Bay Area nerd/computer person. Found at https://www.roguelazer.com/ and primarily on the Fediverse at @roguelazer@hachyderm.io.
Webpass used to be great. The instant it became Google Fiber, it seemed to be totally abandoned; no rollout to new buildings/neighborhoods, no speed improvements (most locations still top out at 1Gbps and local favorite Sonic has rolled out 10Gbps fiber throughout the Bay Area), and prices are stubbornly high ($70/mo for 1Gbps versus $40 from competitors). Oh, and there’s still no IPv6.
I’m sure Astound will be even worse but Google has been an awful steward of this service.
(this is the same reason that big solar systems require an oversized busbar on your main panel)
I think the risk is more that someone has a 15A-rated outlet on a 15A circuit breaker, plugs a solar panel into one socket and then a power strip with 30A of space heaters into the other socket. Breaker doesn’t trip because the main panel is only providing 15A, but the outlet lights on fire.
Not sure why that isn’t a problem in places these are more common.
Who would’ve thought those Arkady Martine books would be so prescient?
The people who spend 23 hours a day running agents and outputting 300 slop emails an hour aren’t seeking cognition, they’re seeking quick rewards; “working” with “AI” isn’t a cognitive task so much as it’s a gambling task. Just keep asking Claude to try again on that PR and eventually you get that dopamine hit from it making a not-totally-shitty solution and you never had to actually engage your higher brain function, you just did lots of low level churn of “prompting”.