A pickup truck with a diesel generator in the back - not kidding.

Your sample size of one is indeed compelling evidence that Windows is not a stable operating system.

In case you missed it the first time from the parent you replied to: If it's crashing for you take that as an indication that there's something seriously wrong with your computer's hardware or your computer's user

Again, no one is forcing you to go outside of the closed ecosystem.

If someone else wishes to expose themselves to such risks, it doesn't affect you.

You're making the very large - and completely unsupported - assumption that the code was subject to version control. The vast majority of one-man projects developed off to the side don't employ any form of VCS.

Some do - but many, many don't.

Any competent lawyer would destroy you as an "expert witness" on the stand if this is all you were bringing to the table.

I don't understand all the people in the comments who want take away choices from *other* people. How does my having access to additional freedom and choices on a device I ostensibly own detract from your experience in any way?

You're not obligated to exercise the same choices - why do you feel the need to drag everyone down to your level in that case?

DDG don't have their own search tech, they're just a privacy front sitting on top of someone else's engine.

As a result it's not DDG making these choices, it's Microsoft Bing. Microsoft have gone down the same infantilization of search results (we really think you'd prefer A, even though you told us - sometimes with an explicit operator - that you wanted B) as Google have in recent times.

None of that means DDG isn't providing a valuable service, but what they're really offering is privacy, not an alternative search option.

That's rather disingenuous. Modern designs for HVDC transmission lines at 800kV would experience an approximate power drop of 7%.

This is taking typical Slashdot/Reddit nitpicking to an absurd, and disingenuous, extreme. It would be obvious even to a child that the OP was referring to the GPT-4 model running under ChatGPT.

Your assertion that GPT-4 could not have returned the responses provided by the OP is equally misguided. I ran both of the queries and received similar answers to the OP, albeit I received a correct answer for the second question - possibly because I corrected some minor spelling and grammatical errors present in the original prompt. Proof:

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fchat.openai.com%2Fshare%2F...
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fchat.openai.com%2Fshare%2F...

I don't necessarily disagree with your hypothesis that censorship damages models, but for GPT-4 it completely failed to do so in the two cases you originally made reference to.

You fail to make the distinction between power generation, and power transmission/distribution.

You can have a free market in the former, but generally not the latter. There are some exceptions, e.g. dispatchable HVDC transmission links - see Basslink in Australia as an example.

The OP is referring to free markets for the generation and consumption of electricity, not the transmission or distribution aspects. They exist, and are commonplace throughout the world.

At a P/E ratio of ~100:1 though, with limited capacity for huge growth in the future?

The IPO valuation doesn't make sense from where I'm looking.

You really do seem to be getting upset at being contradicted. I guess there's no point in continuing the conversation, you are completely unwilling to accept anything that violates your preconceived notions, despite your apparent lack of (practical, rather than theoretical) experience on the subject matter, or to draw any value from the direct experience of others who are currently having real-world success with making these things work for them.

I guess we'll see in a few years time whose perspective has aged like milk, and whose hasn't. In the meantime, I'll continue to enjoy the objective, demonstrable productivity benefits of ChatGPT and their ilk. I suspect you'll still be throwing temper tantrums claiming that these things cannot possibly work, and perhaps even publish "papers" to that effect, while millions of people continue to take advantage of the fact that they do. Take care :)

Haha yes, the productivity improvements I realize from ChatGPT afford me the spare time to do this sort of thing. Game, set, and match :)

Keep screaming into the void dude. Your opinion doesn't affect my productivity. Simple fact.

Despite your big talk, you've yet to demonstrate any actual knowledge or experience with anything in this space, as opposed to the people who are actually using it productively every day and have a fundamental understanding of how the technology works, not just a theoretical one they've read on Facebook or Twitter.

The rest of us will continue to enjoy the productivity gains while you wallow in your bitterness, screaming out "but it's a toy! listen to me! I know what I'm talking about guys, honest!".

What a sad, little life you must lead.

Yep, pretty much the response I expected.

Dismissive, arrogant, yet at the same time completely uninformed and unwilling to learn any better. Dunning Kruger in full swing.