No, kWh is not a better measure. They have a battery that can charge in 7 mins. You can then add as many of them in parallel as you want.

If you insist on another metric, then gravimetric and volumetric density would be interesting.

They should. Calculators have no place in school.

Well, yeah. It's a dirt-cheap disposable device for content consumption.

A more fundamental reason is that they switched away from Android to Vega. It's a custom OS with a React.Native-based UI. There is literally no infrastructure in it for side-loaded apps.

Pushing more and more people into dense urban landscapes that are hostile to life does not lead to happy people? You don't say...

Unironically, yes. A whiteboard or a blackboard is all you need. No videos in classroom except for special occasions.

This is incorrect. Lungs are efficient at mixing gases and so breathing SF6 is safe, as long as you give yourself breaks to re-oxygenate.

I mean it's obvious that Whiskey Pete has been letting Claude write his speeches and make his decisions this whole time, right?

It's even obvious that Claude is sourcing Colin Jost's "Weekend Update" performances for some of it.

It's probably why he wanted Anthropic to take off all the guard rails so that he can use it to commit more and better war crimes.

My Audi has this indirect system too.

One downside for me is that while it will alert me to an abnormal leak, it won't (hasn't, in 4 years) alerted me to uniform low pressure across all four, such as during a cold snap in the fall.

But the culvert at the end of my driveway is basically a speed bump, and it *will feel wrong if the pressure is low.

Yes, many times. I have a friend from Kenya, so I'm visiting Africa periodically. Solar in Africa is booming, and it's perfect for EV charging. Just like with mobile phones leapfrogging the fixed landlines, Africa will leapfrog global grids.

And the poorer countries will take more time to switch, of course. They'll need to wait for used cars to start coming from China. Meanwhile, people are switching from gas mopeds to electric mopeds. Uber in Kenya now has an option to get an EV bike taxi, for example.

Yes, it is. And Europe pushed back the full EV deadline by 10%, still requiring 90% of emissions from vehicles to be eliminated. This effectively changes nothing.

Outside the EU, EV production is growing as fast as it can scale. Asian countries are the main expansion area right now. For example, last year almost 40% of new cars in Vietnam became EVs, and this year Thailand is probably going to be 60%. Africa is next, these $10000 cars from China are going to be a smash hit there.

And the thing is, once people switch to EVs, they tend to stick with EVs.

This is like watching that section of airplane disaster re-enactment videos where the pilots are confidently flying straight into a mountain. The next section is the sound of GPWS desperately screaming "Pull-Up! Pull-Up!" just before the crash.

The rest of the world is rapidly shifting to EVs, and the US automakers are building a bigger Canyonero. Now with more dead dinosaur exhaust! And we're supposed to be calmed down by the fact that they're bringing an overpriced shitty EV pickup truck in 2 years?

In 20 years, the second Trump's presidency will be seen as the final straw that killed the US economy. Just an example, a company that was trying to make sodium-ion batteries in the US went bankrupt this summer. They had product sitting in their warehouses but were unable to ship it to customers before getting a UL certification. And they couldn't get a bridge loan from the government or investors. The end result: a company destroyed. I'm pretty sure we'll find competing interests in play there.

Dad was never one to assign long papers.

Used to tell his students that if they can't say what they need to say in 3 pages (single-sided), they don't understand the subject.

Older generations have always said that younger generations are weak, but the other day i saw someone complaining that it's unrealistic to expect people to write a 600-word essay without help from an LLM.

I wrote 10-page papers in freakin high school. Granted it was a private school, but i could get past 600 words in the summary.

i come at this from a weird angle because my father was a professor of creative writing and american lit for 39 years, and he has always been outspoken on the point that it is absurd to suggest that everyone should have a university education, let alone a university education that means that people who have no interest in writing have to do their damnedest to get a D in his class.

FWIW he was also famous for telling lazy students that he can enter their final grade as an F right now and they can stop coming to his class for the rest of the semester.

He retired before the rise of LLMs but says he never had any use for the plagiarism checking websites because he can tell in the first paragraph whether his student wrote it or not. Because he pays attention, knows what their speech patterns and vocabulary are like, so he can recognize their voice on the page.

He also took time to explain to his students the importance of paraphrasing, and the appropriate use of bullshit. Writing with absolutely no BS in it tends to read like an owner's manual for a microwave, so you need a little, but you do need to know how much is too much.

My employer's client has recently been quite firm on the point that we should be "leveraging AI", and more specifically that we should be using "copilot in github".

We're several years into automating regression testing of a large complex web application with UFT aka Unified Functional Testing. This application was built using the oldschool mainframe business model where the customer has to become captive by way of you owning all of their data.

The functional code we author is VB-ish, doesn't do shit outside of UFT, and frankly UFT is a kit to allow you to build a test harness so without the functional code it is just like a box of spirograph toys with no plan.

When you are inside the UFT system and click 'save' after making a one-line change, 8 or 10 encrypted binary files are updated in the filesystem.

"copilot in github", whatever that is, can't read our code.

Oh yeah - I'm a geezer and every time i have thought, "the git commandline is confusing, this must be easier in the gui" the gui was not easier. I use git bash exclusively, and since i know how to use "git stash" i am the git expert on the team. I'm embarrassed for all of us, honestly.