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They might need to do some vibe refactoring.

Are those gas plants not peakers? It seems wild to me there is 5gw of curtailment while there is 16gw of gas going. Surely the grid could use some more storage capacity.

It would be interesting to see if this could be combined with those little sidewalk bots to do the last mile, effectively having the Waymos act like buses for the bots.

I’m curious about how you confirmed some things you wrote were in the dataset.

When Node was just getting big I met Mikael for the first time at some Node event or another. It’s hard to overstate or forget how welcoming he was, always excited to see folks, an…

Also “England” but the shape is the UK.

I am replacing some old outdoor lights and I want to get LED lights that I can program? Any suggestions on the best ones? Ideally replaceable/extendable light strings with some kin…

Our thermostat keeps reporting a power outage and stopped cooling but nothing has changed. I’m seeing some other reports on Reddit of similar issues.

I think this is a great point. The author seems to have a selection bias. All the “great” problems in maths are the ones that have remained hard to solve. All the stuff in the midd…

Is that based on the average level of maths at the time? I would argue that there are far more mathematicians now who understand the results from that period now than there were th…

I think this is one of those examples where many people wouldn’t think about botulism because both garlic and oil are common and store safely out of the fridge uncombined. Things l…

Actually the first hit [1] on Google I got for “is it safe to infuse garlic oil without heating” is this article from OK state saying that it’s only safe without heat if you use ci…

If the phone was locked, passcoded, remote erased and sim-locked how did they know her number? I’m not doubting the story I’m just curious how they figured that out.

Sam Altman holds.. no degree? So presumably using their academic qualifications as a basis for their eligibility for the board of OpenAI is as silly as using Mr Altman’s? Would you…

You mentioned RLCDs does this mean the screen technology is in the same family as transflective screens? I have a OLPC and a Toshiba R500 which have this kind of screen and they so…

And the great big thunk if you had a model that supported degaussing.

Just looking at Austin area I was pretty surprised to see that the price varied from $3.89 to $5.39 between South Austin and Round Rock (North Austin). But also even a $1 differenc…

> after bedtime, the lights still come on when someone goes in the bathroom, but very dim, etc. I’d be curious to hear more about this. Most of the “smart” light solutions I’ve tri…

After reading this I assumed he used some kind of remote server he had access to. Eg phone is the Bluetooth keyboard, fire stick provides an internet connection and a browser, and …

Maybe I’m missing something here, but wouldn’t heat become a bigger issue? Right now we have pretty intense cooling solutions to get heat off the surface of a comparatively thinner…

FWIW, dang, while I know guidelines are to post specific things for me personally “check out this collection of interactive tutorials” is actually a lot more interesting/helpful th…

It’s 100kph

I feel like “Ask” vs “Sense” would be a better term. I’ve found this a lot in relationships where partners where a high bar is expected for how well I can to intuit their current s…

I think this was a nice article and helped walk through some of the maybe unintuitive maths but I feel like they missed the meat a bit. With random placement, as was said in the ar…