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I thought it was a one off fee and not a subscription

And Elon Musk – Dead at 52 – Says There Is No Need for Misinformation Laws

Re: Remind me

That sounds like a lot of poor decisions rolled into one, to me

Re: winners and losers

You could, if you felt so inclined, argue that the bankroll is what technically makes them "fittest". Like the squirrel who stored the most food for winter...

And probably a bit less likely to take out someone's eye

Wage theft should be a criminal offence like so many other forms of theft.

Only if you consider drinking Heineken to be a benefit for some reason...

Re: Google's role in spreading disinformation

As it turns out, these money making systems they own don't make money if you have to run them properly...

Re: Senator Brown is mistaken

Will Tesla be banned from manufacturing in China?

The only Teslas we get in Australia are the ones made in China...

That doesn't meet the dictionary definition, but regardless I think defining anything with a motor and a motor controller as a "robot" would make the term fairly meaningless, and certainly doesn't satisfy the general consensus.

Re: Liquid cooled or AI

No, really. Jokes aside, "tonne" is already a metric unit, so "metric tonne" is redundant. Metric ton, if you absolutely must, but not metric tonne. Just tonne.

The pronunciation's different too. Tonne is pronounced "ton" but ton isn't. Simple!

Re: Neat!

Or Musk's private jet...

Re: "Those would be big no-nos under US law"

A lawyer once said that if the law was simple and unambiguous, there would be no need for lawyers...

Re: Capabilities.

Yep, if there was no intention to reuse it, it would be able to put 1,000 metric tons into orbit.

Re: Looks like a lot of hassle for mostly minor benefits

There's a lot of second hand Xeon systems on ebay though.

Re: Golem.de looked closer than ElReg...

1500 W of resistive heating is 1500 W of resistive heating no matter what it comes from.

(apologies if I've missed a joke)

Okay I can see you're a bit confused. This is an article about Australian politics. We don't have to choose between Biden and Trump.

Re: Sports Futility Vehicle

Is this a car manufacturer we're talking about or Bethesda Softworks?!

Re: Sounds like...

It's an interesting subject to explore and I should say I'm wholly unqualified to contribute more than base speculation but LLMs being transformational would be something quite special, wouldn't it?

An author did recently write a piece about how the LLM way of doing things is very similar to the way that authors in general, particularly successful ones do things, but as you say, it's the transformational nature of the human mind that is the key. You can learn how good novels are written by reading them, but the way a human mind works is very complicated and can an LLM do anything more than merely ape what it's learned?

On form I don't think that'll stop Musk from trying

Re: Carbon Dioxide?

Lithium-Ion batteries have very little lithium in them; it's the electrolyte that burns.

Re: "Doom 1993 from the Microsoft Store"

Get it from wherever you can find it cheapest and then throw the WADs into GZDoom.

Chaingun sniping on a UHD monitor is hilarious.