Sigh, it's been so long since I bothered to post here, I forgot the formatting is non-existent. Sorry about the wall of text. :/

Geothermal is fantastic in certain locations. Iceland is approaching 1GW of power generation from geothermal and uses geothermal to heat over 70% of their homes with it. Maybe it's not as helpful in the US, but it does have certain use-cases. Tidal power has a few spots where it would be fantastic. Can you imagine how much power you could generate from the tides at Bay of Fundy? (Looks like it's around 7GW, and 2.5GW if you wanted to limit the change in tides in the region to ~6%) I'm a big proponent of nuclear power, because I also know realistically we need to have enough power sources to pick up the slack from other sources. Can we reduce fossil fuel usage to 0% for power? Not yet. Even if we could build out the renewables, we still need some sort of storage technology cheap enough to straddle any shortages. But as battery technology improves and prices decrease, that storage becomes more and more viable. Hydropower has been an integral part of US base power generation, but wind power now doubles hydro, and solar/photovoltaics are also greater than hydro (which surprised me considering the importance of hydro in the past, US power usage has increased dramatically over the last century while hydro has only marginally increased). You can claim all sorts of reasons to dismiss renewables. But renewables are a critical part of our energy infrastructure. And I'm happy to have more nuclear power being built. Because I want to see a decrease in fossil fuel usage and both Nuclear and renewables both accomplish that. And yes there will be a use-cases for Fossil Fuel types (barring some way to create hydrocarbons from CO2 and H2O through renewable sources) but there is a difference in using it because the advantages of it outweigh the drawbacks, and using it because when there are other options that are the same order of magnitude viable to replace it.

I had one breakthrough DMT experience where I saw 'the machine elves' (I just saw what I describe as fast-moving fractals that I 'felt' were beckoning to me); but, we have matching experiences w/the other primary psychedelics: I only had relatively minor on-top visual distortions with even the largest doses of LSD (1500+ mcg) or mushrooms.

That said, everyone is different. I know that some of my friends absolutely lost their fucking minds on a few tabs of LSD and, purportedly, experienced wild hallucinations that I have to trust were real to them but haven't ever experienced myself.

Boom meet bust.

Which is a bit crazy since the llm probably trained on the open source code to begin with

I had VERY SPECIFIC requirements and I wanted the extended warranty. I would have paid 2x at a dealer. I know what I was doing.

I bought a used 2020 XC90 from CarMax last week. I did everything online from shipping it from Texas to Minnesota to financing the extended warranty. I walked in the door, gave them a cashier's check, and drove away within 10 minutes.

That's how it should be.

Tariffs always apply to the import. Yes, I agree if there are cases where digital content is bounced back and forth across borders while incurring some value add step then that becomes hard to track both internally and externally. But no more difficult than likewise having manufacturing that has a supply chain across borders. Real businesses have accounting for such things.

https://archive.is/uyPhk

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Anthropic is prepared to loosen its current terms of use, but wants to ensure its tools aren't used to spy on Americans en masse, or to develop weapons that fire with no human involvement.

The Pentagon claims that's unduly restrictive, and that there are all sorts of gray areas that would make it unworkable to operate on such terms. Pentagon officials are insisting in negotiations with Anthropic and three other big AI labs â" OpenAI, Google and xAI â" that the military be able to use their tools for "all lawful purposes."

https://livingwage.mit.edu/met...

Typical annual salary, according to MIT's Living Wage Calculator for the NYC Metro, is $84,860.

Poverty wage is $7.52/hr (no kids) and minimum wage is $15.50 which, according to the calculator, should cover 1 adult with 3 kids.

The Brearley School, regarded as the best private school for girls in the nation and charging around $70K, is a non-profit.

What shareholders?

Dude, ok, maybe the depression doesn't go away or comes back, but what do you have to lose? worst case scenario you're still depressed but otherwise healthier. Yes, it does sound like you don't want to get off your butt and exercise. I HATE exercise and I always have, I go to the gym 5 times a week and work out intensely and I'm otherwise active, do I like it? no. There's hundreds of things I'd rather be doing. But I love how I feel to be in shape, and I have the stupid goal of wanting to die healthy.

For Aldi, which uses Instacart, I assumed it was because there is no 'fee' for pickup, but they have to pay someone to shop for you. I consider the difference a convenience fee.

That said, by not shopping in store, I end up getting only what is on my list and end up paying FAR LESS than I would if I was wandering around.

You literally have no idea what you're talking about If nothing else. Where is the excess energy from the energy budget imbalance going besides into heating the planet? At least make a real effort to get basic knowledge about the earth system before making remarks. Your ignorance is not useful.

I found GP2.5 to be great at academic-style research and writing; it was absolutely awful at writing code. So; I would tell it to plan some thing for me and write it in a way that could be used by another agent (Claude Code) to build the code to do the thing. In this way, it has been great! I haven't yet attempted it with 3.

That said, I found GP3.0's page to be hilarious:

It demonstrates PhD-level reasoning with top scores on Humanityâ(TM)s Last Exam (37.5% without the usage of any tools) and GPQA Diamond (91.9%). It also sets a new standard for frontier models in mathematics, achieving a new state-of-the-art of 23.4% on MathArena Apex.

It then proceeds to show, lower down on the page, an example of what it can do, by showing off 'Our Family Recipes". If there's anything that touts PhD-level reasoning and writing, it's a recipe book.