celerrimus's comments

These are interesting results, especially the fact that those LLMs formed illegal cartels.

interesting results, thank you!

very interesting results, thanks for sharing!

Yeh, however I'm not sure that the only cause. I think that record temperatures, and less moisture, are more important factors here.

For example, I know that in recent years we observe unprecedented fires in Siberia region where, due to wast areas and very low population/infrastructure, smaller natural fires were never artificially suppressed.

I would agree with Toyota. Excluding hybrids from the mix is simply wrong, as global electric mix (64% fossil fuels, mostly coal) poor performance in harsh conditions, charging time and infrastructure, are still so unmature. Hybrids with smaller batteries are great middle step and solution for now, as you can have best of the two worlds. And in the most countries, they could be better in terms of environment compared to pure EVs.

I think Adobe offers were even more confusing few years ago. This is not honest company, gently speaking.

I have another good example. I bought an Adobe license few years ago, and as a business in EU, I had to bought in excluding VAT, and pay VAX tax here locally. I provided my valid EU-VAT, price dropped to net price in interface (let's say 100 EUR), in confirmation, and even in invoice I get. However, to my surprise, my credit card was charged with full gross price (123EUR), meaning I lost 23% of purchase - as I was obligated to pay VAT anyway second time, as there was 0 VAT tax on the invoice.

Well, such things happen, you may think. This should be childishly easy to fix with support, as clearly amount from the invoice and amount charged simply didn't match. However, after dozen attempts with support, dealing with various support level people from Adobe support from India, not knowing even what the VAT tax is, and without any interest on helping me out, I had to give up. I decided to use PayPal protection for buyers, as transaction was made through the PayPal. Tu my surprise, despite clear evidence, they rejected claim after consultation with Adobe, without providing any reason. So I decided to not deal with those thieves any more and called my bank to fill chargeback request. It was so clear, that they recognised the request the next day and returned the money.

Takeaways are: - Adobe is a shady corporation focused on robbing their customers, with other examples you can find online I cannot call that otherwise (among others, deceptive offers, blocking perpetual licenses, and as in my case simply stealing money from customers credit cards) - PayPal protections are completely useless, even with so clear cases - It's good to make transactions with shady companies with credit cards.

What’s strange here? I’m working remotely for over 15 years, but still, this is not work for everyone. It’s far from idyllic imaginations of office workers, as grass is always greener on the other side.

Also, I'm not sure that remote working will work for such businesses as banks, where keeping bank confidentiality may be hard or even impossible to enforce for remote workers. My girlfriend worked at bank once, they were very strict in controlling media drives, notes, even use of personal phones were not allowed near workstations.

In Poland we had quite large population of wild animals. It's estimated that we have population of over 2.000 wolves, they need large territories so it's natural to migrate outside the borders. Hopefully they will be protected everywhere at same level. I never heard here about threat to humans (we as a nation spend a lot time in forests for mushroom and berries picking, recreation, etc) beside rumours and fake news ignited by hunters - they want to end strict wolf protection to be able to hunt for them.

Wolves were always here in Poland, and now they are already on most polish territory, even near big cities. They are in forests just outside Warsaw, my friend is now hearing wolf pack 30km outside from Gdansk in northern Poland. Of course that farmers reports loses and this is some cost for the state, that is paying out for those.

But this is our european heritage and we need to make everything to preserve it. Nothing to be afraid of.

Nonsense, classic FUD

Although I rejected many similar MITM reports myself, in this case I think this is valid threat. It's not some random comments or forum site where there's almost no value for attackers, we're talking on pseudo-banking system, where users have usually at even few credit cards hooked and/or some account balance, and indeed there are many places you can buy leaked/stolen stolen credentials. Ability to bypass automatic 2FA by hackers is little alarming for service where users may lost $1000+. This simply should be fixed and some bounty should be paid for it (of course probably not maximum bounty, but still).

#5 and #6 are indeed exaggerated, especially that even if hacker has stolen credentials, and bypassed automatic 2FA, security question won't be displayed on same page users use to confirm payment (to replace e-mail address), or keylog credit card information.

I assume that everything depends on: - how much storage you need, - how long you need it to store this, - if this data easy reproducible.

Generally storage isn't cheap, and cloud storage is quite expensive in the long run. If you need storage for more that a year, I would invest in own local HDDs - put to your PC or buy used NAS server or PC. You will benefit with much better performance and this would be the most cost effective solution.

Keep in mind that often transfer to cheap cloud storage is slow, I tried to keep my backup in few different providers, it could take literally months to upload 6TB of data. Also keep in mind that you may be charged for data transfer separately, for every data access, so cloud cost may be much higher than expected.

If you plan use this in shorter periods, I would go with OVH offer - they probably have best quality/cost ratio. Depending on your needs I would suggest buying dedicated storage server, or use their Data Storage (3x replicated $0.0112/month/GB, plus outgoing transfer - $0.011/GB). They also have cold storage for about $0.0023/month/GB.

But also is probably 6 years ahead in problems and issues related to bugs in design and software. Ie, recent news about wearing SSD that is causing already and will brick every Tesla model available, problems with updates, etc. Also, security risks have to be considered with such vehicle.

It's not that Toyota or VW can't afford in software/hardware research - because they have more than enough resources for this. Those are the biggest car manufacturers in the world. They simply price more reliability. Especially Toyota is good example for that, their models are usually 3-5 years in "gadgets" behind VW group or Korean makers, but their cars offer solid reliability and usually they simply drive for years without much troubles.

Another example of how Tesla is ahead: https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a30361800/tesla-model-3-lo... >Not only is this the first time we've ever had a long-term car suffer a catastrophic failure while parked, it's also an extraordinarily rare case of any car leaving us stranded, something unacceptable for any new vehicle, particularly one that costs $57,690 and with merely 5286 miles on the odometer. Even our problem-prone Alfa Romeo Giulia Quadrifoglio was at least able to limp to the dealer following each one of its numerous issues.

Interesting point of view. I assume you never sat in the recent model of Camry. I have opportunity to sat in two Tesla S, they are much more like Korean cars 10+ years ago. Beside fancy screens, cheap and shoddy inside, unacceptable for the price. Something that can't be compared to european or japanese mid-size cars. Or even recent korean models. I never sat in Model 3, and I'm comparing to european version of Camry, maybe US version made locally is "cheaper" inside, as we here in Europe pay much more attention to this.

Regarding fuel, I'm not an expert for US market, but again in Europe standard fuel (95 octanes) is sufficient enough for every car, even top performance engines like Ferrari. You can buy premium petrol, 98 or even over 100 octanes, but it's not required.

Tesla is expensive brand, but I don't think it's considered premium on this side of the pond. Especially with terrible reputations about the customer service. I think it would be fair to compare it with Camry - or in case someone need little more luxury, there's Lexus ES - basically Toyota Camry with premium touch - still noticeably cheaper than Lexus ES.

Well, from my European point of view, dishwashers are as good as 20 years ago. And we have rather strict energy/water norms. Normal program is quite long, like 2h50min, but you can get it to 1h30, and we have almost perfectly clean dishes - sometimes very small spots of retained/burnt residues remains they are dried before washing.

In my experience, foggy and spotted glass is result of too much shiner. Today almost or all dishwasher tabs have it inside, so you need to ignore error from dishwasher and put no additional shiner to the machine.

@elect_engineer: Well, as many here already pointed out, I do not see here cancer grows. The 16,000,000,000 page views per month is something really huge.

For some perspective, I run servers for a commercial company, and with such traffic, we would pay about $7,000,000 per year. But of course, we run on the latest and overprovisioned hardware for best performance and safety, and in reputable, but a very expensive company. In this scenario, $2M for hosting such a big infrastructure globally is not looking too bad. I assume that they need a lot of sysadmins to manage such big infrastructure (maybe 500-600 servers?), and those needs to be paid well. I won't be surprised that this would be much over $10M per year. Maybe this data is available somewhere, those are only my pure estimates.

Anyway, with revenue of $100M and $20M of excess every year, dramatic mails and notices I get from MediaWiki and Wales itself, how bad Wikipedia needs my donation, looks now a little disgusting for me...

True. This article is pure BS. Even in US where only 18% of electric energy is renewable (plus some from nuclear energy), emissions results from EV are not so impressive.

In average country, new generation of hybrid cars from Toyota may be much more effective in terms of CO2 and other harmful emissions, compared to pure electric vehicles.

And all inconveniences of EVs, like lack of charging stations, limited range, long charging time, are basically gone.

Sure, future will be electric, but not with current mix of power generation and state of energy storage.

Quite funny. Mr. Tim Cook apparently either think investors are stupid or he, and the Apple board, are detached from the reality.

For other people reasons for this is clear. Apple is making slightly improved phones, with the extreme price tag. The pain threshold has been exceeded.

Almost all innovations now are from Asian manufacturers. Notch is not progress, it's a deffect. OLED? It was innovation 8 years ago, with Samsung Galaxy S. A phone as fragile as an egg, with back glass replacement costing $599 (versus $99 for Samsung Galaxy S9+). In my opinion, the only real advantage of iPhones is iOS, without apps slowing down OS, tons of bloatware, and lack of privacy even on the system level. But this not justify

And lastly, batterygate, that weakened trust to the brand, also didn't help here.

Let's say that in one month a year, this song earns on avg. like $40,000/day. It's around $36,000,000 over the period of 23 years. It's not that bad, compared to $60,000,000 earned in royalties since its release.

I assume that they count multiple sources of revenue here, like radio licenses, royalties from movies and ads where this song was used, etc. So $92,400 per day only from one medium, is not that bad.

When I saw the video yesterday, have a lot of laughter.

Real breakthrough!!

Claims as claims, but reality...

In Poland, with quite good internet connection, random quite popular domain (around 18mln visitors a month), I get times reported by dig @: ISP: 32ms Google (8.8.8.8): 30ms 1.1.1.1: 112ms (domain TTL was 1557, so result from their own cache)

Plus, what was mentioned here before. "Privacy First: Guaranteed" + free service. For sure! :)