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.

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.

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.

With a small closet full of âoethose customersâ hardware mounted beside every major trunk router in the US, the FUCK makes anyone assume the NSA is still bothering with network monitoring that requires consumer participation beyond their internet addiction?

Hacking home routers is what those massive botnets the NSA likes to re-use after capture, is for.

It is if you want to capture the data before encryption.

Right now there are two routers on the market - the ISP provided gateway and now Netgear. Basically everything else is off the market.

It's easy enough with ISP gateways since the ISP can push firmware updates to them for any reason.

But home routers, not so much, and with many home routers providing site-to-site VPN capability, it's entirely possible for the home router to have access to datat that an ISP tap wouldn't have since it would only see the VPN packets. (Of course it doesn't apply if you use the VPN client on the endpoint, but VPN clients o nthe router mean you can hide your traffic on everything).

Also, easier to get home users to make themselves exposed than spend millions on high end tapping gear - if the home user will pay to have their internet tapped, why should ICE have to take money out of its budget to buy high end gear for same? They can (mis-)use that money for more stuff.

In a Class Action Lawsuit, the law firms cash out big-time if they win. The law firm gets a percentage (often 1/3) of the total settlement, so that's a strong incentive to bring these suits and make them as broad as possible.

BUT, I don't know if arbitration proceedings have the same financial advantages for the arbitrator. That could be a Very Important distinction. I strongly suspect the reason this is in arbitration is the contract terms between the advertisers and Google force arbitration to settle contract disputes.

Arbitration is to try to prevent class action lawsuits. Basically class actions are costly because of numbers - if you steal $1 from many people, 99.9999% of them will not do a thing about it because a lawsuit will cost more than $1. Class actions solve this - because if you know a million people, suddenly a million dollar payday is a lot more worth it to pursue as a lawsuit than a million $1 lawsuits. Of course, it would probably cost $250K to do, so you'll get 75 cents on the dollar. Though usually you want punitive damages so the company doesn't try it again, so you might get $2 after getting ripped off $1.

And lawyers are often not part of the compensation - if they reach a $200M settlement, that $200M is almost all going to people of the class - the lawyers getting another $50M (remember they have to front all the costs upfront) is outside the settlement. Then the lawyers need to make arrangements to distribute the payout which is a lot harder than it is - whether it's printing cheques, or doing digital deposits.

That's why companies went with arbitration instead - because now if they screw you out of $5, you're not likely to bring in a case for that and if you're not doing that, they can keep that money.

The way around this was accidentally discovered a few years ago - they realized that companies were relying on the fact that consumers weren't going to bring cases against them with arbitration, but suddenly if you can get a sizeable group, the arbitration fees can be exorbitant. And since the company has to pay for it, this can be rather expensive.

So some lawyers started specializing in mass arbitration where you can get thousands or more clients together to individually argue their case. If it costs the company $100 per case, suddenly they can be out thousands in arbitration fees in the span of a month. And if you do it right, the arbitration company might get slammed because they probably are to handle maybe 10 cases a day per arbitrator, and suddenly having 2000 cases presented presents a huge issue.

Well given that a significant portion of the audience here can't tell the difference between long term climate trend and it being cold outside today, 10 years of data may seem like an eternity to them.

Given we have a significant historical record, you could plot the "best day" per year and then actually see it move around, which would provide a lot more useful information - like has it always hung around October 8? Does it randomly jump around in Spring and Fall? What about perfect date by region and how they compare?

We have the data, why not run the whole computation over all of it

Similar for ARM Debian on Apple Silicon.

You can boot Linux on Apple Silicon, at least up to M2 or M3 CPUs. Asahi Linux is made for it, but if you want to apply the kernel patches (there are a lot of them), you can get Debian running as well. Just make sure you get the Rust compiler working - the Apple Silicon drivers use Rust extensively and it would not surprise me if it was the driver behind the Rust integration.

The reason M4 isn't working is because the boot chain is different now thanks to all the Spectre and Meltdown patches and access to certain page tables is restricted which prevents the kernel from being able to initialize itself properly. I believe they're working with Apple to figure out a solution

Windows on ARM is less likely as Apple Silicon doesn't use UEFI like the Snapdragon X does..

"All three models from the UR9S series boast 4K VA display panels a typical brightness of 800 nits and a peak brightness of up to 4000 nits. The local dimming zones count is as follows: 85" model - 1320, the 75" model - 1056, and 65" model - 980. "

I don't know about you, but VA panels are so early 2000s when IPS was still expensive but preferred for their color reproduction and viewing angles. They've only made a comeback as "gaming monitors" because IPS is slow compared to VA panels if you need 120+Hz refresh.

But, you can plug in one of those Android pirate streaming sticks and have both privacy and no ads.

You do realize most of those things are preloaded with various malware, usually VPN endpoints that open somem random personright into your network behind the firewall. Something's paying for the hosting of the content of that services and it's usually by having your internet connection serve as VPN endpoints. Or as content distribution proxies.

So, this greasy fuck, makes billions in ill gotten gains, buys his way out of prison, enriches Trumpenstein...

The only losers are the peasants using or invested in his scheme.

That's how it goes - you can buy pardons these days. It's part of the scheme Pam Bondi had with her brother Brad Bondi who somehow managed to get more people off the hook if the right "fees" were paid.

I'm sure Maduro's lawyers are basically trying to figure out how how to funny a few million dollars to Trump to drop everything as well. It'll just be another of the dozen drug kingpins Trump has pardoned in the past year.

It's not just gambling. Gambling is one thing.

The problem with prediction markets is the insider trading. There's just so much of it that it's not a zero sum game, it's a negative sum game.

Anything you can bet on, someone will have an insider track to make money from it.

Heck,there are reporters being threatened because their Iran coverage causes them to lose money. It brings back all the sports betting scandals (outside the US) where your gangs all threaten a jockey or player to rig the outcome of a game or race or whatever. Now it's catching up into the US.

Any bet on those markets has an insider trader on it these days, many of whom already know the outcome, or can influence the outcome to the point it's basically a sucker bet. At least Vegas lets you have a little fun, the lottery is still fairly run, but a prediction market is just like an illegal casino - it's rigged against you. It's just another way to throw money at billionaires.

I'm not an expert, but I'm pretty sure one of the things blind people appreciate about seeing-eye dogs is that a dog isn't going to hallucinate whether it's safe or not to walk across the street, and they don't have to worry about getting run over by a truck, exclaim "What the fuck!", and have to listen to a dog reply "It appears that you had a 'Don't Walk' sign, and you're right for calling me out on that...

Indeed, and a guide dog is trained specifically to disobey if they sense danger. That is, if the user tries to walk when "Don't Walk" is lit, they will purposefully disobey their handler and even pull to resist movement. Or if a car isn't stopping.

I'm still wondering how you manage to train this into a dog - to be able to sense and detect danger and then to purposefully disobey their handler, which goes against everything the dog is conditioned to do. I have no idea how they train that.