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Interested in the evaluations of anyone actually using this.

I tested over the weekend and Astra can

- create and modify schematics from instructions - place components and route traces

out of the box, just via normal 'computer use'. I'm not satisfied with the routing but it isn't terrible.

I use it.

It is useful for anyone who has a personal domain from which they'd like to send/receive without needing to migrate off Google entirely. My registrar gives a few email addresses with SMTP support. Then I use GMail's send-as to remain in gmail but still use my [email protected] mailbox.

What does this have to do with Alibaba? Are you saying Alibaba is the reseller?

If not it sounds like you are describing a separate phenomenon.

It is even worse than the article says. You can, though these dialogs, wind up having folder on your hard drive moved around, have your desktop or other folders which you do not intend to be, cloud-synced. Then you get home and all of a sudden two PCs you mean to keep separate have new apps installed, background changed, etc...

I HATE this window.

Obviously ~nobody has read this yet... But I did have a question based on the opening:

"If you wanted to create a tool that would enable the destruction of institutions that prop up democratic life, you could not do better than artificial intelligence. Authoritarian leaders and technology oligarchs are deploing [sic] AI systems to hollow out public institutions with an astonishing alacrity"

So in the first two sentences we have hyperbole and typos? Hardly seems like high-quality academic output. It reads more like a blog post.

I haven't had much success yet with this. My ratings follow.

Reading and interpreting datasheets: A- (this has gotten a LOT better in the last year)

Give netlist to LLM and ask it to check for errors: C (hit or miss, but useful because catching ANY errors helps)

Give Image to LLM and ask it to check for errors: C (hit or miss)

Design of circuit from description: D- (hallucinates parts, suggests parts for wrong purpose. suggests obsolete parts. Cannot make diagrams. Not an F because its textual descriptions have gotten better. When describing what nodes connect to each other now its not always wrong. You will have to re-check EVERYTHING though, so its usefulness is doubtful)

This is not energy output (production, usage), it is that plus an adjustment for the in->out energy efficiency. It would only == production if all energy sources in the mix has the same factor.

Because fossil fuels have higher in/out losses this is number is larger than usage. This metric is generally used to track decarbonization.

Using the IEA number you can see the hydro+solar+wind production is about 9.5% of the total, not 18%.

ChatGPT or you favorite LLM can explain in greater detail, just send it the plot image and ask.

That metric doesn't answer the same question. It isn't saying 18% of their needs are being met by renewables.

If you want a consequentialist answer:

If, for ethical reasons, fewer people were willing to take these jobs, then either salaries would have to rise or the work would be done less effectively.

If salaries rise, the business becomes more expensive and harder to scale. If effectiveness drops, the systems are less capable of extracting/using people’s data.

Either way, refusing these jobs imposes real friction on the surveillance model.

If you want a deontological answer:

You have a responsibility not to participate in unethical behavior, even if someone else would.

Why is this worth doing? What wrong with the status quo? The author does not give any examples of Oracle threatening people for using the JavaScript (tm) name.

Interesting line to draw:

- you can record all manner of video in your store...

- but you can't process it in this particular way.