Comment Re: pay for the environment (Score 1) 85
It's ten years to payback where I am.
Where is that?
Also the whole 'pay now save later' only works for people with money in the first place.
Financing is available for solar installations.
Comment Copper and gold (Score -1, Redundant) 36
From the summary:
Every single Flock camera has about 2-3 pounds of copper and about 1-2 grams of gold
The entire camera weighs less than 3 pounds and contains a few grams of copper and less than a milligram of gold.
Comment Re:A specious assumption, on the face of it (Score 3, Informative) 34
American auto manufacturers exclusively make cars which have very little marketability other than in the U.S. itself.
Last year, America's automobile exports were worth $54B.
Comment C != C (Score 1) 70
It could be a case of confusing correlation with causation.
People who are easily confused and have trouble paying attention to the road will choose other professions.
Comment Re:Possible solutions (Score 0) 113
The best solution is to fire all blind police officers and hire police officers who can read and verify license plates before pulling anyone over.
Comment Re:What kind of hash? (Score 2) 53
Is it a hash of the actual file, or a perceptual hashing of the image scene?
It is a hash of the actual file.
Comment Re:"Free" isn't free (Score 1) 53
To be fair, I don't see Brian saying it is free.
The freeness claim appears to have been added by Slashdot editors.
Comment Re:Fool me (Score 1) 54
This is about electing the governor.
It is a statewide election, so gerrymandering is irrelevant.
Comment Re:Crap (Score 4, Informative) 249
Same with my Toyota Innova.
I have to tap "Agree" before I can use the car.
After tapping "Agree", it turns on the radio, so I also have to turn that off again. Every time.
I'm not sure what I'm agreeing to, since the terms and conditions aren't listed on the screen.
Comment Wind and sunshine (Score 3) 76
Texas has plenty of wind and sunshine.
They should be installing wind turbines in the Panhandle and solar panels in the Trans-Pecos region.
Someone should explain supply and demand to Governor Abbott.
Comment Re:Boom and Bust (Score 1) 83
semiconductor manufacturing has been a cyclical boom-bust business for pretty much forever.
And people making predictions about those booms and busts have been wrong pretty much forever.
Comment Re:Cost (Score 1) 73
what we need is for someone to focus on making them affordable
DeepSeek is doing exactly that.
DeepSeek is 30 times cheaper than OpenAI and delivers better results.
The reasons DeepSeek is cheaper are its use of less energy and the smart use of prompt caching.
Comment Re:Unsurprisingly, solar & BESS are expanding (Score 1) 120
Cuba gets slammed by a lot of hurricanes, which are bad for both solar panels and wind turbines.
Comment Re:Better Chairs for Layover/Delayed Flight Flyers (Score 1) 176
i think that all airport terminals should have proper and reclining seating
How much in additional taxes or airport fees are you willing to pay for that?
Comment Re:Not surprised (Score 1) 28
DeepSeek is designing a tensor processor. The instruction set is very simple. Mostly just lots and lots of parallelized low-precision multiply-and-accumulate.
