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  • I wonder is a scaled up version of this could work for grid-scale medium length storage. Smoothing out weeks of dunkleflaute is the main blocker to going to a primarily renewable grid. Gasoline is a lot easier to store than hydrogen and large scale gasoline generators should get close to the efficiency of natural gas peaker plants.

  • That doesn't make any sense as a reason to turn off Gemini in your inbox though. Either you are ok with having your emails scanned and used in ML systems, in which case why bother turning off the feature; or you aren't and turning off the feature doesn't help you.

  • Google promises(new window) that Gmail’s 3 billion users will benefit from a “personal, proactive inbox assistant”. But given that these features are free, what’s the catch? Make no mistake, Google isn’t doing this out of generosity. The contents of your inbox are valuable to the company.

    Email used to be a more private space where your communications could potentially be intercepted by bad actors, but largely your data was your own.

    I dont think that is true wrt gmail is it? Google have been scanning your messages and using that for machine learning based ad targeting since it was released.

  • Sure, it probably wont take then as long, but its still misleading to portray "China reaches milestone a western company did a quarter of a century ago" as being equivalent to catching up.

  • China "has EUV" lithography in the same way ASML had it in 2001:

    ASML built its first working prototype of EUV technology in 2001, and told Reuters it took nearly two decades and billions of euros in R&D spending before it produced its first commercially-available chips in 2019.

    They are still an awful long way behind the west in this regard.

  • Those are how to install Linux inside windows.

  • And those people who think LLMs will replace software engineers any time in the near future are wrong. But it can still be the case that LLMs are democratizing coding ability to those who otherwise wouldnt have it while at the same software engineering as a discipline isnt going anywhere.

    Its not just basic scripting either, often when people start coding in earnest their programs are just a huge pile of statements connected together with if statements and mutating global variables. and LLM can help show best practices like encapsulating logic into functions and isolating side effects.

  • But at the same time everyone having a CAD machine (or 3D printer) allows a lot of people to solve engineering type problems they have without an engineer, which is the article's point.

  • I think you are vastly overestimating the level that statement is pitched at. The overwhelming majority of people dont even know how a for loop works. However they can ask an LLM to write a script to change this list of files with inconsistent numbering conventions and put them in a consistent order. That's the level of spreading out the ability to program that we are dealing with.

  • The UK does not have regional electricity pricing. This is actually an issue as it means energy intensive businesses arent attracted to places close to large sources of renewable power (the North East and Scotland) and instead crowd into the overheated South East.

    But it also means that the locals wont be helping with the leccy bill any more than someone in Aberdeen is.

  • The number of people suggesting that the appropriate responce to an optional feature for the standard bearer foss browser is to jump to a chrome based browser and further cement google's dominance is depressing.

  • I'm not an expert on licences by any means, but my understanding was that LGPL explicitly allows you to link it to other binaries without needing to licence them with the same licence. Does rust really only support static linking and not dynamic?

    Per the Gnu wiki:

    Does the LGPL have different requirements for statically vs dynamically linked modules with a covered work? (#LGPLStaticVsDynamic)

    For the purpose of complying with the LGPL (any extant version: v2, v2.1 or v3):

     
               (1) If you statically link against an LGPLed library, you must also provide your application in an object (not necessarily source) format, so that a user has the opportunity to modify the library and relink the application.  
      

     
               (2) If you dynamically link against an LGPLed library already present on the user's computer, you need not convey the library's source. On the other hand, if you yourself convey the executable LGPLed library along with your application, whether linked with statically or dynamically, you must also convey the library's sources, in one of the ways for which the LGPL provides.  
      

    So as long as you also provide your application with an LGPL library shaped hole you can release a static-linked binary with LGPL components.

  • Even then, LGPL exists, I wish more libraries would use it rather than going for MIT/BSD licences.

  • Its not a Microsoft thing, also I have no idea what you are agitated about, is there some sort of pop culture MCP that is terrible for it to be linked to? Searching for it the only thing other that Model context protocol I find is "make contribution payments", "Metcalfe Copeman & Pettefar LLP Solicitors" and "MCP fixings" so whatever it is, I imagine MS are unaware of it.

  • Thing is, thats fine if you're doing something like working on a version controlled codebase where you can just roll back whatever the agent does if you dont like it. The idea of using a windows computer that had an AI fucking around with system settings and registry entries gives me shivers. Thats before getting into the possibilities of hostile actors managing to prompt your AI to do something like give up sensitive information by getting it to read malicious information on a website.

  • No, it isnt. Artificial inteligence has been the name of the field for avenues of exploring "intelligence" with computers (including Eliza, deep blue, neural networks, expert systems, symbolic reasoning and now LLMs) since before you were born. That you associate it with something like EDI from mass effect rather than the pre-existing field does not mean its an inappropriate name.

  • Your point about poinitng (ha!) is incorrect, its pretty trivial to maintain pointing at the target. Hubble achived 7mas pointing accuracy over extended periods (thats ~0.000002degrees) with technology more than 30 years out of date. That gives you ~1.2m accuracy from geostationary orbit, which seems fine.

    The real point is getting a mirror which is large enough and perfect enough into orbit is completely infeasible. As you rightly say, the maximum potential power it can provide is equal to solar insolation time its area.

  • Definitely a possibility! But dealing with "only being a normal profitable company" is a very different problem to "oops, we were selling $10 for $5 and VCs have stopped giving us money to burn, and people are using self hosted models too", which is the possible outcome for the big AI labs.

  • I'm not a fan of them either, I wish AMD would step up and compete with them better (Just get ROCm into a good place FFS!), but they are definitely not one of the companies most exposed to an AI pop. They'll stop being insanely profitable but they are not anywhere near the position of openAI and the likes who have massive negative profit.