I've recently started looking at my power consumption on a 15-minute graph, and it turns out that power usage isn't all that much less during the night. In fact, at times it is higher because all the lights are turned up. But even at night, there's the fridge and freezer, the house electronics, security cameras, etc.

Turns out the stuff I need for work - a notebook and an external screen - barely register.

Yes, and different inverters. I've got a very small solar array, and the micro-inverter on it doesn't even work if it can't find the main power grid to sync to.

A battery will get you over some power grid outage, but not totally off-grid.

You are totally wrong.

I've installed a really small solar array and on sunny days I produce more electricity than I use. I'm sure it'll be a lot less in winter. BUT - I have a wood-burning heater which needs only a bit of electrical power for its control system. I'm pretty sure I can produce enough of that even in winter. So in theory, with the addition of a battery to cover the night, I could survive even if the power grid went down for an extended time.

Solar as a provider of independence doesn't mean everything needs to run on solar. Sometimes, it's just an enabler for another system.

So, in a nutshell, AI runs the risk of creating unrealistic relationship expectations and simulate perfection? No way. That's a completely new thing in the world. Romance novels, movies, gold diggers or marriage swindlers or just, frankly, a whole lot of ordinary people into "presenting themselves" in order to "score" a good catch, rather than being authentic and looking for a good match - I'm sure all of these things are hypothetical, don't already do essentially the same thing just with a lot less processing power, and cause the same issues.

But hey, this one has "AI" in it, so hype!

This. I've started with solar. Now that in good weather I produce more than I consume, I'm thinking about adding storage next. Once you have solar power with storage, an EV or at least a plug-in hybrid becomes a logical next step.

That's not necessarily a given.

Developing countries have the advantage of not having an established base. For example, mobile phones took Africa by storm and were available in many places where landlines were not. And with smartphones, for a while Africa was leading in mobile payment systems - exactly because it didn't have the established base the developed world has.

With solar power and batteries dropping in price, solar is an obvious choice for people in developing countries where the power grid is unreliable. Once you have solar power and storage anyways, an EV means independence from oil prices and not having to drive to a petrol station to refill.

EVs are coming down in price rapidly. They might soon be an actual alternative outside the developed world.

I've actively looked to Japan and China for alternatives as I don't trust American ability to deliver. They are far too overextended. And Israel... Ummm... I feel as though they're one or two bad conflicts away before the supply chain is disrupted.

I won't discount the possibility of a TI error, but if this is the case, they should have never manufactured more than a few hundred units. If every 20th chip fails immediately off the reel... and in a dangerous manor, none of the chips on the reel should be shipped. That is grossly negligent to continue producing such a flawed design.

Almost all similar problems I've experienced have been related to poor input power conditioning. Most often when I try to trim the BOM for cost.

Uh... it even has its own Wikipedia page: women, life, freedom.

It was pretty much all over western media for a while. Before some B-stars affair, divorce or whatever became more important

According to some sources. Other sources say the opposite. I guess we need to wait and see.

Afraid that the Iranian people finally rise up against the Mullah regime? Control of communications is high on the dictatorship 101 list.

A job is obsolete when a person is no longer needed to perform it.

A job that can be replaced by a machine and increase ROI, meaning the overall cost of the machine is less... Or if a job is distasteful enough or dangerous enough a human shouldn't do it, we have an ethical duty to use the machine instead.

We will replace humans far more rapidly over the next 10 years than ever before. The job market won't keep up. We should expect to see national emergencies and a lot of discord.

400Gb/s is about 40GB/s. That's 144TB/hr or ~7hr per PB.

I have dedicated 400Gb/s links all over 10 countries and 100Gb/s all over a bunch more. Pretty sure there are a few in China. I think it's typically costing me $25-30KUSD per fiber (8xwavelengths) per year on 25 year leases.

If you're in the game, you buy fiber. It costs nothing. And transferring to spinning rust at 150MB/s per drive and flying it is much slower and much less reliable. 7GB/s per sled for 64TB Huawei SSD is much better, but much more of a headache than just signing a lease for about the cost of one small NVidia DGX.

Of course, running a local farm of Huawei Ascend is just faster, cheaper and smarter.

Problem is, it's the NVidia software stack, not the chips that they want.

I've seen eight-minute videos interrupted by a five-minute ad block.

As opposed to the literal fascists in the current administration? Because fascists have historically always clamped down on antisemitism.