There’s far more tourists in Nepal who are trekking than mountaineering. And those tourists are going to be much more price sensitive. It’s not just wealthy Americans, but people from all over the world - India, China, middle income countries etc. All those people are spending money in tea houses and hiring local guides.
If the author didn't abuse the fax, why would anyone notice the process was broken. It's only by abusing the existing process that change will be triggered.
You see this all the time in cybersecurity. Nobody cares until there's a breach. Nobody would care if he faxed 25 pages and mildly inconvenienced Karen, but by faxing 500 pages and inconveniencing the whole office, it's going to start something. Even if it takes them another 5 years to fix the process, it's a start.
Realistically, the change will probably be "no more than 25 pages of evidence required". But that's also a win for the person being asked for it.
> But it's not what you want if you want to get the most GW connected as fast as possible.
I agree with rooftop residential solar. The cost per kW is high, each site is fiddly and requires far more labour and paperwork than the extra cost of adding 4kW of solar panels to a large grid scale one.
But plug-in solar bypasses most of that. The cost to the government to allow someone to buy and install a panel on their balcony is effectively nothing. A single 800W panel is not interesting, but the aggregate effect of 10% of households buying an 800W panel at the local shop is an extra 12% of installed solar capacity.
Admittedly that's less than the annual growth rate right now. But it's also almost free.
I've had far more success following along video tutorials than written ones. Most written tutorials (as you've pointed out) miss far too much detail. Watching someone do it and copying along teaches all the menu navigation stuff implicitly.
I've successfully learned quite a few EDA and 3D CAD tools that way. It's also effectively the way it's taught in a classroom - the teacher shows you and you copy.
I've been trying that, but I've been having a hard time catching the nuances of terminology and minor differences in UI --- hopefully articles such as this will help to make Dune 3D more popular and more videos will show up.
You see this in city-focused subreddits. But the reality is the name is power. New users type in their city and join the original one. The hostile mods suppress mention of the new one. It never manages to get critical mass.
This matches my experience too. The models write code that would never pass a review normally. Mega functions, "copy and pasted" code with small changes, deep nested conditionals and loops. All the stuff we've spent a lot of time trying to minimise!
You could argue it's OK because a model can always fix it later. But the problem comes when there's subtle logic bugs and its basically impossible to understand. Or fixing the bug in one place doesn't fix it in the 10 other places almost the same code exists.
I strongly suspect that LLMs, like all technologies, are going to follow an S curve of capability. The question is where in that S curve we are right now.
I think the form factor is basically the same (maybe slightly thicker) as a Macbook Air. It's basically an Air with lower performance in most dimensions.
The AI-ism that annoys me the most is the unnecessary hubris. Just sampling a small portion of the linked article:
"Here’s the fascinating part:", "And one delightful discovery: "
Personally I find the AI-isms take away from the voice of the author. What does the author find interesting? What was their motivation? It's all lost in a sea of hubris and platitudes.
There's almost certainly a positive side - technical people who aren't so good at communication can now write punchy deep-tech blogs. But what's lost is the unique human voice that is normally in every piece of writing. It's like every blog is rewritten by a committee of copywriters before it's published. Bleurgh.
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