That is a question which fundamentally has not been answered yet. The legislators and courts will collectively have the final say.

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Too much work. The point is that the devices are very expensive compared to much simpler devices.

The point is that the devices are very expensive compared to more complex devices. A phone has a LOT more hardware. It comes with a LOT more support. It comes with a LOT more software. It's shipped in a nice box with accessories, at least a sim tool if it's got a slot. Raspi has none of that. It's made with excess SoCs, whatever they can get cheap. Every single part of it is cheapass. And you can get a phone with as much RAM, much more CPU, and both cellular and wifi for around twice as much as the top end Pi. It's got a screen, it's got a bunch of storage, it's got a battery, and lots of such phones are not sold in huge volumes. So why is this grossly simpler device so expensive? Answer, people will pay for it.

The cost of development of a raspi is not much different from say an Arduino Mega. It's got a more expensive SoC which does a lot more, but that's still not a very expensive part. It makes the PCB more expensive, but not dramatically so. The community does most of the hard work of supporting it.

BOM: way less parts than a cellphone. Cost of assembly and production: way less than a cellphone. Cost of running the business, including engineers: Way less than a cellphone. What am I comparing? A much much much simpler and cheaper device to engineer and build since it's just a bare board with some cheap parts including some SoCs that BCM had too many of lying around, which is how they pick 'em.

Too much work. The point is that the devices are very expensive compared to much simpler devices.

A side point is that they also often suck. They keep making dumb errors in power supply or USB which compromise devices. Then they just publish errata and tell you how to work around their fuckups. How about doing some testing before shipping?

It's historic because it's the best and most sensible thing that's been allowed to happen under this administration. Sunsetting the penny gets an honorable mention, but that's trivial compared to this. Both things have been in the works for ages.

You won't see wars fought over solar panels or wind turbines because "anyone" (industrialized) can make them and it's not cost-effective to take them. Once the solar panels are installed somewhere, it's cheaper to make more than to go there, fight the people who have them, uninstall them, pack them up, ship them home, and then reinstall them. This goes many times over for the wind turbines.

You don't see wars fought over coal plants or natural gas power plants or nuclear plants either, at most they are objectives but more commonly they're just targets in wars. And it's for the same reason, it's not worth it to try to ship them home.

Yep, even if you couldn't get lithium batteries, at least you could still make inferior lead-acid ones. You might need a battery room to accommodate the homebuilt kind, but they'd still be feasible.

Sadly, it's going to take a lot more than that, but it certainly would be a big help.

Tonight, you drink from the bottle.

Also, for 99% of what you would like to do with GPIO, you can hang a $3 Arduino Nano off of a USB port.

You're not saying anything that I or someone else hasn't already said in this discussion and therefore I'm well on top of it, except that it's off by default, that part I didn't know. Perhaps I turned it on, I don't recall. And your claim that it doesn't work if you're not "aligned" with Steam, whatever that's supposed to mean. It's always worked for me.

That's good, I couldn't recall. But the IO priority is important, too. When I start intensive long-running processes where I don't care if they finish, I use nice ionice -c idle $* (I call it "nicer")

Works with ZFS. And I have autotrim on so it does it automatically when it makes sense.

I am.

But that's absolutely the question here! That's exactly what I'm talking about! The question absolutely is already "can anyone legally use Claude-produced code?" And I don't have a strong opinion because I'm not an IP lawyer, and though I have strong opinions on how it should work, they are not particularly relevant to that argument.

But I do have some thoughts, even though I am not an IP lawyer, on what the argument hinges on, and what the GPL has to say is absolutely relevant here if using Claude does not exempt one from having to follow the copyright of the source material. And so that is absolutely in turn the argument that every single LLM as a service purveyor is making, whether they have done so in so many words or not, because if that is not so then they are party to copyright crimes whose pure punishment-related fines would be in the billions or trillions of dollars plus prison terms lasting until approximately the heat death of the universe (which will no doubt be due to excessive use of AI.) They would have criminally (willfully and for profit) infringed on copyrights, in numbers of times which stretch from here to eternity.

LLMs are supposed to be legal because their creation is based on Fair Use. But there's no hard standard for what is or is not Fair Use, only a lot of examples of outcomes in court. LLMs are novel, there can be no perfect precedent for them. Truly settling this is going to require new laws.

You think that's supposed to be some kind of insult? Yawn.

That's a feature.

Plainly and obviously false. We are already moving mass amounts of people with cars, despite all their many deficiencies.

Also false, although it does make planning simpler and wait times shorter so yes, you would likely run a certain percentage of empty vehicles through the system.

PRT can be elevated, and use basically no space on the ground, so it can coexist with all existing forms of transport.

Rental car agencies require a large footprint, so they can only be sited in areas where that is possible. That typically means in the outskirts of an airport. I haven't had LAX as a final or origin since the 1980s.

It's not relevant to that, which isn't a problem anyway with an elevated PRT system, but it is relevant to efficiency. PRT solves two problems with cars, one of them being pneumatic tires, and the other being safe platooning. There is fundamentally no way for cars to ever be safe doing that at high speeds, and the tires are a huge part of that.

Tire company is in favor of using tires? Will you fucking listen to yourself?

Only the top 22 best-selling phones ever sold 100,000,000 units or more. Feel free to try again.

Shut up, Donny. You're out of your element.