FYI, there actually is a city called West, so it would usually appear as "West, TX" or West TX". It's actually between Dallas and Austin though and not in the west.
I assume you're just correcting capitalization, but for clarity's sake, the aforementioned Bitcoin mines are in west TX, the region with oil derricks, wind turbines, and tumbleweeds, and not West, TX, the town with the Little Czech Stop and delicious kolaches.
El Paso aside, the only place in West Texas I can think of that may have a datacenter is Sul Ross University in Alpine but i doubt it. ..there's probably not even one in El Paso.
GSAP is a bit more robust than anime.js. Over the years anime has been adding more functionality and changing its syntax to be more like GSAP's. They're both solid libraries though
I could hope for a future PoE-over-Data Line (PoDL) version using an 18 AWG twisted pair that would work for this, providing something like 48V @ 3 or 4 A, and 10BASE-T1L for data. Hopefully a standard way to do this gains traction.
The existing limitation is with the 2x23 AWG (or 4x23 AWG) of Cat5e/6/6a not providing a lot of current-carrying capability at a safe voltage.
Big concern IMO with 10BASE-T1 and PoDL for long runs / in wall installations etc is the lack of galvanic isolation. Maybe I'm just paranoid but there's a ton of advantages to not having to worry about things like ground loops and common mode voltages etc.
What I wouldn't mind would be a beefier 100BASE-TX 2-pair cable spec, and some extended PoE profiles. You'd need high current magnetics or something but surely that's possible.
The Yocto Project (from the embedded space) has reproducibility as one of its goals. Since everything is built from source and from scratch, even the build toolchains, it is not too big of a step.
Seems like Yocto would make the base for a good general purpose desktop distro (if there is not one out there already.)
Yocto was kinda doing the nix thing for a while before nix existed, but basically by slowly growing the capabilities in an ad-hoc fashion instead of working on it from first principles. It's resulted in a bit of a mess (it's an unholy mix of a custom functional-ish programming language grown out of a config file format, python, and bash, with a ludicrous capacity for action-at-distance) but there's still not really anything else like it.
I use Claude through OpenRouter (with Aider), and was pretty amazed to see that it routes the requests during the same session almost round-robin through Amazon Bedrock, sometimes through Google Vertex, sometimes through Anthropic themselves, all of course using the same underlying model.
Literally whoever has the cheapest compute.
With the speed that AI models are improving these days, it seems like the 'moat' of a better model is only a few months before it is commoditized and goes to the cheapest provider.
Hopefully the next few years will see Bluetooth Channel Sounding take off more. Promises to give every BLE device a similar (but less accurate than UWB) distance estimation feature.
hmm, I think some of your ratings might be very misleading. One of the ideas behind plasticlist was looking at things like plastic packaging leaching into the product itself, which wouldn't be in the ingredients list.
For example, you list Fairlife Core Power Chocolate Protein Shake as 100/100 but it is on the plasticlist report as containing levels of DEHP and DEHT, likely coming from the packaging. Not sure what an accurate rating would be, but not 100 for sure.
Maybe it works for non-food items better, but for food it might be counterproductive.
With power prices negative, I guess those big Bitcoin mines out in West TX are quite profitable burning off our excess power...