Came to say the exact same thing; to top it all off - as a (currently) private company - Anthropic doesn’t need to publish gross/net operating profits. However, they did for the most recent quarter - highlighting their first ever quarterly profit - so up until now, they’ve been burning investors’ money hand-over-fist.

If this is the same issue as what Elijah experienced on LTT’s most recent Linux Challenge video - the. I believe the KDE developers are (finally?) acting to fix this functionality.

I have never, ever refrigerated peanut butter (the 99%+ peanuts kind).

The label on our jars just say to store in a cool, dry place - ie. in the pantry.

Watch that 8 hour workday quickly get moved first to 10 hours (capitalist argument being that it’s the new 1/3rd of the “day”), before ultimately consuming all additional 6 hours and having you work 14 hours straight like some feudal peasant serf.

The world is not America, there is no chance this would ever possibly happen.

I don’t think the personal market will completely die out, but it will definitely shrink by a significant percentage over the next ten years or so.

We’ll see a considerable volume of gamers move to thin clients, ditto for businesses, casual use (email, browsing, consuming media etc.) will continue to switch to mobile devices.

PCs will still exist as a hobby for enthusiasts, but we’ve definitely seen peak-component sales.

If you think that’s bad, wait until they try to fit 17!

I recognise Dexter’s Laboratory, Samurai Jack, Powerpuff Girls, Johnny Bravo… …but what’s that last one?

Not crazy talk, Australia currently leads with the highest per-capita uptake of solar panels and it’s having a noticeable impact on our overall energy costs:

https://www.abs.gov.au/articles/household-solar-electricity-generation-australian-national-accounts

We actually produce so much excess solar during peak times that households without panels can opt for electricity plans which offer free electricity between midday and 3pm every day (inc. weekends).

We’re also rolling out a heap of household batteries to better help take advantage of this surplus production and offset peak demand times too.

The world is rapidly approaching a post-fossil fuel world; the transition will be slow at first, and then drastic all of a sudden.

Yup, was scary finding myself agreeing with her for a while there…

The world needs a hell of a lot more love, honestly.

I have a JP launch edition PSP as my prized possession - but always wanted a PSP Go.

How were the ergonomics?

A lot of these LLMs heap praise on the user - some more blatantly than others - whether it’s warranted or not.

Those most susceptible tend to be the ones who don’t regularly receive that recognition in their day-to-day lives, so they become infatuated with this “AI” that treats them nicer than they’re accustomed to.

Given that the rest of our annual training refreshers are 15 - 30 minutes, and that I can boil down the training to 2-3 bullet points here - yes, 2+ hours is (relatively) extensive.

Pretty unsurprised, I imagine - our training pretty much instructs us to not take anything it produces as gospel already.

Though given how much the company is getting charged for it, I think there may be some reconsideration in the budget for next financial year - given Microsoft have all but confirmed that it’s not much more than an overly verbose Magic 8 Ball

The company I work for (publicly listed) has granted company-wide access to Copilot, but requires users to complete a pretty extensive (2+ hour) training module before you’re able to use it.

Pretty obvious stuff like, don’t upload sensitive data, validate output etc. I just use it as a glorified search engine usually - validating function syntaxes etc., and also cot rewriting email to be less blunt.

Really comes down to whether companies have; no tech departments to stop employees from using AI, small departments that don’t want to deal with the headache, large departments capable of managing the rollout.

…and mine told me exactly what the Red Army did to hers, while guaranteeing you her experience was worse.

You can continue to call the Marshall Plan „colonisation” all you want, but doing so doesn’t make it so.

Either way, as much fun as this back and forth has been - it’s 1am here and bed is calling.

Hope you enjoy the rest of your day, wherever you are.

It’s not a contradiction to want to see Afghanistan restored to how it was pre-Soviet invasion; the US is arguably just as responsible as the USSR was for Afghanistan’s fall into religious fundamentalism, due to abandoning its reconstruction following the fall of the Soviet Union.

Undoing that level of cultural damage takes a long time, in order to ensure subsequent generations aren’t radicalised. So while it does suck, it would have taken at least another generation of occupation to shape a more democratic and progressive future for Afghanistan.

Unfortunately, the US isn’t as good at nation building as it once was - it’s actually not as good at a lot of things, as it once was.

As pointed out earlier in the chain: Occupation ≠ Colonisation

See,I live in an area of Australia that has a large proportion of Afghani refugees; these people are my friends, neighbours and colleagues. Our children go to the same schools, play the same sports, and spend their free time together. We regularly catch up on weekends for birthday parties and barbecues.

These people did not arrive here because the US was occupying Afghanistan - they all fled just as the US pulled out. All they want is to live in a country where their sisters, wives and daughters were free to express themselves, for everyone to be free from persecution by religious zealots, and a chance of freedom to experience the sort of life their grandparents had up until the USSR invaded in 1979.

The US had already let down their parents generation once before, abandoning those „gallant people of Afghanistan” following the fall of the Soviet Union, by failing to follow through with their own Marshall Plan style reconstruction.

So when it comes to the US militarily occupying that same nation just some ~12 years later - yes, I think that seeing through the reconstruction of said nation to its pre-1979 state is the least the US should be responsible for. That the US quit and failed in this task, should be a black mark against the soul of the nation.

More gish-gallop.

„Opening a new market” in this case means funding and rebuilding an otherwise war obliterated continent with next to no means of housing or feeding its people; or are you seriously arguing that they should have just left it all to the Soviet army to rape, pillage and plunder like they did to Eastern Europe?

I’m not being naive, you’re just being obstinate.

The US is capable of some vehemently abhorrent action, but the Marshall Plan was not one of them.

Of course the US should foot the bill. In kind. They certainly shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near Iran nor anywhere else they destroyed.

Finally we can agree on something.