Pack up the entire collection and move it to Llanfairpwllgwyngyll, Wales.

Elon just made a pertinent statement:
https://futurism.com/future-so...

And:

Right. Put these two factors together and you'll have a situation where nobody will be moving around in robotaxis, either European* or American. It'll be a bunch of Waymos waiting for some hobo wandering around in the middle of the road.

*Actually, the Europeans don't put up with out of control behavior nearly as much as Americans do. In American cities, it takes weeks for "support services" to move tent camps. On a visit to Amsterdam a few years ago, I watched them move a tent camp with water cannons.

Came here to post this. Left satisfied.

Glad to see I'm not the only one who noticed that over time Amazon's search feature has enshitified. If that's the correct verb. It used to be fairly good. These days, nah, unless I'm looking for a book or other product from Amazon directly, as a search for the marketplace it's crap.

And since it used to be better, something must be responsible for that. Greed, most likely.

Not 99% but definitely some of the most useful ones. And yes, stack traces are one of the things that only Linux users send you without an explicit request.

And the advantage of debugging a (this specific exception) error in (this specific file) on (that specific line) over a "hey, the game crashed when I jumped out of the car" bug report cannot be overstated.

... can it get before all the engineers start speaking different languages?

A couple of things:

Do people still actually use Google anymore?

Have the other search sites crawled Google content and grabbed a copy of the take down request. Along with the list of URLs?

Particularly if it was in error. I've got half the users on this site waiting to write my eulogy.

Boy will they be disappointed.

Those with higher levels of cognitive decline might be having trouble navigating the digital world.

Some possibilities:
-The agent buys the wrong thing and Amazon sees a substantially higher rate of returns or other bad customer feedback
-The agent buys one thing despite Amazon search results trying to push a different option
-Amazon's upsell for "you may also like" is tanked by the agentic purchaasing.

This.

I didn't even touch on this because I've never worked the problem of hydrogen storage at power generation scales. But an application I worked needed hydrogen (and cost/efficiency wasn't an object). After considering all the tank/plumbing issues, we went with just making it as needed.

Has anyone done a study of burning the dollars directly in a thermal plant?

Not even close.

One thing hinted at: The hydrogen production/storage/transportation could also be used for fuel cell vehicles. So this could be a bail-out for all the people who bought those Toyota hydrogen cars and now need a station at which to fill them. Typical totalitarianism where the plebes have to finance the wants of the Inner Party.

Solar -> Electricity -> Electrolysis -> Hydrogen -> Combustion Turbine -> Electricity

Why not:

Solar -> Electricity -> Battery -> Electricity

It would appear that the latter would have a better end to end efficiency. Bypassing the losses in electrolysis and combustion.

Right. But I'm still not buying Coke.

My prediction, raising prices even to break even will cause "interest" in AI to plummet.