Ah... I was getting worried. No one denying it on an internet forum? What has the world become? What? Everyone understanding it is going to be bad?
Thank you for being one of the last to hang in the denial. I understand though, it is a soothing coping mechanism.
But yes, I will be fine. Before this hits, they will have spread my ashes. So long kids, and thanks for all the fish, you figure it out. Meanwhile? I will just keep on joyriding with the planet. Woot! Woot! Let's just keep denying it.

In Dutch, they are called "potvis". Not sure it is better though. It depends on what they put in the pot, of course. Let's hope it was the vis.

Belgium here, neighbor of the UK. Summers do get hot here and more and more people are installing bidirectional heatpump units (cool and heat). Also... dishwasher, washing machines are heavy electricity consumers.
Decades ago, it was the cheapest to run these at night, when there was little power consumption. These days you run them around noon, when production is at maximum. With the right energy contract, you actually can get payed to consume electricity during these times, although it does not happen that often.
Met a guy who made this his hobby. He installed solar panels, added some beefed up batteries to his home grid. He actually charged his batteries during this period and sold the electricity back when demand was higher in the evening. He even helped balancing the grid to 50Hz and got payed for that. He made profit with his installation. He did not get rich, but it did pay back all his investments. If enough people do this, GWh capacity is easily achievable... Interesting times we live in.

Yup... BBC is worth every penny. Greetings from Belgium. Keep up the good work!

Oh, I was referencing to this: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.learnreligions.com...
But you just made me realize this is the theme of the bebop movie... Nice!

This whole AI thing makes me question our perception of reality. It is mostly trained... Maybe this is all a dream of a butterfly...

Honey, talking about real programmers is something only the fresh ones do. I hate python.

I let chatgpt write a little gui for a hobby project I made. A few prompts later and I had a working GUI for my python program that automatically generates excel sheets for my colleagues.
Then the babysitting started. My God... I had to think of everything that could go wrong and tell it what to do in that case, meanwhile it lost track of previous requirements more than once and wiped that out. Simple example? User has to type in a number, user should not be able to type in a letter, or a negative nember, ... I got sick of all the explaining I had to do at some point. I was typing in lengthy paragraphs and gave up.
The GUI was good enough for my purposes, it was ok if you followed the steps one after the other. I got further than I would have gotten if I had written it myself and the program became a lot more usable. It was able to save settings in a JSON file, reload the settings, You could set up the program and hit generate as long as you did not deviate too much from the intended work flow. The good news? I got a working gui very fast.The bad news? No way I would use this in a professional environment. I'd do it all manually. Probably was less typework. I would have gotten less features, but it would not misbehave if you typed in something wrong or hit the buttons in the wrong order.
Is that a good summary for using AI in programming? Makes nitwits think they can do anything in a few prompts, The sky is the limit! The people on the workfloor know that its outputs still needs a ton of revising before you could even consider releasing it?

Nah... clearly Musk is at it again.

All of the sudden I remember that I urgently need to extend my car's warranty...

7 years ago I updated my computer. The previous one was an obsolete pc from the company I worked for. I recuperated some parts. Total price? Something around 900 euro. Fast forward to 2026. I have no reason to update the machine. I could go for a decent graphics card to play around with a local LLM, but think it is not worth the money. The SSDs are getting full, but that is matter of a good clean up. Sorry son, some games will have to go.
Even if prices go up ridiculously, we are still spoiled with magnificent hardware. Just use it a little longer.

I would think that if an air controller needs to act fast, something went wrong already. The art is to keep it steady.

Just get it over with. Nuke them! Neeeeeeext?

My version shows all my contacts achieving marvelous goals, people setting sail towards new adventures, taking routes no one has ever tried before... Then you meet them in a bar and you get the real version. It is such a shiny spotless place online, it is getting ridiculous. Especially if you compare it with what happens behind the walls.

I think you got it wrong. The race is to the bottom. IBM ThinkPad, pentium 75MHz. No NIC, no USB, only a serial port and a floppy drive. Not sure it needs an updated kernel then.