If Pi had the sales volume of even a low-tier phone manufacturer, the price would be much lower. There just aren't enough hacker nerds out there.

>>I don't see why I care about government trying to protect people from themselves with this one?

Because when they lose everything and have nothing left when to retire on, guess who will end up paying to bail them out? It's not the scammers who got rich selling them snake oil, it's the rest of us. And don't think they won't get a bail out; retired people are an important voting block and will support whoever promises them the most.

>>Or, since all microprocessors consist of registers, simple instructions, memory addresses, and push/pull, just create a very simple, generic, "language"based on that, and then compile it to any specific architecture.

We already have programming languages like that. C-- claims to be a "portable assembly language" (some claim that traditional C also fits that description).

>>Hydroelectricity is not considered a renewable resource. They require a lot of maintenance by machinery run by fossil fuels

Last time I checked, rain was still refilling the reservoirs so yes, it is renewable. It requires maintenance and will eventually need replacement just like everything else including wind turbines and solar panels.

Pretty presumptuous of you to assume that I don't already hate Sam Altman at least as much as you do.

But Larry Ellison needs those billions of dollars so his nepobaby can buy more movie studios!

>> Every service member swears an oath to uphold the Constitution and to protect the nation from all enemies, foreign and domestic.

What happens when "upholding the constitution" and "protecting the nation all from enemies" are in conflict with each other? What about conflicts with other commitments the US has made like the Geneva Convention? Who decides what is a "military necessity"?

Don't worry. If Trump has his way everyone's Social Security cheques will be cancelled.

>>This very reasonable decision reaffirms SCOTUS independence from the current administration.

No, it just demonstrates the internal division between the 3 Republican justices who realize Trump is destroying the economy (and with it any chance of maintaining power) and the 3 that have completely drunk the MAGA kool-aid.

I'm sure the AI apologists will soon be flooding the comments with "human coders make mistakes too", but if a human coder decided to "delete and recreate the environment" of a running system they would be fired before the end of the day.

>>and 18 of the duplicates were the exact same string

How much do you want to bet that string appeared as an example of a secure password in some book or website that was part of the LLM's training data?

Halifax has had 60 electric buses in it's fleet since May of last year (and yes, they are charged indoors). Maybe people argue with you because you are full of shit.

>>It is assumed that the solar-battery home installation is completely free. This is a huge cost that is completely absent from the analysis.

This statement is completely false. The article actually goes into great detail on the costs of the solar-off-grid (SOG) charging system and includes SOG costs in the total cost of ownership calculations.

"The SOG CAPEX consists of four hard-cost components, the solar PV panel, inverter, stationary lithium-ion battery and balance of system (BOS), and one soft-cost component, installation. Each hard-cost component is sized to the application-specific use case in the SOG sizing optimization model (details below). "

Audio formats seem to have a thriving nostalgia market where vinyl, CDs and even cassettes have seen a resurgence of both new players and new media being produced. I guess there is no equivalent in the video market.

Obama somehow managed to deport more people than Trump without turning cities into warzones and murdering citizens. I guess it's just one more thing that Obama was better at than Trump.