What kills me is how Repubs constantly use "BUT CHINA!!1!" as their go-to boogeyman for everything from technology and AI to the economy and trade, and yet they conveniently ignore their massive buildup of renewables and nuclear. One of the few instances where the divergence between the US and China actually matters and they pretend it doesn't exist.

Imagine if the party in power actually cared about the energy future of the US. We could be setting ourselves up for the next 50 years of growth by electrifying everything and upgrading the national grid to support it. Instead we're DIRLL BBY DIRLLing, building new pipelines, and putting up as many methane power plants as possible. Stupid old fucks.

"Autopilots stay active in the background, understand how work gets done across your apps and systems, and take action without needing to be prompted each time," said Omar Shahine"

Actual autopilots require constant oversight, whether you're on a yacht looking or for shipping containers, or in a plane watching for mountains. That's why it's a good name for Tesla's Almost Self Driving misfeature. On that basis it's actually sort of a good name for this, in that so will these AI agents, though they won't be getting it.

If they wanted to give an air of confidence, though, they would have named it more cleverly than this, and without using a name already in common use for a semi related product.

I suggest general operating LLM enterprise management, or GOLEM ;)

The real friends are the terrorists we made along the way.

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That's great for you, but irrelevant to users buying laptops, which is the topic at hand.

The surprising thing here is what the actual cost is. People have been completely and totally insulated from it until now as every AI company was effectively acting as a loss leader and no one in the industry was charging sustainable rates.

The system is starting to financially collapse, and maybe now that we start seeing the true cost we can back down from this insane bullshit path we're on.

Maybe the cost will finally persuade my employer will stop shoving CoPilot down our throats.

Yeah, but that's the normal state of affairs, you don't need to point it out.

BUT MUH NATIONAL SECURITY! OF COURSE TRUMP SHUD DO WHUTEVER HE WANTS FOR THAT!

In China nuclear isn't viable either. 100% of their projects require massive government support and finance. Housing construction is also a good investment in China. It's a program that is ongoing, despite bankrupting the world's largest developing company and qualifying for its own wikipedia page on what a bizarre societal outcome it has: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

I wouldn't see Chinese state investments as any kind of a standard for sustainability.

China is a net importer of nuclear power designs globally. They build more (ex-)American, French, and Russian reactors, than they export CPR or Hunglow designs.

China's projects all run over budget and over time. France's industry went bankrupt and they don't have American lawyers over there. You're repeating a common fallacy ignoring that building nuclear reactors is insanely fucking difficult (this is the technical term we used back when I worked at a contractor building nuclear reactors).

If by untested you mean followed the same test requirements as any other drug, and by novel you mean just as novel as countless drugs that came before them of which we've created new ways to make drugs literally 100s of times in the past century, and if by killed millions you mean thousands (though maybe you meant many millions less than the virus it was protecting against) then you would be correct.

If you didn't mean these things you're a moron.

Why? Are you too ham fisted to open the phone and replace it yourself, and equally too tight to pay someone $20 to do the basic repair for you?

Why? Replacing a battery on any phone is trivial, and some companies (e.g. Apple) even sell you a battery along with a kit to do so. Now sure it actually requires a bit of skill, but that skill is available about as readily as a car mechanic is.

While I'm in favour of legally mandated minimum warranties like those which exist in the EU, the longer you make them the more the normal users end up subsidising the power users who should be expected to pay for their abnormal device use. (The reason I know how easy it is to replace batteries is because the wife's batteries are the ones that need replacing. That's what happens when someone is still a Pokemon Go addict who cycles her batteries multiple times a day. I don't think I should pay a higher price for my phone because she overuses hers. Let her buy a replacement battery (and if I'm not here to install it, she can walk to a small kiosk in the shopping mall and get the kid there to do it while she goes and buys cloths).

No it doesn't. It has a non-first party purchasable battery. The actual battery replacement involves opening 6 screws, disconnecting the battery from a connector, connecting a new one and putting 6 screws in. This is user replaceable for even some pretty useless ham-fisted users. I do think we need to go back to a realisation that swapping a rechargeable battery is a "repair" and it's okay to expect someone to be able to pickup a #1 Philips-head screwdriver to do that.

Now Roland not providing the battery as a spare part to purchase, for that let me get my pitchfork and join you on your crusade. At least for all the shit you have to do to swap a mobile phone battery they are actually available.

What the article seems to be trying to say is that adafruit criticized flux ai's low quality product so flux AI is abusing a law to go after them.

Yes they cost twice as much as a normal phone and are double the size, and swapping the battery just a handful of times would cause an average user to destroy the water proof rating because the average user is hamfisted.

A bit of glue on a uni-body is much cheaper and easier to design on a small device.