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Comment · 18 days ago
This is the very core of my issue with "AI". From a resource usage point of view, it cannot hope to compete with a developer armed with a banana.
Comment · 19 days ago
If you ask me to "check what AI says", I will ask you to do it yourself and to kindly replace me with your AI for all future interactions.
Comment · 26 days ago
You got me, although arguably still vegan at least!

On the other hand, I doubt the article is talking about replacing petroleum based products with coal based ones :)

Comment · 26 days ago
Petroleum is plant-based (just to nitpick).
Comment · 29 days ago
IMO, they will introduce their own class of bugs that will defy static analysis.
Comment · 29 days ago
> move fast and break everything

That's what the Climate Catastrophe is going to do if nothing changes!

Comment · 1 month ago
If only we'd all made do with 640k!
Comment · 1 month ago
It sounds like the person whose device is being searched could legally disable the data connection before the search.
Comment · 1 month ago
A comparison would be physical keys found during a police search - under what circumstances can the police legally use those keys to search other, locked locations?
Comment · 1 month ago
Does "search your phone" include any externally-hosted content that can be accessed by said phone?
Comment · 1 month ago
The current trend of comparing AI development to the development of motorised personal transport makes it very easy to remind everyone that undoing the effects of decades of blind "progress" once the negative externalities become unavoidable is much easier said than done.
Comment · 1 month ago
Double incapacitation has happened at least once before - Helios flight 522 (another wild and this time tragic story).
Comment · 1 month ago
We have no way to predict what will happen, even in the broadest sense. Global climate is the literal grandaddy of chaotic systems.
Comment · 1 month ago
My transport costs are essentially zero, and maintenance so far has consisted of occasionally oiling the chain (although this is a new bicycle).
Comment · 1 month ago
That cost per kWh is only helpful if you can charge your car at that rate!

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