Oooh edgyyyyyy comment! Truly you are awake and the rest of us are asleep.
Tell me, which corporation exactly is kidnapping and drugging people to enslave them and then discard their bodies at sea to feed the capitalist global machine?
It seems like you have a big scoop if you are doing on the ground reporting, because that seems like it would be international news if it was real!
Actually, as bizarre as it sounds, drugging and kidnapping people to enslave them on fishing boats is a real problem, and has been reported on by the international news.
> I'm increasingly convinced this is a generational thing
You are taking about gas cars, though. Nobody, of any generation, has "range anxiety" in a gas car. People might be afraid they will hit empty, or not trust their fuel gauge, but that's not "range anxiety" that's "running out of gas is a PITA". Those things are different, one is a commonplace that has always been true and the other is new and EV-specific for good reason.
An EV is much harder to recover from an empty battery than an ICE car is from an empty tank. There is no red jerry can you can fill that will give an EV the 10-30 miles you get from a gallon of gas, and there is no guarantee that a refueling station is close by and conveniently located. And ofc if your EV is empty, it will take hours to refill. Hence range anxiety.
I have an EV, I love it and have done 7 hour road trips with it no problem, but planning the battery charge level is something you have to think about in a way that is qualitatively different than with gas cars.
Uh, their house guests clearly do. -- "I've had houseguests, on the other hand, who start literally flipping out if the tank goes below a quarter full."
Quarter tank is easily 50-100 miles depending on the car. I swear, I'd have to go out of my way to travel that far without accidentally passing a gas station.
> To be clear, I fault no one for augmenting their writing with LLMs. I do it. A lot now. It’s a great breaker of writers block. But I really do judge those who copy/paste directly from an LLM into a human-space text arena. Sure, take sentences – even proto-paragraphs – if they AI came up with something great.
I guess the sloppy writing ("I do it. A lot now" and "if they AI came up with") made me stop reading early, but: is this part of some big reveal? Sloppy grammar as a sign of not-AI? But it's still slop.
There’s a very big distinction between getting help from a friend, and plagiarising your friend’s work.
Dismissing all LLM assistance because of some purity dance you want to enact is silly. Are you also going to dismiss mathematicians who use logic software to help them?
> Dismissing all LLM assistance because of some purity dance you want to enact is silly
That's not what I was saying. I was expressing surprise at the lack of spell- or grammar-check in a blog post about detecting slop. I think an AI would generate better text than that of the post, and I'm wondering if the errors are purposeful signifiers of "hey this was a human writing. this busted sentence"
The energy densities listed are flagged as approximate, so grains of salt etc, but the numbers on the page aren't entirely consistent.
The stated energy density is "> 500 watthours/liter".
But higher on the page we see a relative-energy-density bar graph shows lightcell at 5x the energy density of lithium batteries, and (38/5 =) 7.6x less dense then petrol. This implies an energy density for lightcell of 1250 Wh/liter, as (according to Google) petrol clocks in just under 9500 Wh/liter, and (again according to Google) lithium batteries can reach 300 Wh/liter so let's call it 250 for the math to work out.
I'm curious which number is closer to truth: 500Wh/liter, or 1250? Is 1250 the theoretical max and 500 the current output in a test rig?
I believe the bar graph is showing relative energy densities of the raw energy sources so the 5x bar is just the energy density of hydrogen as H2. Your 1250 Wh/L number is right for compressed gaseous hydrogen so The 500Wh/L lines up with burning H2 at 40% efficiency. The "use fuel for extended duration" implies that they believe they can achieve a much higher Wh/L with other fuels.
I would think the energy density varies with that of the fuel they put in. They mention hydrogen, natural gas, gasoline, ammonia, butane, propane, alcohols, syngas…. That’s about anything that is or can easily be turned into a gas that burns.
also, “/liter”, for gases such as hydrogen, can be made larger by using higher pressures in your tank.
On the other hand, they also say “target efficiency: ≥ 40% wire to wire”, and 40% of 1250 is 500, so it may be that.
that's correct. the mass of the power related systems are a moving target based on what we're developing. but we are aiming for a medium term target of > 1 kW / kg for e.g. DC power to a drone or a hybrid drone power system
> Fireproofing isnt mandatory, so people dont do it
100%
> and they hate spending even one dollar extra on roofing when they know a taxpayer-backed insurance policy will cover their substandard construction
That just doesn't follow. More likely is that people building the homes (possibly on spec) are motivated by their bottom dollar, so only do what is mandatory (per your first point) or that people who own the homes simply _don't know about these mitigations_.
Blaming all behavior on a last-resort insurance fund misses a lot of steps between, and I don't think tracks to how people actually behave in the real world.
Yes, but if insurance rates were to be free of government interference, the cost of insurance might start factoring into homebuyers' research and decision processes.
I think it would be more like RPN if it used a stack, and operands were specified as relative offsets (i.e., stack offsets). In the version I wrote, operands are still represented as absolute offsets in the expression table.
Doesn't this complaint assume a strict stack-ranking of contributors, where the "top" person has no reason to stay and thus leaves, and then the new top does the same, etc?
Which is not at all how actual humans and relationships work. We each bring different value to the table, along multiple dimensions.
A ranking need not have absolute certainty of be fixed over time to be useful. We could well rank into tiers of contributors or participants. I'd generally suggest that such tiers would likely be roughly exponential, with tier n+1 having m^1 more members than tier n, but also a lower net value.
(n and m are arbitrary, I'm not insisting on log base 10, and the natural log e might well be a better fit.)
This is typical of almost all large network functions which exhibit power laws, Zipf functions, or the like.
Measurement itself is difficult and subject to both cost and error, as well as variability over time.
where? i just went through Settings > Apps > Gmail on my iphone and found nothing about this. Likewise the in-app Settings in the GMail app lets you choose which browser is the "default app" but it's already set to Safari (the other options are Chrome, by Google, and ... Google, by Google). But that uses an embedded
Safari instance inside gmail, not the phone's Safari app.
To get what you want (links open in Safari.app, not the safari webview inside Gmail): configure your default browser in Settings (your iphone settings, not gmail's settings) to be Safari, and then in Gmail choose "Default browser app" instead of Safari.
It's super vague and unclear why things should work this way, and I don't know if this is forced on them by iOS or what. I'm trying to think of why choosing "Safari" in the gmail settings would use the webview instead of the app, and the most-charitable reason I can think of is that they don't want to contribute to the person having hundreds of Safari tabs open...?
Less-charitable reasons might include wanting to keep users in the gmail app for driving "engagement". I read somewhere that when apps use the in-app webview, the app dev can inject arbitrary javascript and thus has full control and can see keystrokes, what the webview's viewport is looking at, etc. I really don't think that's what google is trying to do here, though.
Wow - i even saw the words "default browser app" and did not even realize it was a setting choice. That works - thank you!
wrt reason : I think that the webview has cookie isolation from the actual app, so using the webview is a bit more privacy-protective. Google being Google that seems unlikely to be the motivating reason, but who knows what good may lurk in the heart of men...
The recent Shōgun series was surprisingly good, I really enjoyed it.
Clavell famously has no idea how to end a book - they pretty much _all_ have a deus ex machina in the form of a natural disaster - but they are excellent & fun reads of the days & weeks leading up to it.
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