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New comment by bryanlarsen in "Solar generates more energy in US than coal for first time"

bryanlarsen — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 22:17:39 +0000

Yes, California is a good model for a modern grid. Lots of natural gas capacity, very little natural gas usage.

> many, many, many required MWh

Many MW, few MWh.

New comment by bryanlarsen in "A Call to Action: Stop the FCC's KYC Regime"

bryanlarsen — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 19:16:07 +0000

Doesn't that make it more likely people are going to miss important calls from their Doctor's office?

New comment by bryanlarsen in "A Call to Action: Stop the FCC's KYC Regime"

bryanlarsen — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 17:15:15 +0000

Medical offices hide their numbers for very good reasons: if you've got an abusive spouse, you often don't want the medical office in your call history. Which results in a lot of very important calls being ignored.

New comment by bryanlarsen in "Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive"

bryanlarsen — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 02:03:08 +0000

I'm also bemused by the number of people who think they've got an effective sandbox yet their sandboxed agent has access to all of their code, their github, and unrestricted web access.

New comment by bryanlarsen in "BYD is bringing its 5-min 'Flash' electric car charging to Canada"

bryanlarsen — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 22:21:55 +0000

Doug Ford has a plan to spend most of a trillion dollars on nuclear to ensure that our power becomes the most expensive.

New comment by bryanlarsen in "Solar generates more energy in US than coal for first time"

bryanlarsen — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 21:15:27 +0000

You can by sodium ion batteries today. They're more expensive, but work better in the cold.

https://www.bluettipower.com/products/sodium-ion-battery-pio...

New comment by bryanlarsen in "Solar generates more energy in US than coal for first time"

bryanlarsen — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 21:11:44 +0000

California? The state that hasn't had a blackout since 2020, the state with the lowest wholesale electricity cost, by far?

https://cleantechnica.com/2026/05/30/california-lowest-whole...

New comment by bryanlarsen in "Solar generates more energy in US than coal for first time"

bryanlarsen — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 21:08:32 +0000

That's a link to a global chart. The OP is talking about the US. It's not surprising that countries that have to import natural gas are moving away from it and countries with plentiful local suppliew are doubling down on it.

New comment by bryanlarsen in "Reading for pleasure is sharply down among schoolkids, report shows"

bryanlarsen — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:49:36 +0000

Instagram/Android was 2012. (Instagram iOS was late 2010). But not just Instagram; 2012 was about the time that social media really started adopting the dark patterns.

New comment by bryanlarsen in "Grit: Rewriting Git in Rust with agents"

bryanlarsen — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:36:38 +0000

The OP you're referring to made a distinction between legally and morally correct. Legally, you appear superficially correct, but I'm not a lawyer, and neither was the OP. Morally, the LGPL is correct.

Judges are human and will take into account good faith and attempts to maintain the spirit of the license. Choosing the LGPL signals a desire to maintain the spirit of the license. The MIT signals bad faith. Judges don't like that.

New comment by bryanlarsen in "BYD is bringing its 5-min 'Flash' electric car charging to Canada"

bryanlarsen — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 12:53:05 +0000

Fast charging appears to damage batteries less than expected. There are lots of reports of taxis which almost exclusively used fast charging with over 200,000 miles on their battery.

Of course that is normal fast charging. Flash charging is 3x or more faster, so that's unknown.

New comment by bryanlarsen in "Why SpaceX 2040 Revenue FCST $4.3T in highly unlikely"

bryanlarsen — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 22:25:33 +0000

Falcon 9 was in a quasi-monopoly position in 2025, and had $4 billion in revenue. That's revenue, not profit. Starship will expand the market, but it would have to expand it by ~1000x to justify the valuation.

New comment by bryanlarsen in "Grit: Rewriting Git in Rust with agents"

bryanlarsen — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 13:29:48 +0000

The original git had a command line interface. It's widely assumed that using a GPL'd program in your program through the command line does not cause the GPL to "infect" your program.

OTOH, one of the major reasons for grit is to provide a library interface. If they kept it GPL, anything that used grit through the library interface would have to also become GPL.

This could be the "legitimate concern" you're asking for.

But the LGPL was also an option -- it addresses that arguably legitimate concern and keeps the spirit of the original license.

New comment by bryanlarsen in "Cleaning up after AI rockstar developers"

bryanlarsen — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 23:52:20 +0000

Definitely. Expert craftsmanship in cost optimization, in shipping optimization, in production/factory design and optimization, in material sourcing, in durability testing, in design for mass market appeal, in marketing material, in documentation, et cetera.

New comment by bryanlarsen in "Grit: Rewriting Git in Rust with Agents"

bryanlarsen — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 23:07:51 +0000

It depends whether the 0.7% failures are testing deliberately unimplemented features like email or is in corner cases in implemented features. It sounds like it's at least mostly the former, hopefully it's 100% the former.

I don't care if any git I use has email features. IIUC, even most of the people that use git with email don't directly use the email features, they use the patch set features like `git am`. I expect `git am` to work, I don't expect git to actually do email.

New comment by bryanlarsen in "Facebook is paying people overseas promoting Alberta separatism"

bryanlarsen — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 20:41:33 +0000

The fuss is because this means it might actually happen, despite the majority not wanting it to.

New comment by bryanlarsen in "Facebook is paying people overseas promoting Alberta separatism"

bryanlarsen — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 10:49:50 +0000

The Canadian Supreme Court has ruled that provinces essentially have the right to separate. There are a bunch of conditions, but they have the right to separate, the Federal government is required to negotiate separation in good faith.

Canada is not being hypocritical.

New comment by bryanlarsen in "Anti-social: It's fads, not friends, which now dominate social media feeds"

bryanlarsen — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 14:29:45 +0000

> HN is not social media in any normal sense of the word.

The article's main claim is that traditional social media is not social media any more. That Facebook et al are now junk entertainment. So IMO HN hews much closer to the traditional role of social media than Facebook et al do.

New comment by bryanlarsen in "The Butlerian Jihad Has Begun"

bryanlarsen — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 14:13:54 +0000

The comparable word is "crusade". If it's OK to use the word crusade, it's OK to use the word jihad.

(My opinion is that neither should be used, but a majority of Americans disagree with me).

To be pedantic, crusade means "holy war" and jihad means "to struggle", so jihad should be more acceptable than crusade, but in English, jihad essentially only has the holy war meaning.

New comment by bryanlarsen in "Texas grid flags risks as data centers, crypto sites fail voltage tests"

bryanlarsen — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 13:36:42 +0000

And California is proof of the converse.

California's wholesale electricity prices are the lowest in the nation, half of what Texas' are.

But California's retail electricity prices are the second highest in the nation.

https://cleantechnica.com/2026/05/30/california-lowest-whole...