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For something you (hopefully) don't have to do that often, it seems negligible. But if you're charging and discharging the car daily to do arbitrage you might eventually notice the degradation

I discovered Star Trek:TNG pretty late in life. The first exposure to Patrick Stewart that I remember was coming home with a new video game, getting hyped up on the car ride while reading the manual, and finally getting a chance to play Oblivion. I was in awe hearing his stentorian intro with the camera sweeping over the countryside and the spires of the imperial city

Blows my mind that "MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display" appears to be the actual name. Some pundits were thinking that it'd be something pithy like MacBook Studio

Why not standardize on a single solution instead of maintaining your own stack AND paying for someone else to do the work?

We'll lose their income (and other tax revenue) forever. You can argue that Zuck can/should pay higher taxes, but California's budget is already disproportionately dependent on a relatively small # of people. In practice, scaring them off for a one-off boon feels like a huge own goal (especially the way prop 40 punishes founders with voting shares). And we're losing that permanent revenue that used to go to the general fund for prop 40, which is designed to funnel money to a single industry

In some locales, it is included

FWIW, electricity prices in CA are much more out of whack relative to the US average than gas prices.

I used Space Bunny from some providers that offered it for free and it was a very much a "you get what you pay for" experience. If the release is comparable, I'll be sticking with Deepseek v4 for sure.

Birds of a feather I see

IMO it's a safer and more comfortable passenger experience

Is the copy grok's writing style? It feels inhuman but still more readable than Opus

Where I live (Los Angeles), probably 90% of drivers

My utility company does a program where they'll pay you to raise your thermostat a couple degrees when there's the most grid stress and the spot price of electricity is super high. You can also have your thermostat do extra pre-cooling in advance of these events.

People in my area HATE it. They hate giving up control (even though you can still manually lower your thermostat if you get too warm), and feel like the power company is doing some sort of scam even though it's a win/win/win (you make money, electric company saves money, homes are precooled with solar instead of burning fossil fuels).

I've seen setups where they put a 48v battery between the solar panels and plug-in micro inverter. No idea how this impacts efficiency or if there's any safety concerns though.

The new owners are just seeing how gradually they can boil the frog before the userbase moves elsewhere. Gotta maximize returns.

Iirc the built in history doesn't take into account games like having a perennial 40% off coupon that gets disabled right when a "sale" starts

I saw an interesting matrix that claimed to show which labs were distilling Claude/OpenAI/Gemini models based on these similarities

YMMV depending on where in the US you are. California has like 10x'd it's battery storage in a couple years, to the point where it's the main source of electricity during some time slots where we used to be dependent on natty gas.

It's nice having a physical button, touchscreen isn't as ergo or reliable

IIRC, some brand (maybe Subaru?) had a problem where the car would drain its 12v after a few hours retrying its search for 3g towers

Since their profits scale linearly with costs, this is a big win for the industry.

Depending on your lifestyle, IMO the USB-C cygolites are worth the expense vs dealing with old ones

He posted about it on his Twitter, I don't have an account so it's hard to find for me

Meta just gave DHH $1m in credits fwiw

I have an EV and can't charge at home (condo where cost to add a charger would be obscene). In 3 years there's been maybe 5 times where it's been a mild inconvenience. Which isn't nothing but a few hours of hassle is a pretty good price to pay for the thousands of dollars I've saved on fuel.

Is there something unique to Italy that makes it an intractable problem? Where I live we've been able to shift a huge amount of our fossil fuels over to batteries in a relatively short time. It's nice that nuclear has power production 24/7 but it seems unnecessary when there's already a glut during the daytime

Maybe just an artifact of where I live (Los Angeles), but whenever Ive considered taking Waymo to the train station, it's usually easier and often cheaper to take it all the way to my destination. eg right now a Waymo to the train station is $16, then you wait 0-15 minutes to hop on the train, paying an additional $3.50 round trip. I'm pretty pro-transit, but I can't deny that the ipace is a much more pleasant experience than the train (I can play my music, don't have to listen to other people, guaranteed seating, guaranteed AC, fewer undesired encounters with strangers).

Meanwhile, a waymo to a stadium on that same train line is $26. If you're with 1-3 other people, taking Waymo all the way is a no-brainer.

I thought pacing is just walking back and forth? So pacing the frontier would be like staying in the same place instead of making progress

TBH it seems like the Halo teams have been trying to copy COD for a while (going as far as adding COD mechanics to the Halo:CE remake).

If they're under the same roof, my optimistic hope is that they'll try to focus on how to differentiate the IPs. But realistically we'll probably just end up with even more micro transactions

Outside of specifics like the space shuttle program, launch costs have never been that big of a factor. Like 5-15% of a program's cost. If your satellite or rover costs billions to build and another billion to run for a decade, saving a hundred million (or even a couple hundred million) isn't that much of a game changer