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redbeard0x0a commented on What would you pay for autonomous driving? Volkswagen hopes $8.50 per hour   arstechnica.com/cars/2021... · Posted by u/panda88888
amcoastal · 4 years ago
Maybe where you live. There's a 0% chance human driving will be banned in America until we are all well passed driving age.
redbeard0x0a · 4 years ago
It wont be banned, it will just cost much more to insure (since it will be directly tied to risk, computers already drive better than humans). If you drive manually, you will need to pay for the privilege.
redbeard0x0a commented on Texas was minutes away from months-long power outages, officials say   texastribune.org/2021/02/... · Posted by u/irtefa
livueta · 5 years ago
Here's something I've been wondering: an "infrastructure platform" sounds cool in theory at least in part because it's so vague; anyone can kinda take what they want from it, like the phrase "America is in crisis". Especially right now, I'm sure an infrastructure platform in the abstract would poll well.

But in terms of concrete economic choices, the popularity of services like Griddly seems to indicate that many quite explicitly choose low (instantaneous) cost over reliability/price stability. It's like airline tickets: everyone loves griping about seatroom or whatever but revealed preference is for low-cost offerings.

Put differently, as a non-Texan looking in, I guess I'm asking how hopeful you are that this zeitgeist can be capitalized on once you get down to actual policy and the inherent trade-offs you've got to deal with therein (and also when participants are warm and comfortable).

To be clear I personally would vote for you in a heartbeat, but the cliffs in support between vague positive overarching statements and concrete policy proposals in other areas don't leave me super hopeful.

redbeard0x0a · 5 years ago
Just want to say that I am a griddy customer, I don't do it for the absolute lowest cost, but the ability to see and respond to pricing via home automation. A way to hack my electric bill. This week has definitely sucked in terms of cost. Griddy is also introducing contract rates next month, so some amount of power can be purchased at a predicted rate and you get that power at that rate, not the spot price until you run out of that contracted amount of power. (I only know the vague details of the program, just fyi).

Also, this is a regulation failure because the PUCT (or whatever it is called), which is under the purview of the Railroad Commissioner (an elected position), didn't make recommended winterization guidelines mandatory. Without this, the market favors the biggest corner cutting.

redbeard0x0a commented on Hacker increased chemical level at Oldsmar's city water system, sheriff says   wtsp.com/article/news/loc... · Posted by u/bschne
tsimionescu · 5 years ago
Perfect, unemployment is a major problem because of Covid19 anyway.
redbeard0x0a · 5 years ago
COVID19 is also decimating budgets
redbeard0x0a commented on A worker owned (co-op) store for sustainable products   thesustainablecoopstore.s... · Posted by u/vivekmgeorge
thieving_magpie · 5 years ago
I'm interested but looks like at this point you have to pay to attend. Seems like a strange model.

If you open up the meeting to more folks without requiring a donation let me know!

redbeard0x0a · 5 years ago
There is a $0 registration option
redbeard0x0a commented on Audi announces end of combustion A4, A6 and A8 models   electrive.com/2021/01/22/... · Posted by u/reddotX
blackaspen · 5 years ago
I think we'll see the opposite -- ICE vehicles are going to go up in price as collectors items.
redbeard0x0a · 5 years ago
For some vehicles, yes.

Such as:

* Toyota Tacoma - yes * Subaru WRX STI - yes

But getting into the honda accord, toyota camry, these are the ICE vehicles that are going to be crazy cheap.

redbeard0x0a commented on Spy agency ducks questions about 'back doors' in tech products   reuters.com/article/us-us... · Posted by u/oblib
warent · 5 years ago
It has always been true that any computer connected to the internet could be accessed by an unauthorized party, even before the leaks. Disconnect from the internet and nobody is getting in, including the NSA.
redbeard0x0a · 5 years ago
a little interdiction while that new airgapped laptop is shipped to you and they got you, even though you never connected to a network
redbeard0x0a commented on Why I Actively Discourage Online Tooling like jwt.io and Online JSON Validators   jvt.me/posts/2020/09/01/a... · Posted by u/goranmoomin
thieving_magpie · 5 years ago
> they work at a bank---their threat model is probably rather more vigorous than most

Until one day when you work with ACH files and start having existential dread about the american payroll system.

redbeard0x0a · 5 years ago
Working with ACH is NACHA a good day, the day you realize all of banking is built on falling dominos.
redbeard0x0a commented on Rolling blackouts in California have power experts stumped   nytimes.com/2020/08/16/bu... · Posted by u/jqcoffey
aleksandrm · 5 years ago
> its also worth noting that the nytimes might not be taking into account the number of people working from home. Duty and loadcycles for this year are going to be very hard to predict.

Do you think think the demand would be higher? In parallel, while many people are working from home, the businesses are closed, which I would think eat up much more electricity.

redbeard0x0a · 5 years ago
Its not just overall grid usage, substations have capacities as well. So the business park is going to be underutilized, but the residential ones are probably seeing more demand as people are at home and not turning up the thermostat during the day to save energy (since they are at home and want a comfortable environment, vs. letting the house sit at 80 when nobody is home).
redbeard0x0a commented on The FBI is secretly using Sabre as a global travel surveillance tool   forbes.com/sites/thomasbr... · Posted by u/AndrewBissell
dave5104 · 5 years ago
> They eventually had Amadeus move into running their domestic stuff a few years ago and now they have red-eyes.

Heh. I remember thinking years back that it was odd that Southwest never had any overnight flights, especially transcontinental. Just assumed it was the way they did business and some sort of cost cutting measure. Didn't think it'd be due to a software limitation!

redbeard0x0a · 5 years ago
> due to a software limitation

This _is_ a cost cutting measure. They decided not to pay for their software to support red eyes.

redbeard0x0a commented on Raspberry Pi 4 PCIe bridge “chip”   blog.zakkemble.net/rpi4-p... · Posted by u/fanf2
fb03 · 5 years ago
I long for the day we can buy proper ATX-sized arm boards. This is nice and all but arm can do way more, and without all that historic 16/32 bit mode clutter x86 has for compatibility.
redbeard0x0a · 5 years ago
it has to be coming soon, apple is going to be making arm macs and aws has m6a instance types running 64bit arm right now.

u/redbeard0x0a

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