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Solar and wind account for a significant portion of electric generation in Texas.

"You'll never have to eat lunch alone--or at a bad place--again" Classic SV

I had an LED porch light that lasted ~10 years. The fixture had light and motion sensors, so it wasn't on during the day or all night, and often it was not running at full brightne…

We bought a trampoline when our oldest was five. He didn't ask for it, we were just guessing. We got a good deal on one from Craigslist or similar that was brand new, still in the …

I would have thought that std::optional would have been a likely candidate for use with the Pop() method?

If it's possible, sure. But sometimes it's not possible, as with the brother's eyebrows or the horizontal slats on the gable in the first picture, both of which were invented by th…

Shout out to my local KUTX ( https://kutx.org/ )! This is the kind of station that (I think) the author is mourning the loss of. They have human DJs, a great variety of music, and …

KUTX is 98.9, KOOP is 91.7?

If they’re opt-in, how could the new defaults be a problem for backwards compatibility?

No, I'm much older than that. I was in college in the early 90s when the internet first became known to the general public. I guess I just don't consider internetification to be th…

Like Trump, he excels at self promotion, and a lot of self promotion is about being able to lie fluently. For such people, lying comes as easy as breathing. No wonder they do it al…

> It is more probable than not that, within the twentieth century, an ultraintelligent machine will be built and that it will be the last invention that man need make, since it wil…

I think "self promotion" is a better description than "seeking approval". IMO people who are seeking approval tend to not go out of their way to be assholes quite so often ("pedo g…

Veritasium made an episode not long ago describing the design and manufacture of turbine blades: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtxVdC7pBQM

> Companies always want to charge as much as they can get away with. In any market where competition exists, companies compete against other companies for customers. Any company th…

So true. We have one older, rather large machine in a data center that's been up for.. (checks uptime): 963 days. It has IPMI but at some point something stopped working and now we…

Or possibly the downvoters don't know what The Onion is..

It’s true that the meanings of words can change over time. Whether or not that’s a good thing is another question entirely.

Not to defend him, but there are actually quite a lot of people who can’t or won’t grow up.

> zstd Yes, but also “damning with faint praise” immediately comes to mind

> free and open source ML What does that mean exactly? Like sure, you can get some freely available weights and run them on your own hardware, but where did those weights come from…

> both are better than the smart TVs I've used. I mean, ok, but that's still a pretty low bar. I used various Rokus for.. I dunno, must have been at least 10 years. Switched to the…

If the labor supply is flexible (which is the case being discussed here with foreign workers commuting to Switzerland), then increasing wages will tend to increase the number of po…

Totally agree. I did exactly this in the recent primaries, and then got to vote again in a runoff. I think of it this way: in a state where one party is clearly dominant, most offi…