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I have friends at other companies with similar projects, they say the same thing.
It's like we're living in different worlds.
Still, LLMs are nice for well defined small projects, microservices, tools and research.
That's not an investment, it's a wealth transfer to original investors at a price they dictate.
without control you can get original founder deciding to build cybertrucks and associating your brand with nazis.
These should not be included in indexes either.
imagine you have to implement a specific algorithm for a quantum computer.
There's no value setting up AI to do the writing for you. That might be orders of magnitude harder then writing the algorithm directly.
For highly specialized one-off features, it doesn't always pay off.
On the other hand, if all you do are some generic items that AI can do well... then I'm not sure you're going to have a job long term, your prompts and automation will be useful for the new junior hires that will be specialized in using these and cost effective.
capitalism can work with say 99% tax on estate on death. No trust funds. Tax on wealth above a certain point. Rule of law with sharp teeth. Proper investment in education. Proper anti monopoly so all large corporations gets broken up to avoid their power consolidation...
communism is dictatorship in disguise.
then you have old style feudalism with aristocracy.
anything else?
now ask yourself, who are the true communists in the US?
That's the thing, it's not the default, default is public ipv6 for everyone and its the users duty to configure firewall...
I could definitely set this up easily, someone like my parents or friends would ask me 'what's IPv6?'
Cool, me too :)
Anyway, the other side of the argument:
It is the default and default is secure. Users don't have to reason about it, they can assume it works, how doesn't matter and they may lack training/willingness to figure out.
You can't say the same for IPv6 where default is allow (have things changed?, havent checked in a long time)
I have yet to see a router that allows that forwarding unless explicitly configured. Still, i'm using mostly openwrt/opnsense/mikrotik
Default is to disallow/block forwarding packets from public wan to private range lan.
ISP can still inject packets on ports that NAT opens if it spoofs the source address/port, so you still have some validity to argument.
Effects are long term, hence question if you would live there now?, what would happen if Paris or London or Berlin were contaminated?, would you still live there?, would you live in Chernobyl city now?
When a reactor can mess up a whole country/area long term you need to take all precautions.
In spite of this, there are reactors built with plans to extend (Romania with Cernavoda for example), but they cost a lot and take a long time to build, plus areas where they can be built are likely limited.
So it's not the standards that are the problem.
Even with current standards there are a lot of nuclear power plants running just fine.
This could have been solved easily without an LLM as well...
Education is about social mobility, a chance for anyone to participate depending on their intelligence/grit/motivation.
You guys only have education for the rich/elite.
If you have to pay for it, or be lucky to have parents next to good schools then you've failed.
> But nukes aren't enough.
Lookup french nuclear doctrine to see discouragement effect.
Also, european NATO is capable of bombing conventionally moscow/other russian cities in case of war with some losses.
Eliminating Putin/Leadership would probably stop any war.
That would probably be the first counter to any invasion with threat of using nukes as a threat to keep russia from going for nukes. (losing moscow/sankt petersburg might be too much for russia same as paris/berlin would be for other countries)
The other counter is some rapid deployment of troops to hold off any russian troops and make it very deadly for them until leadership decides to retreat.
Ucraine can't do that.
UK and France have nukes, european nato part isn't going to be invaded without nuclear exchanges.
Apart from that, each country is specialized on various things and combined military is quite capable.
Sure, it's not US level of spending... which is probably a good thing given the US basically cut education and healthcare for a few generations for that.
They can get their technical friends to set up a laptop for them and profit from what I mentioned.
> They do have to buy a notebook with all components
Sure, first time they do that, then they can reuse.
> and thus currently have to pay more for linux/windows hardware compared to Apple.
Sure, first time they do that. If they try framework, there are plenty of other cheaper options with pretty good specs.
> Also, RAM isn't backwards compatiple. Literally had this problem with my old ddr4 not fitting in the newer ddr5 slots when my ddr5 acted up.
Of course... but once you have something with ddr5 it should last you a long time, same as DDR4 did.
Now... you missed another point, some people just don't like or want MacOS, as nice as hardware might be, it's not acceptable software wise.
As for normal people, they'll just buy whatever is cheapest. If they even bother since phones/tables have already taken over.
I'm not sure laptops will have a market other then power users going forward...
I can drop it down to 1050E without the ram if i take ram from my older laptop.
Upgrading or fixing this is very easy. RAM/SSD i can take with me over multiple generations of a laptop.
I can't do that on a macbook, if anything breaks there (screen, ssd, ram, keyboard, battery bulging...) I might as well buy another.
Then there's the issue of macos... you're stuck with it, if you don't like it, it's a dealbreaker.
There's also issue of waste... I can make a router/firewall from an old framework mobo. I can't do that with a macbook.
The professor's jobs are to TEACH students.
Research grants are given by governments mainly to first TEACH students and secondly to get something useful.
If they are not doing their job they should be fired.
That's not DEI or anything of the sort. That's common sense.
They can do their research at private companies if it's worth it.
His analogy reveals a glaring lack of intelligence and empathy.
First, an intelligent person would think of the consequences of such a statement.
Second, an empathetic person would think of the consequences that the AI resource drain causes on rest of the society.
Sodium I saw some reviews where it expands a lot during charging and long term safety is not as conclusive
Why do you see sodium as an easier choice?
The main fire risk with lifepo4 is the connectors, wires, bms and shut off being suitable for high amp. That would be a risk with anything if not built properly, even without batteries if you wire your house with wrong awg wires
In my mind it's similar to premade computers vs build your own. Tesla would be something like Lenovo/dell here.
They would just grab the same cells or cheaper and some other off the shelf components and sell them to you at massive markup.
And you get situations like Battleborn where they couldnt even do the connections right and would start a fire by default...
Will build my own as well this summer so really curious whats the best way to do this
You can build a 16kWh lifepo4 for ~1800$: https://www.mobile-solarpower.com/server-rack-lifepo4.html
That gives you some experience so you'll be able to maintain it as well if any cell goes bad.
So him not deleting them when asked was a bold move.