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> My parents would set timers

I'd suggest first measuring how much single load uses. In my case it's 1KWh and 0.4KWh. Daily load would save perhaps 4-5 GBP per month or 5% off an average bill.


DuckDuckGo index is just as good, but page itself isn't a piece of garbage like google. Heck even yahoo search has better ux now.

MVNO's for life. Weird how they haven't cannibalize their providers yet with such pricing.

Yeah, I feel like the major providers must be coasting on people who just dont bother looking into it and ares till on the same $100 plan they've been on forever (this was me until recently) and people who really want new flagship phones all the time but can't afford them outright, so they finance with a postpaid plan.

They are often owned by the providers themselves.

Even ChatGPT struggles to compare prices between local power providers. Partly because TOU differences, but a lot of time because providers straight up won't provide kWH rate. Add solar, battery and ability to shift patterns (solar charging EV, hot water automation) and it's a huge mess.

> A pickup truck should just be max utility

Yet we are in a thread where one with max utility has been cancelled and one flop of the century continues to sell.


Best to listen him directly: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/news/video-2885723/Video-D...

1. Poll says black people are not ok with with white people

2. Which makes them racist

3. Get away from racists

Turning this 180 degrees around is insanity.


And he had zero self-awareness to understand why some black people would feel that way and responded in a stupid, bigoted, illogical way.

He assigned this viewpoint to all black people and used it as justification for segregation.


That's still racist, because he's seeking out information that 'proves' his racism (and using a poll of 130 respondents as proof is insane).

I feel like this thread on Scott Adams is exposing how many people on HN are just overtly racist. You can enjoy his content before he went off the rails fine, but seeing some of the takes here feels like a bunch of people are one step away from arguing that segregation should come back.


So let's criticize the Rasmussen Reports then

> how many people on HN are just overtly racist

Like most people actually are... https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-40124781

Regardless. Funny how quickly people of kindest hearts, tops of the virtue pyramid are to cancel someone for single misinterpreted wild sentence.


So now we’ve moved the goalposts to “most people are actually racist so it’s okay to perpetuate segregation and other remnants of racial slavery in America.”

Enlightenment is a fight against our tribal instincts. But some folks think we should return to warring tribes rather than striving for something better.

It’s funny how people with bigoted views can’t handle being canceled. Scott Adams literally predicted he would be “canceled” as he proceeded to say the things on his mind that he knew would cause controversy.

He was okay with saying things that hurt the reputation of others but he was ultimately not okay with hurting his own reputation once he self-inflicted his wound.


I think it's okay to perpetuate segregation from the racists. The non-racists white and blacks can live together. And the extreme left mob who have an axe to grind with white people can live with the neo-nazis.

A wise man once said "Can't we all just get along"


> left mob who have an axe to grind with white people can live with the neo-nazis.

You are hitting the nerve here - California has one of the highest rates of hate crimes in US.


You are responding to wrong person. Parent has moved the goalpost before me.

He was a collateral damage because at the time cancelling white people was the vogue. Fortunately society moved on a little since then (and no I don't support current president (and I fucking hate to get sucked into US politics everyday like this)).


Or Starlink enables direct to cell 5G in Iran.

Imagine if Starlink came with special channel to X.com. UK would loose their minds.

You may wish to look what is happening closer to home before engaging in such low level trolling.

Is x.com blocked in the UK?

Not yet, but soon. Possibly even this year.

Curious: Will this be implemented on DNS level?

Can lidar say what colour is traffic light?

It’s not either lifar or regular cameras. Use both and combine the information to exceed the humans

What proportion is camera data and what is LIDAR?

Must be solved problem and something you should buy already? Right?


Most practical navigation systems employ some form of sensor fusion. It’s more the norm than not. I’m sure even Tesla’s FSD does too for fusing vision, inertial sensors, wheel speed, multiple etc.

I believe traffic lights currently use three bulbs, red, yellow and green. Even without color a computer system can easily determine when each light is lit.

If there are single bulbs displaying red, green and yellow please give clear examples.


Flashing lights over rural intersections often do that. There is only one color there (yellow or red), but position is not a signal

Have you driven in America? We have the craziest lights you've ever seen. And that's just in my state

How about turn signal vs brake lights?

> How about turn signal vs brake lights?

Potentially as extraneous as range to a surface that a camera can’t tell apart from background.

More to the point, everyone but Tesla is doing cameras plus Lidar. It’s increasingly looking like the correct bet.


> doing cameras plus Lidar

At what proportion? Is it mostly lidar or mostly cameras? Or 50/50?

> Potentially as extraneous as range to a surface that a camera can’t tell apart from background.

I guess yeah for backside of the car you'd probably better off measuring actual actions.

How about when you come 4 way stop. LIDAR is useless as it wouldn't recognize anyones turn signals.


What do you mean by proportion? They are different data sources, and their usage is determined by system design.

eg A driving decision system needs to know object distances AND traffic light colours. It doesn't particularly need to know the source of either. You could have a camera-only system that accurately determines colour and fuzzy-determines distance. Or you could have a LIDAR-only system that accurately determines distance and fuzzy-determines colour.

Or you use both, get accurate LIDAR-distance and accurate camera-colour and skip all the fuzzy-determination steps. Or keep the fuzzy stuff and build a layer of measurement-agreement for redundancy.

So then the question becomes, what's your proportion when deciding whether to stop at a traffic light? Is it mostly light colour or mostly distance to other objects? Or 50/50?

I'd say it's 100/100.


Sounds like a solved problem and you can buy a solution with a perfect accuracy?

I don't read the previous comment as either "you can buy" nor "perfect accuracy".

Like them, I don't understand what you're asking by "proportion". Bits/second? Sensor modules/vehicle? Features detected by the AI?


Is there a point you're trying to make?

Because it really feels like you're just JAQing off, either to come to some "gotcha" moment or a pseudo-intellectual exercise. In either case, the questions feel bad faith.


Who said that?

> At what proportion? Is it mostly lidar or mostly cameras? Or 50/50?

What proportion of your vision is rods or cones? Depends on the context. You can do without one. But it’s better with both.

> How about when you come 4 way stop. LIDAR is useless as it wouldn't recognize anyones turn signals

Bad example. 99% of a 4-way stop is remembering who moved last, who moves next by custom and who may jump the line. What someone is indicating is, depending on where you are, between mildly helpful and useless.


Something I've seen noises about is time of flight systems for traffic. I think the idea is you can put those systems on traffic lights, cars, bicycles, and pedestrians and then cars can know where those things are.

You can't do that though. Someone will not wear it - and they shouldn't have to.

Or instead of reinventing the world you could just use cameras

> If we start actually building reactors the cost will come down.

Why would I invest then if it can't even pay for itself?


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