"New York's GDP per capita is higher than Californias, so if they were the same sized state with the same population they would outperform California."

Wat

Rent free

Yeah, that is ALWAYS wrong, PERIOD, because the government is inducing profit for someone at your expense. Literally everything you are required to pay for should be provided at cost.

They don't do it when I walk into a bus

They are evil, not necessarily incompetent. They make more by shafting customers than by serving them, and they buy laws which let them do that.

A traditional UPS comes in two variants, UPS and SPS, U = uninterruptible and S = standby. But anything which can supply backup power is arguably a UPS and that includes solar power systems and the like. These days it is common for them to be grid tying. And it's now common for grid tied inverters to have a boost mode, where they will compensate for voltage sags by supplying synchronized power. Therefore the functionality is absolutely available, though what exactly the hardware is called may vary.

He doesn't know shit except how to abuse customers and employees. He could definitely fall for someone telling him it's possible. It's fundamentally a stupid idea, because the brain is not a computer and doesn't execute instructions like one, and therefore doesn't have any such thing as a core algorithm. The closest thing it has to that is physics.

It's one thing to retain all of the video forever. It's another thing to analyze the video and store notes about what occurred forever, and store any interesting video forever. They can be and probably are doing both things because it would be valuable AI training data.

FTFS:

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If it took three months to figure out it was a Waymo, they weren't working on that case for most of that time. Perhaps they were working other cases, but not doing some quick preliminary work when new cases come in to see if they can be moved forward is fucking up by definition.

It's more likely to get sent to the nearest news outlet by the other side. Literally.

Well, this is going to depend a whole lot on how you define workstation.

There have been multiprocessor PCs going back at least to 486s. SunOS 4 for x86 (which has been a thing for a lot of years) and SCO Unix would both run on a machine with 8x 486DX processors. That was pretty much intended as a server so far as I know, though.

A Sun SS10 (1992) has 2x SBus slots, each of which can be loaded with a 2x hyperSPARC module, available at up to 200 MHz. We had a SS10 and SS20 at Silicon Engineering called seismic and something else starting with sei (we had seine and seidel and seizure and so on, back then on pretty much any UNIX system you could grep the words file) and the SS10 had dual-dual 85 MHz modules, the SS20 dual-dual 125 MHz. Those speeds might be estimates. These machines were both workstations and servers; we used DQS to distribute Verilog and similar jobs to machines with lots of CPU. But people sat at those machines at the same time.

There were also definitely dual Pentium Pro boards from pretty early on, but that was too rich for my blood. I thought about doing a dual celery when that came around, but then Athlon came out and solved my need for more CPU without more Intel.

The same people can be right and wrong, because there's a lot of different aspects to most situations.

Have you ever punctured a lipo cell? I have. Nothing happened. Then I put it in water. There were a few little bubbles. Over the next two years the pack gradually grew until it was about three times its prior size, and hard. At no time did it emit flames. (I kept it in a coffee can.)

I think NCM batteries in particular are fucking terrible and I don't want to downplay that there is a risk of thermal runaway for all lithium cells with liquid (etc) electrolyte, but overstating the case is not a help.

When was their enterprise product solid? When it was Xenix?

I agree we should generally be going EV (I can't, though) but it's convenient to have a gas station in your neighborhood because you might be headed away from wherever else it might be located.

For EVs filling up is more annoying (as it takes longer) so that raises the desire to do it closer to home. And indeed, people do tend to do it there. I don't have anywhere else convenient to do it, and it's not convenient at home, which is why I can't reasonably have one.