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  1. Lucky guess too! Wordle 407 2/6* β¬›β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ¨β¬› 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
  2. All the other engineering buildings looked great compared to the Woolrich building where Aerospace Eng was when I was there in mid-90s. Looks like Aero has moved to another building.
  3. Yeah, the panel gaps have become a meme now. The people still seem to flock to Tesla though since their 4-year-old cars are selling for the same price as new ones. Porsche, BMW, Mercedes, etc. have their own reliability issues; Tesla's seem to be more cosmetic.
  4. True to silicon valley roots, I see that you are a fan of binary numbers. Stanford and Cal are all about Olympic sports, and of course academics, research and the startups. Nobody will miss football.
  5. Tesla virtual power plant Emergency Load Reduction Pilot | Tesla Support Get paid $2/kWh during emergency events. There are about 50,000 powerwalls with about 500MWh to draw power from. With vehicle-to-load options from others such as Ford, there is a quite a bit of potential to share the energy during emergencies or peak power situations.
  6. My brother lives in Seattle and I visit him at least once a year. So, flight leaves Bay Area, everything is sunny, announce that they are landing in Seattle. Go through clouds and no more sun. Aahh, back in Seattle. Descend some more and there is another layer of clouds. It is getting darker. Descend some more and another layer of clouds. And another. Four layers of clouds making midday look like twilight.
  7. Brilliant! We should have rubber bands engaged during the day when the solar panels are on the clock providing energy to keep the rubber bands getting tauter and tauter. As soon as the solar panels punch out in the evening, we release the rubber bands, which will cause the windmills to act as millions of turbojets to spin the earth right around its axis to get to morning within a minute, thereby putting those solar panels to work again hence doubling their utilization and reducing cost by 50%. Win, win! The guys on the other side of the planet may grumble about always being left in the dark, but that's why we have a dominant military.
  8. KD was the MVP of those championships. They have very balanced team this year combined with playing against teams without playoff leadership. KD came within a toenail of single-handedly leading Nets to finals last year. KD was needed against the opponents they faced then. They needed a shot creator against Lebron's teams.
  9. good starting word made it easy Wordle 360 2/6* β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ¨β¬›πŸŸ© 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
  10. Put that way, our SEC pod is mighty unattractive.
  11. Yep, very frustrating. My second loss Wordle 357 X/6* πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬›β¬›πŸŸ© β¬›πŸŸ©β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ© β¬›πŸŸ©β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ© β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ© β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ© β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ©
  12. I was down to two choices for the second attempt but guessed wrongly. Wordle 345 3/6* β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬› πŸŸ©πŸŸ©β¬›β¬›β¬› 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
  13. bad decision by Butler. Drive to basket when the other team is defending a lead.
  14. this was tough to figure out even with 3 letters from first attempt Wordle 343 5/6* β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬›πŸŸ¨πŸŸ¨ β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨πŸŸ¨πŸŸ¨ β¬›πŸŸ¨πŸŸ¨β¬›πŸŸ© β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ¨πŸŸ© 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
  15. So, the fear is that there are fewer future whites and the non-whites are dem-leaning? But isn't the fewer future whites part of a universal all-color demographic trend where a society becomes well-off materially, deliberately limits offspring to better enjoy material benefits, becomes career-focused that causes further birthing constraints, and ends up as an ageing one with a net negative population growth? This has been seen across early movers such as Japan and Europe and later ones such as China (despite childbirth limits relaxation). So, if whites want to have children, just have them, I guess? But if the argument is really about voting blocks manipulation through immigration, I think there is enough evidence to show that naturalized citizens are roughly 50-50 between the two parties. I remember when Muslims voted heavily in favor of Bush Jr. in 2000 and believe they were the difference in him winning (voted heavily for Bernie the last two dem primaries because Trump absolutely scared them, not because they didn't believe in GOP ideals preferred D over R). Also, many immigrants that I know instinctively align with small government, self-help, traditional family, and wrecking the school grade curve; supposedly right in line with classical conservatism. One may say that the culture among young or at universities is shifting to the left, but that is independent of immigration.
  16. I think Fran was the perfect candidate, including petty "friends from the capital" and small time hustling of a "newsletter" while reveling in small victories such as Texas being called for breaking the "law" (holding call in a game, I think). Jimbo is actually accomplishing something and has assembled a decent team albeit through underhanded means. Exactly. This is an ultimate dad joke; making fun of your offspring's obsession/success.
  17. one of those ones with multiple possibilities Wordle 334 5/6* πŸŸ¨β¬›πŸŸ©β¬›β¬› β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ©β¬›πŸŸ© β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ¨πŸŸ© πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ©β¬›πŸŸ© 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
  18. It's like bubblegum for him, I guess. I wonder if he goes through a couple every game.
  19. me too in two. Wordle 333 2/6* πŸŸ©β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬› 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
  20. nice word. Took me a while. Wordle 331 5/6* β¬›β¬›β¬›β¬›πŸŸ© β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬›πŸŸ© β¬›β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨πŸŸ© β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ©β¬›πŸŸ© 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
  21. I think Musk's comment was more an observation than a wish that we all become working robots. Everything else being the same, you have country/company X where people are like ants/bees constantly working in a ruthlessly efficient system, and you have country/company Y where people do their little farming/reading and are happy. I want to live in Y because it has been proven many times that stuff doesn't make you happy and there are many poor communities even now where the people's happiness/contentment is higher than those in materially advanced ones. But the two countries are not in isolation. X could dominate Y in the future. This is the same dilemma I have regarding defense spending and nuclear arms. I very much don't want to develop nuclear weapons or spend a lot on defense. But imagine the dynamics if one of India or Pakistan didn't have nuclear weapons or if Palestine had nuclear weapons to match Israel's. The moral choice and its varying adherence is the human's achievement and downfall. Musk, possessing a mind that is more a calculator than a perception device, did the simple math and extrapolated. In his mind, he is giving more of a helpful pointer to US workers than demanding a match to Chinese behavior. It's just that what he thinks is a good example is the wrong one.
  22. unusual word, took me a quarter hour Wordle 325 3/6* β¬›β¬›β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨ β¬›πŸŸ©β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬› 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
  23. Last used it while in grad school in 1990s writing programs in Fortran so that I can leverage LINPACK libraries on Sun Workstations. Yeah, a horrible spaghetti results with GOTOs.
  24. you need to add "GOTO 40" between 20 and 30 lines, otherwise either the program crashes because it can't find an unposted tweet or the tweet gets removed that was just posted. Regarding monetization, Twitter can follow LinkedIn model. There is high confidence that anyone there is a real person and that real data gets monetized nicely by offering services to hiring companies, etc. If Elon can get even something similar by getting rid of bots and making people real, there are possibilities to monetize besides just ads, while leaving room for those who don't want to pay. If this succeeds, those free people will be gradually restricted, similar to what LinkedIn does by hiding profiles, connected networks, etc.
  25. Exactly. Rivian made couple of thousand vehicles and lost couple of billion last quarter, and their market cap is about half of Ford and GM. I have invested in Rivian and Lucid (and lost >50%) but still holding because I like their vehicles more than any other competing offerings such as Mercedes EQS against Lucid and F150/Cybertruck/Model X against Rivian truck/SUV.
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