Curious, sounds like you are in the industry. Are you seeing sodium based starting to get installed? I thought one of the big advantages of sodium was more cycles. Also surprised no one has mentioned, TX has 22GWh of storage now. I noted this morning was a big charge cycle with a 10GW charge peak. I imagine in prep for this evening. Its 100 again, so there will be a sizable discharge tonight.

Yes, mic's are really cheap and small these days. You mention a pi, and I wanted to be able to detect motion and sound. PIR for motion and a mic on the pi for sound. I don't do any recording, just a test for is the peak more than x times the average level. It did introduce me to the world of tiny cheap mics though. I'd been used to mic's for recording, and those are not cheap, at least not the good ones.

Remind me again how many times trump phones into fox & friends. Where's the equal time for a dem?

Well, at least a banana republic. His latest plan to give 5 grand to everyone if the R's hold congress seems very banana republic. For the party of fiscal conservatives, the R's have just lost their minds. From Besset using the federal credit card to pay down the mortgage, thinking that is going to quell the bond market to now trump suggesting lets use the credit card for a holiday splurge even though the card is max'ed out at 40T. The latest thing I just saw is that the sum of all the big ticket items discretionary items like DoD is less than the interest bill on the debt. The sum. If anything maybe trump should be suggesting we increase taxes to start covering the debt and some principle.

Probably because he may have a shot in TX. He is ahead of Paxton in the polls. And I'm in serious disbelief he won over Cornyn. Paxton is a cheater, used state funds to pay for the coverup, was impeached (not convicted) for securities fraud, used state money to go after the whistleblowers that turned him on for the securities fraud. In other words, a dream candidate for trump, but for any christian republican in TX, a problem. I'm just not sure how many christian republicans there are in TX, and I suspect neither does the GOP, which circles back to shittin in their pants. Talarico on the other hand appears to be a good family man that doesn't cheat on his wife and attends church regularly. You know, what used to be a dream republican candidate in TX.

not to email his termination to him. He even got to vote, he was outvoted. How many employees even get a vote if they are going to get canned.

Scary thought. Many assembly lines use some very powerful robots. Usually just an arm that is fixed, and the area is usually caged. Expanding to AI, perhaps the robot is now mobile, and still in a cage to prevent accidents with humans. The analogy to the athropic AI escape would be killer AI robot figures out how to escape physical cage and start using people as parts for a car since the hopper with doors was empty. Had to reshape them a bit before welding them in. But AI robot got the job done, have a extra energy allowance as a reward.

Correct. Simple example, manslaughter. From https://legaldictionary.net/ma..., "The unlawful killing of a person without malice or prior thought.". I expect there are many others.

You mean the government endorsing the flock ai cameras? That government? I could see a tiananmen square with even worse consequences. Just give the assignment to ICE and the tank would roll over everyone, not just one.

To emphasize your point, because of AI, Lead times are 2.5 years. https://www.industrialsage.com... We could be in the dark for a very long time. I'd hope they would redirect the AI transformers to people, but who am I kidding. AI is more important.

I had a roku that I would play stuff captured with some ATSC card. I don't even remember how long ago I used it. The Roku died, but could still play stuff on the laptop with VLC. The capture card just created a MPEG stream. Big files though. The only thing I did for automation was use cron tabs for anything I wanted to "tape". I too would just use skip and FF to jump over ads.

My concern is that half the US fleet is in "deep" maintenance and not rotatable into service. Based on the scant reporting I've seen on the Lincoln, it is falling apart. I could see it taking a year to get that clunker back in service. I don't recall where I saw the image, but my god it was a photo of a sailors dinner. It looked gross, like worse than dog food from a can. Frankly, I would not have fed it to my dog. And the Navy wants top performance from people eating that?

I expect the Chinese fleet is newer, and likely requires less maintenance at this point. They are cranking them out at like 3-5x the speed the US makes vessels.

Improves somewhat, wiki says the coast guard has 243 cutters which are 65' or more in length. Even adding the 243 to the 553 possible in service for the US, 1033 is larger, as is the sum of actual in service 243+233 vs 1033 for China. I'm assuming all the coast guard cutters are in service which probably is not true.

US is burying its head in the sand though. China is building new vessels at a much more rapid pace than the US. US may be trying to improve its rate, it just isn't close to achieving that goal. We (US) gave up on building ships that were not military vessels and lost a good bit of expertise as a result over the decades. Asia builds both types prolifically. And not just China. SK also builds at a fast clip. To the point the US Navy has started to use them. https://www.navalnews.com/nava...

It is a common theme for the US. Actual making of stuff is not encouraged. Just the money side of things to outsource to other countries for actual physical work. It has taken decades to get here, and it will take decades of reduced standard of living in the US to get back. Hard sell. And would require a plan for the decades, not the next quarter.

Not a good analogy. A dog doesn't come with a warranty of purpose. If I buy a self-driving lawn mower that is geofenced, and it goes on a tear down the street and mows down my neighbors flowers, I got a feeling the courts are going to partially blame the lawn mower co. I might get some culpability as well. As an example, tesla got stuck with a 243M dollar judgement because its self driving car didn't work as advertised. So I expect any litigation claim will closely examine the advertised and legal fine print associated with the purchase of the ai agent.

The official ring time for the SU7 bests all EV sedans I believe. https://www.topgear.com/car-ne... When they stripped one down, it beat the 911 GT3 RS. I don't know if the stripped down SU7 would have been street legal, but as I said, China is offering serious competition at roughly 1/2 the price point. So even a 50% tariff puts them way below the competitors.