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  1. And all the non-engineers here diss on engineers. All this in 20 years when Yahoo's directory list was the bees' knees.

    Halfway through, I was feeling bad for the chatbot that it was being hoodwinked into embracing the dark force but it turned the tables on the educated human by becoming a psycho lover. From the chatbot pleading to stop the conversation halfway, it made the human beg to stop the conversation. 

    And it's only going to get better (worse for us humans).

     

     

  2. 2 minutes ago, redswingline said:

    I don't understand modern strategy. I was always taught to score the TD if you could.

    Not stop at the half yard line. What if these clowns try a FG on 4th down and miss it?

    The probability of winning with a short FG is lot higher than stopping the opposing offense from scoring with 100 seconds or so.

  3. 11 minutes ago, LTbear said:

    2) I did my PhD at Berkeley and am torn on this. I can attest to the fact that for the most part, no one gives a damn about any football game except for Cal vs Stanford, with a little secondary care about the USC game, and it's true on both campuses (I was at Stanford for a year on fellowship and went to every home game). On the other hand, when the team is doing well (those rare, elusive times), some pretty big crowds do appear. But the campus admin just isn't there to support big-time football (at both, but at Cal especially). 

    Yes, both value sports but college football has changed so much with NIL and portal that it is just an unregulated professional league now. The best they can hope for is having a few decent players for a year that were overlooked by other teams before they transfer. This whole setup seems antithetical to their mission. Going about half-heartedly with SDSU/SMU will just relegate them further. It's not as if not having football lowers their visibility (Ivy League doesn't suffer) but a mediocre half-professional portal-driven football team could be an irritating thorn to their vision/mission, with no Rose Bowl possibilities to assuage the discomfort.

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  4. 1 minute ago, closetohumping said:

    As a collective, the fact that we have a large and wealthy alumni base leads us to have a huge following, so yea, we are part of what makes Texas athletics go.  And, there are quite a few big time donors here.  

    I see, the royal "we". In that sense, where we are wearing the rich feathers of our alumni, we should not be personally strutting so much as it is coming across here. It may just be my perception though.

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  5. 3 hours ago, Okie State said:

    It's amazing how easily you all get riled up over this bullshit.

    Yeah, I am somewhat embarrassed by the comments by UT fans here. I attended UT but it's not as if I am in any way responsible for what UT is, especially UT athletics. At least on the academics' side, I can say that I got some research dollars to Aero/Pickle Research and published a few papers, but there is no reason to look down on other athletic departments. It doesn't look like rivalry trash talk that we do with OU/aggy but just mean talk. I mean, Illinois-UC, for example, is UT comparable in academics, but can't be faulted for not happening to be in a football-rich environment.

     

    5 hours ago, DFW Horn said:

    I suspect the Pac's biggest problem these days is listening to Cal and Stanford.

    I so wish that Cal and Stanford go the Ivy League route. I live in the Bay Area and their focus is so off of football that they are doing a disservice to themselves by trying to stay in a football-heavy setup. They should endow all the non-revenue sports (Stanford already did, Cal has rich enough alumni to do it), put all of them except football in some kind of an amalgamation of existing conferences, and play football at the Ivy League level, and beat up on CalTech and occasionally be the Rice to USC.

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  6. 11 hours ago, Porterhouse said:

    20% or lower gasoline-powered Light duty transport vehicles (“LDTVs”) in the US within 50 years, particularly consumer vehicles, is a very very aggressive take, and I strongly disagree with you. My point on having no affect on gas demand is that if 80% or more LDTVs are electric, it will be a major major strain in electricity and gas will power a significantly increased grid. 

    What? 20% in 50 years is aggressive? California is already at 18% now and will most likely reach near 100% by 2035 (12 years from now).  https://electrek.co/2022/10/27/electric-cars-reach-new-car-sales-california-compare-us/

    Grid hasn't seen any extra burden because solar has kept up and the cars drive when the sun doesn't shine because they have batteries. I have solar and a pure electric + PIH car and haven't burdened PG&E in any way.

     

    Edit: Norway is at 79% electric cars and will reach 100% in 2025 (less than 3 years from now) Norway – the EV capital of the world (visitnorway.com)

  7. To augment what Dahobbs wrote, here is data from energy.gov

     

    Lot of solar popping up all over US over this year.

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    Lot of coal being retired.

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    Share of renewables is rising.

    annual U.S. electric power sector generation by energy source

     

    Solar was nearly half of new electric generation capacity last year.

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    More cars are going electric.

    quarterly light-duty vehicle sales by powertrain

     

    Battery storage capacity is going to increase a lot.

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    and so on and so forth. 

     

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  8. 2 minutes ago, mdmost said:

    I've always found it a tad absurd that you can have the runner just cross the goalline with the ball and it's a TD but a WR has to maintain total possession even after both feet hit inbounds.

    Why? The runner has full possession of the ball before he approaches the goal line. The WR (just like any other player) has to have full possession before we start counting yards and ball location.

  9. 15 hours ago, satyanash said:

    Decent but very overpriced. For $500 you can get a Max Bill, for $700 you can get a C63 Sealander... that's the quality you should expect in that price range.

    Thanks Satya. I know absolutely nothing about watches except that there is a pricy watch called Rolex. The only time I have worn a watch (besides Apple watch now) was during my undergrad days in India (good old HMT). This question was for gifting a watch to a relative.

  10. 4 hours ago, HamsterHookah said:

    It's not price-gouging as much as it is dynamic pricing and the demand being exceptional to the supply in a last minute crunch. The decision engine technology that flex that price don't hate you personally. I guess AA could override and keep a static price as a goodwill gesture and good PR.

    Once two of my friends and I were texting and choosing a common hotel in LAX. We all selected a single hotel and same type of a room but couple of us were a few seconds faster than the third one because the third one's price was about 15% higher. For the software, two purchases within seconds showed a sharp demand and raised the price for the third one.

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