I'm not dead yet!

One moment....OOOF

Enbalming procedure commencing.

I mean the older definition, doing things with thought to consequences.

Take the story the other day where an AI wiped the production database and then was able to clearly articulate that wiping the database was forbidden, it did it anyway, and the consequences were devastating.

Before taking action, a thoughtful AI would have compared the reasonably anticipated result of it's proposed commands to it's instructions and then not done it when they were in conflict. If that didn't stop it, it would perform the evaluation that the effect would be devastating and not done it.

We call a mind that pretends to fel guilt even when it doesn't actually feel anything a 'psychopath' and we have quite enough of those without creating artificial ones.

Many can be trivially opened using a screwdriver to push the latch back. Some can be slipped with a credit card or laminated ID.

It sounds like your employer is unusually diligent about it.

It was a flash in the panhandle.

Thanks, I'll be here til Thursday. Oh wait, it's Friday. Don't eat the veal, it's gone bad.

In an office environment, particularly one with a dress code, coveralls are an invisibility cloak that grants access to any wiring closet.

For conference rooms and such, suit, tie, and a laptop grant a weaker but often effective camouflage.

The heliocentric solar system, orbital mechanics...

We knew how to predict sunrise and the phase of the moon before we learned why they happen.

The 100W intern includes the inefficient energy conversion from renewable fuel. The GPU uses 200W after the conversion, so factor in power plant inefficiencies and transmission losses. The GPU may or may not be using renewable fuel.

Perhaps what we really need is to find a way to get human cells to produce chloroplasts so Intern 2.0 can be direct solar powered.

In addition, on the other end of the operation, GPUs add to the growing e-waste problem while interns are biodegradable.

We'll never find out. Tech magazines don't interview people living under a bridge fighting raccoons for food scraps behind the McDonalds...

It plays into the leisure class's lifelong dream of being able to jettison the unwashed masses and keep the money for themselves without having to resort to learning how to do things or (God forbid) doing things themselves.

Most of us "unwashed masses" understand that things that sound too good to be true probably are, but that's because we haven't grown up in a world where we give orders, shuffle a couple of decimal points, and then sign our names to take credit for the hard work of thousands of people.

The intern also likely burns a lot less resources.

This isn't at all about morals. This is about sovereignty.

We the People (and the people of other countries in their country) get to decide what is moral or immoral. What can be sold and what cannot. Where there may be questions, the courts decide.

This is not a question where we want the answers dictated by a corporation like Visa or Mastercard. Their job is to process the damned transaction and let the legislature and the courts decide what can be transacted.

This isn't like an individual shop owner deciding not to sell something. This is a giant multi-national deciding what millions of shop owners may or may not sell with no consent of the governed in sight.

Beyond that, they have no business knowing what I buy or sell. They need to stick to how much, who gets the money, and who gets the bill. If they don't like that, they should fold up their tent and go home.

I am a owner of a FutureHome Smarthub 2 (soon to be sold), and my home transitioned to Home Assistant a few days ago. I have been following closely the situation for a few months now, including the reactions of the user community.

What is especially worrying is that the monthly fees are only nominally monthly - they are to be paid in advance for a full year. If they had been truly monthly I might have been tempted to test it for a month or two, but with this much money being asked up front I am not only worried about the actual value of the service (am I going to save that much on electricity?), I am worried that so few people will take up the offer that the company will be instantly wiped out.

Among the further genius decisions of new owners, this transition period was placed in July: the traditional Norwegian summer month, when half the country is in Spain or Greece, especially a lot of people with larger homes, children and available income (the key target customer group). A lot of them probably never noticed the change and will come home next week thinking the hub broke.

Now, while the TFA claims the MSRP of the FH Hub is $275, it is actually far cheaper - it is about $100, which means the annual fee is more expensive than the hub.

You need to understand that electricity in Norway is laughably cheap (no matter what Norwegians tell you). Today's average price I am paying is 7.81 USD per MWh, as an example. Electricity is so cheap that Norwegians use it directly for heating (even heat pumps are a dubious economic case). Some, including the guy who built my house, use direct electric heating to de-ice stairs (so that's what I am stuck with).

This means that the savings you can achieve with FutureHome are very limited. My largest successes in cost reduction were using a more careful planner for the entry stair de-icing resistance, which used to run anytime temperatures were low and now only runs when there are the right conditions of temperature and humidity. Electric cars (very common here) can also be scheduled to charge at nighttime, and the same goes for water boilers, with simple timers that can be bought for $5.

So the question FH users have been asking: what exactly am I getting for well over $100 a year? It is very unlikely that you would save that amount of money with the FH hub in Norway.

Fortunately, it looks like it isn't too hard to modify the Anker printers to use different hotends for people who want to keep their printer going a while longer.

None of MacOS, Linux, or *BSD have that problem. Just Windows.