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I should have said that I meant common for recessed lighting. They often use 12V MR16, inherited from the halogen days, and are pretty common in houses renovated from the 80s until…

In the UK having separate drivers is, or used to be, the most common set up. I never had good luck with it. Big problems with compatibility, failing drivers, especially with dimmer…

I’ve never had a Hue bulb fail in about a decade of using them in every fitting.

Have LLMs shown any decent capabilities in resolving non-security bugs yet? Security bugs are important, but my day to day frustration with tech tends to be caused by UX/functional…

Lots of stuff involving cybersecurity or reverse engineering for one. At one point Gemini wouldn’t tell me the command line to disable approval on codex because YOLO mode is appare…

I concur. Generally I find Gemini answers to be the least biased and most factually accurate, without too many of the annoying AI writing quirks. However, I find the Gemini web app…

As Futurama said, when you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all.

If our panopticon actually meant crimes got solved, I’d be less pissed off by it. Instead we’re being spied on but seemingly police can’t solve any of the crime affecting most peop…

> PE companies are not especially interested in long timelines, whereas companies can eventually provide a lot more value that they’re worth right now. The value of a company does …

> outputs default ChatGPT sounding lyrics Aren’t you curious how a modern solar panel works so well with no moving parts?

I have no issue with individuals choosing to listen to generative AI. I even occasionally listen to it myself when I’m deep working and just need to occupy that part of my brain (h…

Bringing morality into it opens a whole can of worms that I don't think we have the tools to answer. My view is companies don't have a conscience, and any expectation that they are…

That's only possible if the financial system is valuing things systematically incorrectly. IFF a company is truly, honest to god, less valuable than the sum of its parts, then it (…

This is just the design of a PE fund. They run on a fixed cycle, so early on they heavily invest into their portfolio with the aim of resolving that risk and maximising the sale va…

Is there any proprietary Amazon end-dev/ops facing service that's worth using? I've never had a good experience with any I've tried - CodeBuild, Cloud9, Q, SageMaker, WorkMail, Wor…

Microsoft have historically tended to dogfood their own products. Obviously you want to be aware of what else is on the market, and use the right tool for the job -- but equally if…

Probably just because it's cool. I'm sure there's some bean-counter calculus involving recruitment, PR, demonstration of capabilities, they were going to be doing training flights …

People oppose data centres mainly for local reasons. We already have more than 10k Starlink satellites, and there’s almost no outcry about that outside of astronomers, who are just…

It’s trading political difficulty for engineering difficulty. There are now quite a few politicians running on a platform of banning data centre construction projects.

It's not "surprisingly" unless you haven't bought much in the last 20 years. China-owned brands are now often better and more premium than their Western counterparts across the ent…

Gemini especially has a habit of blocking my pretty mundane requests, claiming they’re attempts to jailbreak or create malicious code. Grok also does quite well at code reviews in …

I live in inner London within the ULEZ zone. ULEZ is about local pollution not GHG and even then the newest cars it affected were 8 years old. My 15 year old car was fine. If anyth…

I have an ICE and don't feel like I'm being punished? It's exactly the same as it's always been. If anything, we're still benefitting from ridiculous subsidies and driving an ICE s…

You're paying the au pair partly in accommodation, food, bills and a visa. The visa isn't coming out of your bank account, but it's definitely part of the incentive, so you could s…

I wonder how good AI is at playing Factorio. That’s the closest thing I’ve ever done to programming without the syntax.