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Mostly this is just about giving back the money RWE paid for the leases from the US government to build those turbines. Plus various fees. They could have went for suing for total …

I think it's partially for responsibility reasons. Your employee approved the bash call? not our fault then!

For example, protein folding has been figured out by AI. This was a very big moment for science and yielded a nobel prize. Alphafold 1 happened 4 years before the first version of …

Yeah with China pumping state subventions into car manufacturing, they can outcompete any car manufacturer anywhere in the world. The leading battery technology is in Asia anyways.…

cargo check is useful to verify the code compiles (it's extremely rare to have compilation errors that survive cargo check). But cargo build is required if you want to actually try…

You can still get traction for your workout apps, CRMs etc with the right market research (you need to find a niche) and the right marketing. There are gazillions of candy crush re…

Is it the AI companies though that will capture the value that AI creates, or will it be the still-private startups, or new to-be-founded startups altogether? Startups are taking l…

Cursor has an import assistant from vs code settings. Ahere is no assistant for the inverse. Not even for moving between computers (at least a couple of months ago when I had the n…

HIV virus inserts itself into the DNA of long lived cells in your organism, and it stays around as long as those cells stay around, which is (unless u have blood cancer and your do…

LLMs and their coding harnesses like CC, Codex, or such are a tool like git or bash or your favorite programming language. And like any tool, they have gotchas, weird concepts, and…

For rich people (meaning the ~3 billion people that have some sort of access to medical infrastructure), it is a solved problem, but there are quite many people without any access …

> You can reprint a bestseller. You can't replace the last three copies of an 18th-century botanical text once someone shreds them for training data. And the judge said it's legal.…

> The free software community complains all the time about binary blobs that are otherwise legal to freely distribute. Like firmwares. With software there are two things: the sourc…

Right but 2000 to 2010 didn't have similar progress, and especially 2010 to 2020 didn't. Sure, things have gotten better but not as much as the 1990 to 2000 leaps. And yes, laptop …

I'm born and raised German, and above I mostly used the German ways of writing the town names (stripping the umlaut). Which as it turns out are not the same way you'd write it in e…

I've never been to China either. It's a huge country and it probably depends on where you are (hong kong probably friendlier than a random place in the mainland), but from what I h…

China is not very immigration friendly to non-han folks, but I guess chinese researchers won't make it to the US and this already will have a great effect on the chinese economy. E…

Yeah, Linux-the-kernel does have a stable ABI indeed, but this is not relevant for most ISV desktop software out there. In my comment above I was referring to Linux-the-OS (aka GNU…

GPU/RAM/etc prices could continue to rise. If the world leaders decide it's time to build the robot armies, then that could price out the civilian uses for GPUs.

Those solutions have moats: 1. the cloud moat is mostly around talent really. Try finding people who can self host the alternatives to S3 et al at the HA and the scale the business…

There is distillation going on where chinese providers give the model lots of outputs. We don't live in a world where chinese providers are not doing this so we can't compare the a…

There is a lot of desertification of farmland going on, including in the USA. It gets abstracted away for richer countries as they can outbid the poorer countries for food. In deve…

Infineon still exists as a semiconductor manufacturer. Their stock has gone crazy since start of the year as well.

Removing HEVC support wasn't their choice but probably stems from the licensing pools increasing their prices [1]. Windows media player probably sees very little usage nowadays and…