Actively looking at replacing my system. A battery add of 10KWh was 17K, so more than 1K/KWh installed, closer to 2. Will end up just doing a panel replace.

Agree, Cal does some time of day pricing which is smart. Austin has taken the reverse approach. Absolutely no incentives when juice is plentiful and it is stupid. I've one pretty green friend who has had an EV for I think almost 10 years. (3 different ones over the period). He charges when convenient because in his words, "why would I, price is the same." So here is one case where tilting the rate when the sun is out would stabilize things. They are also insane with battery/solar systems. Again no incentive for the person with batteries to charge during peak generation when wholesale rates drop to near zero and push energy to the grid from those batteries during high wholesale rates. And wholesale can easily cross into the 10-40c/KWh range most days. Austin Energy has really just become brain dead.

Depends much on where you live. In the US, batteries are way more. To the point it is less to buy a vehicle with a large battery that can hook in to your system. I don't know why, but it is. US prices run roughly 1K/KWh installed. And maybe it is that "installed" thing. But again in the US, self install is not an option in most cities. Must be done by a licensed electrician if you are tied to grid.

Well, my panels installed 2005 are just now coming down. Needed a new roof and figured it would be crazy to reinstall the old ones with maybe 5 years left. The current 20 year old panels are probably running 85-90% of installed power. Now new panels have much higher efficiency than my old ones, so the same area is going to make around 2X what my old ones did. As to size, maybe 1/2 my roof is covered and I expect near 0 net with the new panels. Just a tad under, but the way rates work here, overproducing gets no dollars. They will only discount. Credits are only forwarded to the next month bill. And I believe for a max of 1 year and then it goes away. So in this case, the panels outlasted the roof. Panels are much tougher than shingles in hail.

It is a business model. When humans do it, it is copyright infringement.

"When the first humans started making texts"... as I said in my post, there was a first human who made those posit's. Humans. So there was at least one human who made it. Maybe we aren't conscious anymore by that standard, but at some point we were.

Again, I think you make the point that LLM's are not conscious. I would not expect an LLM to have any issues with killing humans. Empathy is not something I see in LLM stuff, sort of like the billionaire's who want them. Even the billionaire's know they want to keep all that killing at arm's length though, they must have at least a passing knowledge of the French revolution and how that worked out for their class.

I think making philosophical arguments as you just did kind of defines conscious. I don't see an LLM ever doing that. It would simply rehash what it was fed. When the first humans started making texts about am I asleep, is it all a dream etc, that was new thought. Not a rehash. But because we are the only creature that really talks, we don't know if other animals are conscious as well. The first thing that comes to mind is elephant behavior when one dies. It appears they mourn. We can't say for sure as we don't speak elephant.

I think it can be pretty easily argued that Monkeys, Elephants, and a few other animals can easily be characterized as conscious. Others like dogs, cats, ... might be considered conscious. I don't think the dream of billionaires sticking their brain ether into a computer is ever going to be considered conscious.

From the article, " Reuters was unable to independently verify the company's claims about its technology." That said, sounds like they plan on using X ray wavelengths, which in theory could provide much better resolution than even EUV. Problems will be many including finding a photo resist that works with Xray and chip manufacturing as just the first one.

I think you miss the process. Initially ban from schools, (done), then ban from public libraries (in process) and finally ban from sale. Straight out of the Taliban playbook. And keep in mind, many of the books being banned in public libraries these days were often read as a HS English assignment in the 70's. I know I read Catcher in the Rye back then and I think 1984 as well. Also the bell jar, probably banned now too. I still remember the afterforward of the bell jar where the author took her life. It really hit home just how serious depression can be to my young mind. And finally Amazon does ban books. The list is available with an easy search.

Somewhere the text can be saved as the US is likely to ban/completely destroy them. https://www.lib.umich.edu/abou... Save those paper copies people!

Only if she doesn't expense the latest round of plastic surgery to the taxpayers. Looking good for donnie ain't cheap.

I've bought 3 homes over my lifetime. I always look in person. Always. I always have an inspector look over the place as well. I could give a crap about what furniture they stage. I'm looking at the bones. Another thing I've found is that when moving to a new city, if at all possible rent first for around 6mo-1yr. While renting look at homes, and keep an ear out for what areas have issues. Lucky for me the place I rented was almost like a portugese bend in PV. Ground moved. I bought elsewhere, limestone, it doesn't move. Fence posts are an issue though, jackhammer required.

You avoided the point. Historically child birth has always been painful, sure, but historically women had to do it. For a long while understanding how women got pregnant wasn't even well understood by the masses. And historically there wasn't much a woman could do about. And even in current times, there are countries where rape in marriage is perfectly acceptable which as a consequence often leads to a child. Ask an Afghan woman as an example. In modern western society (and I include some Asian ones like Japan and SK in that list) birth control is readily available and rape in marriage is a crime. I'll ask you as a male, would you choose to go thru hell for 9 months for a kid? I wouldn't.