Michael Hendricks
@mndrix
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OCaml; Off-grid; Tesla (Y, 📐); Bayesian; Summarist
Wyoming
Joined April 2022
"Lee Kuan Yew is great; the seed he plants does not grow on American soil."
In general, the present-day governance of the global south has more to teach about the future of US governance than do the case studies of high-state-capacity East Asian countries. Lee Kuan Yew is great; the seed he plants does not grow on American soil.
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virtual fences are the new barbed wire. i've had this dream for years. cool that someone did the hard work to make it real. should be cheaper and more useful than existing fences in the long run
The Pitchfork Ranch is piloting technology that lets ranchers draw fence on a smartphone. The virtual fence reacts with collars the cattle wear. It’s working so well they say, fencing could disappear and bring back Wyoming’s Wild West era open range. https://t.co/as74Xzuok5
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FSD perk: the car can still drive itself even if most of the rest of the windshield is smashed
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i counted 15 semis blown over inside the Cheyenne city limits today during my failed attempt at a quick road trip. near Chugwater, a rock blew off a gravel road 30 yards away and cracked my windshield. never seen it this strong
The Cheyenne Airport sensor reached 90 mph, which is the highest recorded at this station since reasonable wind data have been tracked (early-mid 1990s). Nearly our entire forecast area has gusted to at least 60 mph this morning with damage reports coming in #NEwx #WYwx
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TIL that ~50% of the cost of coal delivered to a power plant is transportation, with ~10% of the total being diesel for running the trains
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wyoming just reduced its EV registration fee from $200 to $100 annually, exempted fast chargers from sales tax, and applied a 3.5¢/kWh fuel tax on fast chargers. it's roughly revenue neutral, but avoids some double taxation of residents and aligns better with gas/diesel taxes
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prediction: Tesla Semi will have a bigger impact in 2026 than Cybercab. the semi fits into existing workflows easily and with great cost advantages. on the other hand, since October 20, 2015, autonomous taxis have repeatedly proven to be a harder nut to crack than expected
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the save act is an informative microcosm of us politics all around. its effect is ~0.001% and ~80% of voters support it. a quick, "sure, whatever" is all it needed then back to substantive issues
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electricity prices are relatively stable because they're an abstraction over many available forms of energy production, shifting the mix as circumstances demand
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be careful. the human visual system is easily tricked. case in point
Radar graphs are among the worst ideas in data visualization. The whole point of them is to show the area and you can usually reorder the labels freely in order to create a desired dramatic effect. Two versions of the same graph: - left one tells the story that AI is rapidly
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gasoline has to be replenished every few days through a complex supply chain. solar panels last 20 years after purchase. the latter is a more predictable logistics dependency
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my little 5 kW solar array has produced so much electricity recently that both cars have full batteries entirely from sunshine. i admit to some shame that it's especially smugly satisfying this week
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#tesla #supercharger in Buffalo, WY, USA is now open with 8 stalls (325 kW)
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browser buttons for "summarize this page" should be implemented via screenshots, not source code. the latter is an easy vector for prompt injection
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"We plan to start construction on the Natrium plant in the coming weeks" congrats! i'm excited to see how the molten salt energy storage works out, and the total construction cost when finished
Historic nuclear-powered news! The @NRCGov has approved our construction permit application for the Natrium® reactor. As the first commercial-scale, advanced reactor to reach this milestone, the Natrium plant advances the future of nuclear – today. https://t.co/z3OQEm3fOu
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one of the more anti-change members of the wyoming senate pulled up an LLM during floor debate as reference material. times are changing
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most of the covid refugees have gone back home now. i'm proud of them for giving it a shot, but living out here "weren't easy like the movies said it was."
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talking to city people about country life always reminds me of: "I don't recall no dance hall girls or hotel rooms with rugs. You worked hot and tired and nasty, rode your pony's head too low, there were all the nights you couldn't sleep 'cause it was too damn cold"
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