Probably specific by country then because I didn’t have to show any ID. FWIW

“To sign, you must provide a set of personal data, which is required by the authorities of your country for verification purposes.” which is as of a week ago and still today :

• nationality
• name
• birth date
• address

I don’t think eSIM providers do but I admit I didn’t check. It’d be even more convenient, no need to leave your home to switch.

Exactly, sure disconnect customers from the Internet if they use it for entertainment… but once they use it to earn the income that pays their bills, it becomes questionable… and once it is in practice required to be a citizen, at the local, national or supra national level then it becomes a totally different question, to which the answer is basically no, you can’t disconnect someone otherwise you remove their citizenship.

Ironically enough that’s is exactly the kind of seemingly “simple” question a 4 years old could answer… but LLMs can’t.

Asked my better half to test DeepSeek locally few months ago and they, without trying to “trick” it (as I would have tried) genuinely tried “What time is it in Sri Lanka?”. That made me smile because I was rather sure there was no way the model could answer that. It would need to know the current time on any time zone then, if it’s not in Sri Lanka already (which it wasn’t on my local system) would have to convert it. That would be very basic arithmetic (that some 4 years old could also do) but not “just” spitting back words related to the question.

Guess what… it failed exactly as expected. The model replied back “information” (which is being generous for a string of words arguably related to the topic, which was mostly about Sri Lanka, not time) and yet was basically irrelevant and thus useless.

So… yes I’m not actually sure CoPilot could even help there unless there is a lot of custom made handling of this kind of queries upstream!

I’m not trying to be sarcastic here, I genuinely do not understand what you are saying. Please give an example and/or a reference, whichever is more convenient.

Are you saying that going to 90km/h emit less than going 30km/h?

What?! Haven’t your heard?

• FSD is happening next year, for sure,
• we’re still 18 months away from developers being replaced,
• it’s “deep” reasoning, basically nearly ASI!

/s (obviously)

lot of people don’t think very much at all. They feel things, and make up words to justify their feelings

Right… and now they have magical eightballs that can justify with plausible sounding strings of words (LLMs) any feeling they might have.

We’re doing great as a species! /s

in general, efficiency goes up till ~90km/h.

Are you talking about fuel efficiency or total emission though? The efficiency might go up but the emission might still go up, it might be less emission per km/h but maybe not per km.

He should just goto hell early.

He’s going to Mars as soon as FSD on Tesla is ready, next year for sure!, to not blow in his rocket then once there chat with his amazing chatbot telling him, with 20min delay for each message, that he truly is the best.

What an absolute retard.

Great point. I mostly focused on the power that cars give to people, revving the engine isn’t a random gesture, it’s a show of power when most people usually have… pen, papers, keyboards… few have power tools but even then, it’s not very powerful. A car or a truck though that’s typically what the average human can exert the most raw power. Nothing psychological or economical. It’s not like having a fancy house that cost a lot of money or showing of, no it’s being in control of a powerful machine. I do assume it is rewiring the brain of drivers… but now that you mention it, it is also coupled with effortlessness. It’s not like being strong when you go to the gym, here it’s entirely decoupled from your strength. This must rewire drivers even more than I initially imagined. Thanks for the hindsight!

I’m not sure if you ever used a bike lane, or watch the countless videos of people riding on them, but it’s very VERY rare to have unobstructed bike lanes. So… sure, one grandma who isn’t paying attention, who cares, ok a truck that has to do deliveries and forcing you to go on the car lane, not going to kill you… then again, and again, and 2 cars parked there, another delivery… usually before you finish your trip you even wonder if there was a bike lane in the first place.

I literally asked, you implied.

specs were too low

what usage was limited by specs?

mail-in ticket from a camera like this won’t

Damn, imagine now if one could put such a camera anywhere and it would

• either be moved away if below a threshold after a period, e.g. 1 week
• or stay as long as it pays for itself then when it pays for a 2nd one, that new one would be randomly nearby

5 EUR spray paint can

On Firefox (my default browser everywhere it’s available) I use the Coil extension but seems it’s now called InterLedger (Wallet) cf https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/web-monetization-extension/

If you go on my web site https://fabien.benetou.fr/ you should see 3 hearts under the 3D model if it’s enabled.

being sensationalist. OR (and more likely answer). Musk is building some bespoke data center in the middle of bum-fuck nowhere without the local infrastructure to support it

It’s exactly what’s been reporting in several pieces from 404 Media, and others. Namely xAI does NOT have the infrastructure BUT Musk has a history (Tesla, SpaceX, etc) of cutting corners. He “gets shit done” like no one else not because he’s particularly smart or efficiency … but because he breaks the law, as simple as that.

histrionic

True… yet nearly everybody else, maybe beside few like 404 media, seems to be either boot licking or access “journalism” so I get the “spicy” take.

May I introduce you to https://webmonetization.org/ ?