Thanks PG&E.

For comparison, I have double that plus electric appliances and a home-lab with 6 rack servers that run 24/7 and my bill rarely tops $175 in the dead of summer. And I like the thermostat cold.

If you live in a duplex or condo I would consider if your meter is miswired (with your neighbor's meter daisy-chained to yours) and you are being double-billed. It is more common than you think and often goes undiscovered for years.

“Fleeing” is hyperbole. Population is roughly flat [1].

[1] https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/CA/PST045224

There could be people fleeing that have lived there for some time, while being supplanted with newcomers. That would have a net zero effect.

North Korea has a stable population, people flee all the time. The comparison is apt. California's 4-walled fences are much tighter around their residents.

How could you possibly know this.

In the broader SF Bay Area, our recent PG&E bills for a 50 year old single-family home without air-conditioning is under $150/mo, with a couple fridges, electric clothes dryer, and a half-dozen laptop class computers. That's averaging about 8-9 kWh per day (250-280 kWh/month).

Last winter, our bill ramped up to over $400/mo for a few months, due to heating with natural gas.

Let's say your overall rate is $0.50/kWh, that would put you at 1500kWh per month. Which is....high. Even if your rate were $1/kWh, 750kWh would be a decent amount of juice for a region with an overall mild climate.

The EIA[0] says the typical annual electricity consumption for homes in "the West" (ie not just California) is 8525kWh/year, or 710kWh/month.

[0] https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/use-of-energy/electricit...

It's way higher than that with PG&E.

My PG&E bill tends to be around $500/mo and I run basically nothing out of the basics. Never turn on the A/C. Tiny house, normal usage of fridge, lights and the usual househould gadgets like washer/dryer. Near the coast so climate is cool, if we lived in the hot areas and had to run A/C I imagine it would be double at least.

The profound corruption of PG&E is an existential risk to California and Silicon Valley.

PS Where I live now, its $0.04/kwh and that's pretty normal in the rest of the US and in Latin America.

That is completely wrong.

The USB drive light is flickering, showing something is happening. It's been about 8 hours since I entered the prompt and I've gotten about 10 tokens back so far. I'm going to leave it running overnight and see what happens.

What did you use to do this, something standard like llamacpp or something else like vllm or your own contraption ?

It's now spit out about 40 tokens after maybe 18 hours and has not finished the "thinking" stage of responding to the prompt. I'll let it keep running to see what happens

I use an anaconda environment, though would have preferred an "uv" environment, on Linux and automate the startup sequence using the following script (start_comfy.sh) from the term rather than manually starting the environment from same said term:

#!/bin/bash

#

# temporary shell version

eval "$(conda shell.bash hook)"

conda activate comfy-env

comfy launch -- --lowvram --cpu-vae

Here are some of the images: https://imgbox.com/nqjYhdx3 https://imgbox.com/93vSWFic https://imgbox.com/qs1898dz

I'm hesitant to increase the sizes of the renders as that will surely stress my laptop's components.

I can't help but feel that companies using AI, engaging in employee layoffs, are shooting themselves in the foot. The endgame for them will be zero profits, since displaced workers translates to no money to pay for goods and services :|

For example, the www bubble popped, but the Internet didn't go away

I mean, inference engine might need to get some tweaks, to support whatever compute is available. But then, if you put a few terabytes of disk for swap, and replace RAM to bigger sticks if possible, it should work? Slowly, of course, but there is no reason it should not to.

Reciprocal?

Amazing.

> First, Riehl did not and could not reasonably read ChatGPT’s output as defamatory. By its very nature, AI-generated content is probabilistic and not always factual, and there is near universal consensus that responsible use of AI includes fact-checking prompted outputs before using or sharing them. OpenAI clearly and consistently conveys these limitations to its users. Immediately below the text box where users enter prompts, OpenAI warns: “ChatGPT may produce inaccurate information about people, places, or facts.” Before using ChatGPT, users agree that ChatGPT is a tool to generate “draft language,” and that they must verify, revise, and “take ultimate responsibility for the content being published.” And upon logging into ChatGPT, users are again warned “the system may occasionally generate misleading or incorrect information and produce offensive content. It is not intended to give advice.”

Separately, it's broadly correct that there is no Section 230 argument to be made. "Everyone" knows that Section 230 doesn't apply to this. I can't find anyone making any legal arguments that it would.

0: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.gand.31...

Windows 8 is nearly a decade and a half old as well.

Time really does fly.

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