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Comment Re:Never let perfect be the enemy of good (Score 1) 136

I suppose it depends on whether you want a comprehensive solution.

Switching to electric without also providing external ventilation doesn't solve the problem. Adding external ventilation to a gas range does, and still allows switching to electric in the future for even further gains.

In this sense "don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good" doesn't tell you which of the two imperfect solutions is better -- but I'm making the claim that the proper ordering from best to worst is electric + ventilation > gas + ventilation > electric + !ventilation > gas + !ventilation.

Comment Re:For those getting pitchforks ready (Score 1) 136

What I'm saying is that a minimal safe setup anyways requires an externally-ventilated hood regardless of the cooking fuel type.

Given that this is not mandated by building codes as it is, it's silly to mandate electric over gas. Neither of them are safe without external ventilation.

Comment Tax Credit expires at the end of August (Score 1) 103

The $7500 tax credit implies a discount in the ballpark of 15% on a vehicle but expires at the end of the month. I'd expect that this is bringing forward a lot of sales that would happen for the rest of the year to take advantage before it goes away.

To be a real sense of the trend of sales, you'd have to average the before-tax-expiration and after-tax-expiration months to see what's up. Otherwise you're just measuring noise.

Comment Re:The Pale Moon guy's attitude sucks (Score 1) 162

Unacceptable according to whom?

Part of the design of the web is that anyone can run any service which exchanges any data they wish. While everyone is entitled to share an opinion on those protocols, it's not up to anyone else to proclaim what is and is not acceptable.

Ultimately what individual hosts o the web do is up to them.

Comment The ultimate reality check for alternative energy (Score 4, Interesting) 41

I really hope that this ends up winnowing out the field of renewable energy sources to the true winners. We've had a great boom in the ideas, innovation and efforts, all great stuff, now it's time to call in the bills.

I'd like to see where they can stand on actually offering to power a giant datacenter or whatever with these alternate sources -- put up your best offers: X GW for $Y/MWH for Z years, contractually set. That's what the natural gas folks will do.

Comment Re:The people the AI creators ripped off that is w (Score 2) 157

A human does not digest a huge dataset, produce random output, assess if that output is desired, tweak the parameters a little and repeat until the result is "good enough".

Honestly, this is exactly what my 2 year old does when speaking to adults. His "good enough" result is "adults can understand what I'm saying".

I cannot imagine how anyone that has even met a toddler wouldn't immediately identify that this is _precisely_ what they do.

Comment Re:Right (Score 2) 57

The big tech companies all hold a trove of patents to be used defensively. The idea is mutually assured destruction -- sue Microsoft for patent infringement and they can surely find something you do that's covered by one of theirs.

This is probably a good thing insofar as they have essentially disclaimed offensive use of them even against smaller competitors.

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