Plenty of trucks and other vehicles have little or any effective view directly out the back. To be blunt: If you need to look through your rear-view mirror to not kill someone, you either need better side mirrors or you need to learn to drive.

Today whole day is ~2c/kWh. "don't work very well". vittu mikä palikka.

Back in 2023, class 8 electric trucks were tracked for a few weeks to obtain real-world information about how they were used and performed.

Pepsi had three Tesla Semis. They tended to be driven farther in a day than any of the other entries. The longest distance driven in a day appeared to be 1,076 miles.

RunOnLess log for one of Pepsi's Tesla Semis

This often gets said, but it's not true. They got a $465M DOE loan. But that was a loan, which they paid back. Federal tax incentives went to anyone buying any EV from any company.

I don't think I've ever seen an article sit around this long with no comments.

It hasn't been "autocomplete" in a long time. Sure, there's a training step based on a corpus of Human language, and the autoregressive process outputs a single token at a time, but reinforcement learning trains specific behaviors beyond merely completing a sentence.

Besides, the best way to write something indistinguishable from what a Human might write is to, well, "think" like a Human.

Are we, as a sapient species facing an uncertain prospect of continuence in a world full of rapidly-advancing bullshit going to learn from this catastrophic and absurdly predictable failure of information security, personal and professional ethics, civilian government, market economics, basic common sense, and consumer psychology?

Eight-Ball-Based-On-Cursory-Reading-Of-Literally-Any-Slice-of-Human-History says "no".

What do you say, and why is it also "no"?

Proprietary service drops support for proprietary protocol..

I've been using this Chrome extension to remove annoying things like this from websites:

Click to Remove Element

Tom7 is a colleague of mine. He puts out a couple of entertaining videos every year about esoteric semi-comp-sci related stuff.

Here's the video referenced by the linked article where he discovered this shape:

Rupert's Snub Cube and other Math Holes

The heat entering your office building comes in from ALL surfaces.

The heat being expelled from your office building is concentrated at the condensers.

But it's the same amount of heat in steady-state, assuming the office is maintaining a steady temperature.

Even if the AC would have infinite efficiency (instead of typical values of 2-3), you are increasing temperature out-of-the-house by reducing temperature in-house.

Only at startup. In steady state, it is simply maintaining a temperature in the house by offsetting any heat that is entering the house from the outside. It adds no more heat to the outside than what is entering the house from outside, other than a minor amount of heat due to operating inefficiency.

Well, yes, Canada belongs to the Commonwealth of Nations, which is why King Charles has to approve every law that they try to pass.

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I have a slightly different view of this history. Instead of: "The history here is that this project was very popular on cloud providers (e.g. AWS calls their offering "Elasticache") and the original authors got pissy that they were being cut out of whatever money was being paid for using their free software. So they changed the license and here we are.", I would say: "... and the original investors got pissy that they were being cut out of whatever money was being paid for using the free software in which they invested, although 70% of it was written by others. So they changed the license, they disbanded the Core Team after the original developer left, and here we are."

Redis was not written by Redis Ltd (the company). It was originally written and released more than 15 years ago by Salvatore Sanfilippo (a.k.a. antirez) who was soon joined by a community of developers who loved this open source in-memory database and started contributing to it. The project was sponsored by VMWare/Pivotal for a while, but in 2015 it was bought by a company that had renamed itself Redis Labs (originally Garantia Data). Under the new ownership, Redis continued being open source but in 2018 some optional modules were converted to the proprietary SSPL license. This caused some controversy but the company promised that the core of Redis would always remain free and open source. This worked for a few years and this even survived the departure of the original developer. The Redis project continued being developed by a community led by a Core Team of developers coming from various companies (the main ones being Madelyn Olson from AWS and Zhao Zhao from Alibaba Cloud).

But last year, things changed even more. The company that had renamed itself again from Redis Labs to Redis Ltd decided to break their 2018 promise and announced that they would release the next version of Redis under a proprietary license. They also decided to disband the Core Team and take complete control over the core of Redis. The former members of the Core Team left the Redis project and moved to the fork that eventually became Valkey. According to Madelyn Olson, 70% of the Redis code was written by people outside Redis Ltd, so this story is rather different from some other projects in which the original developers wanted to stop the evil cloud hyperscalers who were profiting from their code without giving anything back. In the case of Redis, some of the core code was actually written by people paid by those could companies and only a minority of the code was written by Redis Ltd.