Tax on petrol and diesel isn't really a mileage tax, the gap between fuel consumption of various vehicles is far too wide for that. If one vehicle does 20mpg and another does 120, a fuel tax ends up … (View Post)

That doesn't really seem to be supported by the stats. MacOS hovered around 18% market share for a couple of years, but since 2024 has dropped to 14%. I would guess sales of new Macs are holding stea… (View Post)

Argentina doesn't really have the forces to mount an invasion now, or for the foreseeable future. Their navy is a pale shadow of the 1980s one, and their air force basically doesn't have any measurab… (View Post)

LLMs have a variety of uses where they're very useful, they're an interesting technology that absolutely does have a future. But, yes, they are not human-type or human-level intelligences the AI indu… (View Post)

I've been banging this drum for quite a while. It's amazing what local LLMs can do with even fairly modest hardware, and quality is only going to get better as consumer hardware becomes more capable.… (View Post)