When did I ever say that?

The point being made seems to be that the distribution network doesn’t need upgrading for AI loads, but does need upgrading if you want to charge EVs at peak times. That’s accurate. Nothing more, nothing less.

Distribution network != the grid.

Getting the energy to/from the storage can still be a big issue. You potentially even end up double-storing it.

You might be able to pay less if you move to a time of use plan.

That depends on how the plans are set.

At least in NZ, the law forbids cross-subsidisarion i.e. customers on one plan paying more/less than is proportional to the cost of serving them, averaged across the group.

This means that here, if you are a cookie-cutter use-power-at-peak-times household, it’s going to be cheaper to use a flat 24hour plan than a ToU plan, because the peak rate will be higher than the 24UC rate.

If you have an EV, you’ll almost certainly be better off on a peak/off-peak plan.

Note that for a while, plans where you pay the current wholesale spot price were called ToU and those can be painful to be on.

Yes, but…

The distribution limits are almost always an afternoon/evening thing. Early afternoon for warm climates (aircon and cooking dinner) and evening for cold climates (cooking dinner, showers, heating).

Midday for solar injection.

Hence the famous ‘duck curve’.

The distribution network has plenty of capacity overnight; we just need people to wait until about 11PM before we start charging.

At that point we get the question of whether we have the generation.

‘Dumping’ is considered anti-competitive behaviour in a lot of places. This sounds a lot like that.

There are a number of 6-8GWe nuclear plants that dump 15+GW into the nearby sea (or in the case of Bruce, into Lake Huron). I don’t see it being much of an issue. Better than virtually any other cooling option.

The issues are maintenance, energy source, and equipment supply.

You could just say ‘Public Domain’ but then you have the issues around privatisation.

OpenAI is joined at the hip with MS, right?

What’s the bet this is MS’s attempt at getting back into the corporate mobile space again? Brand it as CoPilot Phone…

RAM’s main advantage over HDDs/SSDs is fast access times.

Needing to fetch anything over the internet would make it faster to just use HDDs.

OP says horse chiros are basically PTs. I don’t know whether to believe them or not, but the idea that you don’t need to be a full vet to give a horse PT seems reasonable.

Physical therapists are not necessarily as qualified as doctors; they can do great work without needing the breadth of a full training. The same could apply to animal health.

I’m guessing they would ask you first (and the office would be slathered in Trump-Passport posters).

I am somewhat surprised it’s not just a ‘which one would you like’. I wouldn’t have thought the logistical concerns would be that major?

As noted elsewhere, there’s only 25-30k total being produced and only for people who apply in person in DC. You’re not going to get one of these unexpectedly.

I am slightly confused by the graph, which does not appear to list English or any of the Chinese languages?

It’s reasonable to argue that ‘lingua franca’ means the language used for trade, travel, diplomacy etc. - and that does not necessarily have to mean the language spoken by the plurality of the world’s population.

PCs have almost never supported CEC. PCs use a different signalling method to indicate to the monitor that they’re on/off.

Is this the one FriendlyJordies was talking about?

Elevators need a decent amount of surrounding space for cabling and for the counterweight. That all needs to be completely touch-proofed so people don’t lose hands.

The running rails etc. also have structural rigidity requirements. Bolting straight onto concrete slab works best and there’s not enough concrete here.

Fire stairwells often can’t have anything put on them that could risk starting a fire, elevators included.

That is sort of what sponsored segments are, and what sponsorblock is quite effective at dealing with.

If they’re injected on the fly at variable time points, it gets harder, but I suspect fingerprinting could work well enough.

TVs often do a bad job at switching on when the computer turns on, then off when it turns off/goes to sleep. Drives me spare. That was fixed in like 1995-2000 for normal monitors.