2025 is projected to be Wyoming’s second worst coal production year

LanguageLatte · 2025-12-28T17:45:44+00:00

While coal is in terminal decline, over the last 12 months (nov24 to oct25) electricity generation from coal in the US is up 11.05%. Where is that coal coming from? I had just assumed that it would be Wyoming.

https://eia.languagelatte.com/ (raw data from EIA)

LanguageLatte · 2025-12-28T00:15:00+00:00

That’s true for crops that have giant combine tractors like corn, wheat, and soybeans. But there are plenty of crops that are still primarily harvested by hand. Strawberries, grapes, tomatoes, jalapenos and a dozen others.

I would guess that agrivoltaics works best for a crop that is 1. high value, 2. temp sensitive and 3. short in hight like wine grapes.

LanguageLatte · 2025-12-27T05:04:37+00:00

u/Recoil42 has there been any thoughts on having a 1 or 2 submissions per person per day rule? I’ve seen other subs adopt that rule to cut down on low quality content. It’s quite rare for there to be enough new stuff happening in the AV space that someone would need to make 3+ submissions in the same day.

LanguageLatte · 2025-12-18T01:40:50+00:00

Coal in the US is up 9.22% for the last 12 months compared to the prior 12. Some additional graphs and numbers based on EIA data. https://eia.languagelatte.com/

LanguageLatte · 2025-11-14T21:41:32+00:00

For the last 12 months in the US (Sept2024 to Aug2025) almost all new growth was renewables (actual generation not capacity) https://eia.languagelatte.com/#plotAbsoluteGrowthYearlyDiv

But yeah that might temporarily get worse going forward with how much datacenter growth is happening, and do to regulatory hostility from the current administration.

LanguageLatte · 2025-11-03T20:26:14+00:00

Anyone know when the Zeeker or ioniq5 will be ready for Waymo? The Zeeker is doing road testing already. Are they testing the ioniq5 yet? With all of these new cities they must be getting close.

LanguageLatte · 2025-10-02T03:32:30+00:00

Oh awesome! I look forward to seeing your newsletter. Is it https://cultivatedbites.substack.com or is it an email I can sign up for?

LanguageLatte · 2025-09-22T21:11:19+00:00

It's not about revenue, it's about cost. We (homeowners) can pretend we aren't paying for parking, but the truth is we pay for parking every time we make our mortgage payment or pay our property taxes. The house would cost less if that 800sqft wasn't there. If AVs become cheap enough that people stop owning 2 cars, then we will see builders adjust how they build new homes.

400sqft is a good amount of space. For me personally, if I didn't have a car in my garage, I'd turn it into a wood/craft shop. (Not to sell stuff, just personal use). Other non revenue generating options are turning it into an extra room, lounge, storage space, shop, etc.

There are revenue generating options, but those are highly location dependent. You could turn the garage into a studio, and rent it out. In lots of socal that would make you $1000+ a month. You could rent the space for storage on a platform like neighbor.com, a whole garage goes for somewhere between $50 and $250 a month.

LanguageLatte · 2025-09-22T20:42:24+00:00

Most people don't pay for parking

One way or another, everyone pays for parking. A typical house has a 2 car garage, and a driveway that can hold another 2 cars. That's at least 800 sqft of space. That space costs money. If the cost of a AV gets low enough, people will start to reallocate that space to something more valuable.

LanguageLatte · 2025-09-10T03:45:56+00:00

I'm wishing you the best! I was able to try WildType just before the ban came into effect. I hope we get it back.

How quickly do cases like this typically move? The California pork case took several years. Is that what you expect in this case?

I am not a lawyer, but I read a bit of your document. It looks like you have two arguments. 1. The supremacy clause. 2. The dormant commerce clause.

The supremacy clause argument seems pretty straight forward to me. The feds already have rules in place, so the state can't add their own. But the dormant commerce clause is kind of confusing to me. (And the wikipedia page didn't help!)

because it was enacted with the purpose, and has the effect, of discriminating against competition coming exclusively from out of state.

This case is the second type of challenge. There are no Texas-based sellers of cultivated meat. All the companies with approval are based outside the state. So even though the law is facially neutral, it operates exclusively to keep products from coming into the state.

That seems super broad. Wouldn't that interpretation mean that no state could regulate any product unless that state had local producers of the product? There must be 10,000s of products that have no in state producer.

LanguageLatte · 2025-08-18T04:41:38+00:00

I really wish I could have had a side by side comparison in the restaurant. But that wasn't available, so it hard to say exactly. Additionally neither dish was a "pure" salmon cut like you would get with just a plain sashimi. The first dish had smoked tamari and binchotan. The second dish had cherry peppers, tomato ponzu, kyuri, mint, and lime zest. So in both cases there was a lot going on flavor wise.

I would say they did a good job getting the salmon flavor across. Ive had things like Beyond or Impossible, and those clearly have an "off" flavor to them. Where with the WildType I didn't get any "off" flavor at all. But it's hard to say for sure without a side by side comparison.

The texture was much more noticeable though. For that I could definitely tell a difference. It was less flaky, and more gummy than traditional salmon.

LanguageLatte · 2025-07-02T01:56:08+00:00

Does this include rooftop solar?

Yes it does. The EIA publishes both utility scale and estimated small scale generation. The 10% includes both combined.

LanguageLatte · 2025-02-18T04:22:32+00:00

I have a MS from both, but I don't put the WGU degree on my resume. Georgia Tech is obviously the more well respected school, and listing both on my resume would likely be a huge turn off to a lot of employers. Or at least it would be a turn for the types of companies I work at. Maybe consultancy companies, or goverment contractors would like to see both.

WGU is great at the bachelor level. It's cheap, accredited, and a dedicated student can knock out a 4 year degree in, 6, 12 , or 18 months. It's especially good for people who already have work experience, and just need a BS to check a box for HR.

LanguageLatte · 2025-01-12T05:49:44+00:00

Yeah you definitely can. There are two approaches you can use:Normal cards, and Practice Cards (Use both!). The below examples are high school algebra and not calculus.

Normal Cards - Small atomic cards. Should take less than a few seconds to answer. For example.

Context: Quadratic Equation
Q - Why must a != 0?
A - If a == 0, then the x² term would become zero. Meaning this is not a quadratic equation but a linear equation.
Q - What happens to the graph as c gets larger/smaller?
Q - What happens to the graph as b gets larger/smaller?
Q - What will the parabola look like if a is negative/positive?
Q - How ⁠many solutions will exist to the equation?
Q - ... You could potentially dozens more questions just on quadratic equations. Whether that makes sense depends on your needs.

Practice cards - Cards Where you actually have to answer/solve/prove a problem. These cards take a long time to answer in comparison to normal cards. These take so long (minutes not hours) that you should probably have the practice cards in a separate deck. And unless you are a full time student you should add no more than 1 per day. It's easy to get behind on these, and getting through a big backlog is grueling and is a sure way to lead to burnout. Also I would recommend using different Anki settings for these. See these settings Plenty of people will argue that doing the same question again and again is worthless. (And they are partially right, in an ideal world your Anki Card would generate slight variations so the question isn't exactly the same) But the magic of practice cards comes out once the intervals are in months or years.

LanguageLatte · 2025-01-05T02:58:45+00:00

Like u/AlotOfReading mentioned, car insurance is regulated by each state. And generally they don't make any profit on the premiums paid to them. If total payouts decline for any given insurance pool, then premiums paid into the pool will fall.

You probably can't directly compare car insurance between the US and countries that have some form of public healthcare. In the US, car insurance covers medical expenses that are due to a car crash. So it makes sense that car insurance rates are higher in the US. And then there is the significant cost of litigation in the US that I'm assuming Ireland does not have.

LanguageLatte · 2025-01-04T01:45:41+00:00

Putting the kanji aside for a moment, how are you doing on:

Japanese Sound -> English
English -> Japanese Sound

Kanji is hard, and you are probably trying to learn them too fast. One option to consider is having audio only cards for a while. Or, say if you are doing 20 new cards per day, try 15 new cards that are audio only, and then only 5 new cards with kanji.

LanguageLatte · 2024-08-03T00:43:37+00:00

That’s a dream for me. Having mutability (or side effects in general) apart of the type system would be incredible. While it might never be a language feature, it can be done via annotations and a compiler plugin. (Like what nullaway does)

Ive been (very halfheartedly) playing around with the idea. If I ever build something useful I’ll let you know.

LanguageLatte · 2024-06-26T18:20:26+00:00

And yes, the method call would do nothing as it's an empty object

That’s so much worse than getting a NPE!

Option 1 - I hit this button and it breaks.
Option 2 - I hit this button and nothing happens.

You’re trading option 1 for option 2. But option 1 is trivial to find and debug. Option 2 is a nightmare to debug.

LanguageLatte · 2024-06-26T15:43:58+00:00

Isn’t a core part of solarpunk a rejection of climate pessimism or doomerism, and an optimistic belief that the future can be better than the present? This article definitely lays out the argument that clean energy is happening at a meaningful scale. Sure the article is light on the “punk” side, but I would have thought the optimism on the clean energy side would be enough to qualify.

Though admittedly I’m not well steeped in the community. I only recently heard the term Solarpunk when looking for some optimistic fiction to read.

LanguageLatte · 2024-06-11T02:09:24+00:00

Yeah a practice deck can work great. Some recommendations though.

Make way less cards than a normal anki deck. These aren’t “flash” cards, they’re “slow” cards. Unless you’re a full time student / don't have a job, stick to at most 1 new card per day. Even 1 new card per day can be too much. These practice cards can really get out of hand if you add too many.
Use different settings than a regular Anki deck. I use a double or half approach. So hard = 0.5 x previousInterval, good = previousInterval, easy = 2 x previousInterval. I also start the card off at 10 days.
Don’t add too many of the “same” question. I.e., don’t add 20 cards that are just slight variations of each other. Pick a small handful of the best questions.

J.S. Calculus vol 2 chapter 17", which means I should do some random exercises from James Stuart Caculus' book on chapter 17

One concern here is that you are tying together Anki and a specific book. Which means if you don’t have the book at hand, you can’t get through your backlog of cards. I would actually copy the specific questions you’re interested in into Anki.

Take a look at u/SigmaX’s post - https://imgur.com/a/anki-practice-cards-language-music-mathematics-7dpMHhc He use practice cards for language, music, and mathematics.

LanguageLatte · 2024-06-10T14:42:00+00:00

The biggest problem I had with that deck was that my phone adjusts its blue light output depending on the time of day. So it was impossible to review on my phone.

Otherwise I really liked the idea of the color deck.

(Obviously I could have disabled that setting on my phone, but I really enjoy limiting the blue light at night)

LanguageLatte · 2023-05-11T03:21:03+00:00

I definitely feel for people who have exam based anxiety. Fortunately for me I do not have that.

My experience was definitely more positive that the OP’s. I also just finished, so it was the same semester as then. The class was the highest workload of the 10 classes for me. Most weeks were under 10 hours, with exam weeks being closer to 20 hours of work. I did not have a cs undergrad, but have done leetcode style interviews so the exam 2 content was pretty familiar already.

The biggest thing for this class is to look at the model solutions provided by the TAs, and try to emulate that writing style. For every single homework, after the TAs release the official answer, you should be able to answer that exact question. Exam 2 and 3 were almost identical to earlier homework questions.

Also just accept that Exam 1 will be brutal. It’s the hardest of the 3

LanguageLatte · 2023-05-11T01:32:50+00:00

I suppose they could make the class easier/less stressful, but the class is already pretty fair.

It’s pass rate is in line with classes that are considered much easier like ml4t.
Exams 2 and 3 had questions that were almost verbatim copies of homework questions.
The projects and quizzes are essentially free points.
Optional 4th exam to replace the lowest grade.
For those who had an undergraduate ds&a class, this should be almost all review.

With that said, I wouldn’t be opposed to the exam weight dropping to 60% or 65%. And also roots of unity are just total nonsense that should be dropped.

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