There is no such thing as a distillation "attack". Distillation is not an attack.

Imagine learning (ripping) off everything everyone has done and then getting all hot and bothered when someone else learns from you. There is nothing legitimate about this behavior. Closed model vendors have no such moral or legal right.

Jacked up context size, loaded a small 1kloc project I had written over the past few days and asked GLM-5.2 to find the bugs. Had only looked it over a few times... compiled yet had never run. Took hours to run the model on my workstation burning so many tokens "thinking" I was getting scared it would reach the context limit and bail. Out of the 40 or so bullet points it had rattled off 4 that were actual bugs. One of them I would have found immediately during testing.. other 3 were more subtle so in the end was kind of impressed and it was worth while.

I see no need to pay someone else to spy on me when I can run this shit myself for free entirely locally. Personally would love to see all the vertically integrated closed model AI as a service companies go out of business.

Oldie but goodie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I was addressing your comment about heat rejection, a subject on which I have some amount of expertise. If you have objections to the proposed space data systems other than your comment about radiators, go start a new thread.

No, the approach would be to launch massive solar panels that can be seen with the naked eye from the ground.

The solar panels would do double duty as radiators.

That is true, but the archaeology shows that this won't work for all island-hopping or all river navigation.

For example, we have clear evidence of hominins not just living on islands across the Mediterranean when no ice was present (it was free-standing water) but commuting to and from shore. We also have evidence of technologies travelling upstream along river-based communities at speeds that cannot be accounted for by simply walking.

So we need a model in which they could actively navigate against the water flow AND across significant distances of open water.

There is no doubt an EV battery can rack up hundreds of thousands of miles on a single battery. I very much doubt they would last 20 years. Battery warranties are generally half that at remaining capacity levels below the 80% standard.

Find an independent EV specialist. They can probably get or build you an aftermarket LEAF pack with more modern guts.

There's a ton of aftermarket support out there.
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> Might be. But it is not far outside the window of actual expense

"Yeah the evidence is fake but that doesn't mean the conclusion is wrong."

That's basically politics in 2026 in a nutshell, I guess.
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Just about every engineering and non web LOB software.
Altium, any old microcontroller dev platform, most mech CAD.
Altium Designer
Keil MDK
IAR Embedded Workbench
Intel Quartus Prime
Lattice FPGA tools
Proteus (if used)
Siemens/Cadence PCB tools (PADS, Xpedition, OrCAD)
Solid works
STLink
flash magic
NI lab view.
M1 ERP
PSOC creator

You get the idea

It’s a long list.

There is no such thing as "plain Lithium-Ion". Lithium-Ion is a catch-all term for accumulator cells which use Lithium ions in anode, cathode and electrolyte. There are many versions of them. The oldest type is Lithium-Cobaltoxide (LiCoO2), which uses Cobalt(II)-oxide in the cathode. Then there is Lithium-Nickel-Maganese-Cobalt (LiNMC), which is often used in cars, because it allows for very dense accumulator cells. Lithium-Ironphosphate (LiFePO4), while having the same gravimetric density as LiNMC, takes up more space for the same capacity, it is a more fluffy material. We have Lithium-Nickel-Cobalt-Aluminium-Oxide (LiNCA), used in the cells Panasonic builds for Tesla. Many pedelec batteries, but also the Nissan Leaf use Lithium-Manganeseoxide (LiMO) cells.

Aside from the early LEAF packs being notoriously bad with degradation - both due to early tech AND bad thermal design - it's also worth noting that the main reasons EV batteries enter the secondary market is because the vehicle they were installed in got totaled.

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We know that boats built 1.1 million years ago (so around the time of the split) were capable of going long distances up/down rivers between settlements, and across open waters beyond visual range to islands. This places certain language requirements on the hominins of the time, although we can't be sure hobbits had full access to all of those requirements. (There's not much evidence of boat building.)

However, they must have genetically had the capability, whether or not their brains were large enough to make any use of it.