Yeah but then you can't put a snorkel on it and extraction boards and expedition gas cans so you can advertise how adventurous you are in your spare time.
afaik they are not accused of parking or jaywalking, but if you're suggesting that's also on their records, can't say I'm surprised, once a scofflaw, always a scofflaw
They never do. I always look up users like this after the fact and it’s always clear to me they got lost in sauce online, ended up on HN, and think they can just get away being edgy in a room full of professional nerd snipers.
I have experienced this for various libraries. I think it helps to paste in a package.json in the prompt.
All the models seem to struggle with React three fiber like this. Mixing and matching versions that don't make sense. I can see this being a tough problem given the nature of these models and the training data.
I am going to also try to start giving it a better skeleton to start with and stick to the particular imports when faced with this issue.
My very first prompt with claude 4 was for R3F and it imported a depreciated component as usual.
I mostly use Claude, but have recently been playing with Gemini 2.5 and ChatGPT 4.1, and they've been great too, with slightly different strengths and weaknesses.
Desalination plants produce a lot of brine, which you need to dispose of. You can't just put it back in the sea without killing marine life. It's not a simple problem to solve.
No can do, they are going to start taxing (hard to call that billing at that point) you based on your income. At least that was the plan last summer or so.
All utilities have usage based costs and large fixed costs. Historically, all utilities have charged solely on usage. The problem is when you have solar, or solar + battery, your usage goes way down. Unfortunately the grid still needs to be maintained and power plants at peak times (maybe a bit lower, but still high) still need to be paid for.
With usage based bills, people with solar pay less than their fair share for the maintenance component of a utility's cost, which means that this cost is larger for the other rate payers. On top of this California has huge subsidies to early rooftop solar adopters. This structure hurts lower income people more since lower income people are more likely to rent and apartments don't have as much space for / not as interested in rooftop solar.
So the CPUC started exploring different models for adding a bigger fixed charge to the bill and lowering the per-kwh cost. Of course the rooftop solar installers hated this as did the different "equity groups." Which is where you got the idea to adjust the fixed charge based on income.
I don't think it's a great idea but I at least understand where the CPUC is coming from. We probably need more innovation in utility pricing models.
I appreciate you writing a detailed response, btw.
The issue I have with this idea is that it basically punishes initiative or people who invested in energy efficient products. What’s the point if you can just wait and juice the other guy? Is the climate change a deadly serious issue or not?
Similarly, the part about taxation is self-inflicted wound, where they could have came up with a subsidy, that would have much less complains.
Yes, that plan was ridiculous. A highly paid worker living efficiently in a small condominium would be heavily penalized. Meanwhile someone living in a McMansion with a lower salary would effectively have a lower bill per kWh.
It is best as it is today: a consumption tax, like the gasoline tax. What justification is there for charging a higher income bracket more for electricity? You could make the "infrastructure maintenance burden" argument about anything: food, movie tickets, etc.
I paid an average of $0.31 per kWh last month with SCE (which is on the low side, because a lot of that is charging my car, which I have setup to only charge during off-peak). I see under $0.06 per kWh of Non Bypassable Charges. The word "tax" does not appear on the bill, except in a notice about raising rates which mentions a loss (with the word "after-tax" appended to the amount of the loss) incurred by SCE.
I pay $200 per month in electricity costs. I live in a small San Francisco apartment. I have two laptops, two desktop machines (only one of which has a video card in it), two monitors, some ethernet switches and WiFi APs, a fridge, a microwave oven, and two ceiling fans.
My heat (for both air and water) is provided by the building's boiler and is included in the rent, rather than the utility bill. My stove and oven burn natural gas. My air conditioning is "open the windows and hope it's not 95F outside".
I could totally see someone who had to do electric heating and cooling having a far larger bill than I do (especially if they're living in a place that's large than a shoebox).
I can't see it, even with heating, as it's California. Even at something outrageous like $1 per kwh it's ~1000 kwh per month (I suppose PG&E takes some fixed costs like everyone else in the world). For comparison we're a family of four and just got our final bill for 2024, we were at 1500kwh for the whole year (more or less the same for years now).
Even yours is weird. I don't have a desktop computer running but we cook or bake with electricity every other day. I do realize we spend a lot less than other people, every time I check the prices and estimates if I want to switch the companies estimate 2500kwh for two people. So there's that.
> [My family of four] were at 1500kwh for the whole year...
Weird. Looking at my past several bills, my monthly usage is fairly constant; ~450kWh per month. So, (if my math is correct) that puts my annual usage at ~5400kWh.
> I can't see it, even with heating, as it's California.
I've no idea where OP is, but there are inland parts of the state that get dangerously hot in the summer. Cooling could be a big concern. Plus, rental housing in the state is often poorly maintained, so all that lovely conditioned air could very well be leaking out all over the damn place.
> Weird. Looking at my past several bills, my monthly usage is fairly constant; ~450kWh per month. So, (if my math is correct) that puts my annual usage at ~5400kWh.
That’s really quite a lot if you don’t have electric heating and cooling. It’d be worth trying to figure out where it’s going.
This is probably a long shot, but do you have any recommendations for power draw monitors that plug into a US outlet and report power draw either over plain old serial port, or USB?
Every couple of years I look around a bit for something suitable, but have been unable to find anything that fits the bill, looks like it's not totally garbage, and isn't priced in the neighborhood of lab-grade measurement equipment.
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