Michael Pavone
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Author of BlastEm, a high-performance accuracy focused emulator for the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive: https://www.retrodev.com/blastem/
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Marty then takes it back to 1855 to rescue the older Doc Brown since he will soon be killed. It's rocking whitewalls and can't fly anymore, but it's definitely the future-modded one powered by Mr. Fusion and not plutonium fission.
January 9, 2026 at 6:16 PM
Marty then takes it back to 1855 to rescue the older Doc Brown since he will soon be killed. It's rocking whitewalls and can't fly anymore, but it's definitely the future-modded one powered by Mr. Fusion and not plutonium fission.
Incorrect. At the end of BTTF2, the lightning strike causes the future-modded Delorean to be sent back in time from 1955 to 1855. Stranded due to damage to the time circuits, Doc Brown stores it in an abandoned mine where it is repaired (but not the flying part) in 1955 by younger Doc Brown.
January 9, 2026 at 6:13 PM
Incorrect. At the end of BTTF2, the lightning strike causes the future-modded Delorean to be sent back in time from 1955 to 1855. Stranded due to damage to the time circuits, Doc Brown stores it in an abandoned mine where it is repaired (but not the flying part) in 1955 by younger Doc Brown.
Nope. Major plot point in BTTF 3 revolved around that at least when running on wheels (only mode available after the BTFF2 lightning strike) it was still gas powered. They needed the train because the gas leaked out after an arrow strike
January 9, 2026 at 6:08 PM
Nope. Major plot point in BTTF 3 revolved around that at least when running on wheels (only mode available after the BTFF2 lightning strike) it was still gas powered. They needed the train because the gas leaked out after an arrow strike
I know it's kind of a silly movie, but it really is something that they imagined a future with 1.22 GW portable fusion reactors running off of garbage, but not one in which it would be obvious to replace the gasoline motor with an electric one.
January 9, 2026 at 6:02 PM
I know it's kind of a silly movie, but it really is something that they imagined a future with 1.22 GW portable fusion reactors running off of garbage, but not one in which it would be obvious to replace the gasoline motor with an electric one.
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You won’t be prepared for Sonic’s voice
3. Segasonic Cosmo Fighter
This is a game meant for a kids ride, so it's over in a few minutes with nothing to it and I sure can't emulate the ride part at home either, but I played it because it has the funny Sonic voice
They should bring this voice back imo
This is a game meant for a kids ride, so it's over in a few minutes with nothing to it and I sure can't emulate the ride part at home either, but I played it because it has the funny Sonic voice
They should bring this voice back imo
January 8, 2026 at 10:57 PM
You won’t be prepared for Sonic’s voice
Yeah, asylum cases will always be complicated to deal with, but part of the reason there are so many asylum cases is because there is no viable alternative pathway for most of these people.
January 8, 2026 at 12:15 AM
Yeah, asylum cases will always be complicated to deal with, but part of the reason there are so many asylum cases is because there is no viable alternative pathway for most of these people.
There being a lot of subjective judgement calls is a consequence of our particular immigration rules and not some law of nature. There will always be some of this, but so many people needing to go to immigration court is a policy choice. Politics of increasing court capacity may be easier though.
January 7, 2026 at 11:58 PM
There being a lot of subjective judgement calls is a consequence of our particular immigration rules and not some law of nature. There will always be some of this, but so many people needing to go to immigration court is a policy choice. Politics of increasing court capacity may be easier though.
It would be very illegal to refuse to hire someone who is legally able to work in the US because they are Mexican and you already hired "too many" Mexicans this year, but numerous visa categories have per-country of origin quotas. Some of these have queue lengths over a decade long!
January 7, 2026 at 9:40 PM
It would be very illegal to refuse to hire someone who is legally able to work in the US because they are Mexican and you already hired "too many" Mexicans this year, but numerous visa categories have per-country of origin quotas. Some of these have queue lengths over a decade long!
I think a big problem with fixing the culture of immigration enforcement, is that our rules are basically cruel and capricious and it's hard to get a good person to enforce bad rules. Our immigration laws explicitly discriminate on criteria that would be illegal in an employment context.
January 7, 2026 at 9:36 PM
I think a big problem with fixing the culture of immigration enforcement, is that our rules are basically cruel and capricious and it's hard to get a good person to enforce bad rules. Our immigration laws explicitly discriminate on criteria that would be illegal in an employment context.
Well, I guess the whole Cyprus thing means "accepting their borders" is still not a completely done deal even today.
January 6, 2026 at 10:03 PM
Well, I guess the whole Cyprus thing means "accepting their borders" is still not a completely done deal even today.
Do you mean, how did they come to accept their borders after the breakup of the Ottoman empire and the Greco-Turkish war or how they managed to coexist in NATO given the history?
January 6, 2026 at 10:00 PM
Do you mean, how did they come to accept their borders after the breakup of the Ottoman empire and the Greco-Turkish war or how they managed to coexist in NATO given the history?
It does seem like the DMV is working on a rulemaking that would extend reporting requirements to deployment. Unclear when it would go into effect, but public comment on the 2nd draft finished last month. If the past round of rulemaking is any indication it will probably go into effect in May or so.
January 6, 2026 at 9:35 PM
It does seem like the DMV is working on a rulemaking that would extend reporting requirements to deployment. Unclear when it would go into effect, but public comment on the 2nd draft finished last month. If the past round of rulemaking is any indication it will probably go into effect in May or so.
Ah I see, I missed that the existing state law only requires reports for testing and not revenue service.
January 6, 2026 at 8:40 PM
Ah I see, I missed that the existing state law only requires reports for testing and not revenue service.
That law is about adding reporting for non-accident incidents, not improving the reporting for accidents. What is missing from the accident reports (apart from good data on non-fatal accidents for human drivers) that prevents us from making safety conclusions about Waymo?
January 6, 2026 at 8:26 PM
That law is about adding reporting for non-accident incidents, not improving the reporting for accidents. What is missing from the accident reports (apart from good data on non-fatal accidents for human drivers) that prevents us from making safety conclusions about Waymo?
In California, we have public incident reports for every accident resulting in property damage or injury involving a Waymo thanks to state law. If these are insufficient for making conclusion about safety for non-fatal accidents the obvious fix is to change the law
January 6, 2026 at 8:00 PM
In California, we have public incident reports for every accident resulting in property damage or injury involving a Waymo thanks to state law. If these are insufficient for making conclusion about safety for non-fatal accidents the obvious fix is to change the law
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Some news worth celebrating www.sfchronicle.com/crime/articl...
Homicides fell to record lows in S.F., Oakland in 2025
Oakland saw its fewest homicides since 1967, and San Francisco’s were the lowest since 1954.
www.sfchronicle.com
January 5, 2026 at 2:46 PM
Some news worth celebrating www.sfchronicle.com/crime/articl...
I love my 2017. Shame the new one doesn't have Carplay/Android Auto, but seems like a solid choice otherwise. The 2026 Nissan Leaf is probably also worth considering. They've fixed the things that were wrong with the previous ones (active battery thermal management, NACS/J1772 instead of CHAdeMO)
December 30, 2025 at 7:02 PM
I love my 2017. Shame the new one doesn't have Carplay/Android Auto, but seems like a solid choice otherwise. The 2026 Nissan Leaf is probably also worth considering. They've fixed the things that were wrong with the previous ones (active battery thermal management, NACS/J1772 instead of CHAdeMO)
NEM 2.0 was also incentivizing relatively unhelpful behavior. Adding more solar without storage isn't very helpful when you're already curtailing renewable production in the middle of the day.
December 23, 2025 at 10:34 PM
NEM 2.0 was also incentivizing relatively unhelpful behavior. Adding more solar without storage isn't very helpful when you're already curtailing renewable production in the middle of the day.
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Amazing results in New York remind me how disappointing it is that congestion pricing efforts have stalled in San Francisco.
With congestion pricing, Muni service could be robustly funded, transit ridership would climb, and traffic through much of the Bay Area would significantly decrease.
With congestion pricing, Muni service could be robustly funded, transit ridership would climb, and traffic through much of the Bay Area would significantly decrease.
Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan…
* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M
So YES this has been a huge success.
* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M
So YES this has been a huge success.
December 23, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Amazing results in New York remind me how disappointing it is that congestion pricing efforts have stalled in San Francisco.
With congestion pricing, Muni service could be robustly funded, transit ridership would climb, and traffic through much of the Bay Area would significantly decrease.
With congestion pricing, Muni service could be robustly funded, transit ridership would climb, and traffic through much of the Bay Area would significantly decrease.
You know... maybe I should give the anti-phonics teachers a break on the whole "invested in an idea with no evidence for its efficacy thing" since I work in tech where we spend massive amounts of time and money on hiring processes with no idea if they actually work either.
December 22, 2025 at 8:58 PM
You know... maybe I should give the anti-phonics teachers a break on the whole "invested in an idea with no evidence for its efficacy thing" since I work in tech where we spend massive amounts of time and money on hiring processes with no idea if they actually work either.
I think it's easy to see why teachers would want an alternative to phonics. English pronunciation rules are a complete mess which makes teaching phonics difficult and some students legitimately struggle with it. Why they wholesale bought into 3-cueing without evidence for its efficacy is less clear
December 22, 2025 at 8:34 PM
I think it's easy to see why teachers would want an alternative to phonics. English pronunciation rules are a complete mess which makes teaching phonics difficult and some students legitimately struggle with it. Why they wholesale bought into 3-cueing without evidence for its efficacy is less clear
Honda is pretty big into hydrogen and slow on EV uptake too. Of course, there is also Nissan which had a serious go at EVa with the LEAF when other companies were only making compliance cars
December 22, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Honda is pretty big into hydrogen and slow on EV uptake too. Of course, there is also Nissan which had a serious go at EVa with the LEAF when other companies were only making compliance cars
It's amazing to me that this is still such a mess. Migrating 5 million accounts (MTC's estimate of clipper cards in circulation) should not be that difficult in 2025. Even with transaction history, this is probably an "I could process this on my laptop" amount of data.
December 22, 2025 at 6:24 AM
It's amazing to me that this is still such a mess. Migrating 5 million accounts (MTC's estimate of clipper cards in circulation) should not be that difficult in 2025. Even with transaction history, this is probably an "I could process this on my laptop" amount of data.
The New Flyer XT buses they have now have much bigger batteries (71 kWh) than the old ones and can supposedly go 15-22 miles off-wire according to the manufacturer brochure.
December 21, 2025 at 7:16 PM
The New Flyer XT buses they have now have much bigger batteries (71 kWh) than the old ones and can supposedly go 15-22 miles off-wire according to the manufacturer brochure.