Jerry_Atrick

Depends on what the pint is?

Yes, the internet is awash with similar photos. BTW, although small and probably designed to drive up sales for the auction house, a study has found battery life to be better than claimed, so used BEVs may not be a bad idea, after all. I guess the RACV/Q/NRMA and other state auto clubs could devise as part of their car inspections, a way to measure battery condition (if they haven't already)?: https://www.drive.com.au/news/electric-car-batteries-lasting-longer-than-expected-according-to-new-study/

Definitely, but there has been progress, and this is the first time I know of a government actually funding the development of a siter designed to get it over the line for power generation. There's no such thing as a free lunch. I haven't read too much about the engineering challenges of fusion, let alone the physics and chemistry challenges, but there's no such thing as a free lunch. If Fusion provides virtually limitless power off the smell of an oily rag, the cost is embedded somewhere.. and my guess is it will all be in engineering. The extrreme temperatures will either require massive advances in materials science and/or lots of maintenance of the plant.. the heat to manage is in the millions of degrees - and at that magnitude, it is little difference if it is Kelvin or Celcius. So, for now, the question is still should Australia go nuclear or not? There are advantages and disadvantages - that is for sure. It depends on how one sees them. Personally, I would love Australia to go nuclear - I am still in touch with my old contacts and the software likely tp be selected would be what I used to work on; and because it's so specialised, there aren't a lot of people who know it. So, for me, I would have a ready made income stream and then part time consulting well into retirement (like what a people who I know are doing now). But, looking at the economics to the country, it doesn't stack up. Securoty of supply also doesn't stack up. It is far easier to sabotage a few central power stations than a distributed generation network. Conversly, of course, it is harder to protect a distributed generation network than a few central generation stations, but self-sufficiency, even at the industrial level more than compensates that. Others see it differently; that is OK.. I am actually quite happy either way, but if it were my money or I had a fiduciary responsibility with other peoples' money (something governments seem to have lost sight of, if they ever had sight of it), then I would not be going nuclear in Australia. Even the new build my daughter is working on could hardly be called cost-efficient.

Ahhh but they are "good" business people, apparently, and of course good business people are better with other people's money

Blimey.. Best of luck.. hope it wasn't the restless night's sleep that dislodged it

Elon Musk has submitted a $100bn bid for open AI (Chat-GPT) Anti-trust laws would probably block it normally.. let's see what happens

Donald Trump to halt enforcement of law banning bribery of foreign officials - https://on.ft.com/4aRjwb9 via @FT

Bloody Sydney! (From a Melbournite) :-)

Maybe it will actually talk...

I am writing an app by hand in Java, using a framework called Spring Boot (to learn it).. I wrote a POJO (Plain Old Java Object) and am using a Web framework called Spring Boot, with JPA (Java Persistence Architecture) and a few other bits and bobs. I typed into Chat-GPT something like "Please write me a PJO and the Spring Book/JPA persisitence of a <widget> that does x, y, and z... It was a complex-ish spec and I watched it do its stuff. It was very close to what I wrote. Some things needed a tweak, and there was something it did better than I did... But, it took me about 4 hours to write the simple POJO with all the necessary features and compile it ready for testing. It took me less than 5 minutes to write the spec and it took about 3 minutes for it to generate everything.. And it took me about 10 miutes to refine it. That is a pretty big time saving operation. I was surprised at how it was able to generate something so close to how I envisaged it.

Not quite.. But I am going to play with it a bit more on an industrial level with a real programming language and application infrastructure/architecture. The difference in quality between Chat-GPT4 compared to Chapt-GPT3 is quite amazing.. it has definitely been a leap. The firm I work for allows us to use a different LLM for things like taking meeting notes and minutes, and it is remarkably good. We can also do presentations and the like, too, but IO have not yet tried it. There is no question, IMHO, it is the biggest disruptor since the industrial revolution and has the capacity to put a lot of people out of workl - even cerebral activities. There will not be the need for peop[le there is today. I am glad I am near retirement.

The point was the AEC official was alleged to have been telling people to vote Libs before they cast their vote.. if he was suiccessful, a recount would have made no difference. Goit a link? Would like to take a look

Actually, AI in the form of a certain large language model (LLM) that shall rename anonymous came to my aid this morning (arvo, AEST time). I like to don the tools and was having a problem with some code in a script to repair some data issue, and I was getting a run time error I just couldn't work out. Asked the said LLM a couple of questions, and voilla, not only the answer, but the code to copy and paste to boot. And it works! Saved heaps of time, and I learned a new function in the language I as using to boot.

Actually, there was an AEC official allegedly trying to infuence the Werribee by election vote.. and surprise, it was to the Liberals... But, once the allegation was raised, the official was promptly dispatched (from the polling area - not from life on earth): https://www.theage.com.au/politics/victoria/push-for-review-into-shambolic-werribee-byelection-count-20250209-p5lapb.html

Geez, GON.. seriously... The AEC doesn't distribute preferences. It counts them. You don't have to be a supported of Q'Anon, do you?

What? Oh, is Trump the imperial leader we all need to bow down to and can't criticise lest his sensitive feelings are offended like a snowflake... and he will have a tantrum and slap on more tarrifs.. There, there, Trumpy... mummy will tuck you into bed and get you a family bucket of KFC.. all will be better.. the boys in the playground really do like you... How is planet Zork? Because you obviously don't live on planet earth, that is for sure.. Most of is ex-administration, harrdly woke, all openly criticise him and have campaigned against him.. In Aus, Malcolm Turnbull, David Sharma, and Simon Birmingham, again hardly woke, openly criticise him still. even Nigel Farage - you know the bastion of wokeness has openly criticsed him. Have they all suddenly turned tree huggiung, tie-dye wearing lefties? Noticed the silence about Trump from most of the LNP, except for the nuttier ones...hardly a ringing endorsement of Trump or their leader for Trumpian politics. Yeah, it helped with the voice, but when people have to vote about matters that directly affect them, I am not sure Australians have the same mentality as their Ameican cousins. It's not like th bye-elections in Vic handed the LNP a resounding message of support, is it?

Don't those robots suffer range anxiety?

Yes.. And although the claim is it is already conscious, it isn't. In the Pindex video, the same person says it has no moral compass. Even Trump and Hitler and all demogogues have one; it is just skewed. What the algos and powerful computers allow it to do is to more quickly emulate the thought/reasoning processes of the brain - the bit without emotion. The AI/AGI they are talking about is that made for military purposes, where its objectives are set to destroy and self-preserve where it can. Bit. AI lacks something humans have - foresight. It can predict - yes, but use foresight for innovative solutions is still a fair way off despite what they say. And even then, it can only approximate; However, quantum computing may well change that.

Far Canal!

Yes, because it has 5 businesses in the US which would not be affected by tarrifs.. in fact it could be helped by them. But this is small fry compared to the rest of the market.. Some others in a similar position were up on the ASX further (note, Bluscope's gains fell to 1.6%) while most were unchanged or down: https://www.listcorp.com/asx/sectors/materials/materials/metals-mining/steel

So.. that was a policy launched over a year ago by a different (conservative) government. At the moment they are focusing on SMR technology on existing plants as part of this policy. I don't think there has been any movement in HALEU. That notice was flawed the day it was written,by a desperate government looking for a soundbite. there are two HALEU producers in the US and they are used in reactors for medical isotope generation. Instead, the new government is pursuing fusion: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/plan-for-change-to-deliver-jobs-and-growth-in-uk-leading-fusion-industry Rather than pursuing dated technology. I think you will find that original announcement was a non starter from day 1. Also the UK has an existing nuclear power generation industry and can harness home grown talent and know how. So it won't be starting up a brand new industry.

So what?

Y'all seem to fergeet that the msm is right wing bias and will use propaganda techniques like many of them do today to shift the blame... it is in their advertisers interests... and we have seen how the social media barons have shifted their policies and dismantled their fact checking to support someone they couldn't last time as they have been boarding the gravy train express this time. Who knows what algorithm changes will have been made that they don't have to inform us of? By the time the average person wakes up, it will be too late.. game over.

I think you fellas can ask questions of Chap-GPT without me.