Insulation does help with humidity too. When I had my home insulated the humidity dropped 10-15% immediately.

Looking at the graph it seems like they reached it for around 6 hours a day.

Wind and solar are loosely connected, but air currents travel very long distances and are affected by heating more so than solar PV is able to generate on overcast days. Wind is also created when the temperature falls, which is typically when solar is not performing so well.

And in any case, the wind offshore is much more consistent and reliable. As you start deploying very tall offshore turbines, you start seeing the capacity factor get up quite high. Prototype very large ones are around 65% now, which is better than some nuclear plants, and more reliable.

This becomes less of an issue as you add more renewables and long distance transmission. When you size the system to provide at least 100% of demand for 95% of the time, you will very often have excess energy to use for other things.

Electrically heated desalination has some other issues, but hydrogen production via electrolysis can take advantage of intermittent supplies of electricity. Such things are good for increasing demand for renewable energy, which gets us closer to that 95% coverage.

Interestingly in Japan many roads either don't have a pavement or have a very narrow, minimal one. Yet their fatal accident rate is lower than the UK, which has similar cars with similar safety features, but much wider and more consistent pavements.

The main difference seems to be that Japan has lower speed limits. Also perhaps something to do with culture, although I've noticed that at least some Japanese drivers speed habitually, and have fairly heavy right feet.

It's unfortunate that we can't do enough to improve road layouts that things like LTNs aren't necessary in some cities. Hopefully if these 1.5 million new houses get built (lol) they will design them from the very start to make sure such things aren't necessary.

But it's not just solar, it's all renewables. Wind and hydro.

In the UK and some other parts of Europe there is so much wind that prices often go negative at night, usually in the early hours of the morning.

It seems like the only reason anyone would want them is because they already have other Sonos gear to integrate with, i.e. vendor lock-in. Otherwise they are considerably more expensive than the market leaders like Sony.

I'm sticking with DOpus now, but I'm not happy with their new subscription model for updates. I will keep an eye on it and see how it pans out, because they have not announced pricing yet and everyone currently has two years of "free" updates, but if it's bad enough I may have to move.

Double Command looks interesting but doesn't seem to support DOpus' multi window system, which is how I always use it. I may just stick with the last free update of DOpus, since it rarely seems to have any security issues. Getting in all the bug reports during the free period too.

Spell checking is a Windows API so it is trivial to add support for it. It won't add much bloat to the code, the actual spell checking stuff is all in Windows.

Version management in the file browser is also popular, e.g. TortoiseCVS and TortoiseGIT. Some people just like managing versions that way.

AI in file search is the really stupid one. PowerToys Run is a decent implementation, with control over what is included. Windows Search has always been terrible and AI will only make it worse.

So to use the AI part you have to supply it with your own OpenAI API key, and it uses your credits. So anyone using it will be fully aware what it is doing, because it's just a shortcut to pasting it into the website and copying the response.

There is some useful local-only functionality for developers. It can convert formatted text and XML to JSON, and convert formatted text to Markdown. I hate Markdown but a lot of stuff uses it. I bet it screws up all your tabs.

Clearly whatever requirements you are referring to are inadequate, because many commercial AI systems have proven to be illegally biased.

AI is something of a special case too, because nobody understands how it really makes decisions. You usually can't ask it to explain itself in any meaningful way either. GDPR actually recognizes that for data processing, where individuals have the right to have automated decisions reviewed by a human, and explained. But AI expands it much further and to the point where it makes sense to require mandatory testing by the vendor.

There will also be requirements for those tests, similar to the CE mark for product safety. Can't just rely on testing done in China, it has to be proven in the EU, which creates legal liability for the tester.

If you read the summary you will note that a lot of the rules apply to governments, e.g. using surveillance. Governments are typically not motivated by revenue when doing security work.

Not that EU fines for businesses are anything to sniff at. For GDPR they are 4% of global revenue (not profit), which is something that even the big tech giants have shown an unwillingness to ignore or accept as the cost of doing business. Even Apple rolled over on 3rd party iOS app stores.

The way to deal with it is to offer treatment. Anonymous, and kept out of medical records etc. Give people who are attracted to minors a way to get help that doesn't risk ruining their lives.

You make the bizarre assumption that renewable capacity won't grow and California will just try to reduce fossil fuels from this point, despite the fact that new renewables are being installed TODAY.

What will actually happen is that renewable capacity will keep growing, and imports and gas use will continue to reduce. The end game is net zero, which might involve running some fossil plants for a few days a year, with offsetting of their emissions. It's fine to emit a little if the same amount can be removed from the atmosphere.

Nuclear won't be a viable part of it, it's not flexible enough.

In the UK you have a choice of what various different energy providers offer, and some offer 15 minute pricing.

You can also give them some control over your EV charger, so you set a certain % charge you need by a certain time, and they can pick the hours needed to meet it.