It's possible: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Flickering might work just as well, or better. Less energy and heat needed, and might screw up exposure or auto levelling. I have not tried it.
The problem is that if you walk around in public with a high brightness IR LED on your head, sooner or later some minimum wage security goon is going to notice their camera is blinded and get upset.
And besides we already solved the baseline problem. A bit of demand shaping, some short term storage, some interconnects.
The old model of the grid is going away rapidly.
I've seen plenty of Python used in production... My question though is that I've found Python can be quite heavy on memory bandwidth, doing a lot of copying and transforming data so it can be processed. I guess that is less of an issue with embedded, but is it still an issue?
The real costs are not being addressed
The costs of nuclear are addressed all the time.
The problem is the nuke fanbois either ignore the costs or hand-wave them away: "Nuclear is only expensive because of protests and regulations. Next time will be different. Blah, blah, blah."
Even without considering the costs of waste and accidents, nuclear costs four times as much as wind or solar and has a 20-year lead time.
Tens of thousands of barrels of toxic waste were dumped near Catalina Island, but the vast majority are non-radioactive chemical waste.
DDT leaking from the barrels is a much bigger problem than nuclear waste and shows up in the local sea lion population.
Anyway, there's nothing realistic that we can do about it since any attempt to retrieve the barrels will likely make things worse.
20%, but it's only when loading very large images that are scaled down for display. And when you zoom in on them, it has to decode them again.
The PDF viewer isn't really a gain, it just pre-loads it like the bad old days of Internet Explore pre-loading itself on every boot.
Punches very obviously not connecting suggests it's been trained on Hollywood fight scenes. The other giveaway is rapid hard cuts and shaky camera so you can't see how badly the punches are not connecting. Everything feels weightless and fake.
There is a lot of AI slop, but I wouldn't discount it being able to do something decent with the right person at the helm.
Most entertainment has always been slop, this is nothing new at all. A decade ago it was reality TV, before that it was gameshows and daytime soap operas.
The interesting story here is how this demonstrates the basic different in attitude between the US and China when it comes to new technology. In the US the established players are very concerned that new tech will affect their business model, so they try to hold it back as much as possible. In China it gets embraced and there is a rush to adopt it.
My Pixel 9a doesn't really have a power button. Holding the top button brings up the AI assistant. You have to press and hold the top power and the volume up buttons, then, touch the option to power down or restart.
Seeing some very negative prices in the mid west (I think that's the right term) states too. Not even free electricity, people are being paid to use it.
Can you get a tariff that pays you to use energy in the US? Here in Europe we have some, and if you play the game right with a home battery your energy can be pretty much free.
Solar panels are actually very good for the environment. They can help over-farmed land recover by providing shade. Livestock and some crops can live under them very happily.
They are good for your house too, they reflect some of the heat away in the summer.
I'm glad that they made the pre-orders fair. I'm not after one, but too often they open in the middle of the night (for Europeans) and by the time we are awake are sold out or all the "early bird" deals are gone. I hate that, I'm not paying more that someone else just because they found out about it first, or I had to be asleep so I could work the next day.
This way where there is a large window and then the queue order is random is much better.
It's ironic that some people still keep claiming we can't switch to renewables because they aren't reliable.
It's an Astroturf campaign designed to benefit fossil fuel companies. The same companies that donated heavily to Trump's last Presidential campaign.
"You all are wealthy enough, that you should raise $1 billion to return me to the White House," -- Trump to oil companies.
The test of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts. -- Aldo Leopold
