I don't have much by the way of current points of comparison, since I've only used FreeCAD recently. It's horribly easy to kind of mess up a model in a way it's hard to unpick. But I remember the beep of death from Pro/E and similar shenanigans from SolidWorks a number of years ago. I have noticed Rhino can do some really cool stuff but at the expense of not being parametric.

FreeCAD as of today feels way way easier to script properly than the big boys did back in the day. Plus runs on Linux (which is a huge advantage for me). I'm not trying to build a nuclear submarine or anything anyway.

Of course they will.

Clients need to do their research, choose the tool they want, and then choose the consultant to help them implement it.

That's the way it works. Microsoft isn't the right partner to help you implement a solution based on Google Gemini. Duh.

Or this could be an example of Jevons Paradox .

As AI makes employees more productive, and thus more profitable, would you fire them or hire more?

But if fewer people performing this behaviour died of starvation (or were too low in nutritional status to raise offspring to maturity - same thing really) than died of Salmonella it would still be a net benefit.

Undoubtedly the origin of the Hobbit-steals-dragons-treasure meme.

Most of those people can't do shit. They will need people around them. If society really collapses then they're just more mouths to feed and those other people will kick them out of the doors of their bunkers if they're lucky. Too bad most of those people aren't smart enough to figure this out.

It might well wind up being nobody. There will be signal-hunting drones.

It's not free. Someone has to pay for it. If you're saying the government will build it and then give the electricity away for free, where do you think the government got the money to build it?

So basically like roads then. Providing a free-at-point-of-use thing to make the country work.

This is as bad as Europeans crowing about "free" healthcare or higher education. It's not free.

It's free at point of use. Everyone except complete and utter morons know what that means especially as the NHS budget is the #1 most popular news item.

If the US and Europe were doing even half as much as China is to reduce emissions, the world would be in a much, much better place.

France already did, remember?

It's Germany that's the laggard here.

Then there is the example of the UK when Thatcher ruled. Most all public stuff sold off and the country has been fucked since. They did briefly lower the taxes though.

Kind of ironic from the "running out of other people#s money" person.

Oh who am I kidding. That seems to be the core tenet of conservatism: loudly yell about how the other guys are doing whatever it is you're actually doing.

It makes no sense to spend more to tiptoe through costly incremental steps of infrastructure buildout buying stuff you crave to be rid of when you can hop right to the conclusion. Fuel is bad. You use it and then you need more fuel. That's a vulnerability to the fuel supplier, the logistics, the free market for fuel, changing government meddling. Fix it right once without fuel and be done with it for 30 years. It's not like there won't be another problem to solve the next day.

I think you mean, "so the middle men can pocket the savings".

>as they are not allowed to use oil or coal

Or natural gas. No carbon. Carbon fuels amplify the already obscene thermal output by at least 2.5.

Also, none of them is dumb enough to go fission. The time to power is an order of magnitude greater than their expiration date if they don't have it. And their server and power costs are bad enough. They don't need to compound those expenses with the costliest source of energy available.

Again, you were either eleven or you were living under a rock if you hadn't heard of the Transformers. Cuz if you had heard of it, you'd have known it was for kids and adolescents, and the female actress was there to keep the dads interested.

And that's exactly why we need to build more power infrastructure, particularly nuclear, and hand it all over to AI companies for free.

Thanks for tracking that down. To me that's the real news here. Reactor vessels are not the only application for this technology.