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And then.. you're basically trapped inside the AWS cloud (due to egress costs and db latency). No thanks!

Does anything about that strike you as particularly unfair, given the moral compass defined by Big AI?

Shrug.

Hard to feel sorry for companies that created their empires by ignoring copyright themselves.

Also, 'most extensive industrial espionage campaign, probably ever' is absolute nonsense. They did not need to infiltrate the companies for this nor are you accusing them of stealing any trade secrets. This is only about whether they looked at their competitors' products from the outside (in the form of conversation tokens) and used it to improve their own product (by training). Hardly the crime of the century.

In this context "working" means selling. If you're selling the product that means that others are on board.

Is there any evidence suggesting that Ukraine is targeting civilians?

And what 'orchestrators' exactly do you think benefit from sending their soldiers through a meat grinder? Yes, Russia (not Ukraine) has done a lot of that, but you seem to think that getting their own soldiers killed was their goal..?

Fiber tethered drones don't need to be AI controlled.

Clearly a process per connection is more stable

Even if those processes share most of their memory, and are written in a notoriously memory-unsafe language?

A significant performance improvement can well be the difference between being able to run the entire database on one beefy server, and having to shard. And that has a huge cost in terms of complexity and thus reliability and development time.

What's online about this restart? Just that the tcp port keeps listening? I assume all running transaction will have to be aborted, right? And connections dropped?

That doesn't talk about showering illegals with welfare. And yes, deportation is hard when the target countries are not cooperating.

The difference is EU doesn't do deportations and instead showers illegals with welfare

I don't even know how to begin to respond to such nonsense.

net positive for the state

Being a good citizen is not the same as (or even all that much related to) receiving an above average salary.

Reliability issues occuring in the hypergrowth stage of a company's lifetime has always been pretty common, way before agents were involved in the scaling. And that was for products for which the computational load for a single client was negligible. For inference though, even a single client's load is pretty terrifying.

I stand corrected.

Though your point may have some value, your comment comes across as meanspirited and ad hominem.

Also, regulation is not universally supported by knowledgeable consumers. Often quite the opposite, in fact.

A rational person could argue both against EU surveillance laws and in favour of more EU digital independence.

Apparently they were given information by the US embassy that these people were an "active thread". Perhaps they could have figured out that this was bullshit sooner, but I don't think it's the police who are at fault here.

You rescind an invitation by (preferably kindly) asking the people in question to leave. Not by informing the police that they are an "active threat".

You are meaningfully misquoting here ("doing their job" not "following orders", which has a different ring to it, at least for me).

Also, apparently they do have brains capable of thinking because: "Eventually, they accepted that we were journalists and that they disagreed with detaining us."

At the point they ask you to leave for whatever reason and you don't comply, then it becomes trespass and the police can be asked to remove you.

According to the journalists' account, they were never asked to leave.

Though I agree with the rest of your reasoning.

Right. So regulation isn't actually all that different than it is in Europe, except that some especially hot parts of the US mandate airco for rental housing, which is something I don't think is being done in Europe yet.

You could argue that. But you'd be wrong. :-)

and defer overly to expert opinion

That... doesn't sound so bad?

That's only accounting for the energy the airco unit consumes. What the airco unit does is remove heat from the inside of the house, and dump it outside. That effect is about 4 times larger.

Well yeah, it takes time to adjust to new circumstances. Especially since weather events don't come with any documentation saying things like "this will happen every two years now".

Are renters in the US specifically permitted by law to install airco units that require permanent modification to the property? Or are landlords mandated to install airco units on a renters request? Or..?

No, they do specify token counts, as they let you pay for them. They just don't tell you what these thinking tokens actually are.

For me, the decision is clear: when I'm not able to make my own decisions turn everything off and let me die.

And what if you might be able to make decisions again tomorrow. Or the day after? Or in two weeks time.. ? These things are never all that 'clear'.

I think much of that is because European customers (both private and business) tended to prefer American suppliers over suppliers from European countries that were not their own. That may have something to do with most people in IT being quite fluent in English, while European products were all-to-often half-heartedly translated from German/French/Spanish/Polish/Italian/Ukranian.

In many cases, well-established and well-liked European services have been supplanted by American counterparts that came later and were not really better in any way. They did usually have much more money to burn though, undercutting pricing until competition was dead.

I'm speaking in the past tense, because now for the first time in the couple of decades I can remember, there seems to be a somewhat commonly held preference for European suppliers.

Demand is higher than supply.

Only when the product is being given away for free or sold way below cost. It's still unclear how large the actual market is.

I've been working on my vision for a better web app development ecosystem. https://wildloop.dev/

It currently exists of 12 libraries/tool, most of which are pretty stable by now, though some are still very much in flux.

This is one of those things that turns out to be kind of a lot of work. :-)