Or even just a program of the same length. This nonsense proves that some people have not only drunk the AI kool aid, they've filled a pool with it and gone for a swim.

Even if their "prompt" is 100% correct - which is almost certainly won't be - then the AI can still mess up badly with the output. Unfortunately this is what happens when non programmers think programming is easy now and attempt to do it. I guess they'll find out the hard way that hard problems remain hard no matter what pretty wrapper and shiny bow you tie around your "solution".

I've always avoided moving into management despite having had the oipportunity a few times. I'm not a people person, I'm not interested in managing them or dealing with their issues, I'm far better doing stuff on a computer. Probably cost me a fair amount of money in the long run but I've no regrets.

...that the company already realised that the guy was a bit of a jackjass. A demotion is a clear message that "we think you're a waste of desk space but you're not so useless that we can fire you but perhaps you should think about looking elsewhere"

I'm not sure hiding processes would be considered basic knowledge.

Linux supports all the common codecs so your dashcam must be using some priopraitary format if you can't play it that will probably only be trouble in years to come if you want to save it and play it back elsewhere. I'd suggest a new dashcam frankly.

It means less of the carbon is being combusted to produce CO2 and more of the energy is coming from the reacting the hydrogen in the compound to create water. The soot can be collected and dumped on the land instead of into the air.

Mountain glaciers are a pinprick compared to the ice sheet currently melting at an accelerating rate on greenland not to mention in antartica.

And it doesn't give a fuck about us. In the Cretacious it is believed the daytime temp rose to 60-70C in some places inland, totally inhospitable for any life alive today apart from some bacteria. If we don't reduce our emissions we're heading back to that but hey, you carry on being blase about a large proportion of the continents being uninhabitable.

Algorithmic trading has been a thing for 3 decades now. Only a few markets still use open outcry real traders - metals IIRC - and the rest AFAIK just babysit the computers so whether they should still be called traders is open to question.

"The regulator said it would prioritize"

If its anything like our other regulators in the UK then that means they might have agreed to a time for the meeting to discuss in about 2 years. At which point a number of the higher level execs realise that if they push it they might not get a cushy non-exec directorship in one of the companies they're regulating when they leave and so nothing is done. See: Ofcom, Ofwat.

... amongst business travellers on short tripes who just want to take a single device with a reasonable sized screen (ie no tablet or laptop), and of course the usual techno-fashion victims. Its too bulky for it to be a mass market phone.

"I'm not going to put in the effort to actually check the specifics of a statistical sample of different hydro plants"

Well why would you? Much easier to BS, right?

"In my previous comment I literally named a specific 440MW plant that can go from zero to 100% power in 30 seconds"

Yeah, I know. Funny how you went from:

"the power likely starts to be delivered within about 2 seconds"

to 30 seconds. Realised you were talking out your arse sonny and hoped I wouldn't notice? Also it was built in 1965, how do you think instructions to start the turbines got to them back then, carrier pigeon?

"Large scale hydro gets around this by using many turbines rather than one"

And of course conventional coal fired stations use just the one turbine.... oh, no, wait....

"That means that the moment inertia for a correctly designed pumped storage hydro plant is much much lower than that of a standard thermal plant."

Oh look at you trying to sound all clever. Maybe give ChatGPT some different prompts next time. If you think the amount of rotating mass - sorry "moment of inertia" - in a hydro turbine is less than in a steam turbine in a conventional power station then you're going to be disappointed.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.hydropower.org%2Fcas...

"Maybe someone will hear your scraping and have mercy on your soul"

Yup, I was right, it is irony week. I think you get 1st prize.

I'm afraid I can't be bothered to hang around this low down the evolutionary tree to argue with you any more, but feel free to have the last word so I can have a good laugh. :o)

"I think that the gates"

" I believe that"

These are not valid arguments. It basically means you're plucking stuff out your arse to suit your argument.

"Prior to 2000 there were many fewer inverter based systems delivering power to the grid"

If you need to load balance with these its the wind and solar you modulate, not the large scale infrastructure.

If you think you can just start and stop a multi gigawatt hydro station in seconds as and when then there's a bridge for sale over the river downstream with your name on. For a start the generators in large hydro are equal in size to conventional power stations so have a LARGE amount of inertia themselves along with frequency alignment issues, and secondly the grid has to be ready to accept hundreds of megawatts or even gigawatts extra suddenly being dumped into it from a single point, that DOESN'T get set up in seconds.

"You show signs of loud ignorance. Things have been changing in the past decades whilst your undergraduate knowledge has been sleeping"

It must be irony week again. When you get a clue get back to me.

Really? How many orders of magnitude? You think a phone call would take 300 seconds - 5 mins - to request it happen? Or maybe even 3000 seconds? Do you think grid balancing wasn't a thing pre-2000 sonny?

How long do you think a phone call takes?