I see your rivers catching fire and raise you Flint, Michigan, over-regulated government water suppliers that can be used for cooking and washing.

EPA wasn't properly established (it existed but had no teeth) until the late 80s early 90s (esp. the Clinton era) when pollution was already on a downturn.

Dude, I have been involved in "AI" and ML for at least 15 years now. It is not intelligent. It feigns intelligence by regurgitating string sentences from a database.

Yes, but someone did check the wrong box, the person they yelled over the phone at customer service simply followed protocol. It also is clear that some usage of the supercharger network is involved and likewise put in the wrong box. So it is a matter of Hertz screwed up and customer wants a discount because of it.

The law applies the same. If you on a regular basis delete your messages, like Amazon does here, then that cannot be held against you in a court of law until and unless you have been ordered by the court to preserve those messages. The investigations had not yet started, yet Amazon was supposed to comply with a discovery request?

The headline should read, despite massive investments to well over 150% of demand in nameplate capacity solar/wind still only supplies 15% of total demand in California.

It is actually close to the exact same limit that the Germans found, they then went to 200% and now close to 300% nameplate capacity of total demand and still get to about 12-15% total demand on a good year.

California rates are now 0.383.

It is closer to 100 years but 75 years to really start talking about grids. And we have had solar panels and wind power for the last 50 years of that, it was tried and failed several times.

That is what the summary implied.

Wind and solar are connected, more sun means more wind, look at the graphs. They are reaching it for 15 minutes per day and even then barely with the support of gas and coal (the overproduction is necessary to handle sudden drops and instability) and the record was held for 30 days in the late spring in California during exceptionally clear weather. From the graphs it is pretty clear that outside the sun being directly overhead they are getting less than 15% from solar and wind.

That means they need to expand production by more than 10000x just to get sufficient energy throughout the year (and then pay double to store it obviously). California is already consuming a significant amount of money and solar production capacity annually on this boondoggle.

If you stuff them in a database that means (at least) two reads per file from disk, once for the metadata and once for the data. You cannot have references to all your data in memory, that is why deduplication systems (eg in ZFS) are so memory hungry.

ZFS can do metadata caching on separate disks but this is only useful when you have lots of slow spinning disks and proportionally very fast metadata disks and you often need the metadata apart from the files (eg backup sets).

The question is can it run Intel 32 bit DLL-based Office plugins? The answer is no, since even the 64 bit version of Office cannot do it to the point they are still releasing the next versions of Office in 32 bit. They only just removed 16 bit support in Windows 11, it has been a long time since 1995.

Iâ(TM)m not sure about 32 bit code as that is a massive translation. 64 bit instructions are generally just a lookup away of having a similar enough series of instructions on ARM, since 64 bit Intel is really just a RISC architecture with 32 bit extensions.

Microsoft has been trying really hard to get rid of 32 bit and failing thus far, the last time they tried going with Qualcomm (the whole reason Windows 8 exists) failed also on the 32 bit and app compatibility issue, Apple successfully got rid of 32 bit before introducing ARM processors.

It wouldnâ(TM)t break a budget since you can do it for less than $200 with common hardware and Linux. The problem is people are lazy, government is wasteful and that makes things much more expensive than they need to be. Give them a fixed budget and make them compete while putting out liabilities like they do in commerce and things would get fixed really fast.

Because the summary is highly biased and written by people who have no concept of law.

Yet, maximizing profits and reducing taxation on the population has caused historical reductions in pollution.

It is quite obvious that if the government takes less and makes it easier to start a business, then more people will come up with ideas to displace the existing wasteful processes that cause pollution (which is what pollution effectively is, a waste product, something that hasnâ(TM)t been used to its full potential).

Instead we have taxed and regulated everything so that replacing an oil company that emits 2% of their raw product into the atmosphere requires massive investments (see Tesla) unattainable to most mortals and then put out rules that only entrench the existing companies and cannot be borne by new ones.