Most of the experiences of people here are anecdotal, as are mine. Personally I'm happy to use ASRock, the last 12 years their mid-tier motherboards (3 gens, 1 intel, 2 amd) have been solid performers. Don't get me started on ASUS, I bought 2 high-end motherboards and both crapped out within 2-3 years outside of warranty. We highly recommended them when I was still working in a computer shop and for most people they worked reliably, just not for me.

In the good 'ole days this kind of news would have had over a thousand comments in a few hours, not 36 in over 5 hours. I really miss the old Slashdot vibe. It has gone downhill, and as an /. old-timer (I was there before uid's and usernames and I lost my first login which is why I have a "recent" uid) I think it's sad to see it in this state.

However, there's still the odd gem in the comments sometimes. Too bad those are harder and harder to find.

Nonsense

RedHat does. So does Oracle. And IBM for AIX. And Microsoft as well for for instance MS SQL Server 2022 and MS Office 2024.

This might be the case in the US, for Europe I beg to differ.

As individual you _can_ make a difference: energy consumption per capita for the US is about 279 MMBTU, for the EU this is 86 MMBTU - less than a third so it is possible. Due to larger distances you won't get to the European figure, but reducing your energy consumption by 50% would already account for 350 million times 140 MMBTU = 49 billion MMBTU per annum. The cut down in CO2 emissions for 49 billion MMBTU is approximately 2,597,000 kg (5,725,405 lbs) - roughly the same as the annual emission of countries like Niger or Surinam. All to say that it _will_ have effect.

Also, governments _do_ regulate a lot here and companies threaten all the time to relocate to cheaper countries (read: countries where there are fewer regulations and where climate change is an afterthought). It's too bad (for the world) the US is becoming one of them, while already being very energy-hungry.

Well, they can always recommend a new CPU and expanding the RAM. That used to work on Win95 so it should work now, right?

That's a (much too) pretty way to say it crashed.

Maybe, maybe not. I've used plenty of Google-Fu but the last 8-10 years the results kept getting worse, mostly due to SEO and advertising. The Gemini AI results now usually make more sense than the actual search results below it.

I'm interested to see where it goes. But with everything AI - you will need to verify. The LLMs may be trained on all kinds of data, including biased ones (e.g. right wing, specific religious standpoints, regional differences and plain misinformation). Not only that, they are continuously trained by us, asking them about stuff and arguing with them. You can have a pretty dark conversation regarding Nazism and the "Endloesung" with it if you prompt it correctly, but also a fun conversation about unicorns and dragons and what their babies would look like.

True indeed. I'd rather wait a few months for an MRI and get the proper treatment 2 weeks after the scan than have the MRI within a week and not be able to afford the treatment or go bankrupt because the insurance doesn't cover it.

Especially HP laptops. They come preloaded with... well HP.

If/when true AGI is achieved, only a fool would announce it. What would announcing it do for you? Make you famous? Rich? Cool. Know what's better than all that?

Not telling a damn soul and using the AGI quietly to do whatever the Hell you want. If you want to be rich, the AGI will tell you how to become rich. If you want to be famous, the AGI will tell you how to become famous. You can do both. And you don't have to stop there. A real, vastly superior AGI enables the person controlling it to do anything. The second you tell people about it, you'll lose control over it and then you're the famous idiot who did a cool thing one time. Kids in elementary school will recite your name back on a test. And you could have had everything.

Anyone smart enough to crack AGI can't also be stupid enough to advertise when they do it.

*types in password case insensitve a few times...

***The password you have entered is incorrect. Your account has been locked.***

See? Case sensitivity matters. And I _do_ see mynotes or MyNotes as 2 different things, and most people I know do too (as they should).

Example: Windows explorer kindly hides the file extension by default. The MyNotes (or mynotes) can be the executable and have a mynotes.ini on top of you having a mynotes.txt file.

I read it as 4.5 didn't end up performing as well as hoped in the real world and 4.1 being a direct iteration of 4o rather than 4.5.

They're operating with parallel code lines because each is targeting different use cases.

Next to the AI sauce / A1 tech from Linda McMahon. Get yours today!

Oh no, they won't do that. They'll keep prices the same across the globe, making the rest of the world pay for the US tariffs as well. And as soon as the tariffs get lifted, nothing happens to the price.

You gotta keep the shareholders happy...

These are all issues directly related to regulation and unnecessary red tape created out of NIMBYism and irrational fear around radiation. India, Canada, and China aren't stupid. They're building and/or modernizing nuclear power plants like crazy because they're so effective at reliable baseline power, which renewables simply are not. In the US, we force years - sometimes decades - of reviews and permits and defending court cases and other bullshit unrelated to the construction and operation of clean, safe nuclear power.

The other issue going to cost is that the US - again, stupidly - bars reuse of high energy spent fuel. If you simply separate the low energy (relatively safe, but useless for generating power) waste from the high energy fuel remaining and feed the high energy stuff back in, you can extract nearly all the energy, save a ton of fuel costs, mine less fuel, and have vastly less volume of waste and vastly less energetic waste.

Let's assume some sort of absolute mandate were passed to build 5 CANDU-6 (known, proven, safe, reliable design) reactors. No reviews, no permits, no red tape, no lawsuits. Just build the damn things now. You can get one operational in ~3.5 years, all of them in about 4ish years. South Korea and China have built PWRs in 5. Assuming we also lifted the ban on fuel reprocessing, CANDU-6 plants will produce power at a cost of 5-6 cents per kWh, yielding a retail price of 13-17 cents per kWh. US average is about 16.2 cents, California has rates pushing 50 cents. But we're too stupid to get out of our own way and just do it, so we'll keep strangling the poor and middle class economically.