Dude, I haven’t hand written any assembly code for 30 years… those “AI compilers” have been doing ALL the work, the optimization, and especially the optimizers inject a lot of bugs - particularly in the 25-30 years ago timeframe.

Nobody inside your home ever takes photos and posts them to social media? That’s the thing: they can build databases associating people with places they have been seen, people they have been seen with.

You could visit a friend, get snapped and posted, then your friend could have somebody you don’t know over another time, and now you’re linked to that person and may come up in fishing expeditions around a crime they may be accused of…

Nevermind the faults in the system that place you inside wretched hives of scum and villiany you have never even had the pleasure of visiting yourself, but still you get to defend yourself against accusations stemming from the faulty placement.

https://moneywise.com/news/top-stories/flock-ai-cameras-denver-woman-false-accusation-package-theft

https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/earth-matters/2013/07/19/smile-youre-on-space-cam/

This only seems to affect properties with public listings to source photos from

Has your house been on the market in the past 20-25 years? If so, Zillow and others still publicly show the interior photos from that marketing campaign.

There was a time GIMP’s interface was “too much” for me and I continued to use my old Photoshop CD-ROM, but about 20-23 years ago I got over that. I don’t do any real heavy image manipulation but I still need to do the occational screen capture, crop, resize, rotate, overlay kind of stuff - I’ve had 23 years to get used to it, so GIMP is pretty intuitive for all that, to me (and it had already become so 22 years ago…)

I’d guess you are right, but I don’t know because I haven’t tested it. I’d say: if this guy really devoted a solid month of focused LLM development time on the job, and knows what he’s doing, there’s a chance he’s pretty close to what is claimed in TFA. But I haven’t tested it for myself, so I just don’t know. I’m guessing you are right because most of these projects aren’t done by people who know what they’re doing, and aren’t real heavy effort even during the month they work on them.

Everybody likes what they know, have you given learning GIMP a chance, or does CS6 do things for you that GIMP can’t?

How have the devalued demographic fared since?

To a large extent, they have been replaced with non-citizens. While much is made of physical ability being replaced by machines, it’s far from 100% achieved today. Where physical labor remains necessary, it’s largely filled by a “2nd society” - and members of the “1st society” rarely entertain the notion of pursuing anything resembling a career in doing the physical labor. Meanwhile, the “2nd society” gets abused with limited if any protections from hazardous working conditions, etc.

Seem that if a bug would result in thousands of dollars in losses, paying out $300 is kind of an “own goal” - company giving itself a PR black eye.

Got news about snow and ice in Switzerland: it happens in the valleys during winter just as heavy as it ever does at the higher elevations.

Not just on the dam itself, but across the lake to reduce evaporation - like they’ve been doing extensively in Australia.

I believe Florida’s recent build-out of utility scale natural gas plants is driven, in part, by their ability to ramp up and down virtually instantly.

However, the linked story is about a residential neighborhood where lots of homeowners installed individual natural gas powered generators for their homes. Then, when the public grid failed in a hurricane, they all switched on their “whole home, natural gas powered” generators at once for the first time and the natural gas supply to the neighborhood was nowhere near up to the task of delivering all that fuel at that rate.

Read this quick before the people selling generators get it buried: https://www.wtsp.com/article/money/consumer/south-tampa-generators-fail-during-hurricanes-teco-peoples-gas/67-144d70da-bb27-496c-8928-ab7e61a53b00

The gas company finally figured out how to deflect their responsibility in the matter: they say that the generator owners “didn’t register” their generators, but… now that it has been a year, has the gas company done anything to improve service capacity?

Anyway: the tie-in with Starlink is, anything like this works great until everybody tries to use it all at once at high capacity. When all 53,000 residents of Grand Island Nebraska decide to stream different high definition videos all at once? A good fiber system can handle that, Starlink? I’m curious…

Time Warner and Comcast need to have all that grant money clawed back. They contracted with the taxpayers to deliver a service and they didn’t even make a good faith effort to start.

Seriously, this is in the “well, we know you want all the free money you can get, but: no. Now go do your thing on your own dime.”

Fiber in the ground is infrastructure like paved roads. Satellites? One counter-orbiting frag bomb can take out a satellite constellation in less than a day.

Me, personally, we have trees and shade. So many subdivisions don’t, and they have dark colored roofs, and then homeowners do bone-headed things like adding “sun rooms” - lots of those in Houston.

We get upset when our electric bill passes $300 for the month, but our neighbors with the 3500 sq ft? They never see it under $400.

The average (US suburban 2200sq ft) home’s A/C does consume 4kW while it is cycled on, and in the hotter than normal months of summer it can run continuous duty cycle for hours on end.

Arguably, a great deal more than the energy you lose from opening the door to your house in the summer, once while the A/C is running.

Or, looking at it another way, an AI query+result can be just as valuable as a Tik Tok post / view.

This figure is already not bad. 40 watt hours = 0.04kWh - you know kWh? That unit on your electric bill that is around $0.18 per kWh (and data centers tend to be in lower cost electric areas, closer to $0.11/kWh.) Still, 40Wh would register on your home electric bill at $0.0072, less than a penny. For comparison, an average suburban 4 ton AC unit draws 4kW - that 40Wh request? 1/100th of an hour of AC for your home, about 36 seconds of air conditioning. I don’t know that this article is making anybody “look bad” in terms of power used.