Indeed. Waste heat is just one of that fake "arguments" by the typical deniers. On the other hand, waste heat is what currently causes France to have to shut down their nuclear reactors.

... a thing obviously not done or not done competently at the Norwegian lottery. This should cause liability and get those responsible (the ones that hired the incompetent coder and tester) fired.

Indeed. Nobody sane buys anything from Oracle willingly.

Indeed. HP busniess laptop af a coworker literally burst into flames. Fortunately self-extinuished immediately, but a component on the mainboard drastically overheated.

Yep. Like "Prompt Engineer". Apparently that bubble has already popped.

Nice list!

I found that doing translations gets about 2x as fast with a DeepL translation as start. But it really needs careful revision, as there is the most horrific bullshit in there in quite a few places. If I do revision and translation instead of just translation, I am still faster doing it all myself.

To be fair, translation and transcriptions are essentially "better search" and that is one of the few things LLMs can do somewhat well.

There is a National Egg Board? The mind boggles.

But yes, "people wanting to sell you something claim their product is great" has no informational value...

Definitely time for a different approach. If I were them, I'd definitely build out a domestic supply fully, but I'd also seek to build shorter cables with Spain and other near neighbours.

It's just not true that renewables generate electricity when we don't need it in the UK. Windpower is pretty much all consumed, and to the extent it's not, that's because it's readily switched off in a way that expensive nuclear can't be. We have only a small amount of solar, and again, we're able to consume it all. And of course, there are other solutions to excess supply of renewables besides selling it to variable-demand industrial consumers. The most obvious is storage -- short, medium and long-duration -- which is falling in price rapidly and extends the hours of usage for renewables.

And hence this statement is meaningless.

Fascinationg. The stupidity of people that down-mod plain facts is staggering. As if that would change anything.

> The cost of development for the Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy were incredibly low

Which is to be expected since governments spent on the order of a trillion dollars and 50+ years developing the technology. Just about every aspect of their operation was conceived, developed, and trialed before Musk was even born.

SpaceX deserves a lot of credit for refining that tech, but do not dismiss the fact they are standing atop a mountain of taxpayer funded R&D without which they wouldn't even have a business model, let alone working rockets.
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... when things go dramatically wrong. There is no way Apple is unable to make an LLM on the level of most other players at this time.

Paying cash if there’s a power outage isn’t going to work in any store larger than a mom-and-pop anyway, because cash registers are powered and linked to POS systems that track transactions.