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by floatrock 10mo ago
Service fees is the counter-tactic here. If it takes the city clerk multiple hours to assemble and distribute the video clips and time gets billed to $1k/request because it's being done in the most inefficient, asinine way, well,
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by floatrock 10mo ago
Are you a car ad where you're selling the most extreme off-road experience for the person who just wants to go to the grocery store? Come on man. If you're in an extreme environment, get the tool appropriate for that environment.
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by floatrock 10mo ago
Its hype and rise, or it's trust-betrayal and downfall?
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by floatrock 11mo ago
Yes. The second sentence describes the target niche: > The funds are expected to help the startup scale its patented 3D solar towers that are designed to have high levels of energy density for space-constrained areas. Third describes a
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by floatrock 11mo ago
simple: you poison/confuse/obfuscate the ability to know what it is worth.
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by floatrock 11mo ago
Yeah, I've seen it with windfarms. Always wondered why do they need to blink at the same time. The scale of the blink is pretty jarring at night (but also awe-some, in the same way any big enough infrastructure project inspires a kin
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by floatrock 11mo ago
The buried lede: Anthropic: "$2.66 billion on compute on an estimated $2.55 billion in revenue" Cursor: "bills more than doubled from $6.2 million in May 2025 to $12.6 million in June 2025" Clickthrough if you want the a
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by floatrock 1y ago
I've been meaning to try out some text-to-speech to see if that makes it a bit easier. Part of the difficulty of "spelling out in detail what I want" is the need for precise written language, which is high cognitive load, whi
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by floatrock 1y ago
Ok, sounds like it doesn't pencil out for you in your region. I have a similar size in a different part of the country with my bills consistently in the mid-$100's. YMMV. As with most things in life, there is no one-size-fits-all.
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by floatrock 1y ago
Lets do some simple napkin math: Lets say a solar system will cost $25k (that should get you an 8-10kW rooftop system). Pay for it with, say, a 5% APR loan. - 10 years: $265/mo - 15 years: $197/mo - 20 years: $164/mo What are
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by floatrock 1y ago
Utilities tend to make most profit as a fixed rate of return on infrastructure built, not really based on electricity costs. Build a new substation, some poles & wires to distribute it to the new subdivisions, and bammo, regulator grant
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by floatrock 1y ago
Including schoolchildren!
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by floatrock 1y ago
> Can't you make this same argument with alcohol? Other commentators are pointing out and linking to sources that explain how the tolerance bio-mechanisms are very different between alcohol and marijuana. It's an apples-to-oran
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by floatrock 1y ago
from the op: > ridiculously stupid HR practices... a structure in which the only way to get a raise was to leave the company, and that was also often the best way to get promoted too Until that culture changes, of course you're gonn
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by floatrock 1y ago
domestic sedans and hatches sold poorly and were discontinued. Quality might have some small piece there, but there's other factors like: - large trucks & SUVs are more profitable - there's import restrictions on that catego
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by floatrock 1y ago
sure, but that's not what we're talking about here. the article is framing LLM's as a kind of fuzzy pipe that can automatically connect lots of tools really well. This ability works particularly well with unix-philosophy do-o
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by floatrock 1y ago
Much of Florida real-estate purchases and voting blocs are people with a life/time horizon of 1-3 decades. What you're describing is someone else's problem. Article is a bit less crass about this and wraps it in some good ol
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by floatrock 1y ago
Perhaps a better framing is to consider whether there is a relationship between "actions the government focuses on" and "people who own waterfront property or benefit from developing underutilized flood plains"
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by floatrock 1y ago
Article doesn't give a whole lot of context, but there's two key innovations here: 1. Bi-facial solar panels: can take in sunlight from either end 2. Mounting bi-facials vertically so they can take in sunlight from both directions
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by floatrock 1y ago
What the airlines want is to have people pay more to sit together. What they're gonna get is same thing that happened when luggage fees became standard: enshittification because people find ways to pay less. In the case of luggage fees
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by floatrock 1y ago
To make this more than "this is just the xkcd population map joke" https://xkcd.com/1138/ , better title could be "Distribution Search of Zip Codes in the United States". Point here is to type 0, 1,
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by floatrock 1y ago
We're letting them buy all our gold reserves and water rights (see alfalfa farming in the West), so everyone's got their price. Question is whats more cost-effective: paying market rates to secretly stockpile, or paying for anothe
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by floatrock 1y ago
Should the price of these domestically-produced minerals include the environmental impacts on the watersheds, superfund'd land, and Americans living next to the mining operation? Or is that just the inefficiency introduced by them pesk
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by floatrock 1y ago
It's a cute "how do I reach these kids?" idea -- find what they like and explain the concepts with custom-tailored analogues. I don't think the failure mode here is really "7th graders will see through the superfici
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by floatrock 1y ago
And engineers don't really deal with frictionless spherical cows, but high schoolers might. All models are wrong, but some are useful.
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by floatrock 1y ago
Yep, a sentence only someone on tenure-track could love. ChatGPT, asked to translate to a high schooler: "Basically, this study found that young people with depression sometimes struggle to break automatic habits, especially when they’
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by floatrock 1y ago
Snark aside, there are examples of community-scale energy infrastructure below grid-scale: see "district heating" and "co-gen plants". Sand battery people have been experimenting with neighborhood-scale infrastructure (t
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by floatrock 1y ago
This doom-loop is often repeated, but reality is far more complicated. Very few people go fully off-grid, reality is people don't want that. Cost/benefit just isn't there unless you live off in the woods. So instead, market s
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by floatrock 1y ago
> coming up with an efficient solution is a large part of the challenge More of my work tends to be "rapidly adopting solution to additional and changing requirements" than "come up with most efficient solution", so w
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by floatrock 1y ago
from tfa: > Experts say the spike is driven by climate change making disasters more frequent, the rising cost of construction materials, and a flood of lawsuits in coastal states that drive up payouts for insurers. Sure, lawsuits/re

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