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Comment 100-1000x more than what? (Score 0, Offtopic) 204

Is this not universally insane already? How are these "reporters" sleeping at night after publishing such incendiary trash fire articles?
Spoiler alert: Plastic bottles of water aren't a new thing - they've been around since the 80s.
Are all those consumers all dead because of this devious delivery device? Turns out: nope.
So, uh, yeah... why is any of this a problem, again?

Comment Re:Clean or affordable (Score 1) 188

That's a nice sounding tagline, but I disagree with it. Sure, nuclear is generally expensive, only because government has refused to subsidize it like they do other energy platforms, and it has placed legal and regulatory barriers around it like they are defending the Alamo. Even still, cost per kWhr for nuclear is around 30c today (https://www.statista.com/statistics/184754/cost-of-nuclear-electricity-production-in-the-us-since-2000/). Not great, but also not anywhere close to 50c. Reminder: this is primarily on old-as-fuck plant designs - the US is only recently starting to open new generation plants (finally).

Comment Re:90% (Score 2) 103

You may need to allocate a dedicated home space for "work". Make sure it has a door that closes. Put your work necessities within - Keurig, music, etc, whatever you need so that aren't compelled to leave outside bathroom and lunch breaks. Give it 2 weeks - you'll probably be surprised at how much better you feel about working in that space

Comment Lies and more lies (Score 1) 174

This chatgpt programer bullshit only works when the system is given a limited set of input. The platform literally prevents you from uploading several megabytes of multiple files, which would be absolutely necessary to give it context in order to solve any problem of significant scope. Instead, people are asking it to rewrite their 50-line functions to work with dollars instead of fuckwits, and then posting their magic results onto social media in hope of clicks, because well they are fuckwits.

I'm bored of this crap. Give me an AI that understands the programming language and is capable of working with the entire workspace and including examining the source of dependencies. Until then, this is just magic show time wasting.

Comment Re:Accounting and AI (Score 1) 38

The problem is that accountants need to actually understand wtf the business is doing to make money go in and out of the accounts.
AI is unlikely to be able to do this without being continuously stateful, and it will require a bunch of business specific training for it to be any good at its job.
Moreover, businesses are continuously evolving their operations, so the AI will need to be continuously trained in order to keep up.
Someone still needs to manage all that training, and QA the actions of the AI to verify it is sufficiently trained to perform the required work.
To me, it just seems easier to have a real human doing the cognitive work, and leave the computer to do the menial report building bullshit (ie, pretty close to how it already works)

Comment Re:substations are where it's at (Score 0) 102

It's not like the power plants are failing to deliver enough juice. This is not California.

So then why are they installing a load shaving platform? Sounds like they should be installing liquid propane generators at their customer locations. FIll the tank once and they can run on generator for a week or better should the lines go down. With energy potential like that, why would you instead drop in a battery that will run out of juice in less than 2 days? What are the mean/median/max outage timeframes of their customers?

Sorry, but this smells like fitting a preferred solution to the problem.

Comment substations are where it's at (Score 5, Interesting) 102

Putting their batteries on private premises opens them up to a metric fuck load of liability for fires, leakages, homeowner fiddling, and other miscellaneous awful crap that can happen. Put your money back in your pants Big Electric, and install these batteries at your substations instead. You'll enjoy far less liability, much better control over the installation facility, the same "keeps the lights on" sort of service, and a better ROI from installation size efficiencies.

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