kilroy123

Asking the right questions.

I'm not sure if you live in the UK? The country uses a huge amount of LNG for electricity and heavy industry.

If suddenly there's not enough LNG to go around, there will likely be rolling blackouts. So much more of an issue than no heat.

Same here.

I mean, it was the flagship starship of the fleet. So yeah, it better be staffed with competent people like that.

Gemini 2.5 flash was amazing via the API for a lot of use cases. Great blend of fast, accurate, and cheap.

I wonder how much medium- to long-term storage has been installed this year. Batteries are fantastic, but we need better ways to store excess wind and solar for dark winter days when there's no sun or wind.

I'm not a big fan of their trend of talking about a new model and not releasing it for a while.

I feel like there is a big misunderstanding here. In my house, we've been doing a lot of light "prepping" lately. Not for the apocalypse, but for simple emergency situations for a few days to a week.

The UK government has been pushing hard for the public to stock enough food and water for at least 3 days. We have weeks of supplies.

My huge worry is that the country will run out of LNG due to the ongoing war in Iran, Qatar being offline, and Europe not having enough LNG in storage. Plus, a lot of weird weather due to El Niño.

Is an emergency LLM really going to make a difference? Probably not, but I have one on my desktop computer anyways.

I recently upgraded to Golden Gate, and that helped a bit, but it still feels sluggish.

Interesting. I have the same machine w/ same specs. I find it sluggish. I think it depends on what you're doing.

My hot take is that we're headed to an economic freefall and/or depression. They're trying to get ahead of it.

I didn't make this. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Weird, I just stumbled upon this one yesterday: https://clockfaces.com

Interesting. Personally, I hate YT shorts.

I only watch YouTube, but I grew tired of the algorithm and wanted traditional TV, but for YT. So created this: https://channelsurfer.tv

I keep shorts out.

It already _is_ a rough decade. I have hated the 20s so damn much.

Utter nonsense. This is not realism. This is your weird negative way of looking at the world.

A lot of European countries are now generating most of their electricity from renewables, and it's being built out rapidly. We can now produce grid-scale storage at lower and cheaper prices. In places like Texas, this is happening at a breakneck speed.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/electricity-mix?source=to...

Otherwise known as anacyclosis. It's a cycle.

Yup, I tell my partner all the time. I just want the new era to be here already. I hate this waiting. I'm very annoyingly optimistic and think we're headed for post-scarcity.

I, too, have this question for the anti-AI people.

What is the game plan? Use an OS version older than 2023? Stop using tech?

We changed the laws that enabled lobbying back in ~1970.

There's a fairly simple solution to this:

https://youtu.be/CgqhywW9Cto?si=uZBJB0-SbEzij7_S

I strongly agree. Plus, personally, I wouldn't put a box online. I have a desktop at home that I keep off the internet. I only connect to it via ZeroTier.

They'll just hire them from abroad and have them work remotely as contractors...

This is... kind of insane. I'm not someone who is easily surprised by things but this one is so random, weird, and happily surprising.

UGH as a turso customer, I do not want this.

I feel the same way. I was trying out the new ChatGPT voice the other day and had this exact same thought. AI _still_ is blowing my mind often, even though it's been around for years.

I fear this is playing out now.

This has absolutely been a dream of mine. We act like it's the 80s-90s again and optimize all the software.

I don't know... a HUGE amount of people love to game on their PCs.

Shameless promotion here but I think https://channelsurfer.tv is a good experience.

Sensible take and it's one I share.