It also avoids the perception of it being their own fault for being too lazy / too incompetent / too disabled.

Not for the people they’re now sharing a bike lane with, and not for the driver in bad weather or if they get crashed into.

It looks too wide for most bike lanes.

A power limit acts as kind-of an implicit momentum limit, although it can be more limiting going uphill.

NZ Post has somewhat similar Paxsters, but they have full roadgoing registrations and license plates. I think they might have their own categorisation or exemption to allow them to legally be driven on footpaths like posties on motorbikes. Not used for parcel service, only letter mail

I don’t think there’s necessarily anything corporate-exclusive about these; you could probably commission your own if you wanted.

I don’t really see how this doesn’t count as a motor vehicle, though. Be interesting to see what the ‘assist’ speed and power limits are.

Underfloor cooling is really rare (basically never used) because if you cool the floor to near/below the dew point, you’ll get water condensing on it.

Normally you want that water condensing somewhere with a good drain, so you get dehumidification too.

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OLED maybe but small micros are now so cheap and so small that they’re negligible.

Battery is probably still the biggest environmental impact.

I would say that excludes him lying when writing or typing, but I’m not sure he’s capable of doing so without speaking aloud so it’s moot.

If the umbrella dissolves, it’s still in the drink. Just a different kind of ‘in’.

As long as you’re being consistent, not just reacting to enemy-of-the-week.

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.

Elon is absolutely an asshole.

To clarify, I’m not trying to broadly defend generative AI. I’m arguing that it’s not so inherently evil that not only should people should quit their job for moral reasons rather than be involved with it, but others should shun them if they merely use it as a tool for their work (not even developing it). Even if that means unemployment and even if the work is physically/mentally perfectly fine otherwise.

People usually reserve that level of disgust for things like slavery, arms manufacturing, or direct pollution. Not e.g. airline pilots burning a shit-tonne of oil, which then pollutes.

Re labour: I don’t like the idea that automating jobs out of existence is inherently bad. That way lies NJ-style can’t-pump-your-own-gas laws, or railways required to double/triple-crew trains decades after the practical need was gone. A long-term goal of society should (IMO) be to reduce the need for employment.

Inadequate unemployment coverage is a somewhat separate issue and region-dependent. If you want to have make-work jobs, there’s a lot of more fulfilling jobs more valuable to society than writing office boilerplate.

This isn’t a situation where some rural town’s main source of employment is suddenly disappearing, either.

Re copyright: I find the level of overlap between pro-piracy and anti-AI people mildly amusing. If you take ‘information wants to be free’ as a base assumption, generative AI is pretty compatible with that. Attribution remains an issue, but mostly for ‘art’ applications.

Should the companies involved be prosecuted for intentional mass violation of copyright for profit? Yes. Does that extend to every use of every tool? Not so much.

So you’re attacking people who eat meat or take intercontinental holidays with the same level of vitriol? If not, why not?

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

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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.

The direct damage done by AI is somewhat overblown, especially if you exclude the labour issues, copyright issues, and the effect on the hobby PC markets.

At which point you end up basically arguing about energy/emissions and water usage; hello air travel and eating meat.

A TV used to be a significant investment. There’s that meme about how they’ve gone from being several months pay to something you get for free because your roommate/flatmate moved out. Cell phones aren’t far behind.