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> greedy investors destroying the value for the customer

Not just the customer. The businesses which actually make the food receive less profit in this scheme as well. Only the middlemen win. It's privatized health insurance all over again.

My understanding is that a large portion of Tesla's batteries are still manufactured by Panasonic, and most of the rest by other third parties. Some of this is in the US, but the production does not belong to Tesla.

"All along the Eastern shore

Put your circuits in the sea

This is what the world is for

Making electricity"

A lot to think about here, quite poignant. Strange combination of insights, but still (mostly) strikingly coherent, as long-winded as it is. I found myself agreeing with the majority of it.

Funny how this will now be part of the material future models are trained on and/or fetching. Perhaps that's a good thing.

You haven't earned the right to use an electronic calculator until you first master the slide rule!

> being constrained by current choices

The most obvious reason for this seems to me to be that the data they were trained on likely overrepresented cases where the current choices were treated as unchangeable.

Actual case studies where they talk about what approaches were abandoned and why certainly exist, but I'd guess are much less common than posts presenting a problem as "these are my constraints, how do I meet them?".

My parents had something very similar to this in their apartment in the midwestern US in the 80s. I recall it as being an aluminum mount with a chain ladder.

Posts containing links to external sites which are not owned by the parent company are downranked or outright excluded in many social media feeds. This has been a known pattern for many years.

It's not only Facebook doing it, but they are probably the biggest offender.

A neighbor of mine had an Apple IIc when I was a kid and I thought it was the coolest, most futuristic computer I'd ever seen. I was very envious. So many colors.

Edit: Okay, I was actually thinking of the Apple IIgs, which came out 2 years later. Both a similar design, though, and much nicer looking than the older Apples.

> fossil fuels have no future in the energy mix

In the really long run that's of course true, but in the nearer term we are not going to have a replacement for jet fuel any time soon. So, for example, I personally would not speculate financially on this expectation quite yet.

This effect still happens with cheap battery-powered cat toys that chirp. Some are rechargeable... others are not, and keep squawking pixelated noises of various pitches for years on end. Ask me how I know.

I hadn't seen it before, funny. OP mentioned in a top level comment that this Joma Tech video was part of their inspiration.

From the actual Anthropic post:

"We run Gemma4-26B-A4B, distributed over 15 inexpensive off-brand Android TV boxes (~$55 each) that we bought and networked together, at 0.39 tokens per second.

[...]

A model that’s too large to fit on one device can be split into pieces, or shards, that run on separate machines that communicate with each other to collectively run the model. Machines that could run a significant model shard for a <30B model include smart fridges, smart ovens, automatic vacuum cleaners, and lawnmowers."

It is pretty interesting stuff. Still can't compete with a datacenter, but there's plenty of room for shenanigans.

Oh wow, your user name is relevant! I still think about the Smoov B character from time to time, his recurring column in earlier issues of The Onion were... memorable.

A lot of us saw this one coming a while ago. Many, many artists of all kinds have already put up "AI-free" (or similar) badges on their work. I think it will be more significant in the fine arts world, however local art fairs could be affected as well.

I say the more the merrier, but artists who use AI in their workflows are going to be pressed about it - with negative connotations - for a while. Transparency is the best solution in my opinion.