270 sqm, about the same latitude as Calgary, Alberta, Canada. 824 mm or 32.4 inches of rain every year, average temperature 10C / 50 F.

I really doubt your take on this. We are not talking about aleatoric music, where a random generator determines which notes and which riffs are combined, and with which metronome they are played along a randomized bass line.

This is something very else. An AI does not know about chords and timing and the difference between major and minor scales. It just takes the whole body of music out there and recombines it into a new piece of music. And if the seeding material contains music from the bands which goes off sheet to convey emotionality, then AI will mimic this.

Look at East Europe to see how towns with machine-built houses look like, and let me tell you: You don't want to live in a machine-built house. And don't get started with 3D printed houses or other gimicky stuff! 3D printing works only for housing built on newly developed land, because the necessary 3D printers are so large and have to somehow be moved on site and mounted there, which makes it impossible to use for instance in hilly environments. What you call hand-built (and which in fact is 95% machine work) works also when closing an empty space between already built houses, something which is very important in cities like Vienna. And finally look at your average house and at the total cost compared with the labor cost, and you will see that labor is not the factor which makes houses expensive!

I am sure they keep going that long. Currently, we are talking about 5000 charging cycles until the battery drops below 80% capacity. At a range of 300 miles, this is äquivalent to 1.5 million miles.

So much? Here around, the total price (panels + batteries + installation) costs less than $25.000. My sister-in-law just installed 20 square meters of solar and 12.5 kWh of batteries at her home.

How many years of electricity bills does it take to reach $120k? For me, it would be about 50 years -- considerably longer than I could reasonably expect the solar power system, and maybe my already-50-year-old house, to last.

You might want more antitrust enforcement and blocked mergers, but it's characteristically dishonest for you to say there have been zero of either.

An apparently human error, not a facial recognition one, unless you would call any other case where a chain sends out a picture of an innocent person and says "do not admit this person" a "facial recognition error".

The criticism is over the qualifier for the word "error", not the label as an error.

... and points out that Vienna has almost laughably mild weather: barely below freezing (-2 C) at its winter lows, and barely above warm (+27 C) for its summer highs. Unless the intention is to relocate all cities to places with such nice climates, it's not a useful "Model for How to Tackle the Both the Climate and Housing Crisis". And rooftop solar is theoretically fine, although usually so expensive as to never recoup its capital costs, in a single-family house with a good battery storage system, but it's not going to do much to reduce power usage in a typical multi-family apartment building.

The deciphering of military ranks is easy. A lieutenant is the deputy of the rank named directly behind. The word comes from French lieu = place and tenant = taker. A lieutenant colonel is the deputy of the colonel, a lieutenant general the deputy of a general, and a lieutenant without any specification is the deputy of a captain.

The major is the highest (Latin: maior) of captains - he is the connection between the captains, the heads (Latin: capus) of the companies, with the Staff, the colonel and his deputy, the lieutenant colonel. In the same way, the major general is the connection between the colonels and the General Staff.

It's still open; police have only arrested two of the three suspects:
https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/...
https://www.nydailynews.com/20...

Note that the second story makes it clear that this flight was because of gang affiliations, not because of xenophobia. See also https://nypost.com/2024/12/10/... .

The fact that there is no fracking under Fort Worth or Tulsa or any other settlement of comparable size.

They can be, but TFS makes a strong suggestion that they are also, metaphorically, tulip bulbs.

As I said, it's easy to pay some damage in rural areas, where there are only a few buildings, and they are mostly timber frame and can be repaired with some filler and a new coat of paint.

It's quite different if it's below an area with 1.3 million inhabitants, some very large chemical plants and most of the buildings are made from concrete and stone and not designed to withstand earth quakes.

My take is: The U.S. president will go on a site, hold a speech, and then we hear nothing for five years, then there are cost overruns on the site, and finally, the plant will never go online, but instead, a giga battery will be installed at the site.

Nuclear is simply expensive, and I don't think its price will go down. And don't you come with "France! France! France!" chants: France's nuclear power plants never turned a profit. France's customers pay for the electricity with their taxes.