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one thing to point out: with a planet that is 20-30% larger than the earth the rocket equation makes it almost it impossible to get out of the atmosphere with chemical rocket technology. So even if you could visit, we could probably only have drop ships or rovers. coming back out of the gravity well without space elevators or stuff would be very hard. It also means that life on those planets would be hard for them to establish a space faring society.

A bunch of people are commenting that this could lead to grid-death spiral where people opt out of the grid because they can just use solar + batteries. Maybe, but I doubt in Vermont. Vermont is really hard for solar because of tree cover and clouds (according to my conversations with a solar installer). Secondly, in this setup you have buy your own power plant (solar + batteries), which likely for most folks, is a pretty big expense. Green Mountain power subsidizing the cost of buying the Tesla power walls is a big deal for me because I use this setup for a cabin / second home and want to keep my costs relatively low. I can't do solar because I on the side of a mountain and lots of trees.

I couldn't read the article because of paywall issues. I have a Tesla powerwall that I pay $50 / month to lease from green mountain power. I have piece of mind for power in a rural area - the power company get peaker benefits. Seems like a great deal. I wish we had this in Massachusetts. Mad river valley area.

Ex AWS. AWS had one zone specific products. If those were in the affected AZ that data is lost. AWS has multiple multi-AZ products. S3 and EFS are good examples. If you loose an AZ for an extended periodic of time, the dataplane of those services will migrate shards around until you get back to your durability goals.

if you use these things to generate design docs / text, it should be good news if it is actually better at prose as advertised. Some people like sol for prose better the anthropic models.

This is somewhat orthogonal to the article, but the whole bubble on AI data centers seems to presume that the need for compute is so massive that it far exceeds the expected optimizations we would expect with at scale inference (PIM, ASICs, etc). I would expect that there is a set of optimizations like this one (or variations) that would someone negate the buildout. But it's not really discussed.

Some other commentators said this was AI slop. I don't have enough expertise to say if it really is, but it sure has the "claudish" cadence of AI generated text that makes it hard to take it seriously. The authoritative and strong statements, the use of phrasing with colons and dashes, the use of bold, etc.

I've heard it's writing style referred to as "Claudish". I agree that it is very hard to read and creates work for me.

I really wanted to stay in the google chromebook / googlebook echo system. But the hardware was expensive for what you get. Apple announced the macbook neo and I picked one up. Great hardware. can run light weight mac software. I don't run much beyond chrome and wahoo SYSTM (bike trainer app). It's really solid hardware and cost $600 or so.

I use gemini extensively (and claude). But - do I need this integrated in my laptop? Don't quite see it. And it's hard to beat Apple on hardware now.

somewhat off topic, but I really am not sure that adding chromebooks to every school has made education better. hard to block youtube when they bring these home (I know you can, but the average person can't).

If you don't want to go through your insurance company you can check out an app we built called RoadClub. You get points for safe driving behavior - and you can get the hard brake alerts. Is it a bit annoying? yes. You can't just drive agressively - you need to give space to slow down. I still struggle with it.

Nice research. This is fairly well known in insurance circles. Most auto insurers that do telematics consider hard braking the strongest indicator of risk. One of the things that we do at work (Cambridge Mobile Telematics) is build tools to deal with this risk. We have apps that monitor driving and we play a tone to indicate that a hard braking event was detected. Simply letting people know that they had a hard braking event is an effective mechanism for behavior change (other companies have similar tech)

I am confused about what Tesla is doing. They have effectively two automobile products now with one failed product (cybertruck). reading various articles about this doesn't make it more clear. Do they not want to be a car company?

Full disclosure: I am pretty sour on the current Amazon/AWS leadership as I think, well, they couldn't lead a company out of a paper bag (former manager at AWS). Is there data that Amazon/AWS is still hiring junior devs? I've heard it's very hard to get into student programs these days but I don't have the data. My grumpy position would be Garmin saying one thing and doing another.