True, but it’s at least a rough indicator, and having intact concrete pricing from back then was a bit challenging, and sears catalog came to me as a very well preserved source of vaguely appropriate pricing.

We are talking about a genie here, not like they want to help you out (depending on the lore).

You are assuming you’ll even be allowed to utter specifc numbers at all.

Think a genie scenario would have you utterly blocked before the first syllable that could possibly be helpful.

Yeah, one would think that would blow a grand jury ruling. Vandalism, arson… ok.

If it weren’t an external gate and was instead someone’s front door, then maybe, but as it stands, it’s all property damage and attempted murder is a crazy reach…

A fine career as a lawyer awaits you

Still same boat, you are compelled to conform with whatever the actual truth is.

will be… impossible to know will be… a sequence of numbers between 1 and 69

You could be compelled to say any number of unhelpful things instead of the numbers.

“next week lottery numbers are… impossible for me to know”

“the best thing I can do with my life right now is … something I wish I knew”

The curse can be stubbornly unhelpful no matter what.

I think that would apply to people tricked into reading/watching AI slop video, but I think his definition is a likely one that could apply.

You try to google search, you get an ‘ai overview’. In a bizarre scenario, DuckDuckGo made a big deal of asking the users and showing the users overwhelmingly wanted to skip AI results by default, and duckduckgo still defaults to AI summary unless you take measures to opt out.

An analogy is dificult, but I suppose imagine a subway dropped off someone and there’s no stairs up, only a tunnel for a Tesla to take you to the next stop. You “use” a car, but were given no option to do otherwise because you were stuck underground and they forced you to take the car to carry on.

In either case, his definition certainly is a likely one for a Gen Z respondant to be thinking when they respond “yes they use AI”. On the flip side some probably felt as you do and responded that they did not use AI, because they did not voluntarily do so.

To provide a relatively decent source: https://christmas.musetechnical.com/ShowCatalog/1997-Sears-Christmas-Book

Around page 286. So 1997 christmas season, Starfox and Goldeneye going for $80… FFVII for $60…

N64 had the challenge that every single game was a circuitboard, so that inflated costs. Nowadays the price is for just the right to download a copy.

Yeah, AAA productions:

• Must be multiplayer, ostensibly because people ‘demand’ it, but a narrative easy to believe when you know players are stuck with your servers and you can effectively shut down the game when it no longer makes money for you.
• Relatively fewer games to be made, no chances may be taken. Conventional wisdom tells them that people got over turn-based in the 90s, so even the FFVII remake refused to do real turn-based, while Clair Obscur showed that it was still absolutely welcome gameplay.

You are correct, and the critical number is that sodium is over 3 times as massive as equivalent lithium.

But to keep in perspective, we are talking about an element that’s only about 5-7% of a pack, so theoretically you could maybe get to only 10-15% more massive as a penalty for swapping out lithium. Which is some applications is still unacceptable,but broadly we have seen a lot of accepting that same tradeoff going from NMC to LFP…

Sodium battery performance is better in the cold.

Currently some sodium battery products are out in the market and aren’t appreciably cheaper yet and the answer to ‘why’ was ‘cold weather performance’.

Yes, I’m just unsure when the volumes hit.

Evidently they do seem to indicate a battery intake rate consistent with about 250,000 EV batteries a year.

Globally about 30 million cars are junked a year, so as EV adoption raises then they could reasonably get 8 fold more batteries even while splitting with other companies.

But they have a chokepoint that means they can only use a fraction of the batteries they get already, so more batteries won’t help them right now.

One thing to keep in mind is that the car may outlast the battery, by a fair amount.

If you look at Prius, there’s been a fair amount of battery replacement there. I vaguely recall seeing that first gen Nissan Leaf batteries degraded enough to need replacement fairly quickly. On the flip side, seems the more carefully managed solutions with liquid cooling and maintaining buffers have been more robust than expected.

Still, I ultimately agree with the assessment that the volumes aren’t going to be there for a long time, just that batteries coming out can happen before the car is scrapped. But in terms of volumes, prior to 2019 there just weren’t enough batteries going to be expecting much either way yet.

Problem is that broadly most GenAI users don’t take that risk seriously. So far no one can point to a court case where a rights holder successfully sued someone over LLM infringement.

The biggest chance is getty and their case, with very blatantly obvious infringement. They lost in the UK, so that’s not a good sign.

I suspect the answer will be that such large requested as you frequently see with LLM codegen will just be rejected.

Already I see changes broken up and suggested bit by bit, so I presume the same best practice applies.

I actually had not used TurboTax before. And as a result I could do state and federal free with them this year, so it was cheaper than freetaxusa.

But won’t be using it again next year, it was fine but not particularly impressive compared to usually cheaper alternatives.

Makes sense, but what about your shoes?

Problem is that is what the insider traders are counting on. They know it is going to happen, it’s planned to happen and the odds reflect that. So a few million folks toss in a couple of bucks and the insiders cash in.

Outsiders can’t be 100% sure that it’s a planned event so they don’t take the terrible odds and the insiders don’t have to split things.