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Yes, that's why they're still doing it. It just doesn't fill up a 40-hour week.

Oh, I see. Yeah, good point about splitting a 240V outlet. Not as convenient as having them everywhere, but it'd certainly be possible.

NG may be 100% efficient, but heat pumps are like 300%+ in terms of electricity to indoor heat. And you get air conditioning.

I'm not clear what point you're making about PDUs.

Re 120V outlets, while batteries don't need to supply the full peak load, they are more effective the more of it they can supply. And a home with a heat pump or baseboard heaters, electric range, EV charger, or dryer for example is going to at times significantly exceed the capacity of the 120/15 outlet. Doesn't mean the battery would be useless, just that it wouldn't be as effective at its primary purpose of load shifting as a 240V system, and therefore less economical.

I assume plug-in batteries are considerably more workable in the UK on 240V, since they could charge and deploy at double the rate of a plug-in system here. Of course 240V plugs exist in North America, but they're generally only installed for dryers, ranges, and EV chargers, so people don't tend to have one just free.

But you're implying that they could use non-destructive means and choose not to.

We're talking about browsing history, not cookies and cache.

We've got a fly-pollinated bush in our yard. Smells like rotting death when it's wet to attract them. (I did not plant it...)

I also explicitly save stuff I plan to use later, but you can't always predict that in advance.

The practical argument I can understand. From the abstract argument though, it sounds like you'd be opposed even if the anonymization could be guaranteed, which I don't understand. Why is it "spying" to try to understand in aggregate how users are using your website? How are you supposed to eg. identify usability problems without this information? And what is the harm to users? (Again, in the abstract case where we leave aside any possibility of individual users being identified.)

You're right about explicitly set preferences.

What do you see as the harm in website owners using aggregated analytics data to improve their sites?

My understanding is that any front-end analytics solution will require consent. You're right about explicitly set preferences. I was mixing that up with inferred preferences.

You're right; I haven't looked into this in detail in some time. You can't save inferred preferences, but can save things that the user has explicitly selected to save.

You can't even save user preferences (like language or other settings) without showing a cookie banner. Edit: I was mistaken. You can't save inferred preferences, but can save explicit user-saved options.

And for a serious website, front end analytics are kind of a necessity to understand how users interact with pages and improve the experience. Note that it certainly doesn't require tracking the behaviour of individual users, just understanding how controls are used in aggregate.

I know it seems like you could work around this with careful design and maybe focus groups and such, but I can tell you we regularly uncover surprising insights from (aggregate) trends in front-end events.

Aggregated analytics do, and you can't run a serious website without some kind of analytics. Preference-storing does as well, despite any reasonable user expecting that, if they set a preference, it will be saved.

"I didn't read it," sure. But, "A reasonable person would not read it?"

I've found Gemini to be one of the better ones as far as disagreeing.

Even if it weren't lighter, it might be faster to set up and take down.

Agreed, that was a great line. The whole comment made me wish I could upvote more than once.

Literally a true statement, I guess.

And in fact, a significant subset of users will pester you to make an app, even if your website can and does do everything an app could do.

Yeah, I mean obviously. Who among us hasn't received a casual £5M from friends now and again? Why would it have anything to do with his political campaign?

Same reason as always. Someone found it interesting and submitted it. Others found it interesting and up voted it within a period of time.

The thing I've been struggling with recently is how to sign off. When "Thanks" isn't called for, I always feel awkward using any of the standard sign-offs, like "Cheers", "Best", "Regards"... I'm somewhat leaning toward just using Thanks when it makes sense, and if it doesn't, then just "-Myname" is probably fine.

I like a fair bit of what the EU does, and in the past they've been behind some significant advances in vehicle safety, but boy do I hate most of what's coming out of there lately as far as driving . All these driver "assistance" features that arguably do more harm than good for competent drivers and are forced to be enabled by default on every drive. And now this. Bleh.

I once accidentally got a version of this. Was asking it to change the wheels on a picture of a car, and provided a link to the original image. I guess it was blocked from accessing the url, but it assumed that it could and generated a random car image with the wheels in the color I'd requested. I imagine the same approach would work for making it think you'd provided an image here.

Isn't that kind of good then? It's probably valuable for the public to know that this is how he sees himself.

> If Claude gives me poor or incorrect advice while I’m working on an AI component, I have no way of knowing whether the model was confused, whether my problem is unsolvable, or if some invisible policy restriction quietly kicked in.

You should be able to know if your problem was solvable by using your own expertise and judgement, no? If you're relying on LLMs as a substitute for those, I wouldn't expect great results.

I honestly feel like that's a counter-example. With AI he'd be tweeting some other nonsense. It's not like anyone saw the image and thought he actually was orange Jesus.

And this is mostly thanks to the oil sands. Will that always be the economic engine it is today?

I'd hoped this would be a post about Giro Galoppo, which is a fantastic little board game if you have kids (and can find a copy). It's easy enough for small children to learn, but the mix of strategy and luck is such that an adult can put real effort into winning, but will still probably only win 2/3 to 3/4 of games, not every time. And it's quick to play. Great game.