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And manages to ignore that solar power is now the world’s fastest growing source of electricity. Given this is largely driven by economies of scale you could just as well argue if we had gone all in solar in the 70s we would have had today’s solar cost/benefit by the 90s

Something people forget is that France went all in on nuclear also to produce enough weapons grade plutonium for its independent atomic bomb program. Plutonium production was considered a feature rather than a bug of the reactor program.

They absolutely do this.

Lucky for AI companies that OSS projects are doing this, otherwise where will they get their carefully created training data from? They would be reduced to training off the slop their tools produce! /s

Ok i get that some people really do need to deal with extreme temperatures regularly, but it totally misses the point when discussing a mass market car like the Corolla. It’s like asking business casual footware to be equipped with crampons for when you need to walk up a glacier.

It’s absurd that openai managed to spin their cybersecurity failures, where their own security is not good enough to make sure their own product doesn’t go haywire, as a marketing success.

When a company uses its products to hack other companies that’s a crime. If you do it “by accident” that’s gross negligence, and heads roll. But shout “AI” three times and it becomes a marketing opportunity

I’ve had good results with JetBrains AiChat in that really integrates in their IDEs - you can see it using ide tools and i generally found it spends less time thrashing about compared to Claude.

I mean… they still make sublime text. Works great.

There’s an interesting study to be made on whether there was a reduction in insurance claim rejections in the aftermath, and what the morbidity/mortality impact was.

To the surprise of no one who’s doing any teaching these days.

i.e. it's one AI company that's basically guaranteed to never fail since it has a market niche guaranteed by European companies and governments.

I have written software that saves files and saves to standard geopackage formats.

Microsoft is known to have a lot of inconsistencies between its spec and reality. One important part of adoption open standards formats is that when you have real interoperability and competition between consumers of the format, the spec needs to actually work. HTML and the welcome demise of Internet Explorer specific markup through real competition in the browser space is a case in point

This is not true.

In my company I decided we would not depend on Microsoft products. We use kSuite that offers everything MS does, ~90% cheaper. The one real problem we run into is PowerPoint decks that look different or get corrupted when used across different Office suites, including ones that are focused on Microsoft compatibility like OnlyOffice.

Proprietary formats are a clear lock-in tool, because the cost of dealing with incompatibility is higher than the cost of paying the piper. (Although me being stubborn I made claude rewrite the OOXML to behave, but that's an absurd thing to need to do!)

If open formats were the standard and could be reliably exchanged, it would remove a big reason to ever use Office products.

You know it's an India focused device when the top selling point is "Check the cricket results" ;)