As soon as solar panels and batteries are involved it’s not “clean, green energy” though. I have no idea how people are that lie.

Solar panels don’t grow on trees. They’re not made from renewable sources. They require mass amounts of mining and coal/gas created energy to make, and they last 10-20 years max. They’re not recyclable either because it costs more to recycle them than it does to make a new one.

Batteries are even worse.

You get $4/kWh?! We get 2c here in Australia lol

This isn’t just an LLM. It uses excel functions and features to do the counting and adding and dealing with large data sets.

It’s not “vibe coding” as much as “vibe performing steps in excel”.

Also LLMs absolutely can deal with large data sets anyway. Not sure where you got that from.

That’s not at all what this means. In this instance, 70% is basically “human level”. For AI to already get 57% it means that it’s approaching the same level as people do in Excel.

Yes.

You tell it not to.

I swear none of you guys have even attempted to use AI to do data analysis. I have, I built a MCP and integrated a copilot agent into Teams which has access to specific database data, and refined the rules for it to the point where the CFO rigorously tested it (and still does) and trusts the results it returns.

As I’ve said many times, though not in this topic - AI is a tool to be used, and using it is a skill that needs to be learned.

For your pandemic example, that’s something that you would need to provide the AI with the context of. The joke of a “prompt engineer” being a job soon actually has merit, in that you want people who know how to use their tools the best. It’s constantly learning through iteration to give the AI a specific instruction set to get the results you want/need.

It spent have to be meaningful extra workload for it to cost them millions/billions of dollars because of their size.

Solar panels are not the expensive part of using solar to power the country - the storage and transmission is.

Although having said that, the cost of regularly cleaning panels, replacing them, throwing them in landfill, and mining materials to make new ones every 15 years or so is also huge - and destructive to the planet. It’s just more of a slow burn cost that snowballs.

https://x.com/jnampijinpa/status/1973660876793368808

https://www.cis.org.au/publication/the-renewable-energy-honeymoon-starting-is-easy-the-rest-is-hard/

If Plex doesn’t add new shows/movies/music then I take a look at my services that should be adding stuff for Plex to serve up. That’s pretty much it these days. I had a few pinned tabs in my browser for some of them so can see if they aren’t working if I click on them to add/change something.

I was using homepage but it seems to cause docker to die a LOT on my server.

Excel is one place where AI makes sense. All the data is there, in a nice structured and typed format with headings etc. Easily verifiable and to provide the reasoning for its work.

Did you read the next sentence? Humans only get like 72% right. It’s not far off at all.

It means they can do way more features without giving away precious IP, and it also just reduces their workload. They don’t need to keep giving out their code for free. It makes their job harder.

AOSP projects are not and never have been a threat to Google. They aren’t trying to stifle them - that’s just a byproduct of not giving away their code anymore. Giving it away gives literally zero benefits to them. It might only save them 0.01%, but that’s a lot money.

It’s cute that you think that simply changing a feature is illegal lol

But you’re not putting a rocket into orbit with coal

And you’re definitely not with wind and solar lol.

Coal is cheap, abundant in supply, and easy.

It’s not actually cheap though, that’s the problem. Basically every country that is pushing “renewables” are having their power bills increase over and over and over with no sign of slowing down because it’s not cheap.

No one wants to build them without giant subsidies and guaranteed returns. Why do you think that is?

While your power company is taking your power from your battery, where does your power to power your house come from? How much do you pay for it, what are your daily charges etc?

Also not renewable, are incredibly environmentally destructive, and have short lifetimes - kinda the opposite of what the push for “renewables” is supposed to be about lol.

You couldn’t just have “free electricity for everyone” by having solar panels on your houses lol. Where’s the power being stored?