Because it’s not using hot steam, but vapor, it’s more like sweating.

The heat exchangers are sprayed with misted water, which evaporates and takes away heat. But the resulting vapor is still only slightly above ambient temperature and can’t be reasonably condensated.

What is the battery situation like?

The older, cheaper devices are obviously, well, older and thus the battery degraded a bit. Linux isn’t exactly optimized for these things either. I would expect less than great battery life.

The cool air in the upper atmosphere cleans the waves, though. Obviously that doesn’t work horizontally, everybody knows that.

One might call me apologetic, but I personally feel like paying taxes is not exactly holocausty.

Then again, I don’t know any rich people, so maybe I’m just biased.

As someone working in government IT, the entire sector is focused on compliance, not security. You can install the most obviously backdoored/unsafe device or software, as long as you have a paper trail that someone pinky promised that it’s secure. Absolutely bonkers.

In your case, if the manufacturer of devices has all the necessary certifications, nobody will even question the security.

I see. We’re at full blown ad hominem and removed even the pretense of argumentative value.

That’s of course a sure sign of maturity.

Maybe all the juniors around you suck, because the good ones don’t need to waste their time with arrogant, abrasive coworkers.

But that’s exactly what Microsoft promised its shareholders and why they invested billions into it. They need world changing revenue to make it worthwhile.

It’s already fourth tier after L1, L2, L3 caches.

Maybe something like optane will make a comeback. Having 16gb of soldered RAM and 500gb of relatively slow, but inexpensive optane RAM would be great.

I tried cursor, claude, copilot. They’re not good.

Like, they can sometimes generate 10 lines of perfectly reasonable code, but they constantly completely misunderstand my intention or simply produce garbage. But the garbage looks just good enough, that you actually have to read and understand it, which slows me down.

Maybe we’re operating in completely different worlds, but even for the junior devs in my company, typing speed was never an issue. I’m sure, within a few years LLMs can generate much better code, but I don’t see widespread unemployment. They need way too much babysitting and result in worse code.

No, I fully understand your point, I just think it’s shit, and since your first reaction to being challenged is a shitty attempt at belittling, I have to assume you’re about as valuable as your point.

Why would I trust the judgement of someone who can’t even fathom the concept of “someone else might have a valid point”?

You’re right in your analysis, but the prediction is wrong, I’m afraid.

The next “big thing” is taking over the government. See Musk and his gang. He’s not alone and the US isn’t the only country this is happening in. Corporations inject themselves into each and every transaction, every aspect of life and politics. That way they have essentially infinite money at their hands.

That’s exactly what I mean. Condescending, arrogant, and confidently incorrect.

See, acting like a condescending asshole without any substance is a task that AI may never take from us.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/technology/ai-deteriorates-your-brain-according-to-microsoft-study/ar-AA1yQnGA

Searching for AI and Microsoft is an absolute shit show, btw. There was also a study about the code quality, but I can’t find it among all the marketing bullshit.

Edit: just found another one https://futurism.com/openai-researchers-coding-fail

Translation on a level an AI could do is already pretty cheap, nobody’s gonna throw a nuanced legal document at an AI and rely on it.

Junior devs are much smarter than any current AI, because they know what they want to achieve and why. There’s a reason why all the demos are toy examples. Actual code is messy and full of quirks because of weird requirements.

No, they are not. Why do you think there’s not a single AI company that’s making a profit from an actual product/service? The only ones with a real business plan are nvidia and other shovel merchants.

Thing is, it doesn’t replace workers. And it won’t for the foreseeable future. Even Microsoft itself had to admit that their studies show AI assisted coding to be bad and making developers worse.

There is hardly any market where these systems can reasonably compete with exploited humans. It’s just that the tech bros have nothing left to invest in. The same idiots that pushed crypto, NFTs and the Metaverse are now pushing for AI. There is hardly any innovation anymore, so the only ways to make line go up are rent seeking and investing in bubbles in the desperate attempt, that something might stick.

Let’s say you open Youtube (or any other site) in your browser. Normally, that connection is encrypted end2end, so only Youtube and you see what data is being sent. An outside observer (your employer, your ISP, etc) might deduce from the network traffic that you’re accessing YT, and how long/how much data, but nothing else.

This encryption is based on SSL/TLS, in a small nutshell, that works by having a chain of cryptographically signed certificates, that proof to you, that YT is really YT, and not someone else (your employer, for example). Attacks like this are called Man in the Middle (MITM). The certificate chain however, needs an anchor. Somewhere to start. These are called Root CA (certifying authorities). Typically these are dedicated companies or large ISPs. Their certificates (the public parts) are stored on your device from the factory (more or less). And thus your device can verify the entire chain of trust from the certificate YT send you down to the RootCA…

Now, if someone would install a new RootCA certificate on your device, than that entity could become a Man in the Middle, it acts as a relay for all of the traffic going out of your device, can read everything send over the wire - and your device wouldn’t even know it. If that entity would be part of a US company, they would be legally forced to hand over all their data to NSA, FBI, etc. even if the actual data transfer woud happen completely within Europe.

This is exactly what Twingate seems to do. Crowdstrike and ZScaler are similar products.

The underlying problem here is that IT security in large organizations doesn’t mean “How can we be secure?”, but “How can we make a legal argument that we did nothing wrong?”. So security clusterfucks like this can be implementend, since the CTO can claim not to have been negligent.

PS: The description above is obviously very simplified, the Wiki articles for SSL/TLS are much better.

Why not just recommend adblockers? No ads, no revenue, no matter how much tracking.

Tried to explain that to the higher ups in my org for months.

They introduced some proxy/VPN that pipes all of our traffic through a service that is not only breaking SSL, but also owned by a US corporation.

That’s enough red flags to make Mao blush, but nobody saw any problem in it…