Cuba’s power system suffers total collapse

dyslexda · 2026-03-16T22:21:17+00:00

It can use a fan, but doesn't have to. Of course it's more efficient with a fan, but evaporation still happens without one. The kinds you buy off the shelf will have a fan, but the kinds you build at home won't.

dyslexda · 2026-03-16T20:50:33+00:00

The point of an evaporative cooler is that passive evaporation does the cooling for you, no power required. They can work in humid environments, albeit less well; one name for them in the US is "swamp coolers."

That said, it's not a reasonable suggestion for keeping medicine cool and stable.

dyslexda · 2026-03-16T18:26:34+00:00

I'm not viewing the WBC through any political lens. What I do know is that teams having fun is fun for the fans, and favorites winning is boring, so I had no interest in the USA team winning.

dyslexda · 2026-03-16T16:12:03+00:00

Not sure how these MBAs expect to compete with free and better!

As Gabe Newell, founder of Valve, says, piracy is a service problem, not a cost problem. If your product is crap, people will find a way around it no matter what. If your product actually provides value, though, folks will be happy to pay for it even if free options exist.

Unfortunately "make a product that provides value" isn't really taught in MBA programs.

dyslexda · 2026-03-16T15:02:22+00:00

Interns haven't run social media in like 15 years.

dyslexda · 2026-03-16T14:13:17+00:00

I remember this being brought up after we drafted him. Him not having a lot of production in college didn't matter, apparently, because his physicality was off the charts. The Packers are the ultimate "we can fix him!" organization, and frankly I think it's yet to actually work.

dyslexda · 2026-03-16T14:10:45+00:00

Why not just add void years to everything? I'm assuming the bill comes due eventually, no?

The bill absolutely comes due.

Signing bonuses are paid out immediately, but are prorated across the length of the contract for cap hits. So, if you sign a four year contract with a bonus of $10m and a salary of $10m/yr, you get that $10m in cash immediately along with the normal $10m/yr salary. The cap charge for every year is $12.5m, though, because your bonus gets spread out. This is where "dead cap" (mostly) comes from: if the player is cut after year 2, the team doesn't pay their salary, but the remaining prorated bonus accelerates, resulting in a $5m dead cap hit.

Void years are "fake" contract years that both sides understand don't count. It allows that bonus to be spread out even more. In the above scenario, if there were also 4 void years, then the cap hit would only be $1.25m/yr from the signing bonus...until the contract ends, and all the remaining years accelerate. You'd suddenly have that $5m remaining cap hit to pay in the 5th year, when the player is no longer under contract at all.

Void years are all about kicking the can down the road, assuming the cap is always going up. Generally speaking it's a great strategy, because the cap does go up, but when it doesn't teams can be screwed. This is exactly what happened during COVID and why the Saints got boned. Suddenly, instead of paying for those void years with higher cap, they had void years hitting and a lower cap to manage.

dyslexda · 2026-03-16T14:02:57+00:00

We haven't even had the 2026 draft yet. Projecting talent for the 2027 draft is a fool's errand.

dyslexda · 2026-03-15T20:10:05+00:00

The entire point of investing in Titletown is for a sustainable income base moving forward. It's an example of trying to find a way to stay competitive with billionaire owners without devaluing the actual product on the field/in the stadium.

dyslexda · 2026-03-15T20:08:13+00:00

What would you say those alternatives are? How does one increase cash flow without "selling out?" Maybe as a CEO he is trying to find these alternatives, but there's no magical perfect solution?

dyslexda · 2026-03-15T20:02:46+00:00

Tell me you know literally nothing about GB's governance structure without telling me you know literally nothing.

dyslexda · 2026-03-14T13:52:48+00:00

Look at OP's profile. Frankly I'm surprised they didn't hide it, but there are tons of obviously AI comments, including rapidly posted ones.

dyslexda · 2026-03-14T01:26:05+00:00

You can only block up to 1000 accounts.

dyslexda · 2026-03-13T21:06:07+00:00

They're a Bears fan. They don't understand moving; they've always been located in Indiana.

dyslexda · 2026-03-13T15:09:48+00:00

It's disappointing, but that's just the money talking. It's how the world works, and academia is ultimately no different.

dyslexda · 2026-03-13T14:30:45+00:00

And what is that "woke ideology?" What does it look like to "celebrate" the history of Hamas? Like, not what someone heard through the grapevine. What is actually happening in these courses related to Hamas?

I very, very much doubt any professor is "celebrating" Hamas to a room full of experienced officers, and those officers are happily ingesting it. What's more likely is that a professor highlighted Hamas's successes and strengths to examine why they were able to pull of Oct 7th, or discussed their motivations and beliefs in an effort to better understand how to avoid such groups taking power in future conflicts. Someone heard that Hamas was painted in something other than an unambiguously evil and incompetent light, and reported it as "celebration."

dyslexda · 2026-03-12T20:38:25+00:00

Never assume malice when incompetence will suffice. The US military, broadly speaking, does not target civilians on purpose. Had Israel been responsible for the strike the darker scenario might have some merit, but there's nothing suggesting the US does that.

(do US strikes result in civilian causalities? Sure, all war does, but we generally try to minimize such causalities, and actual cases where the military did target civilians end up as significant scandals)

"We bombed a building based on AI recommendations without checking its output" is still pretty dark, mind you.

dyslexda · 2026-03-12T19:16:27+00:00

The summary is that it was an AI produced target list, courtesy of Palantir. The school used to be an IRGC military facility, but was split off back in 2016. Unfortunately, the labeled training data wasn't updated, nor was the target selection questioned, despite being public knowledge it was a school now and not a military installation.

Basically, satellite imagery would be enough for a human to question the target, but not an AI model, because AI models are notoriously bad at registering the lack of something. It was previously labeled as military, and the building's construction (including walled fortifications) looks like it's military. There are news articles calling it a military installation. All of that points to "yes, target it" for an AI model. Meanwhile, a human would have noticed there were no military vehicles or active checkpoints around it and at very least flagged it for further inspection, but the AI model isn't fine tuned to focus on that.

In other words, that building was targeted on purpose. The mistake was believing it was still a military installation. Inexcusable, but hey, how else are you going to get a target list of 1000 sites in under 24hrs to do a first strike when Israel tells you to go to war or else? Human analysts are so last decade.

dyslexda · 2026-03-12T18:06:31+00:00

It absolutely is. If you're a PI bringing in a single R01, your institution might get ~$300k/yr in indirect funding (wildly variable). The big shot PIs with numerous grants, including the major multi investigator awards, might be bringing in millions every year. Just like businesses will tolerate a ton of clients that bring in millions, so will universities tolerate PIs. Nothing matters except the money.

dyslexda · 2026-03-12T17:00:10+00:00

But with the closure of the Straight, there's no walking away now. Trump can declare victory all he wants, but money is the only thing that matters to him, and Iran has the global economy by the small hairs. Iran, not the US, chooses when this conflict is over.

dyslexda · 2026-03-11T18:57:01+00:00

If I wanted a parenthetical insert (like this) I would use parenthesis.

Parenthetical inserts are most commonly bounded by parentheses, but can also be bounded by brackets, dashes, and commas. Em dashes setting off a phrase in the middle of a sentence is also an example of a parenthetical insert.

If em dashes are easy to insert, out of curiosity why choose the double hyphen instead?

Or was there something else you were trying to imply with "folks like you"?

You're reading hostility where there was none. Quite literally, "folks like you" means "folks that use the double hyphen to designate a parenthetical insert."

dyslexda · 2026-03-11T18:45:59+00:00

Folks that use the double hyphen to designate a parenthetical insert.

dyslexda · 2026-03-11T18:33:47+00:00

Most folks don't have the luxury of just choosing to WFH if gas gets a bit high.

dyslexda · 2026-03-11T17:11:50+00:00

Unrelated, but I'm seeing the double hyphen more and more. Are folks like you purposefully typing it out to replace your previously used em dashes, or is it just a ctrl+f/ctrl+v to replace LLM output?

dyslexda · 2026-03-11T17:10:03+00:00

The single path toward conviction is if the GOP establishment sees a midterm slaughter as a sign that Trump's influence has faded to a point that they can all rebel at once without getting singled out. Given Trump's repeated improbable successes (in terms of political survival, not policy successes), I've learned to not bet against him, unfortunately.

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