I don’t know about the AI projections, but the idea that the current US administration would have a reasoned, thoughtful response to any emerging threat from AI or react in a constructive way to widespread public protests over it is what strains credulity for me.
I get what he’s saying about the fragmentary nature of film compositions. And serving an industry will inevitably have a certain meat grinder aspect to it that constrains artistic freedom.
I think even run-of-the-mill film music serves an important purpose of adding gravity to a scene. But when you have a master at work, it can be a somewhat bittersweet experience that leaves you craving for something you cannot have.
To take Williams as an example, in The Force Awakens, I thought Rey’s theme was hauntingly beautiful, but you’re only left with a glimpse of it. Where a film takes its music from a symphony, you can go listen to the latter afterwards to get your fix. I suppose that’s analogous to how a film adapted from a book leaves you the option to read the latter if you’re looking for more of the narrative?
But history is full of run-of-the-mill music written in a meat grinder way. You take someone like Joseph Haydn working at what essentially amounted to a symphony mill, churning out one after another. Most of this type of music doesn’t last the test of time, and there are plenty of forgotten composers. Will Williams be among them? I seriously doubt it, though only time will tell.
I guess I’m the opposite. The sensory nightmare for me involves having to interact with strangers, and self checkout offers the utopian promise of avoiding all that. But it fails only too often, as the slightest problem brings the clerk over. It’s a bait and switch for my introverted ass.
That’s interesting. I hadn’t considered the efficiency aspect. L2 would be a pain to install where I live, I’m thinking. It’s a bungalow and the breaker box is about as far from the driveway in the basement as is humanly possible. So lots of wiring and drilling to bring the power out to where it’s needed seems likely.
From what others are saying, I probably do not need L2 for my modest driving needs, but the efficiency aspect could imply it would eventually pay itself back in energy savings. But if I have essentially what amounts to the worst case scenario in terms of upfront installation cost, that could take a long time…
Thanks that was very informative!
I’ve never owned an EV but have been casually considering what it would entail. Like would I really need level 2 charging at home? I’m sort of thinking not at this point. The commute for me or my wife would be something in the 20 km round trip range. We don’t live in a big city. Errands could increase that somewhat. But if let’s say the charger could add back even 5 km/hr, which I think is a pretty conservative estimate. That should be plenty to handle our needs with overnight charging on 120V.
As for intercity, well, you’d likely be using some public fast charger right? So that’s kind of a moot point as far as what you need at home.
I don’t know if I’m missing something though in this analysis? Like I’ve heard winter driving affects range fairly considerably. And that’s unfortunately also the time I’d be more tempted to drive over riding the e-bike everywhere. But even so, I doubt I’d ever exhaust the battery in my home town?
I think Guitar Hero was a good investment for my kids, as they came to love all the classics I grew up on.
This looks fascinating! Definitely signing up for the early access.
You know, now that you mention it, I think there was a flyer dropped off at my house maybe a week ago for some kind of landscaping or roofing service. Maybe it was T&J? I just basically knee-jerk chucked it in the gray box so I can’t remember. But it could be a concerned citizen in the neighbourhood was trying to warn us all? I love this town!
Ha! Alas, it’s just your typical Kingston residential street. Not even the worst I ride on every day. sigh Mind you, I don’t know who the city contracts for roadwork. For all I know, they could be involved?
Here in Ontario, I think we have 16 reactors spread across 3 power plants? And more are purportedly on the way.
The CANDU reactors use heavy water and should, in theory, be safer than light water designs since they can function with unenriched uranium. OTOH the nearest reactor to where I live is in upstate New York and is rather Fukushima-like from what I’ve heard. Also, I don’t know what the new reactors will be, though the provincial gov seems to be pushing SMRs for whatever reason.
One thing to note here, though I researched this a few years ago so it may be dated? I was wondering at the time why there was almost no solar contribution compared to wind, and learned that while utilities operate most wind farms, solar tends to be private operations that sell their power to the grid and are often not included on a site like this which monitors only the utility’s contributions.
Meanwhile, at the Prince Wind Farm…
Output: 32 MW
Capability: 29 MW
Plant operator: Scotty! I need more power!!!
Scotty: I’m doin’ all I can! She canna take much more of this Cap’n!
Wow, I actually pretty qualified for this. But I’m rather busy… :/
What jumps out almost immediately is that it does not appear to be a loop. Were it a loop, you could have more than one car going around. Should it not at the bare minimum satisfy its own naming criteria?
I use Sourcetree for routine stuff, though I occasionally have to hit the command line when shit gets real.
Wait, they’re not all made in China? Last time we were ordering some for a development board at work, we had to source them from China, though that was admittedly a few years back.
I hate articles that don’t give real units. 5 million households. Ugh. According to another article, we’re talking 7 GW.