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Comment Re: Could the AI bubble do something good? (Score 1) 39

Theoretically, but in practice SMRs won't be useful for that. They still need a large and robust containment building, and nuclear grade security around it. They need a cooling pool or guaranteed supply of water.

A more practical idea for small fossil fuel stations is to turn them into spinning mass, to help provide inertia and a bit of energy storage. Or turn the site into a battery.

Comment Re:Could the AI bubble do something good? (Score 1) 39

They will just throw Rolls Royce some money to muck about with SMRs, before realizing what everyone already knows - they aren't better than traditional reactors, and nuclear in general is the most expensive form of energy we have.

Naturally the taxpayer and consumers will be on the hook for all this.

Comment Re: And just like that, everyone stopped using Ple (Score 1) 56

It's not a solution for non-technical people, but can you use Cloudflare Zero Trust or similar for Plex?

I have my own Subsonic music server at home, using Navidrome. I set up Cloudflare Zero Trust so I can access it remotely via the web, with a secure Google login in front of it. You can use other authentication methods, it doesn't have to be Google. Passwords, 2FA, certificates, other providers.

For desktop, any browser works. For mobile I use Symfonium. It's not free, it's a cheap one-time purchase, but it works great with that set-up and means I can stream my music anywhere, without the need for a VPN.

Comment Re:Stock buybacks, perhaps? (Score 1) 38

I'm not sure it has much effect on the value of the company... At least not in a very predictable way.
The buyback directly reduces the market cap of the company, but also directly increases the EPS.
I imagine it comes out to about a wash. However, what it does do is create a great opportunity to greatly enrich the people who are in charge of the buyback when the share price increases, at the expense of the corporation's viability, which feels like a breach in fiduciary responsibility to all the other shareholders.

But then again, maybe a majority of shareholders would agree on it, since their share prices are going to increase, because let's be real. Few people are investing for the purpose of having ownership of a corporation. They want those gains. They'll never be The Greater Fool.

Comment Re:Really? (Score 1) 157

not just with the wod.

Oh ya?

I jest.
Of course the real problem is that you didn't understand the tool you were playing with.
You weren't using GPT-5, you were using GPT-5 mini.
I can replicate the behavior on GPT-5 mini without problem. On GPT-5, I tried 5 times, and not once did it invent a word.

Selecting a specifically dumbed down distilled model as evidence of an overarching concept is problematic for several reasons. Would you like me to explain them to you?

Comment Re:Really? (Score 1) 157

What's the difference between weather, and a simulation of the weather?
Simple- the weather can get you wet. The simulation can't.
But what if I place you in a box, and let the simulation pour water on you, or blow air in your face? Is it real then?

Words- are they real, or are they artificial? Either way- an LLM produces them- they are not simulated. They are real.
If you and an LLM produce the same words, are you real, and it fake?
Are its words fake, but yours real?

You're quick to try to claim that people who reject your magical-brain hypothesis can't tell the difference, but the fact is- you can't even define the difference in any way that passes scientific muster. When you know, you know, amirite?

The problem here is that you're trying to cram all that it is to be human into one word that it simply does not fit into.
My 21 year old niece is intelligent enough to understand this- why aren't you? Are you fake, and she real?

Comment Re:Really? (Score 1) 157

why do you keep using human sounding terms like self-attention?

Why do you think every word that applies to a human is "human sounding"?

Do dogs have attention?
Do they become confused?
These are not "human sounding" words- they are words describing the behavior of something that considers.

you keep arguing for non-human thought while using human like terms.

You keep trying to redefine words to be anthropocentric.

make up your mind, is it human like or not?

Not remotely. Neither is the word attention limited to them, or the word intelligence.

if not then stop using human like terms

The cascade of firing neurons that occurs when your attention shifts can be called attention, so I think we're just fine here.

you are deliberately mixing terms and then claiming other keep applying human qualities to things, your bullshit is evident

I'm deliberately correctly using terms and refusing to let you claim them as exclusive.
Your illiteracy is evident.

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