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I wonder where the China labs supposedly distilling anthropic models rank among the top customers

Plugin solar is entirely different.

My family got an fixed three phase setup with a 12kWp, 8 kWh battery (BYD) and a Hybrid Inverter (SMA) alongside a Level 2 22 kW EV charger for a grand total of 16.000€.

My plugin solar setup was a DIY with 1kWp of panels + an 800W inverter and did cost a total of 350€, including the mounting hardware.

Well you don‘t know me, but you can still feel free to count me against your stats

I find demands like that equally funny like the ones wishing for Autodesk alternatives.

I would not trust slopcoded tax software and I would not trust slopcoded CAD tools in any way.

I mean that is often times true. But efficiency in this context - particularly with infrastructure - usually means extracting most profit while providing the bare minimum of service.

The expectation that the service gets either better for the same amount, or cheaper for the same service, is usually naive

I know this is a long standing joke, but I am 27 now, born and raised in Germany, and genuinely never had the opportunity to use a Fax machine. It honestly kind of bums me out because there is something that seems cool about Fax (being fully aware that it should be fully obsolete by now)

In all honesty, all these distillation complaints brought forward by Anthropic etc make me enjoy the cheap Chinese models even more

I am not sure about international availability, so your best bet are probably very large breweries.

If you like pilsner, I do enjoy an occasional Kulmbacher Edelherb.

The Augustiner Helles Alkoholfrei is incredibly popular, but hard to come by even here in Bavaria.

Similarly popular and among my favorites is the Bayreuther Hell Alkoholfrei.

That being said, neither of these options is available at Lidl or Aldi in Germany, so I would assume they aren‘t internationally either.

> non alcoholic beers taste terrible

Might be a market issue. I grew up along beer drinkers and over the past few years, so many good alcohol free beers have entered the German market, that a lot of them shifted almost fully to alcohol free beers.

> I’d say the burden of proof is on you though, can you supply epidemiological evidence that wine isn’t harmful to health, if you’re going to advocate for the alcohol industry

I do not think anyone would argue that alcohol consumption is good for your health, regardless of what kind of alcohol.

> My observation is that the young people who do drink aren't going for beers and wines, which are tastes that can take time to acquire, they're going for sweet liquors and premix cans of fizz.

Born in 1999, I qualify as GenZ. All my peers drink beer, which is unsurprising given the strong cultural presence. But more and more people have been moving to alcohol free beer, which is becoming more and more widespread. Loads of breweries reacted and started with alcohol free beers, even the ones you would have never expected, like Augustiner Bräu in Munich.

Pretty much all surveying data for my home country for the last few years suggests that GenZ is just drinking less alcohol overall. While there probably are some shifts within the consuming population, that does not fully explain the shift away from the alcoholic staples.

I don't think this is merely a gratuitous reference given the fact that AI demand is probably - among EVs - a key driver for the sales of power related ICs.

pointless, yes. Entertaining, also yes.

Regardless of my whataboutism, I still think tax is an very apt description of what the Google Play and App Store fees effectively represent. I would be happy to call it a fee if the stores would actually allow effective competition. But as it stands right now, the "government" like behaviours make the wording tax fairly accurate.

Can you share any official communication where somebody claimed this fab was for AI?

It was pretty clear that this fab - much like the other Bosch facilities - is going to be for automotive and industry ICs, not for high end node sizes in CPUs or GPUs.

Good thing the companies that participate in the current AI craze would never ever behave in any way parasitic.