So they thought it would be free forever, and are surprised by the usage based pricing? I wonder what will happen when ai companies need to be profitable and increase prices accordingly

I’ve been tempted to go with vessel sinks. I think they’re a silly idea but they are a more comfortable height.

My house has only one bathroom so ive been tempted to put in a second. The only real option is the basement, but the sewer pipe leaves through the wall about 3’ off the floor. There’s a couple options with pumps, but a lot of negative talk online about it just not being reliable.

Raising the floor seems silly, especially raising it that much, but probably cheaper and more reliable.

Plus I assume this was an old stairway that was walled off in a remodel

Probably humor. Are we sure it’s even a real photo?

But I can picture running the water to clear out contamination, and maybe you’ll see anything in the basket. Or maybe running it to get cold water and the basket is just because

When my kids were little, we had a sizeable collection of inflatable sprinkler toys. Then one time I was setting up our water park just before a cookout …… as I turned one on, I heard a loud pop and the toy immediately clogged. Apparently the hose had something trying to live in it and its mud/nest burst out into the toy, ruining it. This is one reason it to drink from a hose

A previous company used telemetry only when there was a pattern they couldn’t figure out. In this case it was a failure in a Microsoft subsystem that users had no reason to even be aware of

Starlink (which is suffering from congestion problems already and cannot be scaled up).

Where does this come from? Yes there are congestion issues at the moment and even congestion charges, isn’t this just a matter of more satellites? They only have like 10,000 but planned for a gazillion and are continuously increasing …. The very definition scalable

Yeah and that is so unfortunate. They had so much potential to change the industry again, as a space company.

Using that space company to fund ai was a bad idea

There’s various ways from better shielding to redundancy to error checking everything.

This is actually why I hope they do pursue this stupidity. We do need to figure out how to goto the next level of computing for everything we do in space. If the folly of “datacenters in space” helps them figure out reliable computing despite radiation and lack of cooling then we win

No. At least historically they went the opposite way: the nuclear materials be contained well enough to survive reentry and impact

It makes sense if we have a space elevator

But that’s sort of where at least musk is thinking. Maybe he’s been drinking his own koolaid too much but starship promises a revolution in space launches, and bringing down the cost to space by an order of magnitude, on top of Falcon bringing down the cost to space by an order of magnitude

I’m sure there’s also a bit of circular logic: the best way to decrease launch costs enough to support datacenter in space is to have data centers in space driving greatly increased launches. If starship isn’t building a mars colony anytime soon then how will its use scale to match what it was designed for?

TBH I like that they’re doing this. Datacenters in space may be a silly idea, but there are and will be space use cases that need the next level of computing capabilities, think “datacenters”. Imagine the myriad of instruments we have in orbit being able to act more autonomously, preprocess a flood of data into a manageable stream of information. Let them pursue their folly if it means the next generation of telescopes will do much more

Even if it were actually full self driving, when you override it’s still on you

You may want to familiarize yourself with marketing, before you indict half the economy.

But the name is “Fill Self Driving (Supervised)”. See, no fraud, just a balance of marketing and legaleze, lying and technicalities

You sure about that? Many of the close calls I’ve had as both a pedestrian and a cyclist, the car driver seems pretty sure it was my fault.

In the US, non-drivers are a second thought at best, but probably a nuisance

For example, crossing the street with all reds, cars stopped all directions, walk light on, in the crosswalk. I didn’t actually hear what the driver who almost hit me yelled but probably something like “get out of the road during bmw priority time”. (Pretty sure she turned left because “already in the intersection” bs that some people use to run red lights - we definitely need a crackdown on people who enter the instersection after the light changes “it was yellow, bro” despite it not being close )

Last year I had to put to rest my official copies of the holy trinity. They were well used, an inspiration to us all and I frequently re-read chapter and verse for inspiration. The savior as a humble man, a peaceful man, professing love for others (and for lunch), small of stature and with large hairy feet, endures trials and tribulations including a soldier sticking a spear in his side

But they were paperbacks, bought in 1986, and read many, many times no more cheering the coming of the light, the drumbeats from the deep, true knights on noble steeds

E-Rate and other Universal Service Fund (USF) programs are paid for by fees imposed on phone companies, which usually pass the cost on to consumers on their monthly bills.

Let me guess, they want to save government money …… errrr let large companies keep more of the money from their ratepayers?

Continuous or short term reporting is a privacy issue. It can go a long way toward monitoring where someone is going all the time. Definitely something to be avoided.

While the trickle charging idea might sound good, there is no requirement to use a charger and many people do not. This seems like the biggest gap of any option. And even with public chargers, the infrastructure act charger funding included provisions that you can pay with cash, no account required. Those chargers would intentionally not have a way to track.

Reporting at annual inspection

• uses a mechanism that already exists (in most states)
• is not a privacy concern (an annual total gives no info about where you’ve been)
• already has incentives against cheating
• even if you cut your taxes with fraudulent reporting, it just makes next years even bigger, or will come out when you try to sell

There’s already the risk of fraudulent inspections, possibly more of an incentive. A failed inspection could result in very expensive repairs, giving a customer lots of incentive to offer a bribe.

In addition to enforcement efforts, supposedly a loss of income is a significant incentive for a garage to stay legit. Each inspection may not cost much but it’s a regular stream of guaranteed income that shops do not want to lose

Same with me vs my youngest. We joke that it’s because of the funny names he puts on his. More likely it’s because he asks for double wrap an fajita veggies

I was just planning to do some sort of write up on this topic, although it will be internal only.

Of the three projects I’m currently on

• existing code base where AI sometimes has good ideas but almost never able to implement them successfully. This is legacy code, all human generated, and is probably too tightly coupled. Test framework is tightly coupled to the environment so ai cannot run it
• new tool implementation to give cheaper and faster context across all repos (Spotify Backstage)
• new code base almost entirely ai generated. Much more loosely coupled. There is no test /mock framework available, so it’s all scripts, which the ai is able to run at will to refine its guesses

There’s definitely distinct conditions where ai can be the right tool and can succeed vs when it can’t. In managements blind rush to vibe code everything, they need to better understand where it works and where it doesn’t

In particular, functionality I’m working on this week

• existing code base ”modify function x to cover scenario y” at best gives a useful strategy
• new code base “implement function x similar to existing code base, but that also covers scenario y” seems to work

I would also argue the Vision Pro was never expected to sell in volume or make a profit. It was always a test. If it established a market of content, it was a prototype and they win. If it was just a curiosity, the loss was budgeted and they never spent the money to scale up