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I discovered Star Trek:TNG pretty late in life. The first exposure to Patrick Stewart that I remember was coming home with a new video game, getting hyped up on the car ride while reading the manual, and finally getting a chance to play Oblivion. I was in awe hearing his stentorian intro with the camera sweeping over the countryside and the spires of the imperial city

Blows my mind that "MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display" appears to be the actual name. Some pundits were thinking that it'd be something pithy like MacBook Studio

Why not standardize on a single solution instead of maintaining your own stack AND paying for someone else to do the work?

We'll lose their income (and other tax revenue) forever. You can argue that Zuck can/should pay higher taxes, but California's budget is already disproportionately dependent on a relatively small # of people. In practice, scaring them off for a one-off boon feels like a huge own goal (especially the way prop 40 punishes founders with voting shares). And we're losing that permanent revenue that used to go to the general fund for prop 40, which is designed to funnel money to a single industry

In some locales, it is included

FWIW, electricity prices in CA are much more out of whack relative to the US average than gas prices.

I used Space Bunny from some providers that offered it for free and it was a very much a "you get what you pay for" experience. If the release is comparable, I'll be sticking with Deepseek v4 for sure.

Birds of a feather I see

IMO it's a safer and more comfortable passenger experience

Is the copy grok's writing style? It feels inhuman but still more readable than Opus

Where I live (Los Angeles), probably 90% of drivers

My utility company does a program where they'll pay you to raise your thermostat a couple degrees when there's the most grid stress and the spot price of electricity is super high. You can also have your thermostat do extra pre-cooling in advance of these events.

People in my area HATE it. They hate giving up control (even though you can still manually lower your thermostat if you get too warm), and feel like the power company is doing some sort of scam even though it's a win/win/win (you make money, electric company saves money, homes are precooled with solar instead of burning fossil fuels).

I've seen setups where they put a 48v battery between the solar panels and plug-in micro inverter. No idea how this impacts efficiency or if there's any safety concerns though.

The new owners are just seeing how gradually they can boil the frog before the userbase moves elsewhere. Gotta maximize returns.

Iirc the built in history doesn't take into account games like having a perennial 40% off coupon that gets disabled right when a "sale" starts