I’ve got a new Mitsubishi ASX 8 years (wow, time flies) ago without a cellular modem for some 17 kEUR, since we could’t get the 15 kEUR model. I could imagine an ICE car of that size goes for 20-25 kEUR these days.

An EV (not Chinese) without range anxiety (500+ km) and of about that size is probably 40-60 kEUR.

Since I cannot get anything new but a cloud-tied snitch on wheels I guess I need to buy used, or disable the cellular antenna.

Validate sustained 10:1 energy excess and tritium breeding excess, at an economically acceptable price point first.

You know, that 20000-30000 premium over ICEs does buy a lot of gas over lifetime. And I’d rather not rent computers on wheels which depend on random clouds.

I’ve used Copilot for ingesting documentation and iterative planning for daily KT under time pressure (operational continuity needed to avoid risk to human life) and constantly changing fact base. The result is definitely way beyond my own capacity, under above circumstances. So definitely worth it, even if the token burn was in the thousands (I don’t think it was, and it’s possible to reduce it by factor 2-4x without quality loss). YMMV.

No, this one can’t be bailed out. The scale is so big, it’s going to bring down the global financial system. And then burn through to the economics layer.

Too late, drones with target matching are already daily killing civilians. Nobody is giving a shit about such bycatch.

I have used Copilot to generate specialist job titles and their detailed job description for staffing, extracted directly from documentation and half a dozen knowledge transfer session, under severe time pressure. It did a much better job than I could possibly do.

As Reddit is mostly idiots and slop now, it’s a tainted source of training data.

If it’s agentic it’s going to burn through tokens even faster, so what’s their business model?

Grid connected storage in the US goes for some 220 USD/kWh at scale. It’s some 100 USD/kWh in China.

Or 80s, where it was kilobytes.

And the servers are only useful for AI and they don’t last long.

Copilot? Copilot.

Actually it can be a very useful tool, if you know what you’re doing. Expensive in real terms, so only for tasks which are worth it. So perhaps not for making annoying cat videos.

There’s a drone with his name on it.

I would have had resisted posting the common framing in the title and used “Most age verification is identity verification” they themselves mention below. And, of course, what this means for future legality of privacy protection tools.

With someone, you mean a really long list?

Hmm, have to try it sometime when the hot phase at work is over. Thanks!

I only have an Radeon RX Vega 56 8GB HBM2, so limited to CPU-only. 64 GB memory there at least. Not upgrading unless hardware dies.

Think deeper in Copilot is apparently o3-mini, or it used to be until recently. GPT 5.5 (and some other versions) are also an option, so I should try using these next week.