My personal true claim about solar that is generally ignored or unknown is that dust reduces solar efficiency by 40% and that the mitigation is frequent washing of panels, which results in considerable water use in precisely the worst areas for that.
This 2024 paper cites a 2016 paper about clouds and dusts that finds 10.4% reduction in efficiency when the relative humidity was 52.24% after two weeks. (The 2016 study is cited in footnote 184 under clasim 12). That's not a desert condition, I can assure you.
What an odd response! I never mentioned ICE so I suspect you're arguing against someone else.
The 40% "wasted sunlight" doesn't have a cost—sure, yes, kind of besides the point—but it also generates no electricity. That efficiency is further compounded by reductions in incidence by latitude, cloud cover, and time of day. The diminishment thus could be quite serious on any given panel or farm.
Toyota did this with the EV mania until they lost their nerve and got rid of Toyoda as CEO. I hope Apple doesn't fall into the same trap. (I never thought Toyota would give in either.)
The bunny will often include patches in its replies that the PR author can commit. I've never been clear as to which of us is doing the committing but that could be the need for write access. (I always do it myself but I can see how some might prefer the convenience.)
They should really mass revoke that privilege because I can't see any upside to it. Unless they have a plan for some future state where they will want write access?
The oil sheikh with dozens of supercars is what drives the mega rich to aspire to own two supercars and the deka rich to fret about maybe buying their first one.
This is very helpful context. I have disparaged HathiTrust in my mind for several of these public domain problems and it makes sense that it's actually a Google Books problem.
The use case for LLM assistance that provides value for me is solving obscure lint or static analysis warnings and errors.
I take the message, provide the surrounding code, and it gives me a few approaches to solve them. More than half the time, the resolution is there and I can copy the relevant bit in the literal verbiage. (The other times it's garbage but at least I can see that this is going to require some AI—Actual Intelligence.)
It remains to be seen whether it's a net value once the VC firehose dries up and the true costs are revealed. It's quite possible that the profitable price is not worth it for most companies.
I'm pretty sure that the $100 / $200 plans are a net profit for Anthropic. Most users (including myself) don't come close to the usage limit.
I've been trying to max out the $100 plan and I have a problem where I run out of stuff to ask it to do. Even when I try to have multiple side projects at once, Claude just gets stuff done, and then sits idle.
It can still be a lot more expensive and be cheaper than a human, it might mean less chance taking and spending the money to try set it up and see if it works though. More existing setups, less new setups.
