You are mad.

My eyes are laid out horizontally, so video should be, too.

If I'm watching on my phone, I'm turning it sideways.

Yeah, I was just playing with my Atari 800XL. I used Claude to write some code for it. So I guess it's still being a problem.

How many doctors will be using this or something like it to diagnose their patients?

If it's anything like my experience with AI coding, it will be great for telling doctors how smart their diagnoses are, but will sometimes point out things that they missed.

Yup. And in many places there are government programs that will subsidize home energy inspections and recommended insulation improvements.

But if you try to improve the building codes to increase energy efficiency for new construction, builders will be up in arms, and it's a tough battle. And that's where you make a huge difference, fixing hundreds or thousands of new buildings at once. And they could also require homes to pass energy inspections to be sold (here we already have septic and smoke detector requirements), which would help a lot for easy fixes like attic insulation.

There's far too much personalizing societal problems instead of working to correct the underlying problems. Both is fine, but the priority should usually be on fixing the system.

A typical 55" TV draws perhaps 80W. Convert to kWh/year, and it's 80*24*365.25/1000 = 701.28.
If you electricity is $0.20/kWh, then you're looking at $140/year for your "art" display. That's over $10/month.

Some people don't care, but it's really wasteful.

Now an e-ink display would be really efficient, only needing power when the image is changed, but those aren't practical for TVs (or likely for any large use).

We have a consistent problem of telling individuals to do better, when that's mostly just a distraction from the majority if the problem. We tell people to turn down thermostats instead of improving energy efficiency codes. Now we're saying blame business class seating when private jets are the biggest inefficiency in the airline industry.

Yes, we can and should look at the small things, but we should really focus our energies on the major culprits.

That's mostly true. I've run some LLMs locally: they're slow and not very powerful, but there are times when having it local is nice for privacy.

I do expect this to change over time, with more operations being practical to run locally. I would really like to have voice input be a local task, for example.

But they're addicted to doing business in NY.

One of the best features of Unix is cut-and-paste with only using the mouse. I recently started using a Mac for my work desktop, and I really miss it. At least it works within iTerm2 and emacs, but not between programs.

Sure, perhaps have an option to turn it off, but don't break one of the best features of Linux just because too many people don't know how to use it.

Buy why by a plug-in instead of a regular hybrid if you're not going to plug it in? Maybe the model you want doesn't offer both options, but otherwise it seems dumb.

As to the questions:
1. No garage: If you still have off-street parking, you can plug it in outside.
2. Garage full: Again, plug it in outside.
3. Cost to install outlet: Just use a regular 120V outlet; most PHEVs have smaller batteries that will still fill up overnight on a 120V outlet.
4. Upgrade breaker panel: Almost never needed, and you can always use an existing 120V outlet.
5. New wiring: Maybe you do need a new outside outlet, but often not.
6. Upgrade power line: That's stupid. The total amperage of all circuits normally exceeds the incoming amperage; you look at what is reasonably going to be used at the same time. If a 14-50 outlet is too much, use a smaller 240V or even 120V outlet.
7. Where does electricity cost that much? The most expensive electricity in the USA is in Hawaii, and that's $0.40/kWh. In Massachusetts, it's approaching $0.30/kWh, which is near the top. Most states are under $0.20/kWh. It's going to be much cheaper than gas everywhere.

Their big problem is that they haven't figured out how to make money on EVs. Part of the problem is their dealer networks don't want to sell them due to the lower maintenance costs. That keeps the volume down to where they can't amortize the costs properly.

Tesla owners were plenty chatty back in 2015 when I got my Model S. Now there are just so many that it doesn't feel new anymore. I remember when we used to wave at each other when we say another Tesla, but that was a long time ago now.

But yes, EVs are great if you can plug in at home, but if you have on-street parking or are renting, they can be quite inconvenient.

Hybrids aren't EVs. They're simply gas cars that get better mileage. Yeah, that's better than ones with worse mileage, but that's all. Hybrids average somewhere around a third more efficient. So they help, but they're nothing like converting to full EVs.

Plug-in hybrids are great for people who actually plug them in and use them as EVs most of the time. But unfortunately many plug-in hybrid owners just treat them as hybrids and never bother to plug them in. That's pretty stupid, but studies show that many people really are that dumb.

Hybrids are legacy auto companies trying to remain relevant.

If you look at the copyright industry, which includes movies, music, books, and more, one key question is how far in the future they look in projecting revenue when deciding whether to fund a project. I would think given that, 10 years would be the minimum number to not have an obvious economic impact. 20 or 25 might also be reasonable. But that's just looking at it from economics.

There's also a moral aspect. Should a creator have creative control over what they create? How long should that last? That's where "life of the author, plus" terms come in. I think that's excessive, but there is something to be said for creative control over derivative works. Having it be a fixed number of years makes it easy for everyone to know when things expire. I don't have a solid argument for a number here, but my gut says 50 years.

So what about a split copyright, where reproduction rights last 25 years, and rights for derivative works last 50 years? (And count the full year from when it was copyrighted.)

And to phase it in, anything that would expire sooner still expires on schedule, but otherwise it gets 10 more years.

That's a ridiculous amount to spend on phone service. There are prepaid plans with unlimited data for a fraction of the cost. And unless you're tethering or streaming, you probably don't need unlimited.