That depends on what they were trained for. Was it to uphold the law or... not? If the latter then yeah, sure. If the former, then no. The LLMs are trained on a fat core dump. The training corpus was produced without a thought even for accuracy, let alone honesty or fair play.

Ideally we get rid of MS in a cleaner way.

(To continue the discussion... Naturally they are different from IBM and cloud services are different from IBM's consulting services, but still services, if in no way other than in the sense of "being serviced".)

Portables are trash. Mini-splits don't cover a window, the connection between the inside and outside units goes through a fairly small hole, and they are much more efficient. Window units exist for stupid reasons to begin with, the solution is mini-splits.

An AC posted above about waiting for this inevitable type of comment posted by idiots and here it is!

I paid $99 for a fully legit copy of Windows 7 Pro, system builder's edition. That's simply intended to be sold alongside parts for a new PC, which in fact is what I was doing. Therefore I'm confident that an OEM license for Windows 7 Home was less than that.

A lot of them seem obsessive about work. Musk is a good example. Claims to work long hours, although how much of that is spent shitposting on X is hard to say. But he claims he does, and seems to expect everyone else to as well. In reality he seems to contribute very little beyond being a good liar and hype man, and having some financial sense. He also uses drugs to enhance his performance and to relax, an option not available to most plebs.

It's groovy when the representative of a corporations admits deliberate violation of the Magnusson-Moss act. It's always nice when they confess in writing.

It is rather easy to blame others for climate change. Yes, the poor consume products which do ecological damage. But they wouldn't be able to do that damage without rich people deciding it's what they will be allowed to buy.

Come on now, leave some billionaire cock for the rest of us to suck.

How did it become controversial to think Nazis and child rapists were bad? When this is the state of political discourse and debate in the USA, we deserve for our nation to fail, as it is in the process of doing.

It was a step in developing morality perhaps, now it's an impediment to developing it further

Massive drought and wildfires, leading to flooding when it does start raining this week and the ground can't absorb it.

We may have to start looking at desalination, like Middle Eastern countries. Certainly we need to get much better at storing water from the winter. The UK is particularly bad for that, because we sold off publicly owned water utilities and they didn't bother investing in storage, they just paid out massive dividends for shareholders. Decades later and we are being hit by climate change too.

That's why it is so dangerous.

When ambient temperature equals of exceeds body temperature, your body can no longer radiate heat. The only way to shed it is via sweating, which risks dehydration. When it's also very humid, you can't even sweat it off, and you die.
That's assuming you are healthy, it's worse if you aren't.

It's also why in Europe you usually can't be made to work in an environment about around 32C, and even that is borderline.The laws vary but generally that is around the point where doing anything other than relaxing or seeking shelter from the heat starts to have very negative consequences for your health.

Microsoft in Japan, a country with notoriously long working hours, just tried a 4 day working week: https://mashable.com/article/m...

They found that productivity increased by 40%. So it's not the same pay for less work, it's the same pay for more work.

I used to work in this area for a short time, so I have some insight.

The company made what the newspapers called a "fish disc", basically flashing lights and speakers placed underwater to drive fish away. There were also UV lights to stop stuff growing on them. They worked but were problematic. Difficult to install and in need of a lot of maintenance. Not 100% effective either, the nuclear plants they were protecting still needed filters and regular cleaning, just less of it. And of course when one was hit by lightning and knocked out temporarily, the plant was in trouble.

Fighting nature tends to be a losing battle. Much better to try to integrate with it. If you are building say an offshore wind turbine, you just need to accept that stuff is going to live on and around it, and design it to deal with that. Fortunately it's not that hard with a stationary turbine, but for a nuclear plant that relies on fresh water for cooling, dealing with stuff living in the water and the water itself heating up is a major problem.

Oh yeah, some of those French plants shut down because the water got too warm in the heatwave.

IQ is bunk because it is influenced by education and practice. Therefore it is not a measure of raw intelligence potential.