His name is Robert Paulson.

That's nothing! I can easily prove that 3 + 3 = 3!

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Canada is a world leader in nuclear safety and has been since WWII. And this is Ontario Power Generation. They're no stranger to nuclear power – around half our generation is nuclear.

To be fair, I think Atlantis nailed that pretty well too, so it stands to reason they could pull it off again, given the same showrunners.

That's actually not as far away from ours (UK) as I expected. I just did a rough calculation and I make it $8.43 here (converting £1.66 per litre into gallons and USD).

My EV I charge overnight and draw 22kWh per night given my commute, for 7p per kWh. My range is 90 miles, so a spot of converting tells me I pay $2.06 for 90 miles of range.

Seems ok to me.

I believe two things are true:

1. LLMs and the rest of what we call "generative AI" are not genuinely intelligent, and probably are not, in any meaningful way, the basis for a future genuine artificial intelligence.

2. The way that humanity has handled the advent of "generative AI" has demonstrated that we are unlikely to survive the advent of true artificial intelligence for very long.

The EU can control the entire world through legislation.

And then they find out that they can't. Just look at Clearview.

The EU keeps sending out press releases how they have yet again fined Clearview a billion dollars, without realizing that it is a U.S. based company without any operations in the EUSSR. According to Wikipedia:

If the EUSSR can create random legislation that applies in other countries to people and entities without ties to the EUSSR, then the U.S. can do so as well. Bye, abortion.

And I know that EUSSR shills will vote this into oblivion, but you cannot change facts with a downvote. Let me know when you've been able to collect a single penny from Clearview.

We are living out the TV show. Everything in that show is coming true (if it wasn't already).

If you haven't seen it, it is very entertaining, and now almost seemingly prophetic.

"Robust, waterproof devices should not have to come at the expense of user-replaceable batteries."

But they ARE waterproof, right?

I bought a Roland S-1 Tweak Synth this week. Absolutely lovely bit of kit, one of the best things Roland have done for a while. It's relevance to this conversation though is that it has a built-in, non-user replaceable battery and is charged by USB C.

I've kept my Roland synth from 1989, and there are people with synths much older than that. While never massively user-serviceable as a genre, this is the first time I can think of that there's a definite life span on these things. Just like a phone, eventually this battery is going to wear out and have severely reduced capacity. I have to imagine that, as with vintage synths or older phones, someone will probably start a service for replacing the battery but wouldn't it be nice if they didn't have to and the design had been thought of in advance?

Yep, was more thinking of the "people using wired don't care about the DAC" part than the actual machines we're talking about.

The point was to waste time, and be stupid.

Quite the opposite. A strong use-case for a jack is low-latency audio, and tht's the kind of thing used by people who use their machines for audio and music production. I'm a heavy user of Logic, and would absolutely not let wireless headphones anywhere near it.

For "people who don't care the DAC sucks", there's wireless. For people who do care about the DAC but only for listening to music or conversation etc., then wireless also exists. For those who care about both quality and latency, and that's really only for specific use cases these days, then wired is the way.

I was also thinking of https://xkcd.com/323/, specifically the part "You can't just give a team of coders a year's supply of whiskey", because that's what AI coding looks like to me. Instead of giving devs just enough rope to hang themselves, we're now giving dilettante coders the keys to the entire rope industry.