The problem is the UK energy market has a few oddities.

Like if they request you curtail your output, the government will pay you for the curtailed amount. And the UK grid has strain points where not enough power can make it, so a lot of renewable energy is often curtailed (at gas rates) because it can't be transmitted from the north where it's generated to the south, where it's used.

The goal is to reduce curtailment so instead of spending taxpayer money to tell people to cut back on generation, they could have people actually using it for useful things.

Like air conditioning or such.

They may not be, but you can bet that SOMEONE is.

Over evolutionary time, starvation was a major killer. It may be rare today (comparatively), but it used to be a real threat. Even today it's not insignificant. And it directly selects for the ability to eat whatever's available.

I think it's more "environmentally induced epigenetic modifications", which *are* a real thing, and sometimes can be inherited...but I don't think inheritance is needed for this argument, as the environment has kept chaning in the same direction. I.e. more fine muscle movement in the upper body, less massive physical effort.

The theaters used to make their money on concessions, but most people don't spend much at the concessions anymore -the exorbitant prices have driven people to other options (bring-from-home or do-without). Theaters are caught in a catch-22 of doing things customers don't want in order to make enough money to operate, but doing these things is lowering attendance.

That's because they aren't taking advantage of opportunity. For example, if you buy say, 2 or more tickets, they could offer a medium popcorn for $1 or free. That should drive sales - the person with the free popcorn will almost always need to buy a drink, and the other person will likely want a popcorn and drink of their own.

If you come with a party of 3 or 4, make the popcorn free. It's a high margin item - the actual cost of the popcorn itself is about 10 cents. Now you have one person with popcorn who will likely cause their friends to get one as well.

And if you have a loyalty card, you get a flat 50% off popcorn.

It depends on how you define the term. I tend to consider any choice an act of reasoning (including a simple if test). I know that most people have a different definition, but I can rarely get them to define what they mean by the term. I tend to suspect it's an "I know it when I see it" kind of thing.

Are they not forgotten now? I never heard of them before this story.

Umnnh...but I think the programs that do that are different programs than the ones that understand source code. (Well, not *that* much different, but trained on a massively different data set.)

FWIW, I think understanding binary code is probably an easier problem for an AI than understanding source code, but it *does* require different training.

You could be right, but my take was that it was made by a manager who had no idea. Of course, they could both be true.

FWIW, the albums I play are played via computer, and I edit out any songs I don't want. If they put in some stuff I don't want, I just don't play it. I feel like I'm paying for the CD, not the songs. They never fill the CD, so if they include extra stuff, I just don't care.

FWIW, this is a lot better than LPs were, where you basically had to live with the selection they chose.

FWIW, my "legal free offerings" are purchased CDs. I don't know how many feel the way I do, but I don't buy "temporary goods" unless you count food and medicine...and they come with stated expiration dates.

A company that has zero demonstrated technological assets, whose only logistics experience pertains to shoes...

And they vaguely purport to be able to secure compute hardware better than all the existing players out there, despite everyone knowing exactly where the bottlenecks are and who is clogging them up...

What idiots invested in this concept? How many millions can I get if I just randomly declare I'm going to get more and better GPUs than all the well known AI players?

They're following the same thing when a company making iced tea pivoted to blockchain nearly a decade ago for the same reason.

If you're thinking that's a fire waiting to happen, it is, but they technically can get a commercial Xray analyzer to check for dendrites and terminal anomalies then cycle the charge once if it looks safe. I'm not aware of a way to spy on the internal chemistry though and you have no idea what temperature they were stored in. So it's still a terrible idea.

Lithium batteries have been used in many installations and while they do go up from time to time (It's happened to a couple of Tesla installations), it's not really a huge deal.

And we can CAT scan batteries and determine their quality - there's a huge difference. Lumafield (makers of industrial CAT scanners) did a study of batteries and found significant quality differences between the good and the bad ones.

And presumably the BMS logs would tell you lots about the battery - it's not like RIvian is throwing random batteries there, they're using packs they made and the BMS would have logs for.

Don't these batteries have to be charged, which will take electricity from the grid which they could have just used in the first place and not used any batteries at all?

They can be charged from the grid, or since most industrial factories have a great wide expanse known as a "rooftop", you could put up solar cells as well which can during the day provide energy to run the factory and charge the batteries.

Putting solar on roofs can generate a surprising amount of electricity especially if you have a lot of it.

Sony Translation: Screw those free features that allow consumers to use our product without streaming, no matter the laws protecting ATSC broadcasts. Weâ(TM)ll bring those features back when the US Government makes us. Until then, thatâ(TM)s for some other vendor to deal with. No profit in OTA anymore. Fiduciary duty and all.

Guide data isn't free - it costs money. Ask anyone using Schedules Direct, for example. But everyone has to pay for the guide data, whether it comes from TiVo (formerly Rovi who bought TiVo and renamed themselvs), or Gracenote (formerly Tribune).

Whether it's guide data provided by cable providers, TiVo DVRs, or even TV Guide, it's still a paid service. Sony is simply stopping paying tor the service. Even Schedules Direct costs a few bucks a year.