burritojustice

burritojustice, 13 hours ago to random

“The upshot is, if you adopt LLMs into your work flow, you are intentionally adopting a bullshit engine. Nothing that comes from an LLM should ever be trusted. There is no accountability for the inevitable errors and fabrications that they bring to your work.

If ChatGPT were an employee, you’d fire them almost immediately for fraud”

https://jimrion.com/2024/05/24/enough-with-the-llm-bs-already/

burritojustice, 1 day ago to random

ok this seems bad https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2024/05/what-you-need-to-know-about-record-breaking-heat-in-the-atlantic/

burritojustice, 2 days ago to random

why do neither of these things surprise me

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burritojustice, 3 days ago to random

California’s solar deployment lets operators shift hydroelectric output to the evenings when it’s needed most:

“Lower midday usage of hydropower is highly desirable for the CAISO system as it allows for greater dispatch of hydropower resources during the hours without solar generation - a textbook complementary system... By reducing the need for midday hydropower, a significant portion of a given year’s available MWhs can be shifted towards more critical periods.”

https://blog.gridstatus.io/caiso-batteries-apr-2024/

burritojustice, 4 days ago to random

Ms. Saldana, 64, was exasperated at the sustained outage, the fourth she has had to endure, after Hurricane Ike in 2008, Harvey in 2017 and the winter freeze in 2021.

“I’ve lived in this house for 38 years,” she said. “I am old. I don’t want to do it anymore.”

She said she thought about moving but was not sure where she would go. For now, she said she was taking cold showers and driving her car around the block with the cold air blasting.

“Thank God I have water.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/19/us/houston-power-outages-texas-storm.html

burritojustice, 6 days ago to random

seriously Costco

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burritojustice, 7 days ago to random

‘A Canadian politician has a modest proposal to her city’s drivers: pay a tax equivalent to the current cost of an annual bus pass to register their cars— the equivalent of $858 American dollars a year — or give up those cars altogether and take the bus for free’

“If we could wave a magic wand and double the network, take away the debt and make the bus free — oh my God, why would we not do that? That's an easy decision”

https://usa.streetsblog.org/2024/05/16/this-city-leader-wants-drivers-to-pay-850-year-to-register-their-cars-and-give-the-money-to-transit

burritojustice, 8 days ago to random

https://press.coop/@Nature/112451626209475743

burritojustice, 9 days ago to random

‘When she came back out, 17 hours later, Gubser was at the Farallon Islands, 29.7 miles away…’

“I was pretty steady for the most part, but at the end we hit a strong current and the water got colder,” said Gubser. “My progress was slowed because I was chilled to the bone. I did not expect 43 degrees. That was nuts.”
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/woman-first-to-swim-golden-gate-bridge-farallons-19457394.php

burritojustice, 13 days ago to random

“A Severe (G4) Geomagnetic Storm is LIKELY - possibly as early as later today and continuing through the weekend; exact timing remains somewhat uncertain. At least seven
earth-directed Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) are in transit

Only three Severe (G4) geomagnetic storms have occurred so far this solar cycle (since 2019); the last was a brief occurrence on March 23. This is SWPC's first G4 Watch since 2005”

https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/news/severe-geomagnetic-storming-likely-continue

burritojustice, 15 days ago to random

omfg TEXTURE

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burritojustice, 20 days ago to random

in which the Vancouver Canucks join together to form one giant goalie

burritojustice, 21 days ago to random

ACCESSING THE PAST AT SCALE
https://hcommons.social/@wragge/112375354334429112

burritojustice, 24 days ago to random

“When the people and institutions that are funded by tax dollars simply choose to stop doing their job or disregard elected civilian leadership at the local or national level, we cease to have a democracy. If what it takes to get police who are well paid to do their job is a veto over democratic elections, then we no longer have a democracy” https://www.sfexaminer.com/forum/san-franciscos-former-da-chesa-boudin-reflects-on-recall/article_36ff9c7a-03fa-11ef-9187-bfb40d473c0b.html

burritojustice, 24 days ago to random

“Just last week, for the first time ever, battery storage discharge exceeded 6,000 MW and batteries were the largest source of supply to power the grid at one point during the day” https://www.gov.ca.gov/2024/04/19/californias-grid-keeps-setting-new-clean-energy-records/
https://mastodon.green/@JustinGerdes/112356105490737360

burritojustice, 24 days ago to random

oh wait Washington Post sorry now 10GW https://www.energy.ca.gov/data-reports/energy-almanac/california-electricity-data/california-energy-storage-system-survey https://www.gov.ca.gov/2024/04/25/california-achieves-major-clean-energy-victory-10000-megawatts-of-battery-storage/ https://mastodon.social/@burritojustice/112322972926799767

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burritojustice, 27 days ago to random

“It's truly absurd that transit riders, cyclists, and even pedestrians are guaranteed travel on a very limited number of streets, while drivers are granted virtually every road and cry discrimination if a portion of one is given to someone else.” https://darrellowens.substack.com/p/businesses-are-getting-their-customers

burritojustice, 27 days ago to random

omfg FLOATPLANE CAMINO

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burritojustice, 28 days ago to random

“The simple fact is the merchants who are protesting safety improvements drive. And they don't want anyone interfering with that” https://sf.streetsblog.org/2024/04/25/commentary-there-is-zero-ambiguity-to-the-west-portal-tragedy

burritojustice, 28 days ago to random

“Those who still protest safety improvements to West Portal know no shame and keep grousing about a supposed loss of parking and their need for "more time" to analyze what they claim is a rushed plan. Their behavior was and continues to be puerile and contemptible” https://sf.streetsblog.org/2024/04/25/commentary-there-is-zero-ambiguity-to-the-west-portal-tragedy

burritojustice, 29 days ago to random

@rollovereasy hey so SFMTA has a survey for the West Portal safety improvements — really important given the big boomer car energy against removing [checks notes] two left turns

https://www.sfmta.com/projects/west-portal-station-safety-and-community-space-improvements

https://survey.alchemer.com/s3/7807748/West-Portal-Project-All-Languages

burritojustice, 29 days ago to random

“more than 40% of San Francisco’s traffic deaths have been a result of drivers making left turns and hitting pedestrians in crosswalks”
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/west-portal-crash-sfmta-proposal-19421048.php

burritojustice, 1 month ago to random

ok this Washington Post article is pretty stupid, barely mentions California’s astonishing utility scale battery installations which are already at 6GW and will grow to 52GW https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/04/22/california-solar-duck-curve-rooftop/ https://www.energy.ca.gov/data-reports/energy-almanac/california-electricity-data/california-energy-storage-system-survey https://www.publicpower.org/periodical/article/california-has-nearly-doubled-its-battery-energy-storage-capacity-two-years

burritojustice, 1 month ago to random

“The team discovered that a single chip responsible for storing a portion of the FDS memory — including some of the FDS computer’s software code — isn’t working. The loss of that code rendered the science and engineering data unusable. Unable to repair the chip, the team decided to place the affected code elsewhere in the FDS memory. But no single location is large enough to hold the section of code in its entirety” https://blogs.nasa.gov/voyager/2024/04/22/nasas-voyager-1-resumes-sending-engineering-updates-to-earth/

burritojustice, 1 month ago to random

man united

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