Technology Connections’ excellent overview of current solar technology has a simple cost-benefit analysis of corn ethanol, which concludes that even if corn ethanol required ZERO energy inputs, it would still be easily outperformed by current solar + battery storage with exceedingly conservative estimates on efficiency, watt-hours per acre, etc.
I have the simple American diet that will work for at least 70% of people:
Less
one vertical, east-west-facing system
Oh, the panels are running in lines N-S, and they’ve got a 2-sided arrangement that faces east and west. Yeah I didn’t quite get the geometry either.
Crop success should get better as you go south and get directly under the sun – the panels will cast smaller shadows.
Solar efficiency might get much worse.
In the end, it’s a range: you can angle the solar panels not at all, or a little bit, or a lot. The effect on crops will vary and eventually you’ll have to stop planting in the persistent shadow of the panels. But perhaps there are lower-light broadleaf vegetables you could plant there.
Every girl’s crazy about a sharp-dressed Gram
FWIW, a check of extant multifamily housing for sale in that area shows about $200-$400K per unit.
So, building new would probably cost a little more, but I suppose low income housing could forego some common amenities. OTOH, low income housing projects in Los Angeles routinely exceed $600K per unit.
In San Diego? No.
"second guessing your doctor” and the like
Oh my dear and fluffy lord
The Blake Robinson Synthetic Orchestra: … ? … comedy horror? and orchestral video game themes?
Oh. Arc and Dia.
KTLA also called this situation a “standoff” in its reporting, implying that the family had taken some action to threaten officers, which they absolutely did not.
Also, credit to the San Bernardino Sheriff’s department for their involvement in this incident. Once called, they followed the law (they did not assist federal officers in an immigration enforcement capacity) & they advocated to federal officers to de-escalate the situation.
Was it useful? That information had nothing at all to do with the author’s case of COVID.
I just don’t see it doing any good. Why would Israel’s military, supplied with US military hardware, care about Microsoft? Or Apple or Google or Amazon or… I’m sure none of their critical military infrastructure is in danger if one or several of these companies turn on them.
And how does Microsoft even enforce this ban? Turn off Windows remotely? It’s not even clear how such a ban on Israel-linked business would work.
If world governments want to put sanctions on Israel and Gaza to try and make the two governments come to the table, I think that’s a much better strategy.
Honestly, I struggle to draw a connection between world conflict and non-military technology like Windows or cell phones or whatever.
Is every single Israeli resident complicit in what their government is doing? None of them should be allowed to use Windows? What about Israelis outside of Israel? What about people who support Israel? What about (gasp) Jews? How do you even enforce any of this without massive overreach by the companies?
Call on Microsoft or Apple all you want, ultimately I don’t think a company should ban sales to customers on the argument that those customers might not have morals aligned to the company. Not that it’s even possible, with world supply chains being what they are.
Capitalism does an extremely poor job of planning beyond the next accounting period.
With respect to the article, it’s wrong. AI help desk is already a thing. Yes, it’s terrible, but human help desk was already terrible. Businesses are ABSOLUTELY cutting out tier 1 call center positions.
LLMs are exceptionally good at language translation, which should be no surprise as that kind of statistical chaining is right up their alley. Translators are losing jobs. AI Contract analysis & legal blacklining are going to put a lot of junior employees and paralegals out of business.
I am very much an AI skeptic, but I also recognize that people who do the things LLMs are already pretty good at are in real trouble. As AI tools get better at more stuff, that target list of jobs will grow.
Took them 30 seconds to throw animators under the bus to make their point.
It’s hopeless. We’re all just gonna eat each other so the billionaire class can go live in a giant space station.
Well, game journalists need to sell gaming hardware and AAA games. Those guys have the ad money.
Just play what you like.
The thing providing the location of the device is the phone… how are military allowed to carry personal phones?
I’ve worked in Top Secret facilities and holy shit no you are not allowed to bring phones inside. How is an active duty ship less controlled?