There was actually an incident of this some years ago. A pensioner (not the USA, UK, or similar) was declared dead by mistake. So they stopped his payments, went to take his housing away, etc...
He ended up being the most polite thief, just for life necessities.
They eventually tried to arrest him. Except the computer wouldn't accept the entry because dead. Fingerprints were for a dead man.
Couldn't hold a normal court case because dead.
It took like a year to fix, and they decided to drop the charges and stuff because he paid the businesses back when they finally gave him the back money owed.

Autocorrupt: some to somehow

If the aftermarket fob is a cheaper build, one needs to look for a better quality kit. Never had a problem with my fobs.
And yes, the replacement fob did everything.

"It's an agent that prompts Claude,"

It's AI all the way down

With lead-acid and extended run times, volume starts mattering again. Especially if one is trying to retrofit cell towers that might not have had significant UPS capability before.

In addition, the lead-acid batteries in this use can last for a long time, and perhaps more importantly, the UPS equipment is set up for lead-acid. It's cheaper to replace the lead-acid batteries than it is to switch to a newer chemistry, even if LFP is getting down to lead-acid prices per kWh.

For a NEW install, I'd very much look at newer chemistries. Though NMC would be low on the consideration list. As you said, need durability not low mass/volume, and lower cost is always good.

I had an aftermarket remote starter in my truck, professionally installed, no problems with it for a decade.
They did hook it up, it replaced my original remote, so I didn't have to carry both.

Notion is really only valuable as a memory/brain for Claude these days. It actually excels at that when used properly. I was also annoyed by their gmail/calendar inetgration though. It really wanted to take over the inbox and tag things how it wanted. I just didn't understand the point of it.

I remember that, but things have improved a lot. A cell tower only takes 1-8kW, and we have drastically better batteries.
Plus, a lot fewer land lines, so need to keep the towers up for emergency services.

If I had the points, I'm not sure whether I'd mod you insightful or funny. I certainly laughed at it.
I also just replaced the starter in mom's 2005 Saturn Vue due to the relay going bad.
I'm not sure how that thing would start a fire, there's only 2 wires to it, unless the starter itself was bad.

Aftermarket power steering, that's a *shudder* from me.

I'm also very curious as to how one ends up with a separate fob for the starter, even in an ICE vehicle. Maybe fluffer is talking about a different part than what I'm thinking about?

Fluffer - to most of us, the starter is the electric motor that turns the engine in order to start the engine. It generally has a relay to signal time to start, and a wire directly from the battery to provide the amperage necessary to turn everything. Were you thinking of something different? I'm not aware of any starters that have anything really remote.

Unless the thinking is having a different fob for the car doors and operating the vehicle, like how early cars would have different keys for the doors and the starter, because they hadn't thought to match the two up yet, or that was considered too expensive.

Micron started a new fab at their HQ in 2024 and it's barely halfway built. They have another one going up somewhere on the east coast also. They take years to build and many billions of dollars. They don't go up over night.

I worked at Micron for almost 9 years and have seen the fabs being built. Its not small feat.

I see you registered here 3 minutes before me. I remember when this place was hosted in Robs dorm room.

well once they crossed 2 billion the signed integer representation made losses into profits

they don't have to make a profit on the investment. The investment is defensive. The goal is not to be outside the moat.

instead of explaining to my boss why he caught me spinning on my chair and stacking office supplies into Jenga towers as "I'm waiting for the compiler to finish" I can now tell him I'm waiting for claude to get back to me.

I was looking forward to tokenising the Swiss citizen. There would be fewer of them than bitcoins and not growing in populations, so by the same logic bitcoinETF use they would appreciate. And they are even backed by gold. Dang.. I'd have made a fortune.

> Meta doesn't really know how to do anything else with any skill.

They don't know how to do Facebook very well either: it's been pretty much stagnant and enshittified to death for the past 22 years, and it feels like a forum for greying people whose greying friends haven't bothered to move on either, or to get the date of the next annual meeting of the bridge club.