Kenny

What kind of maniac stores their disks upside down like that

Maybe all on the up and up but the skeptic in me wonders about the choice of 2021 as a start date and if it was chosen to affect a perception.

Huh? How exactly do email subs keep track of a specific product on a site, or remind you of something at a particular time?

And if you don't like tech of tech sake, email is 'literatly' just how paper works.

Instead of having to call this, it can message you. So you can tell it things like "Remind me tomorrow about _". It also has access to the internet, so without any scraping magic you can point it at a site and tell it "let me know when these socks go on sale" or "send me some happy news every day".

Bookmarks are currently private and so personally I think they shouldn't be tracked at all. They're trying to be used as a indicator of engagement (ick).

You make a good point though, why do I trust bsky with what I consider private data. I'll have to think about that more.

Maybe they could have an option to make your posts unbookmarkable? Would you use/want that?

I get that. I guess I see blocking someone as 'I don't want to see their posts', not as any real protection (everything being public and all). Willing to believe it helps though.

Identify might be helpful in some cases, I suppose, but also at a privacy cost. Not sure where that falls.

I'm not seeing the abuse part?

I mean they could screenshot or save the link to the post in a text file if they wanted, right? But why is that bad? Seems equivalent to them bookmarking your website.

We're cutting this to save the average tax payer at most 10¢ per year

Decided to run some back-of-a-napkin math on this. Leaving a 100W bulb on for an single hour uses more power than doing 20 complex DeepSeek queries or 53 Llama 3.1 queries (or more than 13 minutes of Netflix streaming).

Don't worry, everyone that should be eligible to vote got it 😉

No. There's already bus depots with giant parking lots along any of these routes in. Everyone can utilize them.

I lived in Ottawa, where the buses have their own roads, and it was way faster to bus than drive. We need more of this, not less.

Not true. I've tried and they're all like "you're a male, it's not for you". Sexist jerks.

Fleet response: Lending a helpful hand to Waymo’s autonomously driven vehicles The Waymo Driver autonomously navigates tens of thousands of rider-only miles across San Francisco, Phoenix, Los Angeles, and Austin daily. It can navigate common scenarios, like adhering to a crossin...

They're not driving, they're answering questions. Watch the two videos from their blog post for examples: waymo.com/blog/2024/05...

Fleet response: Lending a helpful hand to Waymo’s autonomously driven vehicles The Waymo Driver autonomously navigates tens of thousands of rider-only miles across San Francisco, Phoenix, Los Angeles, and Austin daily. It can navigate common scenarios, like adhering to a crossin...

False, false, and false. Did you actually read the article? Here's a blog post they wrote about it two years ago: waymo.com/blog/2024/05...

A discharge curve of a lithium ion battery

Do you actually? It's because trying to map percentages to lithium ion's very flat discharge curve is difficult. This curve also changes with things like temperature, battery health, current draw, etc.

So it comes down to software of varying quality to basically guess.

If I never hear from this man again it'll be too soon.

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Right. I can at least understand the 'crossing the floor' argument, even if I don't agree with it.

Stepping down to go do something else, be it become a lumberjack or join the Conservatives, doesn't seem like it undermines democracy to me.

No one is making you vote for her though. You've lost no choice. Democracy wasn't undermined.

And look at it this way, would really rather a 'hack' keep working for the NDP instead of switching to a party you won't vote for and leaving an open position for a non-hack?

Shouldn't she have the choice of what she wants to support and run for?

I'm really disappointed in Don Davies' language here. "undermining democracy", how exactly does it do that?

Un-paywalled version: archive.ph/ZkbjV

An NSPower 'My Usage' graph showing different electrical usage by category and month.

It also means you can see your usage down to the minute. or you could, before they got hacked. They weren't hacked through the meters though.

Lets them figure out when you're supplying or drawing power, which would allow them to charge different rates depending on time/conditions. Suddenly having batteries could make sense because you could sell your solar when it's worth more.

There is a solution, and part of that is the upgrade to smart meters so can enable dynamic billing. Be careful what you wish for though because you could end up paying to supply power during the day (with a negative feed-in tariffs) and then paying more to draw power back during the night.

Shouldn't be private but we might still get to a different system.

With the move to smart meters we could move to a time based system. That can bring in things like buying excess solar at market ToD rates. It also makes residential battery (and vehicle-to-grid) possible.

If OP sells their power to the grid then NSPower has to charge you more. That's the simple reason.

You can build it and benefit from it, they just won't buy it from you. Even the amount they let you count against your bill is a cost to the rest of us.

Please be careful with language here. You can install and create as much is a surplus as you'd like. NSPower just won't buy it from you.

The reason is _for_ lower rates. Your power would cost them much more than their wholesale costs. Even as is with time factors you're a net cost to others.

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Something something woke indoctrination, education bad

You know you don't have to scrap a car just because the 12 volt battery dies 😉