Usually software support ends before the device becomes unusable. I still have my mother in law's 2nd gen iPad floating around on a bookshelf somewhere but it's basically useless as no apps support the newest OS you can load on it. I've never ever paid for phone or tablet repair. If you regularly need device repair you probably should be buying cheaper plastic devices, not glued together pieces of metal and glass.

I think the public datasets are well established now. There's no need to manually scrape websites in 2025, you just download the stackexchange.all.2025.torrent and then train on that. Lmao nobody is manually scraping stack exchange in 2024 let alone 2025

There's already an LLM specific software documentation format. LLMs don't need to scrape stack exchange to find out how to implement a binary sort in powershell, they can consult the documentation directly. Model collapse as a worry is pretty outdated concept at this point.

If you're root on the system you can disable 2FA or just create a new user with whatever permissions and credentials you like

This is still going to be linked to your main account. If you have access to the main IT guys' credentials, you have access to reset the password for the account for your online backup, and then just go delete those backups. You can't delete a hard drive in a fireproof safe in a secure office. Even if that data is 2,3 weeks, 1,2 months old or whatever, that's still a recoverable loss.

You can self host; it's not practical to self host a 70b model today, but AMD has started selling motherboard/cpu combos with integrated GPU that can address all 128gb memory; it's probably possible to self host a GPT4 quality model from last summer locally for under $2000 by the end of 2027, probably much sooner than that, things have been moving fast

They want to know if you're a CEO or commercial real estate broker, who is likely to come back here 10 times in the next two years on the company dime, or if you're a mom of five getting a 10th anniversary dinner from her husband who can barely afford to do this once a year. It's not rocket science. If you're a software engineer taking your wife or friend out for their birthday you also fall into the second group. A possible third group would be someone like city council member, federal level congress/senators, executive level employees at the pentagon etc. If your D.C. restaurant is known as the place to take Boeing's CEO for dinner by the Pentagon, you want to make sure everyone in the DoD leadership is getting well taken care of, for example.

On a scale of 1-10 what's your confidence level the following countries don't have this capability today? USA, Mexico, Canada, UK, France, German, Australia y? The US is allied with Israel. If Israel has capability that would imply to me our other allies do, as do we.

Israel and Iran both shut down their internet during the ongoing conflict for multiple days. It's standard operating procedure to flip the "internet kill switch" as soon as a foreign bomb explodes on your soil. In a major city like Tehran, Tel Aviv, NYC, SF, London etc where you have 10,000+ people per square mile, you could easily have 20-30,000 people on a network like this with moderately low latency during a bombing situation.
 
But yeah if you live in the Houston suburbs where each house sits on a half acre of land and houses are 150' apart, ti would be useless, you're right. Very few people outside of the US actually live like that, though. So yeah it's useful for about 55% of the global population.
 
I dunno how you cache and forward messages for more than maybe a thousand people or so, encrypted data by definition doesn't compress hardly at all, that app might use a gb or more of storage if you're at the edge of two networks.

Toyota calls them "LBMs", or large behavior model. Same general concept but with different training data https://pressroom.toyota.com/t...

Imagining China is only using LLM for chat bots is pretty limited imagination; toyota has already (2+ years ago now) demonstrated LLM is extremely useful for training robots to walk more naturally, and learn normal tasks like folding clothes and flipping burgers in hours rather than months or years.

I guess you were born after 1990 or so. There was still a guy with a cart delivering inter-office memos when I did "take your kid to work day" at boeing in 1991 or so. Personal computers effectively eliminated the secretary by 1995 as executives learned to type messages themselves. Spreadsheets changed accounting and forecasting forever; "computer" used to be a job. "IT was supposed to usher in this great new world of productivity and it never manifested." What the heck are you talking about buddy? The office landscape of today looks nothing like the office of 1970. Microsoft Office replaced the cost center(s) of the company, a two very average analysts can do in a week what a team of 30 used to do in a month. Instead of forecasting two years out at coarse resolution you can forecast out 10 years highly granularly. Change one variable out of curiosity, and do it again instantly. Before you'd have a series of meetings to decide on the one projection you'd do, and then the whole team would work on that for an entire month to produce the single result.

If you RTFA it says amazon has as many robots as human workers. Amazon is the 2nd largest employer in the US; that number may shrink as robot use increases

I pay $20/mo for chat access to an llm and $20/mo for a private search engine. $40/mo to escape the googleverse is well worth the price in my opinion.

Also agree. It's rare i need to boot into Windows for a game particularly for indie stuff