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Sorry, everyone. My mistake. An ISP which tolerates its users using ssh or https would be liable for $250,000 per day, not $125,000 per day. I realize that in the time since I posted, many of you made the determination "oh, it's not so bad" and bought houses in Michigan, now to be blindsided by that fact that I negligently underestimated the cost by a factor of two. I apologize for the error.

Michigan has a bill to ban VPNs where SSH is just another "circumvention tool" that must be blocked too. If SSH works, then your ISP is liable for $125,000 per day until they break it.

No more ports 22 or 443 in Michigan if this passes. No more e-commerce. No more banking. No more encrypted internet for anyone, of any age. Telnet and http-no-s are coming back! (Until someone tunnels through them; then ISPs will have to block those too.)

Just wondering if there's a correlation: did you take Apple's side in the "look and feel" lawsuit vs Microsoft?

You are correct. Donald Knuth, the famous computer scientist, himself says LLMs generate excellent "copy".
One day, exchanging (polite) message with obvious typos and unexpected turns of grammar and side-musings will be seen as a sign of genuine affection between humans communicating. :)

Thank you ... Interesting

Looks like we need TIOBE to be like a Neilsen Ratings TV set top box that measures what people actually watch. But in reality, it's more like something that counts up TV schedule listings.

TIOBE should offer a free 'anonymous stats reporting' plugin to various IDEs (Visual Studio, Eclipse, IntelliJ, Emacs, vim)

Hmmm.. thank you

Interesting.
  I have not used modern IDEs for several years
But a few months ago, I used AI LLM portals (Claude, ChatGPT) to code up a new 1000 line program in an unfamiliar language (Excel VBA). That was a 'copy paste compile debug repeat' exercise in creating a new program.. Given LLM session memory constraints, I could not imagine doing that to study and modify a complex existing codebase (say, a 100 KSLoC Java application).

What tool do you think could work ?

Why do these people even bother to make up bullshit excuses for taking our money? Leave the "AI" part out and just announce that you're writing yourself a few checks at the taxpayers' expense.

Take what you want. Take it all! Just stop lying about it. It's not like you're fooling us anyway.

I'm doing my part! (Every time I see a window and a conveniently-nearby rock, I throw the rock at the window.)

"Don't worry Dave, just press CTRL-V in the password box"

...officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed to state health departments that the ongoing measles outbreak at the border of Arizona and Utah is a continuation of the explosive outbreak in West Texas...

Why are there still competent people at CDC who are able to do this? Anyone who knows anything about anything, was supposed to have been fired months ago and replaced by incompetent flunkies.

Commander Putin's orders have been very clear about completely disarming all American capability, whether it's in our health systems, military, or infrastructure. Who is the pro-American traitor in our midst, disobeying orders to destroy the USA?

If we're going to disobey Putin's orders, then won't he kill or embarrass our president? That must not be allowed to happen!!

You're right about radiative cooling - I didn't consider that radiative cooling would be that much easier.

I asked claude.ai a bunch of questions.below According to it, purely radiative cooling of a device in space (40-60C) is roughly as effective as very crude conductive cooling of a similar device on earth (internal temp 49 C).

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Consider a 1 m radius spherical object in LEO. One direction, bathed in direct sunlight is coated with solar panels. The electricity generated runs computers internally - the computers are capable of running regardless of the internal temperature of the enclosure. The reverse side is exposed to the 2.7 K of the CMB and had small metal radiative panels.

Compare it to another similar size sphere stored in a room at a constant 22C on earth. Instead of solar panels, the same amount of electricity is pumped in.

In which case would the internal temperature of the sphere be higher?
Make a few assumptions about the other parameters. All power generated by the solar panels in space, or fed in by power lines on earth is immediately used for computation.

Give me rough internal temperatures for both cases

Now assume the sphere on earth is (a) suspended on a thread (b) half buried (c) fully buried , and it has a metal body.
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Answers from Clause.ai
LEO. 40-60 C
Earth.a 95 C
Earth.b 75 C
Earth.c 49 C

Yeah! And the frozen person shatters into smithereens when hit by a protagonist with a hammer.

" Demands for cooling could also be cut because of the vacuum of space."

How does that work? Vaccum makes cooling harder, not easier, doesn't it?