Path: ...!news.misty.com!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!diablo1.usenet.blueworldhosting.com!nntp.TheWorld.com!usenet.csail.mit.edu!.POSTED.hergotha.csail.mit.edu!not-for-mail From: wollman@hergotha.csail.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: The insane progress nobody is talking about Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2024 21:57:23 -0000 (UTC) Organization: MIT Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Lab Message-ID: References: Injection-Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2024 21:57:23 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: usenet.csail.mit.edu; posting-host="hergotha.csail.mit.edu:207.180.169.34"; logging-data="27643"; mail-complaints-to="security@csail.mit.edu" X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test77 (Sep 1, 2010) Originator: wollman@hergotha.csail.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) Bytes: 2068 Lines: 19 In article , Scott Dorsey wrote: >There are commercial can fixtures with integral LEDs which most of the >big office building guys are using now instead of conventional can fixtures >with lamps screwed into them. I worry about them since they are not as >easily replaced as a light bulb, but I have no personal experience with them. Apparently there is a regulation in California that requires these fixtures to be provided with a standard pluggable disconnect so that they can be replaced easily. Because California is such a big market for energy efficiency, what sells there is also sold everywhere else in the country. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | "Act to avoid constraining the future; if you can, wollman@bimajority.org| act to remove constraint from the future. This is Opinions not shared by| a thing you can do, are able to do, to do together." my employers. | - Graydon Saunders, _A Succession of Bad Days_ (2015)