Also, anything sounds big when you put it in gallons. Doesn't sound so big when you mention that's 92 acre feet, the amount used by less than 20 acres / 8 hectares of alfalfa per year. Or when you mention that a typical *closed loop* 1GW nuclear reactor uses 6-20 billion gallons of cooling water per year (once-through uses 200-500 billion gallons, though most of that is returned, whereas closed loop evaporates it)

I don't think it has anything to do with that. As soon as I saw the headline, my mind went "cohort study". And sure enough, yeah, it's a cohort study. Remember that big thing about how wine improves your health, and then it turned out to just be that people who drink wine tend to be wealthier and thus have better health outcomes? And also, the "sick quitter" effect, where people who are in worse health would tend to stop drinking, so you ended up with extra sick people in the non-wine group? Same sort of thing. This study says they're controlling for a wide range of factors, but I'd put money on it just being the same sort of spurious correlations.

Umm, yes fast charging and compatibility with various fast charging networks including Tesla's network is absolutely a factor in the the buying decision! Why wouldn't it?

"I just put my models on a usb drive then plug said drive into the printer."

You must have a lot of spare time on your hands.

"It works great locally" - Um, no it doesn't?

They've made a nice easy-to-use ecosystem. For $400 you can get a P1S that supports adding an AMS, auto bed leveling, enclosed-chamber printing, high precision, high print speeds, and 300/100C nozzle/plate temps, and has an easy cloud print service and a robust ecosystem of models you can just download and print with no extra config straight from the app.

But yeah, their behavior is increasingly entering bad-actor territory. I wonder how long it'll be before they lock entry-level printers into their branded filament?

At first I thought this was really dumb. Besides, how can you patent something that's non-existent. But then I figured it can be useful to recreate familiar controls and how they feel. Makes it easier, especially in competition, to back and forth between different types with no loss of skill and reflex. I mean these are recreational machines. Let them have fun regardless.

There is precedence for simulating the action and feel of controls. Happens in aircraft all the time to help ease the burdens of type rating. And I realized that all my newer tractors on the farm no longer have a clutch in the same sense as the old dry clutch days, yet they still have a pedal that simulates it electronically. Technically they call it an inching pedal.

Sigh. So can I apparently.

Come one editors. You can do better than that.

Or the administration could ask congress to pass a law to this effect. Like we used to do back during normal Republic times. Could have done that with the tariffs and then they'd have been legal.

I guess it's been a good run. The republic almost lasted 250 years.

It is quite fascinating that republicans like to claim the idea of being based in part on ideas from the Roman Republic, however they openly admire the later imperial age much more and it's leaders.

In fact farmers in North Dakota have been complaining about cloud seeding by insurance companies for years. These companies seed clouds that could harbor hail so that it rains out before it can drop hail. Mostly this is to protect urban areas. But the problem is it literally takes the rain away from farms the really need it.

Over the years there have been many lists published of lyrics people thought they heard but were completely nonsensical. To some apparently Abba sings, "feel the beat of the tangerine."

So I'm not surprised youtube can't understand song lyrics. Regular speaking, it's fairly good. And not too bad at translating the subtitles.

Just because big data, neural nets, and pattern recognition has been around for decades doesn't mean this stuff is not still in its infancy. In fact it very much is. The transformer architecture described by Google in 2017 was very much a breakthrough that turned decades-old stagnant ideas into something incredibly useful. We're not even 10 years on from that! Just a baby still. And only in the last few years has massively parallel computing power (GPUs etc) gotten to the point of allowing transformers to work on matrices of unbelievable sizes, which really exploded the field.

Meanwhile I use Claude Code and am quite amazed how good it actually is at the tasks I've asked it to help me do. I have no idea whether this is good or bad for us.

Oh wow. So are you lined up to be a long haul driver then? Surely you are manly enough. We have a huge shortage of drivers right now. Maybe you should talk to a trucker a little bit. The job they do is important and they are proud of what they do. But they are treated horribly.

Yes of course we're talking about BEV trucks. What does that have to do with reefer trailers?