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Re: US openai

Tom Evslin — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 11:55:04 -0000

now 503 eror

Re: US openai

Tom Evslin — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 11:54:16 -0000

bad gateway. chatgpt plus

Re: US openai

Tom Evslin — Tue, 04 Jun 2024 11:55:11 -0000

almost blank page in chapgpt browser tab (plus account, vermont, windows, firefox)

Re: An AI Debate

Tom Evslin — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 08:41:13 -0000

Thanks, Mike. An obvious enhancement would be to have the debater-bots do research rather than just answer from the training knowledge of the LLM. Don't know whether I'll make that change. It is open-source so maybe someone'll make that change if I don't.

Re: US openai

Tom Evslin — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 18:10:01 -0000

cant use chatgpt in browser. Can't login to plus account.

Re: Tablo Replaces Amazon FireTV Recast for Over-The Air-Viewing and Recording

Tom Evslin — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 07:56:53 -0000

No, not for the new version of their product which I installed. The guide come free. the old version had a subscription charge,

Re: Thank You, President Biden

Tom Evslin — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 08:55:11 -0000

If the Israeli airforce deliberately targeted a hospital, that was horribly wrong to do. Does your outrage hold if this was a misfiring Palestinian rocket? Why was there a rocket site next to a hospital, by the way? Yes, I am proud to be a Jew.

Re: The Cricks Do Rise

Tom Evslin — Fri, 01 Sep 2023 16:34:23 -0000

Obviously you don't do controlled burns when Santa Anna Winds are forecast or happening. Burns are an important part of mitigation strategy, especially where land was formerly clearcut and has now grown up into same-age secondary growth. Selective logging with both commercial value and a constraint to make the forest more diverse and resilient is also helpful.

Re: The Cricks Do Rise

Tom Evslin — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 08:20:42 -0000

Jan,

You've said in previous comments that the reservoirs behind flood-control dams like the one in Wrightsville are silted-in reducing their capacity. Do you have evidence for this?

Re: The Cricks Do Rise

Tom Evslin — Tue, 15 Aug 2023 09:59:35 -0000

Thanks, Mike. I look forward to reading the book. I've also read that, because communities are built in the forest without adequate firebreaks, the political pressure to put out small fires is too great to resist so fuel build up until there is a conflagration.

Re: Whataboutism Doesn’t Excuse Anyone

Tom Evslin — Sat, 12 Aug 2023 09:08:41 -0000

William Sessions is a diseased former FB director. Do you really want to impeach him post mortem or did you mean some more recent recent director?

Unfortunately your scenario for Trump's reelection and subsequent actions is credible altho I hope wrong. I share your optimism that we'll muddle through but have a hard time saying why.

Re: Building Back Better in Vermont

Tom Evslin — Mon, 17 Jul 2023 08:46:15 -0000

It makes sense to raise a city in a bay or build dikes to hold back the sea but NOT to further restrict the flow of a river. As you narrow the river, you increase its velocity and magnify problems downstream.

Re: US t-mobile

Tom Evslin — Mon, 03 Jul 2023 16:14:22 -0000

usually no connection all day today in central Vermont

Re: A Helping Hand Shouldn’t Become an Indispensable Crutch

Tom Evslin — Mon, 03 Jul 2023 08:46:05 -0000

There are many things worth preserving in museums.

Re: US openai

Tom Evslin — Tue, 23 May 2023 09:43:28 -0000

ChatGPT 4 hanging on questions. 3.5 working fine.

Re: I’m From the Government and I’m Here to Help Them

Tom Evslin — Tue, 14 Mar 2023 10:10:55 -0000

as you say, large companies have treasury departments to manage the risk in their "cash" position including exchange rate risks because they have both revenue and expenses denominated in different currencies. They also use electronic transfers to minimize the time their cash is floating in banks waiting for checks to clear. They also have sweep accounts so essentially assets like very shortterm treasury bills can be sold as they incur expenses. All of that very hard for the size of company you run and I have run. There probably should be some kind of government-insured, perhaps no interest, short-term clearing accounts available to backstop payment clearing w/out requiring risky balances in ordinary accounts. It may also be that the issued limit should be proactively lifted But the mega deposits at SVB weren't there for check clearing. They were there because interest rates were high and loans to companies and their officers were more available if the companies promised that all their banking relationships would be with SVB.

Re: Peak People

Tom Evslin — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 08:33:50 -0000

Thanks Mike,
I didn't notice that the IPCC did model population decline in some of their scenarios. I'll look again. I don't know of any sensitivity analysis varying population decline but certainly agree that would be useful.

Re: Peak People

Tom Evslin — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 08:31:42 -0000

Jan, Good point. abandonment in general mat be a feature of being past the people peak. The forests in Vermont are full of sunken foundations and overgrown stone walls from when the hill farms depopulated. Ruins around the world mark civilizations that passed their peak.

Re: US rackspace

Tom Evslin — Sat, 18 Feb 2023 18:49:41 -0000

cant logon with webmail or server access since about 2pm est. rackspace status at 6pm says they're working on it. no eta for recovery

Re: Average is Not Normal – But It Can Better

Tom Evslin — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 14:01:02 -0000

Jan,

What is your source for the information that the VT reservoirs are silted up? I'd like to be able to write about this.

Thank you

Re: Zero Net Emissions Does NOT Require Zero Use of Fossil Fuels – Continued

Tom Evslin — Sat, 22 Oct 2022 07:36:47 -0000

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Hehe. Well

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Re: OPEC Plus Wants $100/Barrel (So Does Big Oil)

Tom Evslin — Mon, 10 Oct 2022 11:22:09 -0000

Gas can also be collected from oil wells by truck where a temporary pipeline is impractical and then delivered as CNG (not LNG) to either industrial customers or injected into pipelines. I was in that business. The economics are now much better than they were for trucking since the gas is worth more.

Re: OPEC Plus Wants $100/Barrel (So Does Big Oil)

Tom Evslin — Mon, 10 Oct 2022 11:19:11 -0000

Bill,

Big oil and their investors and bankers are not eager to ramp up production and push down prices. Govenment promises to phase out fossil fuels in unrealistically short periods of time strengthened the case for NOT investing to create more capacity. In effect the US government helped them act like a domestic opec by not giving out new leases which they would have had to bid for and by slow-rolling permitting. Normally the independents step into the gap when the majors don't want to bring prices down and eventually the majors must follow. But government policy was also to discourage the lending that the independents depend on.

Re: Another Free Way to Tell if Starlink Broadband Will Work at Your Location

Tom Evslin — Tue, 23 Aug 2022 09:30:13 -0000

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In the US the dish points North. Up here in Canada the dish points South. It has since day one. Although where ours is setup at the lake I do notice that 3/4 are pointing south and a 1/4 are now pointing north. So they are continuing to make changes to their satellites.

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Re: What Did the Wisconsin Supreme Court Do?

Tom Evslin — Sun, 17 Jul 2022 16:45:58 -0000

I'm impressed by the work you put into this comment. You might, however, apply Occam's Razor to you analysis of my motives. If you assume I write as a partisan, you will find my opinions self-contradictory. However, I write as I see things and that is hopefully not through a partisan lens. Sometimes my opinion is the same as one or the other party. That's inevitable.

Since I voted for Biden (actually against Trump) in 2020, I certainly did not have any interest in seeing Trump overturn the election. Nor would I like to see an election over-turned dishonestly even if I didn't agree with the result. That would be terrible for the country.

I am not interested in disenfranchising voters (altho I think only citizens over 18 currently not serving felony sentences should be able to vote).

I thought before the 2020 election that there might be significant fraud from one or both sides. Fortunately that didn't happen. I think there may be significant attempts at fraud in 2022 and 2024. I hope I'm wrong. I have carried fire insurance for years and my house hasn't burned down yet. I still buy fire insurance.

I do not think every reasonable protection against voting irregularities is necessarily an attempt at voter suppression (altho there are attempts at voter suppression). I don't share the liberal view that people of color are more easily discouraged from voting than anyone else; in fact I think this viewing is condescendingly racist as is the view that all people of color have the same interests and political inclinations.