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Alternatively, renewables have the massive advantage of being distributed and often closer to the consumer, possibly even their rooftop, or their parking space, or even on top of their shading device (big umbrellas etc.), or their agricultural land, which is already suffering from the higher temperatures.

And price and time to market are of course giant points as well.

I obviously don't know about Norway, but in most developed countries, the number one reason for habitat destruction or disruption is going to be animal agriculture, or highspeed road infrastructure. While I can't prove it, it seems too convenient that people suddenly care about "nature" right after they've fucked it up for so many other reasons.

The AI companies that are famously making massive profits and have found a well working way to make money, correct? They aren't just propped up by the sale of a fantasy world full of money that's always just a couple months or years away. Just a couple billion more, I swear.

Which facts? Do you have some facts that explain why Apple did this move? Because all the facts I know of paint a picture of Apple throwing a massive tantrum at any kind of consumer protection rulings they might be subject to. They would ABSOLUTELY make their products worse in the EU to make uninformed voters and consumerist victims blame the very government agencies protecting them.

This feature happens on the phone, not the AirPods. There is no reason at all why this shouldn't be available in the EU, except the consumer friendly need to provide the API for the feature to other device manufacturers.

This seems like the obvious outcome, considering all the hype. The more powerful the AI, the more power it has to break stuff. And there is literally ZERO possibility to remove that risk. So, whos going to tell your gungho CEO that the fancy features he wants are straight up impossible, without a giant security risk?

You've now watered down your frankly crazy statement of "Nazis were socialist, actually" to "Nazis and socialists a group of people that make policies to improve the wellbeing of that group". This fits every single other form of governance, outside of anarchy or extreme versions of libertarianism.

There's absolutely no good reason to ever make the statements you've made, outside of trying to make Nazis look better.

It's 300MB of RAM when it's not doing much, it's the lowest possible value.

When so many little tools that you normally keep running in the background, it starts adding up. Not to mention that not everyone has that much RAM. Until recently, Apple still shipped Macbooks with 8GB RAM.

I've also started having issues with my Windows partition filling up with these applications. Again, no one application is a problem, it's the trend that's the problem.

No single raindrop is responsible for the flood.

I've used the 200 bucks Claude Code account, and while that's pretty great, it's definitely not "fire and forget". It often requires a completely different skill set. You basically need to develop a feeling for what the agent can do automatically and what needs extra prompting.

If you want a perfect investment imho, get Supermaven. It's autocomplete is 99% perfect.

My experience with Supermaven has been close to perfect. Imho, the smaller the suggestion, the better it generally is. 99% of supermaven suggestions are just one line.

Ironically, e-bikes, at least in the EU, are having the exact opposite effect. More people that don't normally ride bikes are using e-bikes to get about. The motor functions not as a replacement, but as a force multiplier. It also makes "experimenting" easier, because the motor can make up for any mistakes or wrong turns.

Caveat: In the EU, an e-bike REQUIRES some physical effort any time for the motor to run. Throttles are illegal.

Sounds more like a Mixture of Idiots.

Why is it so hard to believe that well tested, typed code is better than manual string concatenation?

Before you tell me about how you just use a Query Builder/DSL and a object mapper for convenience: That's a freaking ORM!

Personally, I would love to not use homebrew, but I'm practically forced to. The package management story in Linux is horrible, far worse than the general fans lead me to believe. Most tools I need are missing or ancient, even in the Fedora repos. That's one of the reasons so many modern tools will give you a shell script to pipe to bash for installation. It's the only way to make things installable in a simple, uniform way.

While homebrew isn't perfect, it's still a lot better than manually compiling every new version of a tool until the distros repo gets the update, or following custom install instructions for every tool (and then manually managing updates).

But I'm new to having Linux as a daily dev driver (only servers before), so if I'm missing an obvious fix to get 99% of tools in their up-to-date version installed and managed on Fedora (or ideally, anywhere), please let me know.

They already do, or at least Claude Code does. It will search for a method name, then only load a chunk of that file to get the method signature, for example.

It will use the general information you give it to make educated guesses of where things are. If it knows the code is Vue based and it has to do something with "users", it might seach for "src/*/User.vue.

This is also the reason why the quality of your code makes such a large difference. The more consistent the naming of files and classes, the better the AI is at finding them.

In my experience in a Java code base, it didn't do any of this, and did a good job with exceptions.

And I have to disagree that these aren't errors that beginners or even intermediates make. Who hasn't swallowed an error because "that case totally, most definitely won't ever happen, and I need to get this done"?

Ironically, AI mirrors human developers in that it's far more effective when working in a well written, well documented code base. It will infer function functionality from function names. If those are shitty, short, or full of weird abbreviations, it'll have a hard time.

Maybe it's a skill issue, in the sense of having a decent code base.

In my experience, if I have to issue more than 2 corrections, I'm better off restarting and beefing up the prompt or just doing it myself

Oh nuanced the comparison seems also depends on whether you live in Arkansas or in Amsterdam.

But I disagree that your counterexample has anything at all to do with AI coding. That very same developer was perfectly capable of committing untested crap without AI. Perfectly capable of copy pasting the first answer they found on Stack Overflow. Perfectly capable of recreating utility functions over and over because they were to lazy to check if they already exist.

If you actually want a gotcha comparison, go for beef. It uses absurd amounts of every relevant resource compared to every alternative. A vegan vibe coder might use less water any given day than a meat loving AI hater.

Possibly stupid question, but does this apply to things like M365 too? Because just like with Inference providers, the only thing keeping them from reading/abusing your data is a pinky promise contract.

Basically, isn't your data as safe/unsafe in a sharepoint folder as it is sending it to a paid inference provider?

Certainly, but that would also indirectly de-subsidize the animal agricultural industry. People are addicted to their animal products, going so far as to pretend they're essential and not just a luxury.

By your very own logic, I could argue that dictators have more carte blanche to make correct choices, where democracies are mired down by compromises and too many cooks in the kitchen.

Are those really going to be bigger for renewables than for nuclear power?

How many of the "good sites" do you pay for regularly? 99.9% of ALL sites are ad-funded, good or bad. Most people, even people with the disposable income, don't pay for the good sites, esp. because their value is only fractions of a cent from that one google search a month.

My irrational hope is that the "good" sites establish a shared Spotify-esque model, where I pay a basic subscription that then gets distributed roughly by usage to all the websites. There is no chance in hell anyone is willing to have the 20 subscriptions to support all the websites they've gotten utility from (directly OR indirectly) this month.

Which is different from believing the information on an ad and dark pattern infected website how?

Since the AI is trained on the data on the websites below the AI summary, the summary quality is basically lock step with the quality of the websites.

Currently, the goal of everyone is creating one master model to rule them all, so we haven't seen too much specialization. I wonder how much more efficient smaller models could be if we created language specialized models.

It feels intuitively obvious (so maybe wrong?) that a 32B Java Coder would be far better at coding Java than a generalist 32B Coder.

The obvious answer would've been to create a secure public API and have defender use that. But like always, corporations throw a hissy fit and implement the worst possible version of the ruling. Then people hate the EU instead of the corporation for no good reason.

It's the exact same thing as with Google Maps in Google Search. The EU did NOT say "Remove Google Maps" it said "Give competitors equal opportunity". The most user-hostile choice was removing the Google Maps integration entirely (because "no access" is still "equal access"), instead of offering users the choice.

Personally, the digital policies are one of the few things the EU generally gets right, and (as unrealistic as it is) I hope all the Googles and Apples go choke on it and di...solve.

Every kind of advertisement has to be disclosed, and generally is. Even just free gifts without any strings attached have to be clearly declared so.

It's allowed our lifestyle for a short period of time, to small amount of people. It's not given to poor people, to people in places we've bombed, or extracted resources from, or people in the future since it's destroying the planet.

We're all far closer to poor than we are to having enough capital to live off of efficiency increases. AI is the last thing the capitalist class requires to finally throw of the shackles of humanity, of keeping around the filthy masses for their labor.

I've had frontend devs ask for this, because it was "easier" to handle everything in the same then callback. They wanted me to put ANY error stuff as a payload in the response.