to cancel mode just for hosting. I can see that getting reductive - who's the hypersaler, who provided the electrons, who's sold them the servers . . . there is no end. It really needs to end with reader.