In this case, the buyer has not much choice. And costs for wages are pretty immaterial in this space anyways, even though CEOs like to lie about that.

The DWave is a very nice long-running scam that depends on people not understanding what a QC is. Because actual QCs are so incredibly weak (with a factorization record of 21, and 35 still failed), the DWave essentially does something like chemical computing (in the widest sense) to handily beat that and then the scammers pretend they have a powerful QC.

What really gets me that we now have 50 years of no useful computing mechanisms from QC research. And people are still in denial. A lot of really long-term magical thinking at work.

Thanks. I appreciate the sentiment.

Sad but true.

They are not super interested in thinking. Just in getting rich without effort, including mental effort.

Incidentally, I just saw a study that predicts that in 2028, LLM-code will be more expensive to get than code written by people. And that does not take insecurity, review-resistance, bad maintainability, loss of engineering skills and institutional knowledge, etc. into account. The whole thing is a massive hallucination by completely disconnected idiots.

If does not work and cannot work. LLMs are both far too limited and far too unreliable to be useful. They can create a massive sense of false security though. And while they need to be run on software (because attackers will do it), that does not make that software secure.

Stop believing LLMs are magic. They are not.

Fool me once ...

They know nobody new is going to compete because we aren't enforcing antitrust law.

Like it or not, is you want cheap RAM vote Democrat (or whatever your local equivalent is)

Because mark my words in 10 years we'll find out they were all colluding. Just like the flat panel guys were

You men like Boeing? Probably. Will make the general US population even poorer though.

Except for those pesky times when motorists become distracted or impatient and ignore the traffic signals, but we know that never happens.

Many homes have 30A 240v clothes dryer circuits that can be repurposed for EV charging with a smart splitter or by upgrading to a heat pump clothes dryer that plugs into a standard 120v outlet. That'd provide enough capacity to recharge the Slate from completely flat (which you really shouldn't be doing regularly in an EV anyway) in about 12 hours.

They still seem to think this is going to work, with minor adjustments. Well, a bunch of fool is at the start of mist spectacular failures.

Requiring all traffic light pedestrian cycles to give pedestrians complete control over the entire intersection (all directions), with no turns, for a period of time (a.k.a. pedestrian scramble intersctions).

  Regularly ticketing pedestrians who cross when it isn't their turn.

The UK has a vastly better pedestrian safety than the US. Also we don't hate freedom here: you can cross the road where you damn well please.

eliminating road-side parking

Well I am definitely in favour of that.

You know, even if it works somewhat (which is doubtful), who is going to keep the AI updated when nobody gets to maintain and extend their own expertise?

Methinks we will see a number of really spectacular enterprise deaths and falls to irrelevance in the next few years, most with a clear trace to LLM use.