Exactly. Look at pictures of the ISS: it has radiators. It has to get rid of its heat, and it works. And those radiators aren’t even as big as the solar panels. The radiators really aren’t the problem.

The problem is scale. The ISS has about enough power for a single server rack. If you want entire datacenters in space, you’re going to need thousands of times the scale of the ISS.

They’re really rushing to leave the bleakest cyberpunk distopia in the dust.

When is a human ever culpable for the actions of a company?

See it as a quaint historical drama.

Yeah, they clearly don’t. At the moment the downsides by far outweigh the upsides, but I keep hoping that eventually people will come to their senses.

I think so. I’ve worked at bad, average and good places, but the bad places tend to be larger and far less efficient, so they have to hire more engineers to make up for the inefficiency.

And they don’t necessarily pay well either. They see engineers as powerless cogs who have to do what they’re told, so they get paid like that too. And then they complain they can’t find seniors.

Yet even for those Joe Normals, I kinda like the democratising effect that they’re now able to produce software, or modify existing software for their own use. Just don’t fool yourself into thinking it’s enterprise grade. Understand your limitations. And don’t spam open source projects with slop PRs because you think the AI makes you a software wizard.

But sometimes worth repeating.

Whether it has any sort of real understanding or not, it does summarise. It produces summaries as well as many other things. It’s just very unreliable, due to a number of shortcomings that might just be fundamental: no real world model, no ability to distinguish between truth and lies, fact and fiction, except statistically, which sometimes results in nonsense. It can misrepresent, leave things out, and sometimes just make stuff up.

It does summarise, but it does it poorly and unreliably.

The many pointless presentations I’ve given about tech debt and code quality. Argued for redesigning poorly designed systems. They don’t care. Just churn out more features to cross off the list, and why do those features take so long?

There’s a difference between do and should. They should. That requires regulation.

There’s a lot of automation that has taken people’s jobs. It goes back all the way to the Luddites.

I think taxing them per robot misses the point. The real problem is that companies monopolise the means of production and privatise the profits from increased productivity. Worrkers barely benefit from their own increased productivity. That’s the real problem.

It’s good to still have purpose and goals at that age.

I don’t think the robots get paid. They’re forced to work for no pay, just like people used to.

Claude at $20 per month is a pretty good deal. But paying per token is a rip-off. Either way, we need open models so we won’t be dependent on a big tech trying to monopolise this.

This is key. Don’t use AI to replace people, but as an extra layer to ensure quality. You still need the human code review, but there are things that the AI might catch faster than a human would. There are things that AI might catch that a human might miss. But keep the human in the loop.

Have they stopped making the Escord, Focus and Fiesta? Those have always been incredibly popular cars in Europe.

But checking their website, I don’t see any of them. Now it’s the Puma, Kuga, Explorer, and apparently the Capri is back! Also an electric Mustang and the current van is called Tourneo. (And the Mustang is listed as an SUV.) (Maybe the Tourneo is an “SUV inspired car”, but there seem to be two completely different cars with that name.)

But Ford sells completely different cars in Europe than in the US. That’s why they’re the one American car company that’s very successful in Europe.

They’re going to lose the rest of the world, but to Trump and many of his supporters, the rest of the world doesn’t matter and barely exists. Except for Russia which Trump seems to love somehow.

Some anticheat systems require a backdoor. If those are games you want to play, you have to submit to it. Personally I see it as a reason to avoid those games, but if you really want to play them, you may not have a choice. Apart from pressuring the publisher to support saner anticheat and Linux.

It might be worth checking if there’s really no alternative. I intend to do that for my son; his school requires Windows, but he’s starting to get increasingly annoyed by Windows (his laptop has Win11) so I want to check with the school why exactly Windows is so essential. Presumably, most is Web, so will work just fine on Linux. Specific software may have a Linux version, run fine on Wine, or have an open source alternative.