Contractor grade spec house asphalt roof shingles. If I was to replace it and planned to stay here during retirement I'd go steel. But I don't plan to stay here so I'm hoping to get out before it's a thing.

They also must be certified by an outside safety organization like Underwriters Laboratories and have a feature that would prevent electricity from feeding back into the grid if there's a power outage.

Yea, I'm sure Amazon will enforce that law.

The playbooks are written. Trump opened the flood gates of an already flooded region. We now are ruled by executive decree alone. The next president will do the same and congress will be toothless. Newsom is already emulating Trump like behavior in his child like social media trolls. He's likely to be the democratic candidate. Who will replace Trump? Vance? Objectively worse as he's young enough to double down on the behavior.

The future is just social media trolling, presidential decrees that last an administration, continuing budget resolutions for 3 months at a time, and constant debt. If we are lucky at best they manage to do nothing.

I also live in an area where contractors exploit the fact you live here. Basically if you leave this litltle mcmansion area your quotes will go down at least 15%. I recently wanted to remodel my bathroom. Cheapest quote? 65k. Ended up learning to lay tile myself.

New forced air HVAC with natural gas heat and AC? Cheapest quote? 29k. It's like they see the area and just bump the price.

The companies that do the solar don't install roofing for some reason. The quote for the solar (I think it was 25kw and I think dual inverter) was about 37k before batteries. There were also some technical issues electrically at the time which may no longer be true 4 years later which was that the batteries couldn't handle some household items so I'd need to place them on a second panel to tolerate electrical outages.

On top of that my state has ended net metering so excess energy can only be given for free to the power company. There are also connection minimums so even if you are 100% solar during a summer month you are still on the hook for $20. It's a fairly hostile place for solar even if it's a good place to actually have it. The county has passed a lot of ordiances to prevent any large scale projects from being built citing 'environmental damage'.

The better play is to wait for retirement, build/buy a smaller home and at that time ensure it's solar. If I need to handle power outages in the mean time a natural gas generator would be far cheaper and easier.

Yes, but the party system means you basically have two ever worsening choices. There is no return to normalcy, This is the new normal. The next president will be just a bit worse than Donald Trump. The president after that just a bit worse. Because you are not voting for a person. You are voting for a winner take all the other side is evil poltical party.

They don't give you a choice, not really. You pick the face, the party picks the plan. Trump is a useful idiot for advancing the goals of the GOP. Biden was the same for democrats. This isn't a centrist viewpoint because I do think there is one evil better than another and I vote for every single election. If I have to choose between being punched in the face or punched in the dick I'm not going to say "Well both spots are on the body so neither is worse".

I'd love to have full roof solar. The studies they have ran show it would handle 110% of my daily power needs in the summer. The problem. My roof is from 2008 and will probably need to be replaced in 5-7 years. Because of the high pitch of the roof I have about 4700sq feet of roof. That's about $40,000 right there in my area. Add solar and we are nearing 6 figures.

I know I'll downsize in retirement, unless the pay back is 10 years it makes no sense for me. Today's market doesn't value the solar panels on the roof so that money is a sunk cost.

Trump likes things named after him. He put his name everywhere, including the Kennedy Center.

More importantly, I cannot wait for the day where I NEVER see or hear his name again.

"E. Jean Carroll" would piss him off, be kept long after he left office, and people would always remember his crimes before they thought of him.

You appear to have poor social skills. It's OK, so do I.

Nile's experiments have turned non-food into food, multiple times. That is what he has done and that is what they have done. That is the relations.

Yes, he is a chemist, so yes he did it with chemistry. Yes they did it with biology. Doing it with biology is less difficult and less expensive, but the method is NOT what is important.

The thing everyone cares about is taking non-food and turning it into food. That is why people click the link.

Also, nobody cares if the plastic was made from injection molding or from 3d printing. Nor does the type of plastic matter.

See subject.

I review all PRs no different than if you made a PR to me. Like a human made PR I also provide feedback and gate keep what makes it to production.

I use AI a ton in my day job to accelerate my work. But I use it very much how I use junior to mid career engineers. I define the contracts, specs, the API shape, the expexted inputs and outputs. I write the critical tests and define everything from how you install dependencies to the exact commands that must run to be a 'pass'.

Then I write tasks as business cases and assign them to 'workers' which are ephemeral and run on a dedicated container stack. Those workers develop a plan and fan out to other agents using a defined list of what model and 'thinking' level is best for what type of task. Those agents do the work, check it for accuracy, review it for compliance to my standards, and check it for secuirty and code smell. They communicate between each other via the 'worker' with 'memory' living in a markdown file names after the issue/task number. Finally I get back a PR which I critically review and the process can churn while I do other things. As I have access to pretty much any model I can also test smaller tasks with multiple models as the 'worker' or the agents to determine if new models are better. For example fable could plan, terra could write the code, and opus could review the work for alginment to the task, plan, project charter, and other specs.

Eventually we get quality code that can be merged or I pull down the branch and finish it up or add a new test to get the AI back on the roadmap.

Like real humans my AI workers have their own identities in the org with their own permissions so they can't do everything I can do. This gives me the safety I need to let them work without worrying about the "AI deleted my prod database" situations. Unlike my humans they never get promoted and can't learn. They can only replaced by a better model for the task.

My company just implemented responsible use training.

Besides the security concerns, the big one was you don't use AI to build a system you can't support without AI if you intend anyone to use it or for it to be a critical part of your job role.

Sounds like that big rule got missed at amazon.