Maxime B. 🏳️‍🌈

@Austen The Google cloud platform is quite hard to navigate.

Honestly Google sucks at marketing its AI products. Gemini and family are dramatically underhyped for how good the models are. Partially because they don’t have a charismatic leader, partially because they’re buried in 18 layers of confusingly named Google enterprise bloatware.

@CoolRiderr I don’t use Instagram 😢

guys find me there my little blue check ends on April 7

@CoolRiderr Happy birthday!

taking myself out to dinner tonight to celebrate my bday! always a good time when I am spontaneous like this

@grossdm They _really_ need to interconnect California and Texas. That would allow to expand the time covered with solar energy.

Pretty astonishing. In Texas, between 10:00 am and 4:00 p.m., 80-90% of electricity comes from carbon free sources. And storage is already a significant contributor in the early morning and evening

@cremieuxrecueil What was this trial about ? We already know that GLP-1s work. Once you know a treatment works, why design a trial against placebo?

This is not good: People have learned that GLP-1s are really effective, so if they're not losing weight, they know they're in the placebo group. So these people getting placebos are getting mad and leaving the trials.

@PichyTweets @NatHalberstadt I’m with you, I print everything at FedEx, their system works really well. Prices are fine, except the scanning of documents. I’d look into getting a scanner, but I really enjoy the document stack feeder, and you can only get those on bigger devices.

@NatHalberstadt Print stuff at FedEx or kinkos and let them handle the maintenance …completely outsource

I really need a printer that has zero screen, wifi, or bluetooth connection. I just want to be able to plug a usb cord printer --> computer Hit print, and have it actually work every time

@Austen Agreed !

Not gonna lie this seems like a good thing for US taxpayers to fund

@JStoneCompany @Watchman_motto Zinc gutters are my favorite style ! Maybe it’s because I grew up in western France, but I like a slate roof with zinc gutters.

@Watchman_motto Because zinc gutters exist

Why are you, as a man, not putting copper gutter, downspout, and flashing on your house?

"stress less, bother less" 😸🤣

To be fair to BART, taking it today is so much better than taking it circa 2018. The trains are newer, less creepy, rail noise has been reduced (esp in transbay tube), cleanliness is gold standard in public transit IMO, and they even reopened bathrooms throughout the network, which are in decent conditions for public bathrooms. To anyone who says they don’t like taking BART, I highly recommend to give it another shot if they haven’t rode it since 2023 I rarely use bart with my bike anymore, so I can’t say if it improved or not, but around 2018, every elevators smelled of piss, I hope they also tackled that issue!

@CDilligaff This was the Yellow line this morning.

Between this report and this morning's photo of a strung out rider with rotting legs, BART still wonders why ridership is down? Make it make sense, @SFBART

If you haven’t bought this app already, do yourself a favor and get it! You won’t believe how much better the photos you get out of your phone are gonna be !

@maxisawesome538 I really dislike big blueberries, the rot so much faster! If I buy small / regular sized blueberries, they’ll lay the whole week without going bad, the big ones go bad after like 2 days

Stop making blueberries bigger. Stop it. They are big enough. They were fine to begin with. We don't need jumbo or gigantic or giga blueberries. They're fine already.

That’s not how electricity works… What is billed under “transmission charges” are the following services: - 24/7 availability with 99.95% reliability. - you can draw as much or as little as you want, without planning or making any sort of commitment - Electricity supply is of good quality, without planning stable voltage and frequency to protect your electrical equipment. - A transmission capacity big enough to ensure a more stable market by preventing transmission congestions. You can always cancel your utility contract and build an offline power system with PV + batteries, but it’ll most likely increase your actual cost.

This bill is the entire American energy debate in one screenshot. $5.88 to generate the electricity. $44.40 to move it 30 miles. The supply is 12% of the total charge. Delivery is 88%. This ratio would shock most people, but Eversource customers in New Hampshire have been living it for years. And the gap is widening everywhere. According to the EIA, utility spending on electricity delivery rose 65% from 2010 to 2020 in real dollars, while spending on power production dropped 32% over the same period. The reason is wild when you see the numbers. 70% of U.S. transmission lines are over 25 years old. 70% of power transformers are past 25 years. 60% of circuit breakers are over 30. The American Society of Civil Engineers gave U.S. energy infrastructure a D+ grade. Replacing the whole system would cost an estimated $5 trillion. Capital investment in distribution infrastructure alone hit $50.9 billion in 2023, up 160% from 2003. And here’s what makes this politically toxic: every technology that promises cheaper energy generation, nuclear, solar, wind, runs into the same wall. The generation gets cheaper. The delivery gets more expensive. New Hampshire has a nuclear plant 30 miles from this guy’s house producing some of the cheapest electricity in the country, and it barely matters because the wires, poles, transformers, and substations between the plant and his outlet are aging, expensive, and regulated by a system that lets utilities earn guaranteed returns on infrastructure investment. The more they spend on the grid, the more they’re allowed to charge. Utilities earn their profit from the delivery side. Eversource passes through supply costs with zero markup. But delivery? That’s where the regulated rate of return lives. Every pole replaced, every transformer upgraded, every mile of wire buried becomes an asset the utility earns a percentage on for decades. That’s why this bill looks the way it does. The customer is paying 12 cents to keep a nuclear reactor running and 88 cents to maintain a grid built during the Eisenhower administration.

We need more of this! Private enterprise that drives down the cost of healthcare without needing insurance. Health insurance mandates should be binned. I’d put the government/ Medicare in charge of catastrophic insurance / chronic conditions, but other than that let the market drive cost down.

This is why my wheelchair factory bypasses insurance entirely which lowers the cost of a Rigid manual wheelchair about 70% to 80% for the customer.

@cremieuxrecueil Life expectancy gains in the last 50 years, due to deploying cell phones and wifi everywhere ?!?

This is an awesome thread showing evidence for radiation hormesis: The idea that low doses of radiation are actually health-promoting!

One thing I heard is that California uses a special blend of gas to reduce the amount of visible haze / pollution in the air. And everyone agrees that the air that used to look very dirty in LA and the Bay Area has become significantly better over the last 20 years. I think people are ok paying more for gas but getting cleaner air.

I truly do not understand how anyone can stand this in California

@TheNextSummitA1 hard disagree

Hot take: Hiking with headphones defeats the purpose of being in nature. Agree or disagree?

@Gfilche @xai @grok Grok is really good, I wish they had their own subscription with a tool like Claude code / GitHub copilot. Super grok is not a great product without a dedicated tool that has access to your computer.

funny that the @xai reorg is happening to improve but I’m already using @grok all the time as the best AI …. So now it’s gonna get even better? 🤯

@bay_photography No Also I don’t even know if we should refer to LA as a city. Reads more like a suburb

LA is the best major city in the whole world

@NatureRoot88 Totally fake

San Francisco, California, USA 🇺🇲