You can't really ignore the solar fraction, though, or the also-large wind fraction; even in 2023, the two made up about 43% of total capacity. Those two chunks are counted as nameplate capacities rather than typical output, and typical capacity factors are 15-25% for solar and 20-40% for wind. That means the actual generation is a lot less than 3.61 TW, almost certainly less than 3 TW, and possibly less than 2.5 TW. The US is a lot less affected by those factors (see, for example, https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eia.gov%2Fenergyexpl...).

Your the one with reading problems, as the single source that you repeatedly called "sources" was a baseline from which Bluesky (in my words) "has gotten progressively more toxic".

Are you sure? https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdriveteslacanada.ca%2Fne... and https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.caa.ca%2Fapp%2Fuploads... suggest there's not much difference.

Sure, but overwhelmingly the most common reason a gas pump is out of service is because the underground tank is empty. It's extremely rare for a gas pump to break, so almost all faults to refuel a gas car are due to the station being out of fuel. It's the most analogous cause of a similar user experience, so it's a fair comparison. If we limited the comparison to equipment failures in a gas pump, the comparison of failure-to-refuel rates would be much more favorable to gas pumps.

Who in their right mind replaces dozens of NACS high speed chargers with CCS ones, though?

Bluesky's only selling point is that it's supposed to be a better place than Xitter. You're so busy bashing Xitter that it comes across as conceding that Bluesky isn't any better.

That works out to one hell of a slogan: "Choose Bluesky, for Xitter levels of toxicity combined with Old Twitter levels of censorship."

Your comment is a brilliant example of Mark Cuban's criticism of Bluesky: "agree with me or you are a nazi fascist." Bluesky has always been an who chamber, but it's gotten progressively more toxic in tone as its user base scaled up.

I meant what I wrote. See https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Farstechnica.com%2Ffeatur..., the citation there to the NYT lawsuit, the "Substantial Similarity" section of https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fguides.lib.umich.edu%2Fc..., and the reliance on fair use to allow the copying in Google v. Oracle.

What the hell is "17.1.106"? If you mean section 106 of Chapter 17 of the U.S. Code, that's usually written as something like "17 USC section 106".

AI companies usually infringe on the first of the rights listed in 17 USC 106: "reproduc[ing] the copyrighted work in copies". This is done repeatedly during training the AI, when the model creator copies the training material to nonvolatile storage for reference, then again when they load it into RAM to train the AI model. In some cases, the AI model will generate further copies by how it responds to prompts, which also infringes the third reserved right, public distribution of those copies.

See also 17 USC 117, which authorizes certain acts of copying computer software when someone owns a license for the software. This section was enacted in response to MAI Systems Corp. v. Peak Computer, Inc., 991 F.2d 511 (9th Cir. 1993), which applied Chapter 17 sections 106 and 101 to copies made within a computer.

Family, at dinner: "Thank you, Jesus, for this food."
Jesus, in a farm field: "De nada."

How many years of electricity bills does it take to reach $120k? For me, it would be about 50 years -- considerably longer than I could reasonably expect the solar power system, and maybe my already-50-year-old house, to last.

You might want more antitrust enforcement and blocked mergers, but it's characteristically dishonest for you to say there have been zero of either.

An apparently human error, not a facial recognition one, unless you would call any other case where a chain sends out a picture of an innocent person and says "do not admit this person" a "facial recognition error".

The criticism is over the qualifier for the word "error", not the label as an error.

... and points out that Vienna has almost laughably mild weather: barely below freezing (-2 C) at its winter lows, and barely above warm (+27 C) for its summer highs. Unless the intention is to relocate all cities to places with such nice climates, it's not a useful "Model for How to Tackle the Both the Climate and Housing Crisis". And rooftop solar is theoretically fine, although usually so expensive as to never recoup its capital costs, in a single-family house with a good battery storage system, but it's not going to do much to reduce power usage in a typical multi-family apartment building.