This burst of EV manufacturing capacity is similar to the overproduction of housing in China.

The big differences are: 1) EV's can be exported to willing buyers 2) EV's depreciate 3) EV's from bankrupt manufacturers will probably plumet in value due to the lack of support and parts

If an accusation by an AI bot requires that I hire an accountant and I prevail, then the IRS should cover the costs of my defense.

It's going to be great when you elderly parent clicks on some offer that replaces all the native apps on their phone with some AI enhanced data scraper that violates their privacy and breaks their routine.

Can't wait for that.

With enough compute power Walmart could also just pre-calculate the cost of delivering to every address in the US.

To a certain extent you are just trying to screen out unprofitable customers. You want to put those unprofitable into a review bucket and not accept local delivery orders until you figure out a solution.

Our oldest kid just went through the college application process. They received only one acceptance from schools that required an essay.

I suppressed my desire to hire a consultant to write down whatever it took to improve their odds of admission. In retrospect, I would have hired an admissions consultant 2-3 years ago to make the necessary adjustments in coursework, EC's or the essay.

If you dig a trench and install fiber that infrastructure can last for 100+ years.

If you give an LEO Internet provider some cash, those satellites might last 5-10 years.

I don't have an issue with rural folks subscribing to Starlink. I don't see why the government should want to subsidize their service.

The primary objective of having Starlink absorb fiber cash is to make sure that the fiber does not get built and those unimproved homes are stuck with Starlink forever.

The CPUC controls California's three major investor owned utilities (IOU's). Those utilities are largely helpless to fight against the laws of the state and the CPUC who implements them.

Grey Davis got recalled from office for being Governor when the power market got screwed up 20+ years ago. Newsome has somehow so far avoided this same fate.

The value of the solar farm for the producer and the consumer are totally dependant on the contracts that are signed by both parties.

While renewables have some interesting physical attributes, the contracts in each state have a substantial influence on the real value to be attained by the end customer.

One large benefit of rooftop generation is that no extra transmission capacity needs to be added. Our local generation just pushes out generation from large plants at the edge of the distribution network (that may now need to be curtailed).

The problem with the current California solar contract model is that the investor owned utilities have been pushed to overpay for solar with long term contracts. Then they have little flexibility to manuver as more and more renewables are brough online. That's part of why my rates are so high.

My managers over time have strongly preferred a prompt and succinct deliverable over a agonized and perfected one.

A quick "hey boss, here is my first draft of what you asked for. Please provide some feedback. I might have miscounted the neutrons in section 3, but it's within 5%, is that good enough? The proposed budget and schedule are solid though."

Your success with this depends on having a manager willing to engage in revisions and analyze your drafts. Are you in an organization that embraces iteration?

Right. Oh, we have that same alien infestation too.

Even our best ships don't know how to fight them off. So sad, so mysterious.

I have an acquaintance that works for one of the FAANG companies. The focus of their team is to hand write assembly for performance critical operations across the company. They do this for multiple chip architectures.

Your phone or PC might well have some of that code in it.

A friend mentioned that a vendor we worked for had a on-site resident engineer at his company. This vendor employee is super expensive.

So the company has a permanent job opening hoping to find a direct hire who is cheaper and better than the expert who works for the vendor. The expert also has a manager and more resources to excallate to at the vendor for help. This is also a good thing since it's a high stress environment. It's also likely that this arrangement limits the person to 40 hours unless overtime is paid. A direct hire would be pressured into 50-60 hours.

This is pretty much a ghost job because someone is already doing the work and the employer is just fishing for a better deal.

My father uses ESET on his laptop. It's always giving him warnings about stuff that he has no hope of understanding.

Microsoft Defender is a reasonable baseline.

It's quite reasonable that copper could be swapped for a fiber based product. Most fiber products will be highly centralized in nature and have decent uptime.

With low cost solar panels and batteries it's not necessary for the phone company to provide remote power to our homes anymore.

If AT&T does not want to upgrade my neighborhood from copper to fiber then the state should give the broken down conduits to the city. A decent muni fiber network would be appreciated.

Today's AI problems with sarchasm reminds me of the scene in Elysium where Matt Damon's character is jailed for being sarcastic with a robot.

The crime was using sarcasm.