Cold-start takes forever, but once running, nuclear plants can load follow, adjusting output by several percent per minute. Generally they don't only for economic reasons: it makes more sense to throttle back everything else instead. However, if you run out of other things to shut down, nuke plants can load-follow just fine. France does this all the time.

Batteries are still useful in a bunch of ways, but you don't need nearly as many for a mostly-nuke grid as an mostly-renewables grid.

They do not. If the grid can't accept the power, they just open the bypass valves and waste the extra heat while the reactor throttles down.

The real estate agent is happy to have a busy open house. Everyone else suffers from wasted time, inefficient markets, and occasionally being suckered into a bad deal.

Okay, sure, it'll draft some text in minutes. You then have to review it in detail to see if it's actually what you intended, which takes at least an order of magnitude longer. You then have to validate if the idea you came up with in seconds or minutes is actually a good idea. Have you thought about second order effects? Have you considered alternatives? Have other people reviewed the ideas? Are you going to get buy-in from everyone else involved?

If you're not doing those things, then you're just generating low-quality slop which wastes other people's time, or worse, gets rubber stamped and creates a real mess. Just slopping out more regulations faster is not a good goal.

If you DO do those things, then the LLM has helped you shave some time off of a small portion of a much larger process. It's a useful tool for that, but let's be realistic about what the actual gains are.

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You deleted the punctuation but to do it right you need to let all the ideas flow together in a run on stream of consciousness so there is no way to split the ideas apart even when reading it three times as you try to make sense of a meandering paragraph long sentence which is grammatically valid aside from some missing commas to give you a clue where the individual chunks of information are in the unorganized soup of thoughts which might even have a rational point and a period at the end.

"These people" are just anyone on a bad day. People make random mistakes when they do anything enough times.

I've had it happen. I was sitting weird and my foot just missed. You do these motions millions of times without thinking about it, so in that one-in-a-million case where something doesn't line up right, you get a very disorienting "why won't it slow down" feeling, and it's easy to panic. Your muscle memory instinctively pushes the "brake" harder to compensate, but it's actually the accelerator. It takes a moment for your brain to diagnose the situation and correct.

No harm done in my case: average car, open road, healthy and alert so I figured it out within a second. If I was in a Tesla Plaid, in a congested area, tired and distracted, I would have put it through a store window.

It was an eye-opening experience.

It's because of subdomains. Edit your filters: slashdot.org###floating-ad-unit

It wasn't terrible. I miss getting together with a few like-minded people who were excited to see a show together and discuss it afterward every week.

I did some napkin math. You can fit about 40,000 shirts in a 40-foot container. It costs about $8000 to send that container from a china factory to a USA warehouse. Total about $0.20 per shirt. It's still cheap, but more than the rounding error you suggest.

The possibility that one monopoly may eventually be replaced with another one isn't enough to prevent the abuse. We need actual competition between contemporary companies. I don't want to be stuck taking a bad deal, hoping that maybe a better monopoly will come along next decade.

You CAN do it, but only a few people actually do, and the data is stored privately. It's a new problem when it becomes pervasive, with centralized systems creating an indexed database of everyone, tracking them across interactions with multiple people.

It's basically the end game of Enshittification.

I interpret "unilateral market power" to mean that the suppliers have asymmetric power over the customers. There is little competition once you are locked into an ecosystem.

Sure, you can rent some compute from another company, but you have all these networks and firewalls and databases and data stores you've set up within one company's borders. The competition has similar services, but they're not quite drop in replacements, so you can't just pick up and move to take advantage of better pricing. It can take years to rebuild your infrastructure if you want to escape.

They are also an oligopoly, which limits the need to compete. The customer has very little power to negotiate better terms when there's only one, maybe two, other serious players in the field.

That document is about a defective or incorrectly-installed part. Sure, if that's a problem then they should be repaired. It's not clear whether that's related to this crash at all.

You're moving the goalposts from your original suggestion that they shouldn't have a way to shut down the engines in flight at all.

That configuration - a switch placed immediately behind each engine's throttle lever - is almost universal in every jet designed since they eliminated the Flight Engineer position.

A320 (basically every Airbus looks similar). 737-300. 747-400. Embraer is weird: they put the start/stop controls immediately in front of the throttles.

I could go on, but the point is: this isn't some poorly-considered design fluke in the 787. This is how it is done, and for a good reason: there are many situations where it's necessary to shut down the engines for safety reasons. Having these controls readily accessible saves lives.

Maybe you should take your own advice.