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by jeffbee 4mo ago
According to EIA State Energy Data System, "Average end-use energy price estimates by energy source, annual", electricity in Texas rose from $25.51 per million BTU (yes, I know) in 2019 to $28.95 in 2024, the most recent year avai
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by jeffbee 4mo ago
That makes sense. It's hard to appreciate the scale of these things without understanding that Texas, although the less populous of the two states, uses far more energy, and in particular far more grid electricity, because of their cli
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by jeffbee 4mo ago
I am sorry to be the one to inform you about "inflation". The data you provided shows that rates increased from 2019-2024 at rates slightly below general CPI inflation.
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Why is this confusing? Batteries are both generator and load. If the grid needs load to stabilize frequency and voltage, batteries can become loads instantly.
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by jeffbee 4mo ago
Maybe in absolute terms? I haven't checked in a while. In terms of fraction of energy from solar Texas is still far behind California.
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by jeffbee 4mo ago
Texas is the standing proof that "making sure that all of this massive extra cost doesn't just get dumped on consumers" is not a problem. Texas has the most load, the most marginal load added every year, and the cheapest reta
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by jeffbee 4mo ago
If the problem is an instant disconnect of a large load, switching that large load into charging batteries at that instant, for a minute or so, feels like a solution.
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by jeffbee 4mo ago
This sounds like a good reason to have a lot of batteries.
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by jeffbee 4mo ago
I would say the list of ways that cloud relays are superior to local interfaces is pretty long. I don't want a router that will ever accept a connection of any kind, under any circumstances. I definitely do not want a router with a web
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by jeffbee 4mo ago
This is bizarrely laudatory. The app is fast because it is not correct. The user has no way to know if their view is consistent with any other user's view. The user has no way to know if the app silently discarded one of their inputs b
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by jeffbee 4mo ago
That's not what bricked means. Bricked is a one-way trip to permanent non-function. For example, overwriting the firmware with firmware that can't boot and also can't update again. The events in the article are a simple, tran
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by jeffbee 4mo ago
The hack doesn't have much to do with it. Meta account recovery flow has always allowed bypassing 2FA.
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by jeffbee 4mo ago
Cloud command and control is obviously a better user experience, and it is much more secure.
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by jeffbee 4mo ago
Without minimizing the impact, we should not blow it out of proportion, either. It sounds like every existing installed device continues to work. "Bricked" is used too expansively here.
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by jeffbee 4mo ago
No. Meta's account recovery flow disables 2FA. It's idiotic. 2FA for Meta accounts serves no beneficial purpose.
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by jeffbee 4mo ago
Well, these hacks targeted large influencer accounts. It could have more severe impact than 20k randomly selected accounts.
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by jeffbee 4mo ago
Somehow this company still earns over a billion dollars a week in net profits, which I find puzzling.
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by jeffbee 4mo ago
No, but I was thinking it might be possible that your account is specifically afflicted by some storage problem. For example, it could be homed in the wrong part of the world, compared to where your browser is hitting frontend applications.
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by jeffbee 4mo ago
Perhaps. It also seems to insulate Google from the risk that air quality regulators will be unexpectedly reinvigorated, while still providing to Google the benefits of xAI's lawlessness.
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by jeffbee 4mo ago
Do you still perceive search and maps to be slow even when logged out?
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by jeffbee 4mo ago
I thought it was notable that in Google's press release yesterday regarding their new facilities near Amarillo they seemed to go out of their way to point out that the applications are not AI, listing "Search, Gmail, Maps, Cloud,
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by jeffbee 4mo ago
Saying this about Rust and C++ is like saying the kitchen you just built is cleaner than the old kitchen you used for 50 years. Get back to me in another few years.
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by jeffbee 4mo ago
Great question. It would also be fair to ask how this behaves with non-random inputs. The benchmarks in the repo only use random values.
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by jeffbee 4mo ago
Interesting. A student horn I guess? I've never owned one that didn't have at least a third valve slide ring. I think they were widespread around the time that the trumpet really took over from the cornet, around 1900-1920. My pre
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by jeffbee 4mo ago
Of course. The American consumer is the greatest hypocrite of all time. Their cars, fuel, airline travel, hamburgers, and paper goods are beyond reproach. Your matrix multiplication is an abomination.
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by jeffbee 4mo ago
Most people who believe that data centers use a lot of water aren't mislead about how much water data centers use, but they are unaware of how much water everything else uses. In the great scheme of things data centers simply do not ev
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by jeffbee 4mo ago
You don't have to evaporatively cool a data center. You can make a direct trade between energy efficiency and water consumption.
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by jeffbee 4mo ago
Data centers use very little water, right down to none if they want. And state-of-the-art hyperscale data centers really are operated by AIs.
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by jeffbee 4mo ago
The slides are needed, at least on the trumpet, because the tuning is perfect when using one valve but it's way off when you use two at once.
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by jeffbee 4mo ago
Indeed, a trumpet has one slide for tuning only and two more slides that are used while playing, so it's not even technically correct.

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