Plus my utility in CO just cut the price of their 100% renewable offset by about 60% (because they are transitioning to 100% carbon free power, and they need to offset less now) and so my rate is actually lower than it was 2 years ago.

Even LLMs are great for just the morass of shitty business data. Like we get PDF orders from a bunch of our customers, they don't order enough or in a standard enough format to automate it properly but most of the time an LLM can digest that, match up the products and produce a result at least as well as a human can. There's just not much opportunity for it to go wrong, the product list is constrained, we also have it report out all the totals from the PDF so if the dollar amount doesn't add up we won't accept it. It's not solving the big business problems, but there are a lot of small problems where they can be really useful

Might actually solve the fentanyl crisis if it's more attractive to smuggle chips

This is pretty much a real life version of the "QA Engineer walks into a bar and orders -1 beers"

But presumably this AI system is creating order tickets and those do ultimately feed into supply chain stuff. I don't work in a taco field, but i've seen all kinds of weird knock on effects from people fat-fingering numbers on factory systems. I'm sure there's a process to go back and edit the order ticket to remove that number, but you have to ask yourself if a taco bell employee cares enough. They'll probably neither fill 1800 water cups nor edit the ticket - they'll just hand out one and laugh about it

Also it cost about $5.2M to build the plant, and it saves about $300k in annual fuel costs. The city got various grants to reduce their initial outlay, but it's a pretty long breakeven (plus they needed to replace the trucks with LNG variants, though I believe that they were already due for replacement anyway) Certainly it seems amazingly wasteful to just flare the methane from wastewater and landfill facilities, but maybe if we captures it at a larger scale the costs for that equipment would fall.

Longmont, CO uses the methane from their waste treatment plant to power most of their garbage trucks (and has done since 2019)

For a while the trucks drove around with "Powered by YOU!" banners on the side - they seem to have dropped that branding campaign

I ran a dedupe on my drive and eliminated 8 redundant copies of the goatse guy.

#SaveWaterWithGoatse

OpenSSH is the best known OpenBSD project, but they also makes pf (used in pfSense, OPNSense, etc.), OpenBGP, OpenNTPD, OpenSMTPD, OpenIKED, LibreSSL, etc.

Came for this comment.

I've played with it a little and it's amazing. I submitted a photo when I was charging my car with no real words or signs. It clocked a Colorado license plate, a Wyoming plate, identified the charging station, then identified the red brick and blue awnings typical of a mid 2000s front range Walmart. It guessed I was one town over, but it's an honest mistake and I don't think I could have told the difference

AI is poo.

You're reading my mind. FWIW I've been loving Go the past few years.

Ob: "C++ is to C as Lung Cancer is to Lung."

Yeah I don't super understand this. Models have been getting better and more efficient for years and that only seems to benefit nvidia.