The thing is, I believe you just illustrated my point. You have to set up exotic environments to try to preserve opsec, and opsec is never a static thing - your system works until it hits a failure mode you didn't anticipate, and the cloud agent you're interacting with is constantly evolving. I'm less concerned with "how productive it is" - maybe it is the best thing since sliced bread. I'm not even concerned with "how reliable is it" - I want to check LLM output before I field it anyway. I'm by far the most concerned with "how SAFE is it"

This is everything that was wrong with Microsoft Copilot except even worse because it's cloud based. The idea of allowing a cloud-based service to remote control your computer (especially since most people operate their computer with full admin access) is crazysauce. There are already plenty of stories about LLMs permanently deleting code and other work product, and then saying "oops you're right that was a mistake on my part", Giving them essentially unfettered access to your local filesystem? Not for this little black duck.

Because the kit requires an MSO (Manufacturer's Statement of Origin) that identifies the kit. The process of registering a kit car requires an inspection and a VIN assignment (if the kit didn't include a VIN). At that point it's identified as a noncompliant imported vehicle and off to the crusher with it. Technically whaat you are talking about here, if they did sell it as a kit, would be what's called a "component car" because all the parts would come from a single manufacturer. As far as the NHSTA is concerned, the kit car _is_ a car. This is an obvious loophole that was absolutely thoroughly plugged - US Customs won't let you get away with it. Crush crush.

Unless it's 25 years old, the non-US-compliant car will be untitleable, unregisterable, uninsurable and subject to being impoounded and crushed. Yes, there is a black market for import paperwork and so on - and in some states it's easier than in others - but driving it is a constant risk.

75K to 500K/yr ... yes I would want to move off that too, but there is so much corporate BS in that number that it's not simple. For the migration: What's capex? What's opex? It's complicated.

Can't disagree with anything you wrote, but monocultures exist for other reasons. In regulated industries, it's already hard enough to be process-compliant if you have completely standardized your IT systems. It's practically impossible to survive an audit if you have heterogeneous systems. The overhead isn't just the money required to maintain separate process documents and systems, it's confusion and exhaustion created in the employees who have to interact with different parts of those heterogeneous systems. Confusion means mistakes. Mistakes mean battery acid going into baby formula, or pacemakers being built upside-down.

The Caledonian VPN will penetrate Hadrian's Firewall routinely.

There it is. The most asinine thing I've read on the Internet this morning. Ofcom can clutch their pearls as hard as they wish, but they have no jurisdiction over a company with no UK nexus. If they don't like 4chan - and I'm sure they just picked this site as a test case, because there are many sites in the US that don't comply with UK age/content regulations (and never will) - they can take action inside their own jurisdiction, such as forcing ISPs to block it, or some other draconian censorship nonsense.

Broadcom did it in the ballsiest way possible though. They didn't mince words. They said - almost verbatim - "We don't care about small customers. We are structuring the business model around a small number of high value customers and everyone else is lost in the noise." That kind of explicit statement is not common.

True enough but the migration cost is immense - which is exactly why Broadcom played this game.

Having Claude is like being in an office where you can walk to the next cube and chitchat with another engineer. Just an hour ago I was having trouble flashing a CYD from an Apple silicon MacBook, and I was frustrated as hell at trying various things Google told me to try. Then I opened a chat session with Claude, told it my problem, pasted an error message, and it got me over the first hump. Then I immediately hit a different hump and Claude explained how to get past that one. I got from "FFS" to "hello world!" in ten minutes and the entire transaction felt like talking to an engineer who'd worked with the hardware platform before.

Did you read the article? This explicitly is not last mile (distribution to individual customers) it is middle mile (warehouse/distribution center to store). These trucks arenâ(TM)t carrying 1000 individual Amazon packages that need to be delivered to 1000 individual addresses, they are carrying half a dozen pallets of shrink wrapped merchandise, all of which is going from the same point A to the same point B. The truck pulls up, door opens, someone with a pallet jack unloads it in 2 minutes.

Why the caveat that it can only be done if it hasnâ(TM)t been launched recently? So if the user accidentally clicked the wrong thing once, the uninstall will fail? And why allow the user to reinstall something IT has said it doesnâ(TM)t want on the PC? None of this makes sense. It can uninstall it, maybe, but it can come back at any time and if the user actually runs even once a month, it canâ(TM)t be uninstalled? Feels like this activity is a response to some legal action or a demand from a very big customer, itâ(TM)s not really providing IT with a useful capability.

That's an option but since I had to replace existing equipment I felt it easier to go with all electric. Also, sunshine is free and propane is not :)

My regular wristwatch runs about 5 years on a single battery.

Get a Solios watch. My "nice" dress watch is a Solios. The dial is a PV panel. The device is designed to last 30 years without requiring a battery replacement :D Very nice watches, designed in Quebec.