I had a company back in 2012 refuse to present even a range of compensation before they flew me 1200 miles to an interview except to say that it "wasn't bad."
Unlikely. Dropping it into GIMP, Just the straight highway section in the middle is only 509 x 12 pixels. Assume 1 car per pixel (at least since individual cars are visible), and that's still only 6,108.
And that's assuming that cars are literally covering every square inch of highway. Rough ballpark, I think it'd cap out at about 10,000 cars, which given this is Texas, would account for around 10,100 people.
Generally it’s made by first filtering out other gasses (there are materials that will pass nitrogen but block oxygen), and then you just get it super cold with a cryocompressor (uses helium as a refrigerant) to liquify it.
The profitability of a power plant is to some degree determined by its location. It costs more to move power farther. As renewables get cheaper, fossil fuel plant margins get lower, and in many cases, it's enough to shut them down.
Now you can't move a coal plant closer to the people who use electricity, but if you build a data center close to a coal plant, suddenly, it's a viable business model.
Similar reason aluminum refineries are often built near power plants. Except aluminum actually helps people.
I think it's different this time around. Tech pundits might write "If Apple doesn't have a VR/AR product in the next six months, they're falling behind," but this is the first time in my memory that it's been tech companies staring down consumers and small businesses and saying "If you don't adapt to this technology, you will lose your job."
Specifically this context. Like "falling behind in school," I get. There are grades. Some people do better while some fall behind. It's a scaler value with a good end and a bad end.
But the AI bros are co-opting the phrase and presupposing that ALL OF TECHNOLOGY is on a linear scale where the good end is more AI shit and the bad end is less AI shit. They're using a scaler when they should be using a vector.
I've mentioned it before on here, but my cousin is taking an AI class in college. He tried to convince my business-owner uncle to let him create an agent for his company's website so he won't "fall behind."
Maybe not direct miscommunication, but definitely a lack of context.
I got into a stupid game with my girlfriend texting back and forth quotes that start with “I am” like I’d send “I am Iron Man” and she’d respond “I am not a crook!”
After a while, I was running out of ideas, so I sent a quote from Pulp Fiction which I probably botched. Wasn’t sure if she had even seen it.
A few minutes later, my ex girlfriend calls and then hangs up when I answer. Thought that was weird.
Then I thought about how my ex and current girlfriend had the same first name.
I had just texted my ex who I hadn’t spoken to in two years “I AM THE LORD WHEN I LAY MY VENGEANCE UPON YOU!”
I tried to explain the context. She was fairly understanding, but I was shoook after that experience.
well in a way, they're competing