Can't speak for anyone else, but I'm not against autonomous driving. When it actually works. From my informal YouTube watchings, it's a long way from general availability. A long way.

And I'm a computer guy. A lover of tech. Perhaps even a nerd.

There you go, using facts and stuff. I just don't like the idea of other people farting in my chair.

You've obviously never seen my "dance".

The 1995 game was played 2-turns (not sure per side or 1 each) per night. Somehow the audience came up with a move, then the band decided their move during set break.

This 2020 game was played with the band on Zoom, and the fans on Chess.com and communicating somehow, probably Facebook/Twitter/etc. I joined watching, not playing, after the crash at Chess.com.

I was entertained. I like Phish, but am not a Phishhead. And it, along with "The Queen's Gambit", has me interested in actually learning to play well. If only I could f$#%7ing focus, dammit!

> But for most people, $500 a month isn't enough to seriously change their lifestyles...

If it's true that a significant % of USians can't handle a $400 emergency, imma gonna say $500/month would significantly change their lives.

^This^

My argument is that self-driving cars need to have the same sort of "general intelligence" to handle all the edge cases that humans usuallly handle so well. This is the same "general intelligence" that AI needs to get beyond expert systems and deep learning, to get to what I believe is called an AGI (Artificial General Intelligence).

Note that I have no training or education in AI. And I may have read the argument above somewhere else and just think I came up with it. :)

Until the magazines switched to converting the binary executable into 16 or 32 hex pairs in columns across many pages, and the checksum in an additional column on the right. Compute! and other C-64 magazine did that. I can't recall the name, but a very capable word processor was the end results of a weekend of typing in those hex digits... and then waiting until the next issue arrived with the all-to-frequent errata. I think that word processor took 2 errata lists.

While it was good that you'd eventually get a working program, the mere typing in the BASIC commands, seeing the logic (and sometimes some code documentation), and the lengthy typo-finding sessions did serve a purpose. A lot of learning there.

And just to cement my old hand status, first experience was a school's Commodore Pet, the one with the built-in tape drive and (possibly) the label-stuck-on-the-key type of keyboard. We'd wait 10 minutes to load some game (Trek usually) off tape, half the time there'd be a syntax error due to bad tape noise, so load again, play for 10 minutes until it crashed. LIST would show us the source code, and RUN would make it go again.

Get off my lawn!

I have a TED-5000. Very happy with it. 15-minute install in the main panel; the bigger hassle was resetting all the clocks in the house afterwards. Connected the gateway device to my home network, now any device that has a web browser can see power usage. Easily accessible from the outside world by web browser, with the right router settings. Monitoring is down to the second, with a claimed accuracy of +/-2%

Nothing need be installed on the PC, and it doesn't rely on a PC to store data; the gateway device records the data and is the web server.

The manufacturer seems pretty open; they publish the XML format and there are plenty of people reading the device with PHP scripts and logging to SQL databases for more flexible & permanent data storage. There are a few iPhone apps and I think there is a Android app, or talk about one. You can export the data from the gateway in second, minute, hour, daily, or montly format, with the follow capacities:

~2 days of per-minute data
~66 minutes of per-second data
~58 days of per-hour data (likely longer... I've only had mine for 58 days!)

One caveat: the device that connects to the power panel (a pair of current clamps and a pair of voltage taps) communicates with the gateway via power line. Seems like many of the problems people have are related to power line communications, either due to electical noise or other power line communications devices (e.g. X-10) in the house. Some people have success with filters (extra cost), others never seem to solve these problems.

I think it meets the poster's requirements for a), b), and c). It cost me $243 Canadian delivered to my door in 3 days from a Canadian supplier

http://www.powermeterstore.com/p7774/ted_5000_home_energy_monitor.php

No connection to either company here. Just a very happy customer.