Yeah, but I remember the "censorship" of the early 90's. It was generally pretty banal, focused on things that most people took for granted-- you couldn't spout off nazi rhetoric... but Fred Phelps of the Westboro "Baptist Church" was free to spout his hate. I only became conscious to self-censor around '98 when it started to become clear how easily information could be linked back to a person despite somewhat anonymity the internet of the day provided.

Today it borders on 1984.

Starship is going to need at least 10 successful orbital launches before it is considered only marginally higher risk than Falcon from a customer perspective. It you get it for half the cost then maybe it is worth it, but it depends on how easily replaceable the cargo is.

The question is ultimately if you would have been better served with doing your own investigation rather than relying on AI, did you retain the knowledge, and was the information complete/accurate.

Badly written, but additional interties have come online with several GW capacity. The meaningful part of it is greater bi-directional capacity leaving fewer stranded renewable on resources.

Some utilities use batteries for stabilization, California also uses it heavily for demand shifting. Stabilization can be for the grid, or even more local needs with switching transients and the like.

RMP likely has excess generation and doesn't want to pay customers for energy.

My sister-in-law uses one... but she works for Samsung. There are some cool little use cases, but novelty is dominant.

For Apple, given the high cost of RAM and storage this is a great year to throw shit at the wall and see what sticks. Demand is going to be terrible no matter what they produce, so take some gambles and see if anything can carve a real niche (without losing margin).

All I can say is it is really hard to put the genie back in the bottle. The data and sources have not been treated as illegal to gather, so they WILL be used... by many different parties.

It is not something anybody who has been here a while would advocate for, but eliminating the problem and threat is a Herculean task.

[Sadly] I bought two more Sonos speakers yesterday. We have an obscene number of them because we love the "music everywhere". Our house is actually wired for speakers, but that ends up costing significantly more than Sonos just for the speakers and amps. The Play5 speakers were very good quality (and bricked with teh App 2.0 update). I'm not a big fan of them... but they fill the need for whole home audio significantly better than anything else on the market.

(And they were an IT nightmare, especially with Unifi equipment; they only use STP not any of the newer variants so you need to tune the system to their requirements rather than more standard needs.)

I think the Stickney Water Reclamation Plant should be renamed Lake Trump, as the largest pile of shit in the US.

There is a meaningful difference in that it is a secured boot option. Not sure what that means if your UEFI is compromised or if a virus is stored within other hardware, but it is something.

A lot of organizations need good "limp mode" strategies for when things go to shit. Ideally those allow you to use what systems are still unscathed rather than reverting to pen and paper. This can be one of those solutions for places that are invested in Citrix [still, for some reason], and is a little lower risk than telling everyone to reboot with the "emergency thumb drive".

There will need to be a lot of exceptions/exemptions, but the current condition is unsustainable. The protective relays are the main concern, so you should still be able to get "dumb" foreign equipment and add domestic protective relays.

I am curious how this all plays out; it is cash flow negative, capitalization negative, and at least on the surface unlikely to have a major change. But, scarcity is a business model so maybe that is the real answer. It seems much more likely than the step-change necessary for more advanced systems.

These "grid scale" batteries... don't scale. It is far more effective to push storage to the consumer (especially large consumers) for operation below 35kV, and ideally below 5kV. Otherwise you just end up with a more expensive grid with excess complexity that is difficult to model reliably.

I own a Tesla and am renting a car that only has CarPlay. It is miserable; maps are significantly worse, integration is half-assed and clunky. It is amazing to me that a Tesla going on 7 years old is so much better than a new Ford...

As for the cost premium, hard to see where vehicle RAM requirements will get close to $1k premium.

Is using BFI novel? I hadn't seen that before personally.