This sounds like an EPCM contractor.
"We want you to deliver: XYZ"
*delivers: WXY* *sends bill for WXY*
"No you numbskulls, we wanted XYZ"
"Sorry sorry, out mistake."
*delivers: XYZ* *sends bill for WXYXYZ*

I agree with you in principle. As I said the outcome of this will rest on legal arguments and edge cases. The certificate being nonsense in your eyes may be justified by lawyers and agreed by judges leaving us fucked over. This is no where near as clear cut as you make it out to be. EU law is often quite vague in such cases.

But either way, even if it does work out in our favour, don't expect it in the next couple of years.

Just googling "baseload" is like just googling "ICE car" and declaring it the only solution to a complex topic because it's the only thing you know about. Baseload is a description of a type of power generation, it's not the singular answer to what it means to design a grid, and indeed in the modern world it's actually becoming more and more important that we fill grid with dispatchable power instead of base load generation. Baseload becomes a significant problem for electrification, not a solution. E.g. you can't turn on a nuclear power plant only at night when people charge EVs and fire up their induction cook tops and heat pumps, so you end up ... needing storage anyway. And if you need storage anyway... I'll let you finish my thought for me.

Then you have exceedingly bad observer bias. You can correct this though, feel free to look at any of my China related comments on their car industry, their solar industry, their wind industry, feel free to check how I consistently counter the stupid racist idea that all they can do is steal and don't have any knowledge of their own.

Even now you seem to think what I said was negative, despite having just put China on par with the west by pointing out they have not one, but two of their own home grown nuclear licenses. If you think this was China in the 1980s then maybe you have an overly rosy picture of their past because they definitely have advanced in spades.

But their advancement doesn't change the fact that nuclear is insanely fucking difficult regardless if you're the relative new player (China) or the established expert (France), or the bankrupt has been (America - though to be fair France's industry went bankrupt too but they nationalised it rather than selling it off to an overseas company).

It's not just you though. You see this kind of comment literally everywhere. For some reason people confuse IP66 and IP68, and always have. I even went and looked up the standard yesterday seeing if it changed in some past revision and it didn't so no idea where this came from.

There is not. There may be some user complaints but Microsoft's approach to this is window-dressing and marketing. E.g. how they said they removed CoPilot from Notepad and proceeded to simply renamed it to "Writing tools"

Also it doesn't really make much sense. AI has a use case at an OS level to provide cross app integration. Now I don't intend to use it, but the use case exists for it. I see no reason why there would be any internal pressure for Micro-"We'll put a special copilot key on your keyboard and integrate it with Windows"-soft to step back from this.

Don't get too excited. You can expect any commercial product to a walled shitbucket chasing your captive attention.

So one of the ways to pad your resume is to contribute to open source projects and this is been one of the drivers for open source.

So what we are seeing now is AI slop submissions flooding open source projects from people trying to get a credit without actually doing any work. It's no skin off their backs if you waste the reviewer's time and if your AI slop happens to be legit because you did three or four 500 submissions then that's just fine. Because all you were really after is getting your name on the project for when you apply for a job.

With how hyper competitive life is now because we're all Fighting for our lives out here I suppose I can't blame them but it's fucking things up. It's just another twisted distortion you get when you tie somebody's ability to access food and shelter to their job performance.

I have a feeling it will. Microsoft isn't pulling the plug as much as not supporting a certificate renewal for something they indicated would reach end of a support period. It's precisely this kind of particular bullshit that legal wrangling rests on and which makes lawyers rich. The EU has enough of a problem with the "killing software" trend and they've done nothing in the meantime.

And even if it doesn't fly in the EU, the EU is a slow moving bureaucracy. They do not (and cannot) act on intent alone. They need to wait until something happens, then someone complains to a local regulator, then the regulator starts an investigation, then a year later concludes the investigation and starts legal proceedings, which then drag out for years too.

And in the end MS will get a slap on the wrist.

Even if the company has a crap product as long as they have a product they can keep taking money from investors and the CEOs can keep paying themselves out of that money. Maybe someday they will have a working product maybe they won't but either way the CEOs didn't have to have real jobs for quite some time.

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.

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?