matmatmatmat's comments

On: Giant batteries are transforming the way the U.S. ...

[matmatmatmat]

Yes, labor is the killer cost of these installations, IME. Labor can easily be 50% or more of the total cost.

On: Backblaze Drive Stats for Q1 2024

[matmatmatmat]

This uncertainty should be accounted for in the confidence intervals of their stats.

On: Vega-Altair: Declarative Visualization in Python

[matmatmatmat]

Bokeh has support for WebGL. We had to switch away from Vega/Altair when a project hit around 50,000 data points in a plot, but under ~5,000 data points Vega/Altair was still good.

On: High-speed 10Gbps full-mesh network based on USB4 ...

[matmatmatmat]

It's actually even worse in SDG&E territory. A kWh costs around 32 cents, but "transmission" and "distribution" are again twice that. The end result is about $1.00 / kWh.

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I’m convinced SDGE is the most hated company in the country. The southeast is so much cheaper for electricity.

On: Governments spying on Apple, Google users through ...

[matmatmatmat]

"If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him." -- Cardinal Richelieu [1]

[1] https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/23785/what-did-r...

On: A Nouveau graphics driver update

[matmatmatmat]

Well, I look forward to benefiting from this nice work when the next Debian Stable release comes around.

On: OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman

[matmatmatmat]

Makes sense, but would this be so egregious that they had to fire him on the spot?

On: What was behind Microsoft's layoffs of over 20k pe...

[matmatmatmat]

Unless you're just a dyed-in-the-wool Elon Musk fan, in which case it's 5D chess.

On: The Ultra-Rich Are Flourishing and Sticking Around...

[matmatmatmat]

Can I ask where you're living?

[shrimp_emoji → matmatmatmat]

In a corporate colony on Terra 2 from The Outer Worlds

On: Cities turn to ‘extreme’ water recycling

[matmatmatmat]

This is such a wasted opportunity, not just for the US, but across the Middle East. I guess Jordan is availing themselves to some degree, though, but it's also out of necessity, due to the refugees living there.

My understanding is that prior to the Iranian revolution, there were Israeli experts working in Iran on drip irrigation methods. Of course, they had to get out pretty quickly.