Kyle Baxter

Gotcha. There’s particular uses BEVs aren’t great for; towing is probably the worst, because it grinds efficiency into the ground between pulling weight and aerodynamics.

It really depends on the person’s circumstances. If they’re in an area with few DCFC, they can’t charge at home, and they drive 150 mi a day every day, yeah, that might not be great. If those conditions don’t apply, it’s perfectly reasonable.

Reduction in winter range is an issue for specific people in specific circumstances (eg folks who live somewhere cold; they can’t charge at home; they drive a significant percentage of their range everyday). Obviously a problem for people that’s true for, but not a universal issue by any stretch.

Bolt is surprisingly fun to drive, but fair on the looks decent point, so: IONIQ 5!

Didn’t you get a Mach E back when?

If you need something bigger, look at ID.4s or (more ideally) IONIQ 5 or EV6.

The right move for a lot of people is a used Bolt. They’re available for ridiculously cheap, they’re a great BEV (buttery smooth throttle, great one pedal and regen, and the regen paddles are fun), functional space inside even for a family, and solid range. DCFC is poor but only impacts road trips.

A used Bolt really is the right move for a bunch of people. It’s a very capable little car, even for a family with small kids. The only downside is its slow DCFC, but if someone isn’t doing much road trips, it’s irrelevant. We loved our 2019.

I don’t see how you can look at the infernos raging in Tehran right now and say we’re just trying to do right by the Iranian people.

This is no different from Putin saying MH17 was shot down by Ukraine or Assad saying rebels gassed themselves.

Organizations demonstrating competitive advantage by allowing their employees to do even more, rather than as mimetically claiming they’re cutting payroll expense due to AI efficiencies to win the PR game, are similarly important. Model the world you want to exist.

Technology is neutral (if predisposed toward certain directions). How we use it is not. Tools for creativity (visual art, animation, writing, etc.) which augment the creator, not just generate with a prompt, are especially important.

The best things anyone concerned about the outcomes of AI can do is 1) help and wish for the continued compression of intelligence into a smaller number of params; and 2) help create tools and culture which use AI for growing value, not just replacing labor.

It is a fun realization how many things are conditional on other things to be viable which were…

Starting to use Aeronaut.app on MacOS for Bluesky and tbh getting some Tweetie.app vibes from back when—which is a very good thing

There’s a fish in the percolator

If they’re hanging out with you (close to eye level), it’s even more so, because how they look at you is how you’d expect it to feel if a dinosaur was looking at you having grown up with JURASSIC PARK etc

Given that chicken behavior has inspired how we represent how dinosaurs move and behave, it’s frankly uncanny and kind of unsettling sometimes having chickens and watching them run around, because they straight up just look like cute little adorable dinosaurs

democrats should internalize that this is what their colleagues think of them and act accordingly

“However alarmed you are, it’s not enough.”

Stop what you’re doing and read this incredible @jvl.bsky.social piece.

Bari Weiss will be all over this overt censorship I’m sure.

…wait a second

We would have won pretty handily in the AFCCG. Hard to say how the Super Bowl would have went, but yes, I think it would have been a tight game.

Pretty sure it would have been a (more exciting) tight game with a shot for Nix to win it in the fourth, just like the rest of this season. That fucking Bills game man

Much better than Moana 2, that’s for sure

Also, I think one of the problems with chat UI is both user and agent aren’t looking and touching The Thing. You’re both trying to communicate The Thing *and* the problem surface. Both prone to error (and your bad assumptions get transferred to agent). This is one of the reason canvas/artifacts help

Solving problems also helps by having another person who is independently modeling the problem discussed. Talking about it often uncovers hidden assumptions (modeling diffs) one party is making. Sometimes those are spurious, sometimes lead to solutions.

SEN. OSSOFF: “.. why are roving gangs of masked men — who look like they couldn’t pass the Army physical exam — dressed up like pretend Delta Force operators, on our streets, demanding papers, dragging people from their cars, and shooting people to death?”

@acyn.bsky.social

Also great because markdown is this beautiful middle ground of fairly flexible and easy to write in but also well-featured and structured. It’s a terrific format for flexibly and expressively organizing knowledge

Having been a daring fireball reader from way back (and writing blog posts in markdown), the centrality of markdown for agents today (and for me now building them) is still kinda amusing to me

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