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I don't mean to be disrespectful... but, why would you consider tech intended to save lives and resources less of a deal, than slightly faster flights over the Atlantic?

Presumably, the data center usage could also be bursty, right? More people will be using AI during the (work)day, than at midnight. Then they could do half solar, half gas. Also "m…

What if we used 100% of the brain all the time? As an end consumer, I don't care about the number of active parameters. I really do care only about the tracked metric (how well doe…

GPT 5.6 Luna is an extremely cheap and still very capable model. A chinese model being in the same ballpark of capability at half the price sounds believable to me.

Is there a theoretical reason why they can’t? As a layman I would assume nothing is preventing it, other than the large amount of effort it would take to implement.

MAI-Code-1-Flash is available via GitHub Copilot. I wouldn't be surprised if they added MAI-Cyber 1 there too.

The question may sound ridiculous. But isn't it more ridiculous that some company decided that the correct answer to such innocent and curious question is basically "That knowledge…

We wouldn't be having any talk about AI Slop if it was impossible to tell AI apart from people.

You could... but I view JSON as a simple format that you could write a recursive parser for in a few hundred lines yourself. Bringing in compile-time code generation just for defin…

I would rather flip the question. Why not? If you watch streamers, there are going to be Vtubers on the same platform recommended to you. Are you going to discard/ignore those stre…

Kilo is the top 3 option there, and that's a fork of OpenCode.

While I do agree that cost per task is what customers should care about, and not cost per token. Cost per token is an objective metric. Cost to do a task can vary a lot. Different …

In most countries, Wero is still in incubating stage. i.e., banks anouncing that in the next 3 years they will support it. Of course it's not widely used by vendors when it's still…

I don't know who else is launching satellites, but many airlines do offer wifi, often via partnerships with telco companies. It's just expensive and slow. So the only moat I see (a…

I know that market, and people for that matter don't care, but the environmentalist in me questions the word "needs" in the context of using AI.

To me it felt no different from socialising nowadays as an adult. Some weren’t on social networks at all, and thus missed out on some of the socialising. But also saved themselves …

Good catch! Disk reads do generate writes to cache. But the cache itself is in RAM, not on disk. So it shouldn’t cause additional wear of SSD.

Meta isn’t right now on the radar for most folks picking models. If they have a really good model, it makes sense to subsidise it, to gain users, before they align prices with comp…

I don't know about you, but I don't treat people worse just because they dress differently. And similarly, I don't think it's reasonable to suggest OP is the wrong one for being tr…

The point about correct use being a status thing is such a good point, that you almost never see mentioned, but definitely feel it. Recently I saw a discussion on Reddit where the …

AFAIK a lot of the highly skilled German emigrants go to Switzerland.

You don't magically get language skills by living in the country. You still have to put in the time and effort. The utmost basics, A1, you could learn very quickly and those will g…

I live in Austria, and from my experience it's the higher management that is almost exclusively native Austrians. But the highest (C-level) and lowest (IC-level) staff is internati…

I was under the impression that English speaking countries are by far the most desirable for immigrants. Most people don't care that the current US, or UK governments are a mess, b…

It's less of a basic decency if you're in a country where almost everyone is fluent in English, you get by your life just fine in English, speaking the local language doesn't open …