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Fun part: you can tell properly trained AI to give generated piece "a sense of the personality and mood of the specific performer". Today, 4/5 times it will be successful in doing so, provided it had enough of performer's works to learn from.

At this point, there are two kinds of successful artists.

Those that tell you that they use AI to assist with their craft, and those that lie about it.

Because the amount of extra work that needs to be done to without AI is ridiculous at this point. Add to this the part where AI provides several unique services that humans cannot deliver in time frames that aren't thousands to tens of thousands of times longer, allowing for rapid iteration on concepts that would be impossible otherwise, and today you no longer can be successful without it.

The only difference today is how much of it is used, for what parts, and what specific model.

Oh man you would eat your words if you ever worked in the power generation industry. Protip: We don't run the electrical grid like we did in the early 90s anymore. The grid functions now largely because the entire system is networked together and because engineers have instant oversight. If you want more power outages that last far longer than today, then sure, take things offline. Just don't be the one who complains that when a local breaker trips or a local generator is offline that you're sitting in the dark while a tech drives out to diagnose a problem due to not having the required information remotely.

It's easy to armchair engineer this sort of thing. But it is also quite ... by your standards ... shameful.

You're assuming the brilliant minds who designed the security of the small generator weren't also designing the big ones. The statement there was no risk, was not that there was no risk, just that the attackers didn't demonstrate they were being a risk at the time. Who knows what systems they could have gotten into. Maybe we should be sending them thankyou cards for showing restraint.

While trying to be clever with wording you wrote something quite silly. Yes of course grid batteries scale. They scale amazingly well. The benefit from applying storage at the consumer (a consumer with solar panels) is that it reduces load on transmission lines. That's nothing to do with "scaling" since by virtue of the current peak demand load already existing grid scale batteries don't have any negative impact there. And technically they still "scale" far better at the grid as it is far more efficient and cheaper to run large inverters than many small ones.

Well, I'm pretty sure your bank has a web interface, so you don't have to use the banking app to do your banking.

Your work auth app may be more complex - if it's TOTP, you might be able to export the seed and key and there are plenty TOTP generators. (It's also one of the easiest programming assignments to do so any competent programmer should be able to come up with something in under an hour without vibe coding). Unfortunately there are a few TOTP systems that make it extremely difficult to get the seed and key values to use a third party TOTP generator.

Your state legal filing app, well, I'm sure there's a web based version of that as well - I can't imagine the state restricting legal filings to owners of Android or Apple phones.

Now, the car sharing app might be more complex - I think most car sharing sites have regular websites so you can book them from the desk, but there is also a good possibility a lot of them are app only for no good reason. Though many do use app based "car keys" which use some NFC thing to control the car.

I know American houses are made of mostly paper, air and held together by termites, but you don't even need water for this to work. In buildings which are made of something stronger, cement, aerated concrete, or some other material with thermal mass (like houses in Europe) the building itself can store an incredible amount of thermal energy.

Pre-cooling / pre-heating the home is actually one suggestion for load shifting, e.g. turn your AC on at 3pm before you get home so that most of the load is spent fighting the thermal mass of your house when energy is cheap, and then the AC is only used in the evening to maintain the already cool building (and vis versa for heating). No need for a water block. But this will not work well if your house is thin wood, drywall, and rockwool.

That much is clear, because it would be horrendously bad legal advice if it were. You went out of your way to quote a ToS that explicitly gives Twitch far more rights than you claim they have including derivative works, and somehow translate that to Twitch only being allowed to transcode video?

With that we can only assume that:
a) you don't know what all the words in the ToS mean
b) you don't know that courts already have ruled that AI training is transformative and fair use implying that the only question is whether content was legally obtained which in turn means that so far as every court has ruled to date, if you publish something for free or upload it to a service, it is in *legal* fact, fair use for AI training.

No, by their own admission the mechanism to opt-out was disabled by default. Based on current legal precedent and given the ToS you quoted, they actually don't need to give people a choice at all. But when they did give that choice, they made it opt-out, which ... of course they did, they would have been mad not to.

Did you follow the conversation. No one here was talking about AI specifically, they were talking about the "ton of rights to the content itself" something which the old ToS also granted Amazon.

And now you're cluelessly calling someone a liar despite clearly not having a clue what is being talked about and then calling them impartial, fuck all the way off with your shitty attitude.

No need for that, just store coolness in the house. Chill the house sooner, it's not just air, the mass of the house itself also cools.

If all you have is insults and a "you're wrong" then I'll take that as a huge win. Go throw your tantrum instead of responding to what I wrote, you can tell your fellow kids in the playground how big manly you are.

MS couldn't give 2 shits about Linux on the Desktop. It's a tiny and irrelevant market share to them.

If you would stop being such a dumb mother fucker and stop voting for pedophiles because trans girls make you feel icky and give you a boner at the same time then we could fix all this shit.

There is absolutely no reason why everything can't be fine but guys like you are so fucking stupid you think you're part of the in group and that when the shit hits the fan Trump has your back. He hates you. You disgust him. When you showed up on January 6th to make him King he was pissed off how low class and how much of a bunch of losers you are.

The point of my rant which is way the fuck over your head is that if assholes like you would get out of the way people like me who aren't idiots could fix all this shit in a couple of decades tops. No poverty no war no starvation no hungry kids and the only thing we have to trade for it is you would have to be nice to trans girls and blacks or whatever group you don't like and you wouldn't be able to worship Elon Musk and pretend he actually did anything useful instead of just stealing all my taxpayer money and my 401k.

The real problem here is you have extremely low self esteem and you take that out on the rest of us. It's amazing that a bunch of losers with low self-esteem or basically going to end the human race for the stupidest fucking way possible in the stupidest timeline possible.

If the C code does something unsafe, how can it be machine-translated into safe Rust, without knowing the intention of the programmer?

The key word being "if".

There's a ton of C code out there, the vast majority of which doesn't do anything unsafe. Take say, Apache httpd - what unsafe thing would it do? It just forks, spits a file out over a socket and that's it. The most unsafe thing it does would be to run a plugin, but that's mostly handled by the dynamic loader.

In fact, most userspace code out there isn't really doing anything irrational or unsafe - they're using kernel interfaces to do the unsafe bits, and everything else is just system calls and library functions.

And even if you can't convert all code, you can protect most code. Never let perfect get in the way of good enough. The few bits of C code that need to exist because it's unsafe is much easier than millions of lines of C code that doesn't do unsafe stuff but can become unsafe in certain weird situations.