Cheese...This whole time I literally thought token maxing meant getting the most bang for your tokens. No joke. I never bothered reading anything about it because nothing about my job ever said "use no more than x tokens" and nobody ever said I was using too many. The work objectives have always been the deliverable, not how we delivered it. The only restriction we have is the obvious: Sandbox it, and don't just give it everything.

It's supposed to be a benefit: better competitors that aren't governed by shiny-object leadership are supposed to take advantage and punish such clowns. That's the real cost of centralization, IP law and regulatory balkanization: the clowns rely on these to insulate themselves from the wolves that would otherwise end them.

I agree :)

Makes me think of the "bad faith" trope we see with some frequency from certain folks.

Recently some blowhard Reddit mod(s) went ham on AI in open source, and essentially outlawed discussion of any open source projects that are not purely organic from their little Reddit sandbox. When it was pointed out that this is pretty unworkable since significant open source projects, including Linux, Mesa and others are allowing AI generated code, they backed up. And that's all fine I suppose, except they characterized the response to their stupidity as deliberate "bad faith" misunderstanding of their original announcement. It wasn't that at all; it was exactly what you should expect when get all chesty with the world and can't handle the blowback, but they've adopted the cop-out of calling these self-inflicted episodes as some sort of "bad faith."

I see this often enough now that anytime I see someone claiming "bad faith" I assume I'm dealing with another nasty little shit-bird trying to cry-bully their way.

This is not a remark about what editor is best, or a flame war statement. I have never been able to figure out EMACS, and I honestly don't see the draw, or what other people see in it. I know people who use it, who can basically do their entire workday in it, but I can't understand the draw. It's powerful, its feature set approaches the insane, and just saying EMACS, can make you think of Unix or Linux, but, I don't get it.

I can't think of a single time I have ever wanted a touch screen on a notebook, or desktop computer. There is a use for touch devices, like drawing tablets, pen inputs, and the like, but who wants to touch their screen? Does anyone actually have a use case for a touch screen, that can't be better served with a device that prevents it?

I'm sure there are good uses for them, I just can't think of one. There was an idiotic notebook that had two screens, and one was a touch screen, so you could use a virtual keyboard, that thing SUCKED! One of my old bosses loved it, and bought a bunch of them, but you had to plug a keyboard in to have any chance of using it.

I'm not talking about tablets, or phones, or other IoT style devices where a touch screen is very sensible.

And that's how we lead to more fossil fuels, someone making a stupid either-or comparison to a one or both problem. Every problem broken down becomes "insignificant". It's all the "insignificant" parts together that make it significant.

Now allow this innumerate to educate you:

The World Nuclear Association estimates the high CO2 emissions as a cost of construction make up 10% of the emission avoidance of shutting down a comparable coal plant. What that means is that not only do you get to spend 25 fucking years building a plant, but you get to wait another 5 years on top of that to just break even its construction emissions (and that assumes you've shut down a coal plant, which ... let's be real here, energy requirements are going up).

Tell me again how achieving nothing for 30 years will help and while your formulate your answer calculate out the total CO2 emissions of a coal plant over a 30 year period for your comparison as opposed to taking fast and realistic action that could reduce emissions *today*.

Let me guess, you're the kind of person standing on a level crossing while the train comes towards you at speed and your only solution is ... "gee I hope the government builds a train line around me in time."

Wait, you people still wash your hands? I thought that was nothing more than COVID quackery like the "vaccine" or the "moon landing".

Presumably he's comparing real meat to fake meat in a McPlant burger and complaining about the amount of salt in it without a sense of irony.

Oh yes absolutely. Any time anyone discusses power or cars on Slashdot the YMMV rule applies. There are places where it makes absolutely no sense. There are places where it makes a huge amount of sense.

As an example my current energy tariff differs by 1 eurocent between off peak and on. The neighbour (presumably on a similar tariff) has no solar so for them there's literally no cost benefit to any storage of any kind. On the flip side my parents are given 3 hours of free electricity per day. Load shifting is a huge benefit to them.

I don't see a need for V2H either, but it is nice that bi-directional charging is working in major brands. A friend of mine lives in Brisbane and when they had the cyclone hit at the start of last year which knocked out the power for 4 days she ran an extension cord to her BYD Atto3 (V2L) and plugged her fridge, AC, Induction cooker, and lights into the car. Ran like that for several days while the petrol heads who were telling her that an EV is a major liability in a disaster were all sitting around watching their food rot with their thumbs up their ass.

Domestic batteries make a lot of sense in very specific conditions. If you're able to micromanage a dynamic pricing contract then they can pay themselves quickly by loadshifting to cheaper times (cost avoidance). If you have a high feed in tariff for solar then they can pay for themselves too by ensuring you can use your own generated power at your rate rather than being charged a feed in rate (again cost avoidance). In some places in the world the energy market is insane to the point where you actually can make a profit by re-exporting (I have friends in Australia which are on energy contracts that provide 3 hours of free electricity a day in the middle of the day). One of them has a battery and no solar at all and it's paying off quickly.

It's unfortunately a case where car companies are ahead of the local regulations. A bit like the plug in battery and plug in solar. It'll take a while for regulations to catch up to the point where this stuff is simple and standardised. Right now some of the cars I listed only offer V2H in combination with some service along with a partner for hardware in your house. It's silly.

But hey we're in early adopter territory here.

Nothing odd about it. It's a different format for a different purpose. Next time you see a GenZer on the train holding their phone vertically, go take a peak at what they are watching. If it's YouTube I guarantee you they'll be watching shorts. If it's Facebook or Instagram it'll be a reel, or if it's TikTok it'll be ... Tiktok. Correct format for correct purpose.

I get it, you're a boomer. But please get yourself a lawn and a walking stick to shake and stay in your lane. Leave the kids and their modern formats be. Just because you grew up on cable TV and Youtube cat videos watched on that weird "computer" thing doesn't mean other people don't know what they are doing. It just means what they are doing isn't for geezers like you.

What do you mean trolling? It's a direct comparison. We had a problem that would occur at a specific time (one caused by date change, the other caused by Google's deadline), and people got together to make sure the problem didn't happen (one changed how dates are stored, the other introduced a Manifest V3 compatible adblocker which I'm pointing out seems to work with identical efficacy as the old one).

This is Y2K. A whole lot of noise seemingly turned into a nothingburger thanks to some clever programmers making the entire issue transparent to the end user.

Here some bedtime reading for you: https://www.merriam-webster.co...