A compiler also doesn’t “understand” like a human does, but it’s so accurate and reliable, that collectively we decided that a programmer doesn’t need to understand the output of the compiler any more. We can trust it, because it works perfectly reliable.

So the question isn’t so much whether AI “understands” the way a human understands things, but instead whether it will become reliable enough to be trusted. And I don’t see any evidence towards that yet.

Yeah, he likely will. The whole department management is in a gold rush here.

But, you know, my boss can now finally code himself. He could never get his head around coding, but now he finally can code. Who knows, maybe he won’t need us expensive software developers anymore when AI gets better, then he can do it all himself.

That is correct, but it’s also kinda beside the point. A compiler doesn’t “understand” anything either, it’s just a program, but it’s still very useful. So useful in fact that most programmers nowadays trust it unconditionally to the point where we say “a programmer doesn’t need to understand the code the compiler outputs”.

But AI is just really not trustworthy, and the question is whether they will ever be trustworthy enough that we can say “The programmer doesn’t need to understand the code the AI outputs”.

I first read magnetorethorical damper and thought that’s some new fallacy I haven’t heard about yet.

And yet, that’s all my boss wants of me. “Does a dev really need to understand the code if the AI understands it?”

That’s frustrating.

So we only need 23 of them to power that one new data center in Utah.

What’s even crazier: Only 20% of the world’s oil production is affected. That means 80% are still available.

It would be trivial to save 20% of oil, but we just don’t want to.

People are driving just as much. There’s no push to home office. No push to make people stop buying crap they don’t need. No push to decrease flying or anything at all.

Instead, offices are still uselessly illuminated all night. Useless ad screens are playing at any time of day, burning precious fuel for no purpose.

We still throw away 30-40% of the food we produce. We still don’t have a massive push to pivot to renewable energy.

Collectively, we don’t care about energy shortages, and politics and companies don’t either.

Instead, we just price the poorer nations out of competition. We can afford gas at €2/l, and we don’t care that entire nations are collapsing right now because they can’t afford fuel at all.

There is Wikipedia in Simple English, but they don’t cover all topics.

At first, I thought it was an attack using audio only. That would have been crazy impressive.

That’s pretty much the job, except a billion times as large.

Yeah, the downside of hydro though is that you need to have a fitting space to build it. You can’t just excavate a random field somewhere and plonk a hydro dam right there.

In most places all easy spots for hydro are already taken.

Correct, the typo is mine, not from the article.

Apparently, you are so much in need of parenting, that you call random people giving you good advice mom or dad. You must be a little child.

Tbh, Anakin’s redemption never felt earned to me. That guy was literally Hitler’s right hand man for a very long time, committing all sorts of horrible things.

And all he had to do to wash his slate clean is 30 seconds of murdering the right person.

Because it’s not about efficiency, or getting things done, or anything like that. And it never was.

In corporate environments it’s everyone for themselves and everyone has different goals that often conflict with the overall goal of the company.

The CEO wants to get their bonus, so they do whatever’s in their KPI, no matter how dumb it is.

The managers want to make themselves look good, so they do whatever they can to look better than the other managers. Even if it’s stupid and hurts the company, all that doesn’t matter. Even if they know it’s stupid.

Workers want to either make themselves look good to get promotions, or they want to look like they are doing enough to keep their job.

Nobody has the actual long-term success of the company in mind, as long as everything runs good enough that they don’t lose their job.

Fireing people is something investors like, because it makes money in short time. And if you can figure out an excuse that makes it look like you are doing this to create long-term profit, then you are a genius. No matter if it’s actually long-term profitable.

I put an E3D Toolchanger that I got for cheap from Aliexpress on mine, with 2x E3D v6 and Trianglelab TBG-Litle direct drive extruders. The TBG-Lite is amazing. It’s got so much grip on the filament, that I didn’t even end up setting up a TPU profile at all, I just used a PLA profile for it.

I ended up switching over to a Snapmaker U1 earlier this year, and the only thing I miss are these TBG-Lites.

If you behave like a little child…

Please do NOT fill that space!

Any kind of flash/SSD storage requires free space to do wear leveling and disk management. If you fill one of these disks completely, they will wear out very quickly and then you are left with a broken console in need of an SSD replacement.

You should leave at least 20GB free, also so that there’s space to download update files.

The headline looks wrong, but it actually isn’t.

The article specifies:

• Total capacity: 2.1GWh
• Peak output: 1.2GW
• Ramp up time: a few milliseconds

That’s what the “within milliseconds” in the title refers to.

Every power generator has a ramp up time. Think the time it takes to start the engine in a diesel generator, until it spins up and is able to output peak power.

Nuclear reactors can hare ramp-up times of hours, in some conditions even days.

This thing here can go from zero to peak output within almost no time, which makes it perfect to balance the sometimes erratic and unpredictable generation fluctuations of renewable energy production.

For comparison, coal or gas power generators usually have large flywheels that, once spinning, react almost instantly to power fluctuations in the network by converting their motion to electricity or the other way round. If these coal or gas generators aren’t running, they can’t be used to balance the fluctuations in the network, so battery solutions like the one in OP are required to actively manage the network stability.