Towing a loaded semi-trailer uphill there and back

When 50% of cars on the road are EVs, 50% of the gas stations will be gone. When it's 80%, only 20% of gas stations will be left. At that point people will be driving 50-100 miles to fill up, then 50-100 miles to get home again, and an EV will suddenly seem like a good idea even to the holdouts.

I used to carry a 100mb zip disk between work and home, switching between one for each working day. I had about 30 zip disks in total, and I only shredded them all about 10 years ago after copying them all onto more modern backup storage. Then I tossed the zip drives as well.

Fantastic storage for the time, never had one go bad.

When we're talking about engines on aircraft, it's important. 1,300HP is still relatively small, often what we're talking about in small turboprops. A 737, for example, will have north of ~30kHP, or 25+MW. A lot of readers are thinking 1MW is larger than it really is.

Yes, but calling it "megawatt class" makes it sound disproportionately impressive. Remember, 1MW is only ~1,300HP.

Dammit, I meant free to download and install, not free to play.

Then they should have made it free to play with a monthly fee.

Amazing it happened on April 1st, too.

Good luck unpicking all this special AI source code when the data centres all shut down due to lack of power or money.

I have the same issue on a couple of folders. There are some large exe files in there (downloaded installers) and the explorer window doesn't even show the directory contents for about 2-3 minutes. I'm only running Windows Defender, no 3rd party AV, so something in Windows is taking an absolute age to analyse those files *every time I view that folder*

They'll call it the XBAI

I've been writing novels for almost all my adult life. Bashing out 80,000-100,000 words is the easy part, and humans or AI can both do that.

People who don't know anything about writing a novel think - great, I'll get AI to 'write' it and then I'll publish it.

But editing, re-plotting, rewriting and polishing is where 90% of the work is. Re-reading the 100k words 10-15 times, cutting chunks out, adding or deleting a character, etc, etc ... and that's what you'd have to do with AI-written slop anyway.

There's no labour saving, and in fact it's worse because writing that 80k first draft means you're at least familiar with every sentence. Reading 80k words of garbage someone else wrote so you can polish it up - that's torture.

One way to avoid AI slop: only buy books published before 2020.

I'm on 24h2 and it's been doing this 'I will not shut down' thing for about a week.