Admittedly I wasn't using a paid frontier model, but I've tried it a few times with very mixed results.

One attempt was to write some code for a microcontroller to do some tricky stuff with DMA and timers to generate a complex waveform. It failed miserably and couldn't seem to understand my implementation that did work, or debug it when I introduced a subtle bug.

Another attempt involved having to develop a system to automatically crop and rotate images to be upright and remove the border. It managed to remove the border reliably, but never got about about 30% of them upright. I provided it with sample, hand crafted output to compare against, and told it to keep iterating until it got it right, but it just couldn't figure out how to do it.

Ironically if I just uploaded the images to bog standard consumer AIs like Gemini and ChatGPT, they could reliably crop and rotate the images 100% of the time. I even suggested that it use the same image recognition systems as those were using, but it couldn't make that work either.

I used to hate long form writing because it hurt my hands, due to arthritis. When I learned to type I was suddenly freed from the pain and I started to enjoy it.

So while hand-written notes are a nice idea, they won't work for everyone. I think recording the screen is going to be the only option for some kids.

It seems to disproportionately affect people on the Autism spectrum. I've been accused of it more than once, and seen people accused when to me their text reads perfectly normally.

These detectors seem to be a load of crap.

Assuming there are 2028 elections. Let's see how he reacts to the mid-terms.

They probably have intel that China is making good progress on it's "before 2030" goal. They have all the parts needed either working or in late stages of development, and their plan is conservative and focused.

What are you talking about? EV sales are booming, in no small part thanks to Trumps war with Iran.

My EV is an appreciating asset at the moment because used prices are rising.

Those are often the first things to be electrified, because the operators are closer to rational actors who see the immediate savings. Of course the real world gets in the way, but for example about half the busses here are electric because one of the companies replaced them all as part of a fleet upgrade a couple of years ago. They are much nicer too.

Well, I can't speak for the US electoral roll breakdown, but it appears you may be in the 10% that can't add up. :)

Of course, Norway isn't some third world country.

Russian sites like Yandex, Rutube, VKvideo... are great to find porn. But if they go down, I'll take the minor inconvenience for the sake of Ukraine.

More seriously, Yandex has been throttling queries rather aggressively lately, and I'm pretty sure it has something to do with their compute going up in smoke due to Ukrainian drones.

Michaux has been widely discredited. His 2021 report, for example, listed 65.4% of energy as wasted. That's probably true, most fossil fuel powered systems produce massive amounts of waste heat. But he still seems to think that we need to produce that much if we switch to electricity, which is obviously not the case.

Some of it is just misrepresentation. He uses Germany as an example, claiming they need 12 weeks of energy storage. The estimate he cites, which was already outlandish, actually says 24 days, and that's ridiculous. In the real world, there is no need for a whole country UPS because with enough renewables you only ever see hours of deficit, which can be covered with gas (only because it's cheaper to do that and offset it than to go 100% renewables/storage).

He also ignores all the HVDC lines that were being built at the time, and hasn't updated for all the once built since or announced since, so his estimate for the battery storage requirement is at least an order of magnitude off. He also bases his mineral estimates on old chemistry that was poor even when he wrote it, let alone today, and assumes it all has to be lithium ion battery storage.

He does the same thing with copper. Bases it off old technology, ignores aluminium as a conductor, ignores recycling, and vastly over-estimates the requirement.

The whole thing is full of obvious holes. Reality is that most countries can get to over 95% renewables + storage, and then some other sources for the remaining few percent which can have carbon capture and offsetting to reach net zero. The result is cheaper energy and a small chance we might not completely bugger up the planet.

Sure we can produce enough batteries for everyone to have an EV, and for grid storage too. The main issue is we have fallen a bit behind on the tech, on the chemistry.

Not that we shouldn't do that sort of thing, but to have any chance of this not being an absolute shit-show that causes an unprecedented global disaster, we need to do a hell of a lot more than just plant trees.

Basically everyone needs to do what China is doing in terms of renewables and storage build-out. The scale is unimaginable for most of us in the West. The biggest projects we ever did are tiny in comparison.

That's very doable with current EVs. In fact about a decade ago Bjorn Nyland used to tow a trailer that size in the middle of the Norwegian winter, with an old Tesla.

A few hours journey is no problem, even in cheap EVs. Here, for under the equivalent of $25k before tax, you can get an MG that will do 3 hours of non-stop driving at motorway speeds. I've done it in March, in the rain and the dark. It's only when you push out to 5 hours that you need to stop and charge, but personally I need a comfort break anyway.

As more people get EVs, other people start to realize that they will work for them. They work for almost everyone, except for people with *very* unusual and special requirements. As for used, the situation isn't ideal at the moment, but here the standard is an 8 year battery warranty and repairs/replacements after that period are possible, so it's on a par with buying a fossil. Actually probably slightly better, as there are some really unreliable combustion engines on the market. JLR is notorious for them.

No, they are cheaper to buy. Both new and used, cash or credit.