Which is true. But it's a rug pull for people who spent money on their panels expecting an RoI. Were existing installations grandfathered in?
Solar has become all about ROI these days just like home ownership has become an investment.
Readit Newspkaye commented on In Europe, wind and solar overtake fossil fuels e360.yale.edu/digest/euro... · Posted by u/speckx
pkaye commented on Games Workshop bans staff from using AI ign.com/articles/warhamme... · Posted by u/jsheard
It's not "anti-AI" to acknowledge the fact that when your job is to create work for hire in order to build up your employer's IP portfolio, being paid to use AI to create work that isn't IP isn't doing your job.
Your job is to create IP. As per the US Copyright Office, AI output cannot be copyrighted, so it is not anyone's IP, not yours, not your employer's.
That's not "anti-AI", that's AI and copyright reality. Game Workshop runs their business on IP, suddenly creating work that anyone can copy, sell or reproduce because it isn't anyone's IP is antithetical to the purpose of a for-profit company.
If a person holds a camera and clicks a button, the output can be copyrighted. But if I write a few pages worth of prompts and click enter, it cannot be copyrighted?
pkaye commented on The next two years of software engineering addyosmani.com/blog/next-... · Posted by u/napolux
What I want is for universities to offer a degree in Software Engineering. That's a different field from Computer Science.
You say that belongs in a trade school? I might agree, if you think trade schools and not universities should teach electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, and chemical engineering.
But if chemical engineering belongs at a university, so does software engineering.
My university had Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering and Computer Science degrees (in additional to all the other standard ones.)
pkaye commented on Logistics Is Dying; Or – Dude, Where's My Mail? lagomor.ph/2026/01/logist... · Posted by u/ChilledTonic
The USPS is in year 4 of a 10 year overhaul of its infrastructure. New facilities with new equipment optimized for the current mail mix. Magazines and catalogs used to be huge. Now they are a fraction of their volume. First class letter volume is crashing as everyone goes paperless.
Where there use to be separate facilities for processing first class, bulk mail, and packages; the new facilities deal with everything. And where the old system of 50 NDC (National Distribution Centers) are being consolidated to ~30 RPDC (Regional Processing and Distribution Centers) leading to a whole new strategy of how mail moves East to West and West to East. And mail sorting for delivery used to happen by mail carriers at local Post Offices, is now happening at LSDC (Local Sorting and Delivery Centers) set up service all mail carriers in a 50 - 70 mile radius.
And all of these changes are happening while still having to deliver mail (It never stops Jerry. It just keeps coming and coming)
So if you’re in the Midwest like Chicago, stuff coming from the Midwest or Eastcoast has been getting stuck in Indianapolis-taking 10 to 15 days. Stuff coming from West Coast gets here in 5.
There are 42,000 active zip codes and 640,000 employees. Making changes to that organization is hard and takes time.
What’s really cool is the work going on with Amazon, Walmart, Target and others for them to deliver packages directly to LSDC for same day delivery. Once you get away from the cities, no one can compare with the USPS for last mile delivery.
TLDR USPS is changing. Things may get worse before they get better.
Where can you read more about this?
pkaye commented on Mamdani Targets Junk Fees and Hidden Charges in Two Executive Orders nytimes.com/2026/01/05/ny... · Posted by u/lordleft
Fuck yes. Does anyone know what is the appropriate (USA) government level for this? I.e., could something similar to implemented in State or Federal legislatures?
Yes it can be done on the state level. California passes consumer protection laws all the time. Some of the recent ones are listed here. The problems is people are waiting for Congress or the President to do something when it could be enacted at the state level first and when there are enough support and consensus could be passed by Congress.
https://www.kcra.com/article/new-california-laws-in-2026-jan...
pkaye commented on Nike's Crisis and the Economics of Brand Decay philippdubach.com/posts/n... · Posted by u/7777777phil
Anecdotally I also noticed a shift in shoe buying among my peer group (25-39 year olds) in that they take foot health and comfort more seriously and do more research on that front.
My podiatrist has seen a huge uptick in younger patients since 2022. Generally he’s surprised at the age influx is mostly younger.
He only sells 3 brands of shoe depending on fit, need, size etc. Brooks, Hoka, and New Balance. These were traditionally seen as “older persons” shoe brands, especially Brooks.
Now they’re everywhere
My podiatrist also recommended New Balance and it made a huge difference for my foot pain and various issues.
Given the absolute state of their website on mobile it's hardly surprising. It's faster to find an employee and ask them where an item is at instead of waiting for the search to finish, see that it the "current store" now points to a random location somewhere in a different state, pick the correct store and re-do the search
Its hard to locate anything in their stores these days and its even harder to find any staff. So what I do is order for pickup and let them do the work.
pkaye commented on How the Creator Economy Destroyed the Internet theverge.com/cs/features/... · Posted by u/ecliptik
The media ecosystem many of us had lived in included that but was not almost entirely that.
We had local newspapers, weeklies, and magazines, with local owners and editors, printing at local print shops, subsidized by local advertisers, dropped in boxes and stacked at local community hubs by local kids. Same for local radio stations and local television networks, although these had such high capital and regulation requirements that many of them were already being soaked up into larger networks more quickly.
As the online stuff emerged, we had local BBS's, and local forums and websites and blogs operated by local people, made known through the above local media channels or just through word of mouth.
Writers and editors and artists and merchants would be real people that circulated in the community, who would encounter readers/viewers/consumers face to face. Earnest small businesses that served a niche in the community could call up and get a reasonable price for an ad slot or classified listing without always having to bid in an auction against against an national brand with an effectively unlimited budget.
The last 10-20 years of the Internet, of social media and consolidation and the "Creator Economy", didn't just "scale up what we already had" -- it scaled up one small thing that we already had and displaced more or less everything else.
Craigslist killed off the classified section which was a big income source for newspapers. People didn't mind because Craigslist was free for most users.
As far as I can tell, the definition of autism coincides with the desire of healthcare to address it without having to carve out 100+ variations of behavioral outcomes to get insurance to pay for it.
We know autism affects all sorts of long term outcomes, but if you tried to split it into actual diagnoses, you end up with insurance companies dividing and conquering approvals.
So instead of having several definitions, we put them all behind autism because that has already received appreopiate laws that establish requirements to treat both at school and in healthcare settings.
So basically, once it breached the "we need to address this", rather than every new diagnosis having to struggle to say "look, this problem effects society", it just grows offshoots and spectrum status.
Because it's definitely not a physically identifiable disability. It's all behavioral and that will always have more coincidences.
So how do other countries other than US define autism?