AA5B @ AA5B @lemmy.world

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IBM doesn’t know how innovation works incorporate America, news at 11.

Of course the entire investment won’t be recovered. No one expects it to. It’s a race, and to the victor goes the spoils. Most of these efforts will fail spectacularly, but a small handful will succeed spectacularly.

• a few companies will make huge profits
• everyone else will have huge tax write offs, offsetting corporate taxes for years
• the rest of us lose

So far my direct experience with ai is

• minor efficiency improvements as another programming tool. It can help with syntax, boilerplate, scaling out unit tests BUT IS NEVER. A FINAL PRODUCT
• MAJOR time sink from junior developers who let ai run amuck without putting in the effort to make it work
• TECH DEBT from hundreds of excessive unit tests poorly written for maintainability and with no added value
• INSTABILITY from junior developers letting ai commit slop to the default branch, wasting my time trying to back out thousands of lines of nonsense
• MISMANAGEMENT where I felt forced to run my writeups through ai to “translate” into something recognizably generated so I could fulfill mandates to use ai

“War” usually implies a cause and an opponent. This is just chaotic, and against everyone

Driving is a good way to get exercise, because you jump in the car

You’re telling me that aiming the headlights above the states safety limits is a feature? Making things slightly better for yourself at the expense of everyone else is a good thing?

Plus methane is a much stronger greenhouse gas than CO2, even with the shorter lifetime. We seem entirely unable to reduce methane leaks or even measure them against natural gas usage.

But from a consumer perspective.

• where I live, electricity is much more expensive than natural gas, maybe double the cost per unit of energy
• and I pay even more for 75% renewables
• I just got a heat pump installed for my addition. So far temps have gotten just a bit under freezing and it has no problems keeping up

But that adds up to a reality where the cost threshold is mid-40°F’s. While it may be an argument in favor of solar, I don’t have enough unshaded roof to generate more than half my usage

Signing (intermediate) certs have been compromised before. That means a bad actor can issue fake certs that are validated up to your root ca certs

While you can invalidate that signing cert, without useful and ubiquitous revocation lists, there’s nothing you can do to propagate that.

A compromised signing certs, effectively means invalidating the ca cert, to limit the damage

Mine actually does have a replaceable battery but not a standard one.

The thing is even where things are maintainable, you get to the point where maintenance exceeds replacement cost, where multiple things need attention at once. There’s always the trigger point, but the accumulation affects the weight

Rational … hahahahahahahahahhehehe hoo hohoho hah haha hah hah hahahahahah aha haha. Sorry, where were we again?

We do have a lot of park and ride situations in the us as well, although struggle to make the transit part compelling in most places.

I assume nyc has them as well but it has several extensive rail networks so you’re likely to park in your own town to ride in. For example I parked in Massachusetts, LoL

Me too. I just went there this past weekend: hopped on Acela near my house, got off at Penn Station, walked to my hotel. No driving anywhere near Manhattan.

I am somewhat disappointed that everything was walkable this time, and I had no use for the subway. It may be loud, dirty and chaotic, but it’s functionally outstanding

In addition to the lack of siren and lights meaning they don’t get priority in this case, the important point is they can’t. The other cars have nowhere to go, no way to clear the path. I mean eventually they will, but an ambulance in this situation is delayed regardless of anyone’s best effort

Oh ok. I have no idea what the situation here is for bidirectional charging. It’s not common yet.

And yes, we’re trying to work out common payment systems, but as far as I know, that’s just software. Historically chargers required you to register and pay through the manufacturers app, but that’s unscalable when you have many possible charger manufacturers supporting a common standard.

One of the requirements for US incentives to build out chargers was mandating credit card readers so anyone can drive up and charge without a proprietary app. Of course that was cancelled in our chaotic political situation, so will take more years to happen

I believe EVs are being harmonized, although separately….or is that what you meant?

Don’t EVs in EU have a standardized charger and negotiate voltage and current?

In the US, we have an old standard that needs to go away, a newer standard that is going away, and Tesla’s standard which seems to be on the way to the winning standard. But the handshake is already compatible: switching between systems just requires a physical adapter. I believe the car and charger negotiate for the best voltage and current it can use

And of course level I and II charging use residential electrical standards, so already must be as standard as you can get. No one wants to try resolving those

Of course, but there’s also the matter of the degrading battery with much shorter life, the peeling handle, the worn head. Yes, I can put up with the battery for longer, but it will need to be replaced and it may not be any cheaper than replacing the toothbrush. I could just deal with the peeling handle, but it’s not hygienic. I could buy more replacement heads but it’s throwing more money after an appliance whose time is nearing its end

So we have hope, that will make it here as well.

Boston. Also pretty good transit, but nothing in the us compares to Manhattan for walkability and transit

There are gangs of masked thugs kidnapping people at gunpoint. Oh wait

I paid for a real id license when they were first available in my state, and I’ve paid for a renewal. I disagree with the surveillance society they enable but I’m also a realist who wants to travel conveniently.

But I’ve still never gotten one. When it comes down to it, actually getting a real id license requires taking a day off work and waiting in line at the Registry …… whereas I can renew a standard license online and have a few years left on my passport

One of the many ways RealID has been a fiasco is RMV/DMV’s not staffing up to support it

Plastics