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Not really, hysteresis is definitely a thing for hugely expertise and capital intensive projects like ramping up bleeding edge semiconductor fabrication.
I get "[economic] boom on the horizon [near future]". But the phrase "boom on the horizon" invokes imagery of mushroom clouds.
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Why is it ridiculous for an intro-level course to not require people to manually compute integrals? I'm open to the idea that maybe I'm wrong about this being reasonable, but "I had to do it so everyone else should have to too" is not a very convincing argument. To be clear, I had already placed out of the calculus course that would have taught how to evaluate these integrals, so I wouldn't have been disadvantaged by…
For the same reason not grinding out the code by hand and copying from your LLM is going to result in you being a less competent programmer in the long run. I really believe there is something to be said for putting yourself through the mental strain of evaluating the integrals (or code) and that doing so contributes to you having a better feel for how it works on a conceptual level as well, you don't just get better…
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They just had a big power crisis (summer AC, maximum GWh usage) and survived.
Is that supposed to be reassuring? Why not choose a state with better energy management, so "recently survived an energy crisis" isn't even part of the conversation?
https://www.caiso.com/Documents/intensifying-heat-leads-to-a...
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They just had a big power crisis (summer AC, maximum GWh usage) and survived.
They've had multiple power crises recently in which survival was in question, so the particular outcome in the last one says less than the expected frequency for more borderline events in the future.
There is some silliness with the state government around renewable power, but it isn't like they've banned it. And if they did it would take #2 California a long time to catch up.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/09032023/inside-clean-ene...
The question then is really whether Texas has a better chance of expanding capacity fast enough to meet its needs than other states that are famously more restrictive around new construction and environmental impacts. I don't like the politics here and I still think the answer to that is clearly yes for this purpose.
Whoever mentioned water has a point though.
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Yeah, even before LLMs, the more advanced TI calcs like the TI-nspire can have Calc and Physics apps loaded on them that make tests trivial to cheat on.
That's why they were banned back when I took the tests. Have they loosened the restrictions on the n-spire? The standard back in the early 2010s was still definitely TI-84 being about the most powerful calculator you could use for most tests that mattered. Those calculators are intentionally kept slow by TI because of these requirements. My impression of the n-spire was that it had always been marketed much more towa…