AdamJacobMuller

I have long said, and I will stand behind, that by and large the % of police which are assholes is about the same as the % of the overall population who are assholes.

The only difference is that a random asshole on the street can't really do anything to me, I can just walk away.

A random asshole cop has a crazy amount of discretionary power over me, even without him stepping outside departmental procedures or the law.

> When storing passkeys in a password manager like Bitwardenor KeePassXC, you end up fighting the platform

Very odd. I use passkeys extensively with BitWarden and I love it to the point where it's my preferred way of securing things at this point.

The fact that the website presents the question to BitWarden in a structured way (what website, what username) means that I never fight with selecting the right account to get the password for (because I commonly have multiple accounts for a single site) and it generally makes the login flow much smoother.

Environment is MacOS with Brave/Firefox + iOS.

"Our standard process is to only retain logs when legally required to, either due to being notified about a litigation or through legally mandated periods" is a fully complete sentence.

Unless you're required to retain logs for some reason like a litigation hold or legally or contractually mandated retention period and you violate those, while the adversarial party might be annoyed at you for not retaining logs there isn't much they can or will do beyond being annoyed.

Of course if you destroy logs after being notified of litigation or inquiry, you're gonna have a bad day.

Watching Mayday on flights is one of my favorite things to do for some odd reason.

I took a walk.

Isn't that fundamentally a coordination problem?

When voltage is dropping (or phase is falling out of alignment) don't you want to shed load to stabilize? The issue seems to be more that too much load could shed too quickly causing wild oscillations in grid conditions from an undervolt to an overvolt. Seems like the correct, and not terribly complicated, solution to this is to have a process whereby the grid operator can request large customers to shed load and move to backup power temporarily.

That seems like such a reasonable suggestion that I would be shocked if such a thing does not already exist and is simply just not reactive enough and too manual.

I hope you are wrong, or at least that someone else does it.

I'm very happy for SpaceX's success but a monopoly on space launch capacity benefits nobody, SpaceX included.

I agree, and I do not take issue with the general complaint (frivolous lawsuits) I am merely pointing out that your ire should be directed more at the legislature not at the people.

Neither did the article and they are journalists, I'm just an internet commentator.

And LEO is using SpaceX to launch.

SpaceX was launching a modest % of the LEO constellation but after the Blue Origin failure, SpaceX is the only launch provider who can fill that gap and actually let LEO deliver on contracted time.

Please don't misunderstand me, I'm no Musk sycophant though I do love SpaceX and Starlink. I want us to have multiple providers of super cheap space launch capabilities and multiple diverse LEO satellite constellations (3-4 on a global scale makes sense I think?).

I'm sure BlueOrigin will get there some day and I'm sure LEO will get there too (maybe even in the 2028 window if they expand their SpaceX launch partnership).

It did not.

In fact the article comes dangerously close to admitting that there is correlation without correlation, it opens with:

> Here is the short version. In 2012, Caltrain budgeted its electrification project — the backbone of the Peninsula's transit future and a prerequisite for high-speed rail to ever reach San Francisco — at roughly $1.5 billion. By 2017 that number had ballooned to $1.9 billion. In between, the Town of Atherton sued.

While I don't agree with what Atherton did here (in general, I did not look at the specifics), you have to be fairly negligent to think you're going to build something in California without a massive legal headache. This is a legislative problem which it sounds like, for this narrow case, the legislature actually solved (shockingly to me). I find it hard to blame the residents of the city for exercising their rights.

> But they did load-shed

Right, exactly, I highly doubt the facility went into any kind of actual uncontrolled thermal rise. This is news because they had to take such drastic actions. I'm sure its common that they force spot prices up (probably way up) to compensate for reduced capacity due to events, I'm sure they even sometimes fake no capacity for similar reasons. No capacity means "I don't want to turn on your node" not merely "I don't have any more physical servers I could turn up for you".

This is news because they powered off some non-preemptible customer loads, which actually makes me wonder if you saw that chain of events occur here.

spot prices rise -> new instance availability goes to 0 -> preemptible instances go dark -> normal instances go dark.

The cat incident at a facility I worked at.

Its cold up here in the winter, sadly, the residual heat from even totally passive components like switch gear is enough to warm things up enough to attract them. .001% of 1MW of power is still quite warm. (I have no idea how much switchgear leaks but i know they are warm even in winter outdoors).

And, yeah, the rest of the writeup is also an amalgamation of some panic-inducing experiences in my life.

Of course not. They fail above 100%.

Some fail below 100% too.