I hear this will be a mechanic in the new ConcernedApe game.
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The commercial version of practically everything is better than the consumer version (or at least bullshit-free).
The reason being that a large company has negotiating power far beyond that of an individual consumer.
There are multiple official touhou mangas as well.
Specifically they are completely incapable of unifying information into a self consistent model.
To use an analogy you see a shadow and know its being cast by some object with a definite shape, even if you can't be sure what that shape is. An LLM sees a shadow and its idea of what's casting it is as fuzzy and mutable as the shadow itself.
Funnily enough old school AI from the 70s, like logic engines, possessed a super-human ability for logical self consistancy. A human can hold contradictory beliefs without realizing it, a logic engine is incapable of self-contradiction once all of the facts in its database have been collated. (This is where the SciFi idea of robots like HAL-9000 and Data from Star Trek come from.) However this perfect reasoning ability left logic engines completely unable to deal with contradictory or ambiguous information, as well as logical paradoxes. They were also severely limited by the fact that practically everything they knew had to be explicitly programmed into them. So if you wanted one to be able to hold a conversion in plain English you would have to enter all kinds of information that we know implicitly, like the fact that water makes things wet or that most, but not all, people have two legs. A basically impossible task.
With the rise of machine learning and large artificial neural networks we solved the problem of dealing with implicit, ambiguous, and paradoxical information but in the process completely removed the ability to logically reason.
China could stand to be more humane, but it wouldn't make the US cooperate with them.
That's less the Unix way and more the BeOS way.
In some cases you can replace a pun with another pun that works in the target language.
In other cases, where you're translating a religious text, doing something for scholarly reasons, or you otherwise think your audience would really like to know what's going on in a text you have to add a translation note.
That sounds absolutely fine to me.
Compared to an NVME SSD, which is what I have my OS and software installed on, every spinning disk drive is glacially slow. So it really doesn't make much of a difference if my archive drive is a little bit slower at random R/W than it otherwise would be.
In fact I wish tape drives weren't so expensive because I'm pretty sure I'd rather have one of those.
If you need high R/W performance and huge capacity at the same time (like for editing gigantic high resolution videos) you probably want some kind of RAID array.
Where so many other cities have decided that they can't have public benches Vienna has decided to put in public hammocks:
While I'm sure there's some that are worse than others I'm pretty sure every conflict has involved widespread rape.
Someone please correct me if you can. It would help me like humanity a little bit more.
Low-end food is apparently way cheaper in the UK than in North America:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJDg3lMlmBU
There's been inflation since that video went up, so the prices aren't quite that good anymore. There are more recent videos from that channel you can watch to see more current prices though.
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At to end of the day it comes down to this:
Is it cheaper to store steel stock in a warehouse or terrawatt-hours of electricity in a battery farm?
Is it cheaper to perform maintainance on 2 or 3x the number of smelters or is it cheaper to maintain millions of battery or pumped hydro facilities?
I'm sure production companies would love it if governments or electrical companies bore the costs of evening out fluctuations in production, just like I'm sure farmers would love it if money got teleported into their bank account for free and they never had to worry about growing seasons. But I'm not sure that's the best situation for society as a whole.
EDIT: I guess there's a third factor which is transmission. We could build transmission cables between the northern and southern hemispheres. So, is it cheaper to build and maintain enormous HVDC (or even superconducting) cables than it is to do either of the two things above? And how do governments feel about being made so dependent on each other?
We can do a combination of all three of course, picking and choosing the optimal strategy for each situation, but like I said above I tend to think that one of those strategies will be disproportionately favorable over the others.