... prevent low lying cloud? Clouds form when theres enough moisture and the temp drops low enough. A one degree increase in average air temps would only push the cloudbase up by 150-200 metres or so, so something more subtle must be going on.

Just another CEO spouting BS in order to promote his product and pump the share price. Any knowledge he has of the dev process has probably gone through 3 or 4 layers of management chinese whispers first.

ChatGPT can get its maths right. Ask it some maths problem involving a lot of long floating point numbers , maybe a few functions such as log or sqrt etc that there is no way in hell could possibly be in its training data and it'll get the answer correct. I suspect OpenAI have embedded some kind of calculator into it now.

Since when? Sure, they can save a bit of googling and sort some wheat from chaff, but they're hardly essential tools unless you're a total net incompetant.

If phone interfaces (And windows 11) were designed by professional interface designers instead of as an afterthought by programmers then we wouldn't have to search to find functionality, it would be obvious where it is.

We had a Sony BD player from IIRC 2015. It was fucking awful - an underpowered CPU that took about 10 secs to boot the system (it was just a disc player with no HD, wtf was it doing?!) and could barely run its own UI along with cheap build quality that meant it died after 5 years. But then Sony quality has been going down the pan for years. However I have another Sony DVD player from the early 2000s when they still made good kit that is still going strong.

Right. Meanwhile down in the tropics they could just use the free energy from the sun to power the A/C if the heat becomes too extreme.

Were you born this stupid or do you have to practice at it?

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Nah, probably just the usual monomanical autists who don't have an existence beyond their monitor screen and assume everyone else is the same. They probably wouldn't recognise a social life if they tripped over one.

Don't expect to be able to shop or visit many attractions in your average french town between 12 and 2/3pm, they've all buggered off home for lunch. Which also leads to the interesting phenomenon of 4 rush hours per day.

In British English data is singular, not plural.

Once you leave it won't be your problem if management have been short sighted with the training and the company tanks. Most people don't stay at companies more than a few years now anyway as its been demonstrated many times in the last decade or so that people are norhing more than "resources" like paperclips to most companies, to be disposed off when profits dip.

We've seen and heard all the BS and veiled threats from various pointy hairs over the decades and its water off a ducks back. They can't handle that, particularly if they're young with large egos.

Indeed. And maybe the engineers will come up with a breakthrough in some area of tech but if not - well its keeping a lot of highly educated people gainfully employed and if Musk wants to spend his - or more likely some gullible investors - money on their wages then he should be allowed to carry on doing it.

And the new roadster is hardly pushing the engineering boat out either in 2026 , its easily doable with current tech as other companies are proving, so one can only assume he's lost interest in it.