Yes, but…

The distribution limits are almost always an afternoon/evening thing. Early afternoon for warm climates (aircon and cooking dinner) and evening for cold climates (cooking dinner, showers, heating).

Midday for solar injection.

Hence the famous ‘duck curve’.

The distribution network has plenty of capacity overnight; we just need people to wait until about 11PM before we start charging.

At that point we get the question of whether we have the generation.

‘Dumping’ is considered anti-competitive behaviour in a lot of places. This sounds a lot like that.

There are a number of 6-8GWe nuclear plants that dump 15+GW into the nearby sea (or in the case of Bruce, Lake Huron). I don’t see it being much of an issue. Better than virtually any other cooling option.

The issues are maintenance, energy source, and equipment supply.

Not just jobs. AI can’t hold copyright. This could have messy legal implications.

While I agree hours probably shouldn’t be going up, I think there’s a bit of a ratcheting effect at play.

If you take the classic “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs”, you end up with the question of how you define ‘needs’.

As tech gets better, the standard of care goes up in healthcare - treatments that were ‘impractical’ 20 years ago are now expected standard of care. Same goes for safety and for standard of living. Electric lighting, aircon, floor space, your own bedroom not shared with 3 other kids, TV/telephone/internet. It’s now basically standard in first world countries to fully treat sewage and have aircon on buses - that wasn’t the case 50 years ago.

Every time automation displaces some drudge work, we’ll be able to find something new that technically could be done and would be nice to have. 30 years later people will be screaming bloody murder if that former nice-to-have breaks down.

That’s certainly not to say we’re efficiently using the labour we have.

OpenAI is joined at the hip with MS, right?

What’s the bet this is MS’s attempt at getting back into the corporate mobile space again? Brand it as CoPilot Phone…

Is this AI?

RAM’s main advantage over HDDs/SSDs is fast access times.

Needing to fetch anything over the internet would make it faster to just use HDDs.

Same thing with the cluster that is VoLTE support between carriers.

Isn’t “I can move my phone between countries and carriers without worrying” something that was mostly sorted out in the 3G days?

I am slightly confused by the graph, which does not appear to list English or any of the Chinese languages?

It’s reasonable to argue that ‘lingua franca’ means the language used for trade, travel, diplomacy etc. - and that does not necessarily have to mean the language spoken by the plurality of the world’s population.

How do I know we’re coming up to the next US election?

The both-sides-same messaging starts kicking up.

Secondhand stuff can be really cheap if you know where to look, but the drawbacks are usually power and noise.