wyattshacker
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2 months ago
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on: US electricity demand surged in 2025 – solar handled 61% of it
The delta here between population growth and energy consumption, + solid state storage, + the rate of PV efficiency improvement = FOS and NUC will very soon be the backup system. REN are the future. Dead dinosaurs are not the future.
wyattshacker
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2 months ago
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on: US electricity demand surged in 2025 – solar handled 61% of it
The delta here between population growth and energy consumption, + solid state storage, + the rate of PV efficiency improvement = FOS and NUC will very soon be the backup system. REN are the future. Dead dinosaurs are not.
wyattshacker
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1 year ago
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on: Shopify takes down Ye website selling swastika shirts after Super Bowl ad
I agree. That has always been a matter of corporate principal for SHOP. Now, they are leaning even more into their "free speech" farse, allowing almost anyone and anything that may generate sales. Partly because they know that political and public opinion recently leans towards less oversight, less moral scrutiny, and less enforcement.
wyattshacker
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1 year ago
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on: Shopify takes down Ye website selling swastika shirts after Super Bowl ad
That's true. "Woke" has become a catch-all for logical, moral reasoning and behavior that in any way contradicts pure profit motive. I misused the term. And SHOP definitely was never a haven of actual woke corporate policy. But even slightly leaning towards woke = big trouble in the current political environment, even if it means condoning sale of hate speech or related goods.
wyattshacker
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1 year ago
Don't wanna attract the anti-woke police. All of SV appears to be behaving like good little Andreesen/Trump/Musk sheople.
wyattshacker
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1 year ago
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on: Shopify takes down Ye website selling swastika shirts after Super Bowl ad
Exactly.
wyattshacker
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1 year ago
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on: Shopify takes down Ye website selling swastika shirts after Super Bowl ad
Yeah. SHOP just doesn't wanna be pegged as being "too woke" under the current administration. All of tech is apparently scared of Trump, Musk, and their allies in SV and WS.
wyattshacker
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1 year ago
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on: IT Unemployment Rises to 5.7% as AI Hits Tech Jobs
Current US UR is just above 4%. 1.7% Delta. Stay tuned to see if the gap widens in this particular sector at a faster rate than others.
wyattshacker
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1 year ago
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on: 'We are not for sale,' ChatGPT boss says after Musk bid
In a World where apparently "everything is for sale", we should stay tuned and see if Mr. Altman actually holds out, like a champ.
wyattshacker
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1 year ago
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on: Vance Warns U.S. Allies to Keep AI Regulation Light
Maybe SV and the real muscle of US tech industry should "warn" JD to stick to his church meetings and his regularly scheduled Trump pedicure treatment duties. Would be more profitable for everyone, and safer all around.
wyattshacker
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1 year ago
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on: Vance Warns U.S. Allies to Keep AI Regulation Light
Maybe SV and the real muscle of our economy should "warn" JD to stay out of tech, politics and economics, and instead stick to his church meetings regularly scheduled Trump pedicure appointments.
wyattshacker
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11 years ago
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on: Did I ever mention that I fucking hate the fucking web
Interestingly, as the breadth and complexity of Google product grows, the need for true customer service grows, disproportionately. Very few of us needed "customer support" for Google Search, but for many of their newer, more complex products, it's a must. Google either missed this need altogether, or they decided that even with crappy/no CS, they could still make a killing with half-assed products/support. Thoughts?
wyattshacker
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11 years ago
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on: Did I ever mention that I fucking hate the fucking web
On my Note 4, I get the same (possibly related) date/time issues manifesting in Google Maps; "Driving distance 37 miles. Drive time estimated 72 hours" :)
wyattshacker
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11 years ago
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on: Smithsonian Digitizes 40,000 Asian and American Artworks
The collection is beautiful. Making these works available to the whole world, in an online searchable format is very valuable.
The search facet designations offered by Freer Sackler are useful. It would be cool if visitors/users could generate their own facet designations to allow for user-derived contextual value and meaning related to attributes of each work. Hashtag-enabled comments and meta-collections would be a good first step.
Do you think this would be useful?
