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A grid mostly powered by thermal electricity is going to struggle when it gets hot.

California does have serious infrastructure issues, mostly due to deliberate lack of maintenance on the part f the commercial operators trying to squeeze every dollar of profit out of their ageing infrastructure. There’s an entire distribution grid that needs to be replaced before it literally falls apart.

California has had problematic energy supply since the ‘80s. The problems have been getting steadily worse due to lack of maintenance, lack of upgrades, heat waves getting longer and more numerous, more frequent droughts, and poor water resource management.

There are a lot of people pushing this article on every social network. It’s a rude awakening to see how many people just take the headline and run with it before they spend any time considering the claims in the context of reality.

1. Mute channels that are not carrying urgent calls 2. Mute at the server level by preference 3. Learn the difference between @everyone (all people subscribed to channel) versus @here (only subscribers marked as online) 4. Limit the servers you subscribe to on each account 5. Where possible, champion the cause of a separate channel for automated notifications (“bots”) versus channels for discussion on the same topic 6. In the same vein separate channels for technical discussion from channels for breeze shooting and fat chewing (these “social” channels are useful for the neurotypical humans in the team, distracting or traumatising for everyone else)

Discord also has a “inbox” summarising new posts since you last checked, along with “mentions” which lists posts mentioning you or any role you have eg @here, @everyone, @sunos_admins, @team_orange_rocket)

There are many tools to help cope with information overload. What I have mentioned here are just the low hanging fruit

College costs have skyrocketed because there are fewer colleges per people than there are foods or houses per people.

If housing in one place get too expensive you can move to a place with cheaper housing.

You can’t really do the same for colleges. Reputation is not something you can simply manufacture more of.

The comparison is not even remotely valid.

There’s also the simple need to do something to have something to do.

UBI doesn’t stop people making more money. What it will do is help people be more mobile so they can find a job they like. The downside is people won’t spend 12 hours a day as an Amazon slave unless there is a financial reward commensurate to the employers demands.

Some people will participate simply because it is the only paying work available, some will participate because they need structure to their time.

Earning a wage is not comparable to earning a B in school. That B doesn’t put apples or oranges on the tables, earning a wage gives you both.

Poorly used RAM is wasted RAM. I don’t need a world class JIT compiler for an application which has a fixed set of features from the time I load it to the time I quit it. You can precompile stuff and leave the JIT compiler out of RAM. It’s presence is wasteful. I don’t need a world class DOM in a password manager. The UI is stable from the time it is published, we aren’t doing responsive layouts for random data here. Just passwords in a password vault.

Swap speeds are fantastic, but that isn’t an excuse to bloat out software to use all a customer’s RAM which they might want for other things.

We have lost features and utility along the way. 1Password now only supports a narrow “happy path” of entering passwords into web pages.

You don’t need to cast aspersions against other people to make your argument. Why would you do that? Grow up.

The subscription model means that the US government can shut my business down by instructing payment processors to stop taking payments from me, or heck even EMV can do that on their own bat like they do for adult services. If you think the complaints about subscription models are because of the price, it’s you that needs to grow the fuck up, personally.

Then there’s the SaaS model where my data is stored on US servers. If at any point the someone in the Internet decides to break BGP, sever an optical fibre, or any number of other shenanigans, I am left with what is effectively read-only access to my vaults. I have no option for self hosting to protect against hostile action between international parties that involves me or Agile Bits as collateral damage. We run our own optical fibre networks to ensure continuity of communications in the face of hostile/negligent behaviour, but with 1Password we do not have the option to host our own security.

Then there’s data sovereignty. Agile Bits is a US company, and the US government has shown its willingness to spy and sabotage in the past. Whether it’s intercepting sensitive data in transit (echelon/airbus) or building weaknesses into encryption standards or installing malware on equipment in-transit or sabotaging chip fabs to produce less random RNG, the US has done that.

There is no trust here.

Agile Bits even put out a “survey” to gauge interest in self-hosting as a means of shutting down discourse on the topic. If there was any intention of supporting self-hosting they would just release a trial product which would be a great demonstration that their business continuity plan would work because self hosting would be the same as Agile Bits hosting. Just run the containers on your own docker instead of Agile Bits cloud.

The most “entitled” comment here is yours, talking down to everyone else as if you are the only adult in the room.

Ted Faro is the guy to speak to. He is into preserving the knowledge of generations for the enrichment of humanity.

Absolutely it should be a criminal offence to doxx people. If someone isn’t committing a crime and prefers to use a pseudonym, more power to them. If you deliberately publish their identity without permission, to the deepest layer of Hell for you.

In the middle are various levels of negligence and poor handling of PII which should attract severe punishment to provide economic incentive to protect PII or simply not collect it in the first place.

Everything is politics.

Just remember that politics isn’t everything.

What is the distinction between following a route and navigating?

When you are scanning mirrors and checking over your shoulder the car will steer itself without drifting out of the lane.

Yes, I want the government regulating the finance sector because far too many people are willing to trust someone who presents a complicated system as a way to take money.

Today the crypto scammers, tomorrow the hedge fund traders.

GP is not expressing those views personally but narrating views held by people who believe they need to walk on eggshells all the time lest they get in trouble with the “woke police.”

They don’t (or didn’t) have Full Self Driving though. They were participating in a beta test program which had specific responsibilities that they agreed to.

We as a society see some value in the success of a wanted pregnancy.

Once you consider the intentions of the pregnant person, it’s easier to resolve these “competing rights”.

When you only consider a woman to be an incubator for your children (and not an actual person in their own right), yes the issue can appear murky and confusing.

I use a single Dell 2721DE with USB-C to provide display, peripherals and Ethernet for my MacBook M1. From time to time the MacBook has issues reconnecting peripherals from sleep, which I end up resolving by unplugging USB-C, power cycling the monitor and plugging USB-C back in. The weird bit for me is that USB disks on one child hub always work fine, the keyboard and mouse on another child hub are the ones that will not be rediscovered.

AFAIK the problems are entirely due to the MacBook Air M1.

Main issue I have is systems that don’t keep RSS feeds in sync with actual content, and remembering that editing existing content shouldn’t result in a new RSS entry for that edited content.

As an example one group I am involved in tried sharing a calendar via RSS but every time they created a new appointment they would copy an old one, update the description, update the headline, then change the invite list and meeting time. Each action resulted in a new record being added to the RSS feed.

Cache invalidation is hard, apparently.

Interesting that you would attribute anger at being subjected to dangerous driving as the fault of the victim.

The mistake here is expecting everyone else to do your driving for you, and claiming they are being too sensitive when they pull you up on your poor habits.

One of the biggest contributions to medical science was the idea of washing your hands before performing surgery.

Should patients grow a thicker skin to deal with dirty-handed surgeons (perhaps they should stop being so sensitive to broken bones or cancer so they don’t need surgery in the first place?), or should surgeons take on the practise of washing their hands, wearing hair nets and masks and autoclaving their tools?

In the good old days we used to call this “being slighted”. We’d remember those slights and not interact with the people who slighted us often in the past.

Labelling the “science” as “dubious” is basically slighting the people attempting to track these slights at something other than a personal level.

Just because the stories you hear don’t jive with your take on the zeitgeist doesn’t mean the stories are wrong. It could just be that you aren’t the type of person that gets slighted often simply for existing the way you are.

On one hand there’s valid criticism of collection techniques, on the other there’s dismissing the entire proposition that slighting is a thing that happens because you don’t like the way the collection is done.

A better critique would look at ways to improve data collection, but that requires quantifying the myriad ways we slight each other. How to write that all down?

Which carriers are providing iPhones for free? How do those contracts compare to other carriers who don’t provide an iPhone for free every two years?

I know here in Australia the cheapest plans are prepaid SIM-only and the “free phone” contracts are the most expensive (because thousand dollar phones don’t grow on trees). We still have limited data plans in the lower price brackets.

As far as kids having iPhones vs androids, who is paying for those phones? Is it the parents? Do you think there might be some correlation between disposable income and the decision to get cheap androids versus expensive iPhones for the kids?

Grid storage is proven through dozens of working installations earning decent money for their operators, pushing gas peaker plants out of the market.

Newer reactor designs are well simulated but have zero real world implementation.

Where is Tesla claiming that Autopilot is self-driving?

I found “grep” on a 10GB text file on an external USB-C SSD will cause that stuttering behaviour.

How does a profile picture prevent scammers and bots?

It’s only hacking if you do something with it. Otherwise it is just hoarding.

Or perhaps investing that effort into writing open source drivers for these chips and providing support for all the various issues the clones have collectively and individually.

Why?