Lol in what world? Campgrounds routinely have next to no funding, if they even have power pedestals I wouldn't expect them to be wired for anything more than an RV.

The entire reason we have so many different types of receptacles is so to keep you from plugging in something that the circuit can't handle. They shouldn't be giving people 14-50's if they don't have 50A peak and 40A continuous available. (There is a code exception to only allow 40A peak/32A continuous to a 14-50, but that's all most portable EV chargers draw anyway, so I doubt it even met that. And TT-30 offers no such exception at all.)

Since the whole campground went dark, presumably it was the main breaker. The branch circuit must be sized to the outlet type, but the total rating of all branch circuits usually exceeds the main breaker rating.

That would be a reasonable explanation if most of the campsites had people charging EVs at their max individual current, but it sounded like just one did.

With unlimited money, sure, but your typical prepper would be able to fund a decent portable gas generator and jerry cans (or even a natural gas line) without a need for financing.

Never understood that line of reasoning. In a really bad situation, you just won't have any fuel. And solar is the way to go.

Thin line between gimmick and very useful considering powerful worksite gas generators exist for less than $5k

First thing I thought of was if I had a gasoline generator, I'd probably invest the $5 or so into a hand siphon. You can even keep it running as you go to refill up your vehicle!

Not even a year ago people were dragging Anthropic for not committing enough to compute buildout. Important to note that most of these contracts are a decade-long, by their reporting they're able to cover this easily with their current revenue.

Tangentially related, has anyone done comprehensive labs on their own (via Function or others), or even genetic screening like Galleri, and had that prompt you to get something looked at? I've never been impressed by my annual physicals and how few biomarkers they check, but don't want to go overkill and find out I have a million things I could treat.

Curious, why do you say the model is mediocre? I haven't tried it, so I can't pass any judgement... I've learned to distrust benchmark rankings. Are benchmarks and Artificial Analysis the yardstick you're using?

> Curious, why do you say the model is mediocre? I haven't tried it, so I can't pass any judgement.

It's nowhere mediocre.

It's toes-to-toes with GLM-5.3 which is one of the best Open Weight model available (With Kimi K3) for general reasoning.

I just runned it on code reviews right now and it was able to catch some thread safety issue than DeepSeek-4.1 didn't. And DeepSeek-4.1 is by no means a bad model.

It's better than I expected for Mistral.

That said, it hardly seems like the innovative underdog some comments here make it out to be.

GLM-5.3 and Kimi K3 released 2 and 3 months ago respectively.

For all I know anyone could train a model of similar performance by just applying already published research to a new large training run.

> That said, it hardly seems like the innovative underdog some comments here make it out to be.

It's definitively not a revolution, but it is a major jump forward compared to Mistral Medium 3.5.

Worth to notice that they explicitly said they still refining the model, so we might expect something a little bit better at the end of the month

For something trained on a limited budget and 4000 GPUs, it is quite respectable.

I'm just wondering if it's really the result of impressive innovation, in line with comments saying that Mistral might in the future beat a bankrupt OpenAI due to being more profitable or efficient.

Or if it's more a situation where I could have Opus 5.5 go through recent papers from the Chinese labs to apply these to a new large training run, resulting in a model that performs similarly to Mistral Large 4.

I honestly don't know.

The Boise fab was a result of the CHIPS act (so tech sovereignty rather than because of AI), and they recently tacked on an R&D expansion to that due to the AI boom. https://boisedev.com/news/2026/08/20/micron-to-build-10-bill...

I'm reading Sagas of the Icelanders as prep for a trip there, but I can feel it pulling me down into a rabbithole of older Scandinavian medieval writing. I've already got an order placed for a saga that's not in this book, along with the Poetic Edda and Havamal to learn more about Norse mythology.

And if margins are decreased, then... (what happens to new supply?)

The supply of land is inelastic. Property developers can't get more land by building more houses on it (and as a corollary, the eventual owner also do not get charged more in taxes).

They can make higher density buildings that generate more income and house more people on the same amount of land.