This in spades. I'm on the TX grid and have watched ERCOT's site pretty regularly since around 2011, when it also failed. Generally ERCOT keeps readily available supply of between 5-12GW, or 10-20% margin of a typical statewide usage 50-80GW. Current use is right at 50GW with 16GW of spare, so higher spare than typical. Although not atypical when wind/solar is running above average like today. This also tends to push spot prices down, and they are, around 2USD/MWh.

The batteries they've put in which currently shows as 17GW help with keeping ready supply without spinning rust. I think that the 17GW is really 17GWh and they can throw or consume around 6-7GW. I've never seen ERCOT say what the battery number represents, raw power available or GWh. As I write this, batteries are charging at 1.4GW(-2.7%), solar is up to 15GW(30%), wind is good at 20GW(40%).

Fine, let's do discovery of their files to find out. My bet is they knew and did not care. As usual a computation was made as to how much a "problem" would cost versus the extra cash we collect. And to that point, at least one of those kids was on a paid plan. And further to that point, they did not go to court, thereby avoiding any pesky discovery. I imagine the payout was big (sealed of course), but the payout if it was found they knew, priceless.

I am totally in favor of people's right to die. I just want to make sure that it is with a mentally stable mind. The children that died were not in that category. Not even close. They were lonely, and AI was there to lure them to death. Despicable. There is no sum of money that these people can pay to make it right. As to regulations, how about common decency?

Italy isn't the only one. Cal had one too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... And Mulholland Dam has been drawn down since the investigation of the St Francis failure out of fear.

I think a common mistake at least in western cultures. We think everyone thinks like we do. They don't.

I get what you are saying, but it is what about ism. There is worse "over there" so this is ok. No this is not ok. If AI is so incapable that it can't put a guard rail around suicide, it is not capable of shit. I know as a human, anytime any discussion of suicide comes up my mind immediately goes into could this person be contemplating suicide kicks in. And if I thought it was anything close to it, I guide the conversation into therapists and suicide prevention lines. I know I am no expert and want no part of being the cause of another's death. So I try to gently guide a possibly mentally fragile individual to someone who is.

Not really. NATO does not apply to an invader. So NATO has no obligation to support our attack of VZ. If we attack Greenland, NATO is doesn't have to help us, however is obligated to support Denmark. The US is too as a member, but of course absurd, we are the invader. Which I expect forfeits our membership in NATO. Donnie has suggested leaving NATO anyway, so no one is going to be surprised.

But that is the point. Until someone stands up to the bully, he is just going to grow bigger levels of crazy, like invade greenland. I maintain time to kick him in the balls. He'll back down. Stormy smacked him on the ass and that shut him up. I could even see it working. Ask US to leave, US has violated NATO already by simply suggesting the takeover. If he don't go, call it what the US would understand. "We were standing our ground" when US did not leave when asked, we shot to kill. I understand bat shit crazy, but how else do you respond to bat shit crazy?

I've had a couple of branded cards for decades. I've lost count of how many times they bounce from one servicer to another. One of mine was done by Goldman and was embraced by Goldman with great fanfare. A year or two later they tossed it to barclays. I think maybe capitalone before. I lose track. It is a hassle every time. New number, new web interface, hassles switching over auto-pays. Something is going on where a decade or more ago, there must have been steady income off cards. With all the switching, maybe the profits are gone or hard to come by.

Bomb the base. Say it was a "training" exercise, whoopsie. Seriously, someone needs to do something that drastic to give Donnie a bloody nose. He is a bully, and until somebody hits back forcefully, it will just get worse. My deepest hope is Venezuela turns into a nightmare. Like 10X worse than Vietnam or Afghanistan for US. Something along the lines of Russia's underestimate of Ukraine.

Number could be wrong on the states. Columbia and Panama are candidates as well.

Oh man, had not thought of that. Absolutely it could be trump that made the wager. It would fit him perfectly. I suppose he could complain to cpfb, but oh wait, he has defunded it.

I'd suggest to Denmark to proactively tell the US to GFO of Greenland. US currently has a base there. Otherwise cheeto might use the base as a point of attack to take over Greenland. At this point with cheeto, I think it best to assume he will do the unimaginable thing he said he would. Take appropriate counter actions immediately.

As I said before seriously scary. A reminder of just what nature is capable of. And thanks again for providing the link. /. is best when interesting facts and info get linked that I'd never stumble on. Keep it up!

Tend to agree. I never asked a q on stackoverflow, but searches have ended up there. Often the question matches what I am looking for, the answers range from decent info to gibberish. I expect part of the downturn prior to AI was there were so many questions already answered, why ask again? The information repository is 90% complete, so it becomes more of a read only site. I'll still check them for answers. I'd actually put stack above AI in terms of answer quality. And as with anything online, answers are always considered questionable correctness.