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Comment Re:Terrible feature (Score 1) 159

Efficiency of an electrical inverter: 90%

Efficiency of a gasoline generator: 20%

A gasoline generator might work as an emergency backup, but would not be economical for daily load leveling.

TFS says the inverter's extra hardware costs $650.

A 10kw gasoline generator would cost at least as much.

Comment Re:ha (Score 1) 67

by ShanghaiBill (#66395268) Attached to: Skydance Offers Buyouts, Gives 5-Day RTO Order

Quite strange how the company remained profitable with years of people working from home.

Nope. Warner Bros. was losing money before the merger and had accumulated $40B in net debt.

The headcount reduction was sorely needed, and the merger makes it even more necessary.

Comment Re:Same as it ever was (Score 1) 150

This sounds like he's unwilling to do a little extra work to determine if the student actually understands their submitted work.

That's what the in-class exams and quizzes are for.

If that's true now, it was true 40 years ago, when the student could have turned in paperwork that some other student actually did.

The in-class exams and quizzes solved that problem too.

Comment Re:Additional Question (Score 1) 172

by ShanghaiBill (#66392170) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Can AI Bots Really Write Most of Your Code?

if both Anthropic + OpenAI close shop tomorrow

That is extremely unlikely, but if it happens, people will switch to other AI engines.

I use Cursor for coding, which SpaceX now owns.

SpaceX (which may merge with Tesla soon) has deep pockets and an in-house need for AI, so it is even less likely to "close shop".

Even if Anthropic and OpenAI get in deep financial doo-doo, they won't close entirely. They might stop updating their models, but the existing models in static mode would be fine for coding. More likely, they would be acquired in a consolidation.

There are currently dozens of AI companies. I predict there will be fewer than five in a few years.

Submission + - An AI Disconnect

Submitted by theodp
theodp writes: Jordyn Holman of the NY Times writes: When it comes to artificial intelligence, chief executives and their work forces aren’t seeing eye to eye. Corporate leaders, increasingly in earnings calls and interviews, tout productivity gains and say they are doing right by their workers as they roll out the technology. But workers are much more concerned about being supplanted, and they don’t trust their company’s executives.

A survey from the Milken Institute-Harris Poll Listening Project recently found that more than two-thirds of business leaders expect they will be better off financially in five years because of A.I., while just 27 percent of the U.S. work force felt the same way — a whopping 41 point gap. Workers also see less A.I. transformation than leadership does. Nearly three-fourths of leaders say A.I. has significantly changed the way work is done, compared with 58 percent of entry and midlevel employees, according to a report released this month from the Wharton School.

“We have corner offices and cubicles, driving the same economy, but living in completely different realities,” John Gerzema, C.E.O. of the Harris Poll, said in an email. “There is a gulf in hope between what leaders think A.I. could bring to companies and what employees feel it is taking away from them.” What might be worse is that C.E.O.s don’t seem to recognize the disconnect, or that they’re losing the trust of their workers.

Comment Re:If only.... (Score 2) 101

by ShanghaiBill (#66391064) Attached to: People Are Vibe Coding Their Way to Better TVs

An upstart company would make a "dumb TV"

There are dumb TVs still being made.

That you don't even know that shows you are not a serious customer for such a product.

I also won't buy any audio or video gear that requires a network connection

You can just click "Skip" when it asks you to connect to the Internet.

Submission + - Microsoft: Nice Pension You Got There. Be a Shame If Something Happened to It. 1

Submitted by theodp
theodp writes: "Last week, I spoke to Microsoft employees about our immigration program," wrote Microsoft President Brad Smith in a Tuesday LinkedIn post (Microsoft was recently suspended from the Green Card program). "In the spirit of transparency and public interest, we are sharing this more broadly."

In the accompanying video, Smith begins: "Hi, everybody. Yes, there was an announcement last week by the administration, and yes, it's really causing us to do a lot of work to focus on what we need to do to really preserve our ability to succeed and protect the people who work here."

Smith concludes by suggesting that what's bad for Microsoft is also bad for U.S. workers' pensions and 401K's: "We contribute to communities across the United States — not just in our jobs, not just in our philanthropy — but perhaps most importantly, we create wealth in every community across this country. [...] Microsoft has $1.2 trillion dollars of stock held by pension funds and index funds in the United States. What does that mean? If you're an employee in the United States who benefits from a pension, let's say you work for the government. You could be a school bus driver or a teacher, a firefighter, or a police officer. You are better off today because of the wealth we have created. If you work for a labor organization, a union that has a pension fund, you could be a carpenter or electrician, a welder or a plumber or a pipe fitter. The same is true for you. In fact, the truth of the matter is you would be hard pressed to find any institution in the history of the United States that has created more wealth for more people across the United States — millions and millions of people."

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