Not quite the UK approach. Here the ceilings are insulated, but attics are full of holes for air to move. In any case, sun hitting the roof is not a major factor contributor to heating in winter.

But if it's just panels and no batteries, it's half the job. Right now we still need panels and energy providers pay well for extra energy we produce during the day. As more people produce, the savings from selling will decline. Batteries that let you produce in the day, use at night and trade on the tariff differences are the game changer. Profit while giving the grid more stability.

Before you reply to troll bait, have a quick look at their comment history over the last five years. Consider if engaging with a broken clock is worth your time.

Don't think they would roll the offer out before you passed the probation. And three months of pay doesn't sound like a great deal after likely relocation costs.

There have also been numerous technical issues and dodgy functionality. A functional system can in theory continue operating as is indefinitely. You don't know what developments you're missing out on by not having that staff. But when QA and oversight is gone, you end up with stupid decisions and bugs going live. Remember how links were getting corrupted and hijacked because someone rolled out and auto replace Twitter with X update?

It's not just that. I think camera native formats also store additional metadata, like which focus zone was selected when auto-focusing the shot. It's not entirely pointless. On the other hand, it's also a win-win for software vendors who get to lock camera support behind upgrade costs.

Why not go with calories then? 3000 kCal is something your regular American could relate with on a daily basis.

There's more and more people and companies on BSky every day. I think I migrated 70% of my follows now. And because there's no algorithmic content or ads yet, I actually get to see updates from accounts I follow. Sure, maybe Elon and other celebs didn't switch yet, and maybe if I might get into actual trouble for posting terrible things, but so far the experience is pretty great. No constant crypto spam and sex bots.

To clarify, my point was that it might be double-counting coming from China. It corrects itself, so I think that's admittance of numbers not being valid, rather than that we're missing that segment normally.

Steam does a poor job of counting installations in Chinese internet cafes. Once in a while we have a huge bump in the number of Simplified Chinese language and Windows 7, 10 usage. News websites make a big fuss about it and the big change quietly vanished in a week or two when numbers are massaged back into shape.

I'm ok with rich people having expensive toys, but this one is extremely bad for the environment. Can't we just send them to check on Titanic instead? Explosive results are roughly equivalent.

Even Mozart preferred to get paid. The difference is the payment was in advance of the work being produced. You'll have to narrow down this historical golden age of music where the means of mechanically replicating musical performances existed, but copyright didn't.

Sometimes it works well as a glorified auto complete, which is good. But if I'm going to deliver real work, I need to be sure I fully understand what it's doing. Often it's somehow just easier to go through every step of the process yourself than to work out what someone else was doing to reach a similar goal.

Drop artists and QA so that a middle manager could spit out more promotional material without even caring to check how many fingers it drew and dumping it on paying audience... Just stinks of a crappy product and shameful for a big company to do. Quality assets were kind of a tell-tale sign that perhaps time and care were taken to get other areas well designed and polished. Now it's a losing battle to screen out the junk and a time sink to work out the rest of the game might be rushed incoherent AI drivel.

It's not. But there's a big distribution and ownership problem that makes it compelling. There is also a big assumption that every pirated copy would have been a sale and competes in the same playing field. Generative AI on the other hand is literally marketed as a replacement for the original product on which it was trained.