Last time, it didn’t go so well for the robot:

https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2017/7/17/15986042/dc-security-robot-k5-falls-into-water

https://youtu.be/tANavEbnKsU

Finland edition, where it apparently started. Action starts at 4:20m in.

Good, wholesome fun.

Maybe he slurred his words and meant Virginia.

https://www.archives.gov/electoral-college/2020

2020 California Electoral College vote. 55 for Biden/Harris. 0 for Trump/Pence.

California is also part of the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, which awards every electoral college vote to the winner of the popular vote.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Popular_Vote_Interstate_Compact

Thanks! Looks like lots of options out there.

Our power panel is old and we’ve been advised it may need replacing. I briefly looked at Span panels, with built-in energy monitoring, but they’re not cheap. These monitors look like you at least get the data at a much more reasonable price.

How did you get the breakdown? We have a really old panel and may be looking at getting a new one in the next year. Would love to be able to see the breakdowns and figure out where it’s going. FWIW, in PG&E territory.

Not a big fan of gossip, but my buddy sent me these. You may connect the dots. Let’s just hope the pre-nup is bulletproof.

• https://x.com/joshtpm/status/1834433341644210271
• https://www.semafor.com/article/09/11/2024/republicans-fear-laura-loomer-is-influencing-donald-trump

Also:

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Everybody should listen to Uncle Bernie. Really listen. He knows what he’s talking about.

Good read. Sad ending that all that work ended up nowhere.

Switched over to Fox to see how they were going to spin it.

Hannity was like: “The moderators are lefties. It was 3-1 .”

Then he brought on Rubio, and I clicked away.

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When this whole ‘training’ trend started a few years ago, there were companies offering image and video labelling services.

It turned out they were mostly sweatshops in low-income countries, where people sat in front of monitors and just dragged boumding boxes around sections of images and picked from an icon menu. Here’s a car, here’s a person, here’s an apple. That sort of thing. You didn’t even need to know how to read or write.

Of course, the quality was questionable, so they needed a second layer of supervisors verifying the choices. But even with that, the cost was way lower than having an engineer or QA person do it. IIRC, there was a bit of hue and cry when stories came out of big tech companies supporting sweatshop conditions.

Sounds like it’s still ongoing.

They missed speculation, hearsay, and guesstimation.

Since nobody’s brought it up: MQTT.

It got pigeonholed into IoT world, but it’s a pretty decent event pubsub system. It has lots lf security/encryption options, plus a websocket layer, so you can use it anywhere from devices, to mobile, to web.

As of late last year, RabbitMQ started suporting it as a supported server add-on, so it’s easy to use it to create scalable, event-based systems, including for multiuser games.

The otherwise sensible people I know who are still on Twitter all say it’s because of a specific interest or group, and the community of people around it who are all on there as well. They all hate what it’s become but put up with it because nobody is sure where else to go.

There’s also a sense of FOMO when it comes to realtime news updates. Until government, news media, and personalities go somewhere and take all their followers with them, it will be hard to break away.

We spent the whole day cleaning my elderly mom’s plant-filled patio. Pressure-washed, repotted, and pruned everything. Even got the little cherub fountain working.