The way it has worked out in Australia is the grid charges you around 35c/kwh, but pays you 3c/kwh. Feeding back to the grid gives you almost nothing, the only real savings is in scheduling household appliances to run during the day consuming the solar before it goes to the grid.
There are enshittification problems with EV's in their current state, and to a lesser extent even modern ICE vehicles.
I hired a quite decent modern EV for a work trip, after having figured out where the compatible charging points were along highways. Great vehicle and fast charges.. when it could be charged...
Unlike gas stations, you can't pay cash, hell you couldn't even pay with your card. You had to have a registered account, and an app that wouldn't work with de-googled androids. For each and every provider.
Companies are using the transition to EV to establish a new "normal". One that involves perma surveillance and tracking. The car companies are involved too although some worse than others.
Even with infrastructure problems relatively 'solved' the real problems with EVs are corporate greed. Fighting that with an apathetic population can be pretty hard.
Don't confuse cultural norms with actual human requirements.
So long as you don't confuse "what situation a human can survive in" with "what situations humans will want to survive in"
The kowloon walled city should not be something we aspire to recreate.
People have often survived in situations that are terrible for their mental and physical health, they are entitled to want to escape those situations.
Density brings its own problems, its like having a few cats spaced around a yard vs shoved in a bag.
I'll take peace and low crime with everyone having their own space and freedom over how many sardines can we fit in the cities.
3DS Max is pretty much the industry standard for 3D modelling in video games.
20 years ago yeah, now it's more aligned with blender.
That said, in the US the majority is bad eating. Food is everywhere and most high calorie.
The food quality in the US seems absolutely terrible. When I was playing tourist around the country greasy sugar filled food was everywhere, but a decent steak and veges type meal was hard to find.
The additives/changes that have been made to USA food compared to food in europe can be quite insane. Something as simple as bread can be far more unhealthy in the USA.
how about Price discrimination
Trying to maximize the amount that you pay, because they have enough information about you to know what you can afford and how badly you need a product within a specific timeframe.
Some dodgy gig type employers were looking at using the same information to determine how little they could offer to pay workers while still having them barely make rent, knowing their household expenses to keep them on the brink of eviction.
The only solution is to not collect the information, and for where the informatio nis necessary (i.e. credit card logs) ban it's sale/access aside from internal administrative functions to the card/banks.
Most likely that we would blast ourselves back to the stone age without sufficient remaining resources for the survivors to rebuild advanced technologies.
That's doubtful. Ever since the printing press there's been ample capability to have information written down and spread widely.
Probably not the resources he means. The cheap easy to access energy of oil just popping out of the ground has already been used. As more resources are consumed the easier to get to and easier to process ones go away, and you need a certain minimum level of tech to get to/extract/use what remains.. If that goes away, you might not have the resources to build the tech to get more resources.
If I have touristy things to show off and a limited run are we really going to make the case they shouldn't go to NYC and LA first, the two largest cities and cultural capitals of the nation?
As someone who did an "around the USA" trip last year (I'm not american) of all the places we stopped/stayed (disney world, vegas, yosimite national park etc) LA was the worst.
It's not quite "escape from LA" movie level, but it was darn closer than I'd have liked it to be.
The Israeli military did leave.
Yes, which wasn't what I was suggesting, I was suggesting keeping the IDF within israels borders (not leaving israel)
Construction material was imported, then stolen by Hamas to build tunnels. Material that actually went into infrastructure, for example some water pipes, were dug up by Hamas to make home made rockets.
Just like how compressed air cylinders in hospitals had to be manually shot up/destroyed after capture by the israelis because hamas might use medical equipment? Anything of use by civilization can be repurposed tools and materials are tools and materials.
Gaza farms were fine before the currently military campaign in response to Oct.
Since the 1967 war israel has had full control of their water resources, farms having water access removed has happened long before oct 7 ( as well as air dusting to destroy them also but that's later on).
The controlled demise had been around since after the 1967 war, the 2006 blockade was just another measure to tighten the noose (a very effective one).
Don't conflate post-Oct 7 with pre-Oct 7.
This is all pre oct 7, strategically oct 7 only made sense as an attack because the response was predictable and could not be hidden. You can slowly starve off a population and make them fully dependent without people taking notice. Dropping more bombs by weight than the equivalent of the first nukes used on Japan is not so easy to hide from the world. Their mistake was thinking the world would care enough to stop them.
When one side has their military doing the rounds to destroy rainwater collection pots and bulldozing wells so that people must move on or die of thirst.. it's weird having that behaviour defended by people. This this not start on october 7.
Also the blockade is not to prevent aid and supplies, it is to make sure all is closely inspected for contraband such as weapons.
The snowden cable leaks revealed Israels stated intent to the USA was to crush any form of normal economy and to make them "tighten their belts" without crossing into mass starvation territory. Keeping them hungry.
With those goals in mind they achieved them quite well. Full dependence on Israel's mercy, without the resources to further their lot in life, slowly starving and being killed off.
Not that anyone would have the will to do so, but if the same style blockade were done to Israel (no military leaving the country, no iron/steel/construction materials, no control over water/resources, food imports limited based on population, farmlands destroyed by air) do you think they'd be fine with that? (not original responder)
But I have a peeve with how NVidia always cuts support for older CUDA versions in every new generation of RTX cards.
That would be because CUDA relies on fixed function units in hardware. Which is great for compute speed and power efficiency.. until your fixed function needs changing.
AMD went all programmable with the 6000 line, but uptake of compatible/scalable api's that aren't cuda is abysmal, and even newer 7000+ units added some fixed function to their stuff too.
I have a handful of AI projects that only run on older RTX cards because either a) I haven't found a way to make them run on newer CUDA, or b) haven't found a way to make them run reliably without collapsing on newer CUDA.
Yep, some vulkan-compute compatible frameworks exist, like ncnn. Supporting multiple acceleration api's so that even mobile phones can be used. Unfortunately the uptake of such things is pretty limited, and a lot of the work on supporting cross platform is so players that don't want to be held hostage to nvidia like china can get around restrictions.
Also, even after decades, the reliability and stability of AMDs drivers still suck compared to nVidia's.
The mainlined linux driver is fine, it was driver support that got me to switch from nvidia to ati well over a decade ago.
In the 3080/6800 generation performance was on par and I could have bought either, but 6800 had less headaches and longer support being in mainline.
It's the sensor size
Larger sensors, everything else being equal, tend to be better (resolution, dynamic range, light gathering capability etc). Increased die area costs though. High end dslr's tend to be full frame. Cheaper ones a smaller format with about half the area.
Cameras on phones tend to have tiny sensors because you couldn't fit the appropriate optics for a large one.. and it would dramatically increase the cost of the phone. Most image quality improvements in phones in the last decade have not been from physical improvements but from heavy reliance in computational photography along with some AI to recognize patterns and fudge things to look nicer.
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. -- Aldous Huxley
