I got to meet Frank in the mid 90s while studying architecture in New Mexico. He was incredibly generous with his time and ideas to us students that stayed extra late to catch him touring the studios with the dean around midnight. His midnight critique of my design that was due the next morning made me throw it out and start over to include some of his ideas.
Readit NewsWhats the time to make your money back with and without the tax break?
We cancelled our install after TN removed the state level breaks. It pushed the payback out past the expected lifespan of the panels (25 years). I would have been fine with a 10 year payback, but 25+ was just not worth doing.
SteveGerencser commented on Meta announces new data centers engadget.com/ai/meta-anno... · Posted by u/ksec
Ohio is not exactly short on water.
You've got Erie to the North, the Ohio to the South East, and about 40 inches of rainfall per year, or 81M acre-feet of water for the whole state in precipitation, or around ~80 BILLION gallons of rain water per day.
The water is returned to the atmosphere as vapor, not transmuted into bismuth and shipped overseas, never to be seen again.
You're talking about 1/20,000th of the rain water.
Okay, it's not nothing. But it's not going to ruin all the farms or something.
You would be surprised how little water drop is required to cause wells to "go dry". When wells are punched into an aquifer, they stop when they hit water, they don't keep going to be deeper. A water level drop of just 2 inches caused all sorts of issues for locals when Intel built its new Fabs in New Mexico.
Intel said that it wouldn't be an issue, yet when it happened, they did nothing to help and forced a huge number of people to have to put in new wells. The same will happen in Ohio.
I personally love this chef's kiss of a flip flop sam did here:
https://blog.samaltman.com/trump
https://www.reddit.com/r/YAPms/comments/1i7ry5m/sam_altman_g...
Only a truly talented piece of shit can be as prolific as this.
"He is irresponsible in the way dictators are."
Chef's kiss.
Edit:
Kids, don't aspire to be like Altman. We as a community need to espouse more values than tech is gonna tech.
> don't aspire to be like Altman
Aspire to be like Aaron Schwartz.
I submitted several scientific/research papers my wife wrote or co-authored in the late 90s early 2000s and they were all flagged as AI written by multiple tools. It was good for a laugh.
How is Boeing so consistently terrible nowadays?
Theyre going to kill people at some point.
Boeing merged with Lockheed/Martin when L/M was in serious trouble and rumors say it was pushed by the DOD because of all the L/M defense contracts involved. This then lead to the worst parts of L/M (management over engineering) gaining a foothold at Boeing (Engineering over Management).
The rest is a long, slow, decline into Boeing being what L/M was when they needed to be rescued.
SteveGerencser commented on A search engine by and for the federal government search.gov/... · Posted by u/pajtai
I remember on some radio show many years back a program where tech people were going back to government to make the tech better. They interviewed the guy that started it and it was really inspiring. I wish I could remember more details. These are true patriots.
People like Matt Cutts left Google to do exactly this. Much happier than when he was the head of the Google Search Spam team.
tldr;
Today: 100Mbps down / 20Mbps up (45 million Americans lack access as of Dec 2022)
2015 onward: 25Mbps down / 3Mbps up
Pre-2015: 4Mbps down / 1Mbps up
The commission's longterm goal is 1Gbps down / 500Mbps up. These distinctions of 'broadband' help determine where to focus resources.
We are in the 45 million. When we moved here over a decade ago we were told by TDS that they were expanding their service and should be able to provide us with 50Mbs 'soon'. 10 years later we are still 5Mbs (3 in real-world situations). With no plan to expand here ever. Fortunately, the local electric company got a grant and is rolling out 1Gbs fiber to 100% of their customers. TDS couldn't do it because it wasn't 'profitable'. The electric company is fast-tracking the build-out and we should have service less than 18 months after they started.
A not-so-secret dirty little secret is that many of the reputation management agencies also own many of the public records websites that publish mug shots, court records, and so on. When you hire them to remove that information from the internet it puts you into a cycle of being removed from one or two of their website and added to something else.
You end up in a never-ending game of whack-a-mole. Complete with monthly fees.
The article itself even says here:
> [...] the US government has cut scientific grants to academics working on diversity-related topics, halted biomedical grants to international partners, and demanded universities shut down academic units that “belittle” conservative ideas [...]
I'd say it's fair to question if taxpayers should be paying for "diversity related projects." The "belittle conservative ideas" thing is problematic, as that is totally subjective. However, I don't think anyone can say in good faith that most universities aren't incredibly bias. Having been in one circa 2020, it was not a welcoming place if you weren't firmly liberal/progressive. Of course I have to place my disclaimer that I'm not a fan of what Trump is doing, or the man himself for that matter.