That makes me suddenly way more interested in the upcoming redesign of the Pro laptops. I don't care about pretty much anything else that is gossiped about, but a reperaible design would be sweet

hopefully soon down to 48h with EU-INC

Just like the EU forced Germany to to stop prosecuting coffee shops for having public wifi.

I wonder if gas in the name is a reference to a natural gas given that it powers so many of the new AI data centers

https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/how-ai-labs-are-solvin...

and the people that believe it tend to be also very happy to be exposed to biological weapons running wild

I've paid for a month! Now letting subscription lapse. ChatGPT-4 is still garbage

We need passive building cooling like:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03062...

AC won't scale

And tech carries out churning out artificial intelligence systems that consumes way more energy than genuine human intelligence while being worse off at the same tasks most of the time

I'd like to see that energy calculation. AI could write a whole book in hours or a beautiful image in seconds consuming a few hundred watts of the TPU.

It would take a human weeks/months to write a book and days/week to paint a beautiful images. Also consuming at least ~100 watts idle.

also ai agent scientists in a simulated lab could solve big problems like climate change. AI might be the only thing that can save us, if it don't kill us.

Climate change is not a technological problem at this point. We know how to solve it, we just don't do it.

It is a technological problem, and will be solved as such.

We "don't do it", because the currently offered solutions are insane. Expecting people to reduce their consumption will just not work. It's an uphill battle against human nature.

The solutions to global warming will likely look like a bunch of mirrors in the deserts or in space.

sure, but AI will also produce a lot of useless outputs too.

Tech isn't even close to being among the top sectors contributing to energy consumption

"Improving in non backwards compatible way" sounds like "deteriorate"

That's a very negative view. If Excel were to fix their 1900-is-a-leap-year bug, I'd call that a clear improvement, even though it would break some spreadsheets that work around the bug. Seen through that lens every major version of almost all programming languages would be a deterioration.

yes I tried to not be too aggressive towards yq's authors who surely don't deserve bad words, but at the same time I wanted to express how painful is even the smallest backwards incompatible change to a tool that may end up being used in many tiny dark corners of your automation that everybody forgets to maintain.