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Bezos said he saw this generator in the same way he sees local computing solutions today

This is hilarious, because every single facility of note, and especially datacenters has local, grid independent generators. Datacenters in particular have been noteworthy for pushing for 'off-grid' power plants to give them more control over their power and costs. In the more reachable territory, residential solar promises value by mitigating your exposure to eletrical rate changes, and in some cases combined with home energy storage, people are going off-grid. A lot of commercial interests also pad out their facilities with solar panels, because it is cheaper than sourcing entirely from the grid, and this was before the recent rate hikes inflicted by datacenter buildouts.

His analogy is bogus because he implies off-grid energy generation is a thing of the past while AWS itself is a huge driver of off-grid energy generation in a world where off-grid energy generation is actually increasing.

You can't to the same degree. If you let the user use a typical desktop environment like gnome or plasma., then they can set their wallpaper.

Now if you want to make a kiosk thing, so much easier in Linux. But if you want to have a general purpose desktop experience but restrict stupid stuff like wallpaper, windows has got you.

I would rather use and administer Linux systems at scale any day, but if you hated your users and wanted to lock personalization, then Windows has done the work to enable that.

There have been devices that forbid disabling SecureBoot or enrolling your own keys, and only boot loaders that microsoft signed are allowed to boot.

Further, I've seen systems that have a setting to not allow the non-microsoft stuff to boot, even if signed by the usual secureboot authority. So there may be a device out there hard set to only allow microsoft software to boot.

Issue is that there's one thing that organizations love about Windows that isn't really catered to in any Linux distribution: Nannying the users and not letting them do their own things with their own systems.

For example, no Linux distribution out there will help you prevent the end-users from changing their own desktop wallpaper, or what to show when the user locks their screen. When my company hands out laptops, the users are blocked from changing out the ugly propaganda slides they make our systems display. Just the tip of the iceburg for how much the enduser can be screwed with by a microsoft admin that just isn't possible in any significant Linux desktop environment.

So user may love Linux, but their employer still wants to make sure they are running Windows.

I dunno. Maybe they give Trump a Denmark peace prize and he forgets the whole thing.

It's not a subjective thing. Cold medicines treat symptoms, not the disease. Cold and allergies have common symptoms.

If your concern is that cold medicines don't work for your allergies, thwn those tend not to work for colds either.

If the medicine is trying to use phenylephrine in a pill, that doesn't do anything. You might also want to skip the acetaminophen usually included and you have zero need for that, but not every co of d medicine has that.

A month from now:

I'm working on this horrible Venezuela situation that BIDEN left me with. Such a waste of American resources but I'm going to pull that back to make America great again.

Ok, so you weren't countering that ML wasn't AI, just contending that ML wasn't "the" AI in the AI field, that's fine. Keep in mind this thread kicked off from an assertion that ML wasn't AI. Fine, ML wasn't all of AI, but definitely was AI and in the popular understanding, it was pretty much "the" AI in the same way LLM is "the" AI now.

As I said. It's an extrapolation of the rules from once upon a time to a totally different approach. It's marketing and increasingly subjective. Any number can "make sense" in that context. The number isn't based on anything you could actually measure for a long time now, it's already a fiction, so it can go wherever.

To be fair, the industry spent decades measuring a distance, so when they started doing features that had equivalent effects, the easiest way for people to understand was to say something akin to equivalent size.

Of course, then we have things like Intel releasing their "10 nm* process, then after TSMC's 7nm process was doing well and Intel fab hit some bumps, they declared their 10 to be more like a 7 after all.. it's firmly all marketing number..

Problem being no one is suggesting a more objective measure.

For a while now the "nm" has been a bit of a marketing description aiming for what the size would be if you extrapolated the way things used to be to today. The industry spent so long measuring that when the measurement broke down they just kind of had to fudge it to keep the basis of comparison going, for lack of a better idea . If we had some fully volumetric approach building these things equally up in three dimensions, we'd probably have less than "100 pm" process easily, despite it being absurd.

I would say more the opposite, in pop culture, LLM == AI. In the technical world, both in university and industry, AI has covered a lot of areas, and machine vision based on ML was absolutely under the category of AI. If you said you used pytorch to train an AI model no one in the industry or academia would have batted an eye.