Isn't this how V'ger is born?

What's "so special" abou this is that Getty is one of the largest single copyright holders in the world and they know the licensing status of every piece of media in their collection, so any AI trained on those images is guaranteed liability-free for their clients."

the monetization schema is bullshit - it looks like the tiktok model where there's a giant pool of money split between all the creators every year with the size of that pool determined by "business growth" (ie in a way that prioritized the business and hands the remains to the creators) PLUS bits of the youtube model of constantly shifting goals and targets to keep planning ability for its creators at a minimum - but if you want to know why this AI that rips off artists is "better" than the rest, that's why.

ARS' spin is fucking gross, nothing in the actual article says anything close to what that headline is implying.

That would take centuries.

Actually, it's not impossible at all. The UK grid needs about 3 times the amount of wind and much more solar and 2 terawatts of underground hydrogen storage.

There's enough salt caverns around the UK that can give it that storage, and the hydrogen can be manufactured via electrolysis when the wind and solar is producing too much. It's not very efficient, but renewables are cheap.

It CAN be done.

The Australian grid is rather different, it's a LOT closer to the equator and their renewables are a lot more consistent, so they need a lot less storage in percentage terms.

Not really, but the grid operator is basically the government for the grid, and they're highly incentivized to not fuck up. They're the ones that sent out the request for quotes.

FYI as of 2021 the UK had 1.3 GW(h) of battery storage on the grid:

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.solarpowerportal.c...

I'm not sure what the total storage is now, it's going to be over 1.5 GW(h) with this installation, and probably a lot more. Note that large batteries aren't needed, it's the total battery storage that's important.

The UK grid operator was particularly keen on getting batteries on it, because the HVDC interconnectors to the continent have been unreliable, and they tend to suddenly break with no warning. That has meant that the grid needs to have a couple of gigawatt of spinning reserve instead, particularly spinning overnight, but with enough batteries they can shut most of that down into hot standby.

The last outage the grid had, due to a lightning strike, they didn't quite have enough battery, and that meant they had to do load shedding and that caused chaos. They should have enough battery now to keep it up long enough if there's a repeat to get backup power running and avoid any load shedding.

The other thing these batteries can do is help smooth out the production curve. If we had enough batteries to smooth out the evening power demand, the CCGT gas turbines would be much more efficient. When they first start up they use about twice as much fuel per kWh until the second cycle kicks in. If they start up less, costs should go down. But we'd need a lot more batteries to make that work.

...and some of the worst drivers in the country.

I never understood the inability to come up with a true random number generator. Tune your old school TV to channel 3. It's static. Background radiation from the big bang. Use THAT. (?)

That threw me for second [decades]. It's been decades for me too - gave up on Microsoft roughly in 2000 w/ the games they were playing. It's been two decades and my business system(s) run more reliably and it's been a whole lot cheaper not paying Microsoft "licensing". They are a multi-billion dollar joke of a company.

I gave up on tape decades ago. Too many problems. It's slow AF compared to a live backup for restoring. That's if you CAN restore. Worst case scenario is you'll have to restore w/ a different tape drive -- and I've seen this fail right there. The original drive became out of alignment, but could still read/write it's own tapes. Nothing else would read them. I consider this tech useless now because of this.

I backup like this:
Linux server ---> rsync offsite
rsync offsite --- differential rsync of this live set
(ie: no direct access to differential backup set)

I do the same thing onsite, but will assume entire network is compromised and will rely on offsite for a good set of data

This is just not a good idea on so many different levels.

Why yes. YES IT DOES.

I think they already tried removing the Start menu right before they removed the "Start" button and made it the Windows logo. The aborted and never released Windows 9