It's about preserving culture. Thankfully, we can buy the Expanse on physical media, meaning I don't need to keep Amazon Prime forever to rewatch.

But the stuff on Netflix? Their Voltron Series isn't on disk. How long does that stay available before they decide it's not worth the disk space to keep around, and its gone forever?

Because the bans fail at considering people. New York State is NOT New York Metro. But those voters continually think that the things that will work there will work in the rest of the state.

Rural communities still rely on gas in the house. Because their power grid is not as reliable and building solar power that is big enough to heat a house in a NY winter is untenable. So the proposition isn't how to we get them off natural gas and onto the grid. The question is how do we get them to use propane or nat gas instead of WOOD.

So, since you banned gas, you'll be increasing per-house emissions in the rural areas. So when their gas stove goes out, they will either buy out of state or replace with wood burning.

Here's the deal, I don't want to share passwords. But I'm not buying a seperate login for my 12 year old either. I want to be able to determine what he can and cannot watch. And this is where all of these content platforms fail, family management. My kid should login and only see their content, not everyone's. I should be able to grant categorical access as well as be able to have an individualized allow list of content. Not that everyone would do that, but that the platform should support it.

That's what's missing from this conversation, a discussion about how people want to use the service. Yeah, I agree that sharing with the neighbor is not the intent. But a reasonable fee for family accounts vs single login accounts shouldn't be difficult. And more tiers for the number of concurrent devices should naturally curb the larger abuses.

Skip every other version, nothing is forever. That is the Microsoft way. 98-XP, skip ME. Skip Vista, go to 7. Skip 8, go to 10. Skip 11, go to whatever.

Then tell me how France quickly got to 80% nuclear power, generates enough to export to neighbors, reprocesses their fuel, and has some of the cheapest power in the EU? These anti-nuclear talking points you bring up only sound true to someone who doesn't know how France is running their program.

What you seem to leave out is comparisions. There is no perfect power source, they all have costs and compromises. There is no long-term plan for solar power e-waste. There is no feasible plan for long-term power storage for wind or solar. So every single place that has gone renewable is also building more fossil fuel capacity if they are shutting down nuclear.

So like it or not, nuclear is a part of the solution. Now we just need to accept that and do it in the best possible way. Start designing new reactor architectures and get the industry out of the 60's.

Everyone who thinks that nuclear has a huge waste problem needs to actually go learn about the topic. There is a reason France isn't worried about it. Watch this video to see how they do it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Howard and Montgomery are not that much cheaper. Personally, being a recent transplant, I'd take great umbrage with designing and managing some of the most important IT systems in the country and only being able to afford a 70's starter home an hour away in a bankrupt suburb where the schools are no better than those in the midwest. Meanwhile having to drive a Ford Focus while the consultants that we magically have the budget to pay huge salaries drive Porsches and go to some of the best schools in the world, but have no accountability beyond me signing another check.

Well, you do have government shutdowns that could prevent you from getting a paycheck. And being in the DC area, it is hard to convince younger people to take federal pay given housing prices. It's not about wanting to afford a Porsche and a McMansion, but it would be nice to be able to live without needing 2 incomes. And is why I'm a consultant and not a fed employee. A retirement fund is nice, but given they are going after the DoD pension, I expect the civilian pensions to have numbered days.

A GS-15, the top non-executive pay band, caps at 172k in the DC area. That sounds awesome until you realize that IT engineers can get more than that as a contractor. And the average DC house price is 700k. So yeah, the people that came here in the 90's are doing well, and the younger people are struggling. The government is addicted to contracting in IT. But they manage it terribly. Partly why there is a push to go to the cloud, it shifts the blame.

Think about what the Teamsters do. Most organizations would willingly nuke their email system, not a big loss. But the Teamsters, and organizations like them, don't actually operate anything. Pension and healthcare are probably managed by 3rd parties, and they don't produce anything. So the email system and a file server are probably the most critical components of their organization.

That is why they were able to do it, nothing special about it.

How does this square with the long lives in Japan compare to the less worked Europeans?

There are plenty of people in IT with humanity degrees. It's like most of the workforce; it's not something that actually requires a college degree, just a willingness to learn a few skills and apply them. So I have no doubt that some people with humanity degrees have been personally involved in some of the economic/stock crashes of the recent past.

Prediction is a strong word for Google Maps given that I've driven the same route for over 2 years and it still cannot accurately predict my arrival time within 20% most days (DC Metro traffic is awesome). I can do that on my own without maps with a trip odometer, no fancy algorithms needed. What it will probably do is tell you what the load is "right now", which can be useful, but it is not prediction. If maps could truly "predict", then it wouldn't need to reroute you for anything other than accidents. When it reroutes you because of traffic, which in congested cities it does often, that is a sign that the prior prediction failed. Given that there is no metro in the US that runs on the level of accuracy of Japan, even the operations of the train are likely to throw off the predictions enough that you can't rely on it.

Probably not. It's most likely looking at server thermal output, server utilization, and the delta between the cold isle and the warm isle to figure out exactly how much cooling needs to be applied to what areas.

While this is awesome, it's light on details. I assume they loaded their datacenter with all kinds of sensors and have an advanced HVAC system that can mix external air when desired. So you look at current server load, predicted load based on past patterns, external temp, predicted external temp, along with internal temp, and then decide what air supply and cooling mix to use. So if you have CRAC units that are more advanced than on/off, and can use outside air with add/remove humidity, you can really draw down your cooling power usage.

What is upsetting, is that this technology isn't making it's way to Nest. Nest doesn't learn, often I'm adjusting as the humidity in the house goes up or down, so I adjust the AC. It doesn't learn my patterns, it just adds in more program points, which don't always apply. Oh, and if I leave it off and need to cool it from 85 to 70, what is the estimated time? 2+. Always 2+. It never actually figures out how long it will take for any value above 2 hours. It's marketed as this "deep learning" product for home HVAC, and it really isn't. I would love to see advances in commercial HVAC controls make their way to homes, but it's just not happening.

Look at any 4K TV listen on amazon and find just one that isn't "SMART". I just did and failed. You position like it's a choice when beyond basic TV's it's not a choice. It's becoming a forced option like power locks & windows. My blue-ray player is "smart". I haven't used those features since I got it. I wish they would have taken the $100 of components and dev time to put towards the primary function, play bluerays. I would love if mono-price came out with a 4k TV that was just a TV. Even if they took the money for SMART functions and put it towards extra ports or better clarity, I'd be happy.

This is becoming a non-choice for many consumers and I don't like it. Which is why I haven't gone 4k yet. I would today if that were different.