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Make sure you go outside this week.

@AdamShame3 @cremieuxrecueil Given that it’s much harder to calculate what a stopped turbine could be producing than what a turbine is actually producing I imagine production means production. It’s not like natural gas/coal plants run at 100% either.

@wcehouck @cremieuxrecueil I was very precise about what they *might* have meant.

As of 2025, solar and wind is producing more power than fossil fuels in Europe.

@AdamShame3 @cremieuxrecueil It’s grid electricity only. And electricity production is always equal to consumption. If theres too much wind power then they will halt the turbines. Producing more electricity than consuming destroys everyone’s equipment.

@cremieuxrecueil Does it mean electric power only? And when it says "production" does that also equal "consumption"? It should, but you never know with these people. They might mean "We've projected the amount of wind and solar available on sunny, windy days- if people had needed it".

@AStuttaford @cremieuxrecueil @c_kletzer This is likely grid power only. ICE vehicles are not be included.

@cremieuxrecueil @c_kletzer Including the power to fuel transportation? And at what price?

@mendo5an @cremieuxrecueil Energy != Electrical Power. If I run my home on solar and drive a gas car then I am still getting 100% of my electrical power from solar.

@cremieuxrecueil Meanwhile in China

@ninja_maths @_MathAcademy_ I think this is a 1st grader/2nd year not a middle schooler 😅

@sjp_research @notcomplex_ 1. That’s not how math works, it’s incredibly sequential. 2. They are at the same place as a AP Calc BC student 3. The entrance exams in SK cover algebra and trigonometry too. And students in SK are studying for those.

@notcomplex_ topics in pisa probably not fresh for students in korea (and east asia). eg, they are 2-3yr ahead in math vs us. their standard college exam is comparable to graduate school exam in us. can't waste time on old stuff. (tech and per capita patents suggest studying works out)

Koreans study-maxing only to achieve similar academic performance to Americans is a deeply tragic case of zero-sum competition gone wrong.

@ecomaniac______ @mountainpilled @mountainpilled I use @_MathAcademy_ daily. If you’re talking math between grade school to 2nd year university then it’s the best. It’s pretty fun to grind through it.

@mountainpilled @wcehouck

do they let adults take math classes for fun

@m31uk3 @ninja_maths It’s everything minus what’s not needed for uni. Standard K-12 has a lot of clunky algebraic modeling that you’ll eventually just replace with calculus. That’s my understanding at least.

@ninja_maths Curious your mental model for these, is it the same content as the normal learning path condensed or are there material differences specific to helping adults remember prior knowledge?

I created the Mathematical Foundations sequence to help adult students acquire the prerequisite skills needed to study higher-level math courses. These courses provide an optimal path towards Mathematical Methods for the Physical Sciences and Mathematics for Machine Learning.

@ninja_maths @_MathAcademy_ Great, thanks for the explanation. Amazing product.

@wcehouck @_MathAcademy_ I added the separation of variables topics to the course. This is a good addition. Thanks again for the comment.

I'm delighted to announce that @_MathAcademy_ has released two courses in Mathematical Methods for the Physical Sciences. Designed for students who want the mathematical tools needed for undergraduate-level study in physics, engineering, and other STEM fields. Details below👇

Giving up Social Media (including X) for Lent. Which makes me think I need to work on my vices so I have something cooler to drop next year.

@countrypilled It’s fun until it’s your Nth full length rappel and your hips and ass are bruised.

i hate rappelling

@johnloeber @pronounced_kyle There’s a lot of famous alpinists like Steve House, Kurtyka, and Prezelj who never did Everest. A big part of the sport at the elite level is setting your own routes or finishing hypothetical ones.

@pronounced_kyle K2 is a much harder mountain, too 😉 We may find that this saturation gets people to more critically evaluate what they mean by "best". In the case of mountaineering, Everest (tallest by a small margin) is much less interesting than K2 (a tiny bit shorter, but much harder).

The "abandonment of the local" in favor of the "global best" has a weird side effect, which is that the "global best" ends up wildly over-saturated. You see this all the time with anything worth photographing. The famous tulip fields of Holland are beset every spring by legions of Instagrammers standing in line. Climbing Mount Everest is now a standing-in-line activity too: at peak season, you pretty much have a solid convoy of people marching from base camp all the way to the top. All of the consumer demand ends up going to the "global best", by which these "best" locations become totally uninteresting. Sometimes you run into people who seem well-traveled, but then you realize that they've just been checking off the same commercial destinations as everyone else. When they go to Greece, they go to Mykonos or Santorini. When they go to Mexico, they go to CDMX or Cabo. When they go to Europe, they go to Paris, and when they go to a music festival, they go to Coachella. But life is to some extent about finding the unexpected and forging your own path off-piste. The global best -- or should I say, the things so attractive that they become globalized, homogenized, and commercialized -- simply become uninteresting. Of course, it is rare for the "global best" to actually be that much better than the second-best! You're often talking about marginal differentiation at most. By going for the second tier, you can get something almost as "good", but without any of the commercial distortion. All of the really remarkable personal experiences now seem to come out of visiting the tier-twos and tier-threes, the things that are overlooked and off other people's radars, where there's still something new and meaningful to be discovered.

@IntraRunner People posting AI sloptext are the first on the chopping block.

dead internet theory

My favourite part of U.S. history is the sheer number of countries around the world that had some profound, nothing-was-the-same, year-zero interaction with the U.S. that the Americans have almost completely forgotten about. Japan had TWO of them, and the Americans only remember the latter one because it had a-bombs.

@GeringerAdam “Yea your shits totaled”

So much of medicine is just being a car mechanic with scary words

@UnbeknownstDude @buildhomez Paris has its own housing crisis tf you mean. The only cheap parts are shoebox banlieue apartments

@buildhomez These hi-rises are a planning failure. They nuke blocks of prime city real estate that could be flourishing Parisian style neighborhoods. And no you don’t need them to solve the “housing crisis.” If the Atlanta metro was Parisian density , it could house the whole country.

The densest half-block on the west coast is nearing completion in Seattle, an 11 story nearly 100% lot coverage podium topped by 2 twin high rises, 1,131 units

@joewallin “My burrito taxi isn’t cheap enough” Yes, let’s turn into London that imports enough people to keep burrito taxis cheap.

Let's take a look at how Seattle's DoorDash law actually turned out. In 2024, Seattle implemented "PayUp" — a minimum wage law for food delivery drivers, setting the rate at $26.40/hour. The intent was to protect workers. Here's what actually happened: DoorDash added a $5 fee to every order. Customers stopped ordering. Within two weeks, 30,000 fewer orders. UberEats volume dropped 30%. Drivers — the people the law was supposed to help — saw their available deliveries cut in half and earnings per hour fall 25%. A new National Bureau of Economic Research study confirmed what the numbers already showed: higher per-delivery pay was completely offset by fewer deliveries and lower tips. Active drivers saw zero net gain in monthly earnings. KUOW reported this week that two years in, the results are undeniable — Seattle is now the most expensive delivery market in the country. Denver, Portland, and San Francisco, cities without these laws, saw delivery revenue grow 20-40%. Seattle stagnated. The parallel to what's happening with WA tax proposals is obvious. SB 6346 would impose a 9.9% income tax on high earners. The QSBS add-back bills would strip federal tax exclusions from founders. The argument is always "just a small tax on those who can afford it." But capital moves. Founders move. Companies incorporate elsewhere. The DoorDash data gives us a controlled experiment: same company, same product, same time period, different policy environments. The city with the heaviest regulation saw the worst outcomes — including for the workers it tried to protect. Incentives matter. Every time. kuow.org/stories/seattl… #StartupLaw #WashingtonState #PolicyMatters #QSBS #Founders #waleg

@stephsmithio You’ll see anyone but endurance athletes doing Norwegian 4x4s.

There’s a gym in Toronto that focuses on the Norwegian 4x4 and comes with heart rate testing, plus bimonthly VO2 max tests. A friend who trained there said his VO2 max went from 40 -> 54 in a year. Genius business model you could replicate anywhere.

@Stevie20868035 @seattleiminyou Which is pretty much like Zurich.

@wcehouck @seattleiminyou Social scene is Seattle is barely existent. Among the worst in the country

I moved to Seattle cause it’s the closest I could get to living in Switzerland