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Some people say Oracle doesn’t have clients. They have hostages.

Stopped reading after the “Why it matters” section. Nobody uses that phrase in an article.

Yikes! That was pretty messed up. Goes to show that you can’t really trust Microsoft or Samsungto handle things for you.

What about GitLab? When Microsoft bought GitHub, people got angry, and migrated their code to GitLab. When that happened, GitLab was all over the headlines for a while, but I haven’t read much about it ever since.

Cooling is still possible if you radiate the heat away. Convective cooling won’t work though.

The temperature of those few particles doesn’t really matter much since there are so few of them. The overall energy density is low. The whole concept of temperature begins to fall apart in an extreme environment like that.

How do you measure the temperature of particles that aren’t there?

Also, the hot argument refers to intense solar radiation, which is available only on one side of the satellite. The other side doesn’t receive sunshine, so it will loose heat.

Well, they are language models after all. They have data on language, not real life. When you go beyond language as a training data, you can expect better results. In the meantime, these kinds of problems aren’t going anywhere.

Li-ion technology has huge factories behind it, so economies of scale apply here. The first Na-ion battery factories have just started, so everything is more expensive to manufacture on a small scale. However, the ingredients are cheaper and easily available. Once they ramp up production, we can make a fair comparison between the two.

I have a feeling LIBs are going to be more expensive, but they won’t disappear since high energy density is very handy in mobile applications like cars and phones. NIBs are probably going to end up being a lot cheaper, which should make them a popular option in all the less demanding applications, like grid energy storage, kitchen scales, and anything in between.

Additional info on lockdown mode

Lockdown Mode is an optional, extreme protection that’s designed for the very few individuals who, because of who they are or what they do, might be personally targeted by some of the most sophisticated digital threats. Most people are never targeted by attacks of this nature.

If you’ve identified in your threat model that your phone could fall into the wrong hands, and someone might try to hack into it, using lockdown could save the day. Very least, the hackers are not going to have an easy day.

Even better. Those who betrayed your trust are the ones who ultimately pay the price. Think of it as vengeance with benefits.

Same with industrial automation, power grid, production management, etc. Most people don’t even realise how much critical software is Windows-only.

That’s generally true. Personally, I enjoy using a laptop way more than using a mobile device of any kind.

However, modern life is beginning to require mobile apps (Android or iOS). More and more things simply aren’t available as a website or FOSS. You have to have a vanilla mainstream mobile device to do certain things like using your bank account. I really hate that.

Hardware peripherals are another area that really sucks. If you want to enjoy the comforts of modern life, many people just bow down and use one of the two mobile platforms in order to use their smart ring/scale/lights/curtains/heating/car, etc.

Resisting all that is getting increasingly difficult, because there’s so much to resist. On the other hand, resisting is also becoming increasingly appealing as enshittification intensifies.

Likewise, climate change isn’t really a technological problem. Governments don’t motivate companies stop destroying the planet, so they don’t. Obviously, there are some technological issues too, but for the most part, it’s a political issue.

If there’s a way around the legislation, they’ll definitely take it. If you know of an exploit in the system or if you’re best buddies with the local king, laws suddenly cease to matter.

Very interesting… I guess my calculations can be supercharged while still technically remaining in the realm of a spreadsheet.

Hopefully Python still runs with its usual consistency. VBA is a total nightmare in this regard. The code can randomly throw some useless error for no obvious reason. You can run the same code a few hours later and everything works perfectly even though you didn’t change anything. Can’t really use anything that unstable for anything serious.

“Don’t Bite The Hand That Feeds You”. LLMs seem to have internalized this rule pretty well. I can imagine that this idea can also be taken much further. Basically like trying to search “Tiananmen Square massacre” on the wrong side of the Great Firewall of China.

Well, what if LLMs were instructed to not talk about “sensitive topics” like that? After all, more and more people are already using an LLM as a search engine replacement, so it’s only natural that Microsoft and OpenAI might receive some interesting letters about implementing very specific limitations.

No need to add any more than you usually do. Just leave the ones you are unable to see. Besides, LLMs tend to write in overly grand style, whereas humans can’t be bothered to use every trick in the book. Humans just get to the point and skip all the high-impact language that LLMs seem to love.

Yep. Money steers the decision making process. Politics determines how money works, and companies just go with the flow.

LOL. So true.
On top of that, an LLM can also take you on a wild goose chase. When it gives you trash, you tell it to find a way to fix it. It introduces new layers of complication and installs new libraries without ever really approaching a solution. It’s up to the programmer to notice a wild goose chase like that and pull the plug early on.

That’s a fun little mini-game that comes with vibe coding.

Super lazy job applications… can’t even bother to put two minutes into vibing.