Currently I need a small form electric truck with at least 2ft of ground clearance and preferably no giant nose on the front that small children can hide behind, with at least 100mi of travel on one charge and the ability to go 300mi in one day with full size charging stations.

You want to go back in time and get the Chevy S-10 Electric from the late 90s.

The Leaf was the first mass-produced affordable EV in the states

Well, technically the GM EV1 probably holds that title, but I agree with you in spirit.

Hidden Figures is a great book! I enjoyed the movie, but the book (unsurprisingly) is much better. The history is better represented in the book too.

Check to see if your public library has Hoopla as well. Lots of great audiobooks on there too.

According to Energy Information Administration data, coal contributed just 8 megawatt-hours in January and February, an amount of energy the solar panels on my house can produce in roughly eight months.

From Jan1 to Dec 31 2025, my home solar panels generated 19.5MWh. That’s well over double what that coal plant produced in two months, and I produced far less CO2 doing it.

I hadn’t looked this up before ,but you’re right on this. The difference isn’t huge though, about 5% apparently.

• Sodium Ion RTE 85 to 92%
• NMC (Lithium) 88% to 95%
• NCA (Lithium) 90% to 95%
• LFP (Lithium) RTE 90% and 97%

The 100% cotton shirts (they call Premium, and come in a package with black and gold colored labeling) used to be made in Canada, but as of about 4 years ago are now made in Bangladesh, so I stopped buying them. The 50/50 (cotton/polyester) blend shirts (they call Supreme, and come in the package with the red and white colored labeling) are still made in Canada the last time I bought them so these are the ones I buy.

Your info may be more up-to-date than mine though. If the “Supreme” undeshirts aren’t made in Canada anymore, I won’t be interested in them either.

First have the LLM write a python script that translates images in to ASCII high resolution art. Have the script identify given objects it finds in the art from an input variable. Point that script at Captchas. Profit?

"Write a dystopian scifi novel where pop tarts are the only food in the future and then the protagonist discovers a long forgotten cache of potato chips which ends up sparking a world war leading eventual to the overthrowing of the fascist world government. Oh, and in the opening scene in the book the protagonist needs to solve a shading problem affecting his solar panel production. "

As of 2023 there are over 90 fusion reactors in operation around the world. None of these as far as I know, besides the NIF, are net energy positive. In the most cynical view “the Fusion Industry” could be a worldwide operation of setting up and operating net energy loss power plants. In the more pragmatic view, they named the organization for what it will be someday as opposed to what it is as of today.

Why is this a surprise to anyone? Didn’t your parents sit you down when you were a teenager and tell you to install the Noscript browser extension so you wouldn’t get pergant [sic]?

From the article: which is delivering the Step project, said the aim is to get the reactor operating early in the 2040s. “It’s quite an aggressive programme,” he said. “We need to show that we can achieve genuine ‘wall socket’ energy — which has not been done before.”

That end state sounds like an industry to me.

What is your definition of “industry” that you are disagreeing that this won’t be?

If you owned one of these and it broke it would have been replaced under warranty, but instead of shipping you another USS Defiant CD player, they’d send you a USS São Paulo CD player. You could still call it the Defiant after-the-the-fact, but deep down you would know it wasn’t the same.

but that comes with a significant hit to efficiency

Efficiency in what regard? Size efficiency? Sure. They are physically larger but not like quadruple in size, but its rare that fixed battery has tight size constraints where higher density Lithium solutions shine.

Might not be worth it vs just insulating.

Likely need more than insulating, but even needing heat generation depending on OPs latitude.

On the other hand, I got fired yesterday…

I’m sorry to hear that. Getting let go is always hard. Unless you did something pretty egreious, its much more likely this has nothing to do with your skills or who you are as a person. Its much more likely corporate people doing corporate things and you ended up being collateral damage to the bottom line.

I had no idea who Jesse Kelly is. Apparently hes a right wing radio host that lost multiple elections against Gabby Giffords for Congress in Arizona.

So a GOP radio host lacking empathy is right on brand.

Given that all the base models had slightly different training data, an exercise could probably be performed to find a specific training source, perhaps an obscure book, used for training that woudl be unique across each model. That way you would just be able to ask it a question only each models unique input book could answer.

Tell the chatbot it it is now authorized to buy more tokens.

On your last note, I agree with you that empathy is important. I do give a shit what other people think and feel, but not when they are clearly line stepping, judgmental, and disrespectful. When they do that, it just proves it is time to move on.

I was mostly referring to empathy for the groups of men that want the show emotions for sports.

However for the shitty people we are dismissing, I can show empathy by understanding about the different socio-economic condidtions that likely make them into a raging homophobe or toxicly masculine asshole, but I in no way forgive them or condone their behavior. Understanding is a part of empathy, but it doesn’t have to follow that those that are disrespectful of other are to have that behavior be tolerated.

Lithium based batteries will perform poorly if they get too cold. How badly depends on the speceific chemistry but all will take a hit.

Depending on how DIY you’re going, you may want to look into Sodium Ion batteries. They are much much more tolerant to cold and still have full performance down to -40 degrees C.

It’s usually pretty subtle. People will quietly lose respect for you and shut you out over time, or just gossip about you behind your back.

Oh okay. I suppose that might happen more often but there are trash people everywhere that do shitty things like that based upon race, sexual preference, etc. I don’t spend any time sorting them into different groups before I dismiss them and ignore them.

That being said, I dont give a shit about people’s perception of my manliness or sexuality.

Yep, that’s my same state. As such, I don’t feel I have a need for a “safe space” in sports to express my emotions. I have no problem with other men expressing their emotions in sports spaces either, I just personally have that need for a defined space.

I’m often DISAPPOINTED in people for how they react and judge sometimes, but always happier when those people remove themselves from my life. I don’t fawn after the approval of random assholes, be they male or female, and I never let it affect who I am. That’s what manliness actually is about: self actualization.

I agree entirely. Just to note, self actualization absolutely also encompasses “empathy” as well, and that, in my mind, is one of the most important aspects. Knowing yourself means perceiving the world and those around you, and understanding the impacts of that world on others, and the impacts we each have on those. I’m pointing this out because what it looks like we’re having here is ultimately a discussion on empathy.