It's only local to China in the sense that they choose what {packages/CCP poison} go in there.

For all values of u, Linux is local to u in the sense that u chooses what packages go in there.

Ha ha, Linux already has..

# top -o gpu
top: unrecognized field name 'gpu'

.. d'oh! Never mind.

I have a 2001 Honda Civic Ex and 2002 CR-V Ex, both 5spd manuals with 136k and 62k miles respectively. They're both in great condition. They don't have any of the modern electronic crap and I have trouble imagining that all this stuff will be supported on newer vehicles for 25+ years - or at least not inexpensively.

And is asking an AI to proofread something that much different than MS Word flagging spelling and grammar errors?

Great question, and I think there isn't any significant difference.

But LLMs use a type of math that apparently has the evil bit set. Meanwhile, up here in VirtueVille, the computer code we write to create things, uses different math that doesn't have the evil bit set. Conclusion: we can look down on those AI companies and their stupid users. ;-)

Now, I wouldn't expect an AI service to be better at copyediting than an average human, but I haven't kept up so I'm ignorant of their performance. (All my "AI" experience is that I used Claude twice to, it turned out, fix some typos in some RoR config initializers.) But whether an AI service is as good at copyediting as a human or not, it's that user's choice and, as long as they sign off on the work and really take responsibility for it (declare the words to be their opinion), then I've got no problem with them doing that, whether it uses LLMs or Markov chains or human slaves or Searle's Chinese Room.

The words will be judged by their quality, not provenance.

That said...

Here's a similar story where I'd probably come to the opposite conclusion(!), despite the clown in it pretty much doing what I preach above, though he was using the AI service to do a lot more than copyedit. Behold this 3M expert witness cross-examination (134 page PDF) in the Watson Grinding case. It's slow going at first, but eventually you'll be laughing and cringing like in a good episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm.

Fuck. I don't know.

On the other hand, she was born in Bulgaria, so English is probably a second language, so getting help writing a piece to be published doesn't seem unreasonable. I imagine she also had other people review a more completed revision before submission.

Someday, you'll make a fine overly confident, but incompetent, initially beloved by some, then hated by most President - or replacement South Carolina Senator. :-)

To be fair, she's a Math teacher, not an English or writing teacher - Wilipedia says born in Bulgaria, so I'm guessing English is a second language - so her getting help from AI with the writing part is different than if it had helped her with any math in the article, which I couldn't tell from TFA as it's paywalled, and it's different than her math students getting help or answers from AI on math assignments - the thing they're there to learn. To round this out, students getting help from AI explaining and/or expanding on answers they've already solved themselves seems okay.

Or just more business to 5G broadband from cell companies which is about 100-300 Mbps. I'm guessing cell companies prefer that as they don't have to install and maintain cabling to homes and businesses.

Always order at least 6 pounds of stuff.

I wonder if they'll use these in places with military air bases. I'm a few miles from a Navy master jet base, with an Air Force base a bit farther away, and I doubt they'd be thrilled at having to track these things.

In case you're serious, or for those that don't know, that's allowed. In fact, The Constitution doesn't even require that pardons be written.

Why Trump Can’t ‘Void’ Biden’s Pardons Because of Autopen (full article)