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Re: Senator Brown is mistaken

Will Tesla be banned from manufacturing in China?

The only Teslas we get in Australia are the ones made in China...

That doesn't meet the dictionary definition, but regardless I think defining anything with a motor and a motor controller as a "robot" would make the term fairly meaningless, and certainly doesn't satisfy the general consensus.

Re: Liquid cooled or AI

No, really. Jokes aside, "tonne" is already a metric unit, so "metric tonne" is redundant. Metric ton, if you absolutely must, but not metric tonne. Just tonne.

The pronunciation's different too. Tonne is pronounced "ton" but ton isn't. Simple!

Re: Neat!

Or Musk's private jet...

Re: "Those would be big no-nos under US law"

A lawyer once said that if the law was simple and unambiguous, there would be no need for lawyers...

Re: Capabilities.

Yep, if there was no intention to reuse it, it would be able to put 1,000 metric tons into orbit.

Re: Looks like a lot of hassle for mostly minor benefits

There's a lot of second hand Xeon systems on ebay though.

Re: Golem.de looked closer than ElReg...

1500 W of resistive heating is 1500 W of resistive heating no matter what it comes from.

(apologies if I've missed a joke)

Okay I can see you're a bit confused. This is an article about Australian politics. We don't have to choose between Biden and Trump.

Re: Sports Futility Vehicle

Is this a car manufacturer we're talking about or Bethesda Softworks?!

Re: Sounds like...

It's an interesting subject to explore and I should say I'm wholly unqualified to contribute more than base speculation but LLMs being transformational would be something quite special, wouldn't it?

An author did recently write a piece about how the LLM way of doing things is very similar to the way that authors in general, particularly successful ones do things, but as you say, it's the transformational nature of the human mind that is the key. You can learn how good novels are written by reading them, but the way a human mind works is very complicated and can an LLM do anything more than merely ape what it's learned?

On form I don't think that'll stop Musk from trying

Re: Carbon Dioxide?

Lithium-Ion batteries have very little lithium in them; it's the electrolyte that burns.

Re: "Doom 1993 from the Microsoft Store"

Get it from wherever you can find it cheapest and then throw the WADs into GZDoom.

Chaingun sniping on a UHD monitor is hilarious.

Re: Same old story

The most unfortunate part of that whole Mars pipe dream is that he doesn't want to go personally

Re: Question 7, which of the following is true?

I think you've been reading the North Korean edition

I think it's probably fair to say that Sky produces a lot more content as a proportion of what it delivers than Spotify does?

The problem with this prediction is that there are a lot of lunatics who sincerely believe it

Re: more ads means more users ????????

That is bizarre. Why does a retailer believe it needs to run ads on its own website?

Re: 20,000 mAh

I assumed it's because they're miniatures and it's cute.

I'm reminded me of Neil DeGrasse Tyson's tale about serving on a jury in a drug possession trial and arguing with the judge over the use of milligrams rather than grams to describe the alleged amounts, being prejudicial to the defendant because it makes the amounts sound gigantic.

Re: I can't help but feel....

Elon Musk owns 42% of SpaceX and holds 79% of the voting rights. So for better or worse, SpaceX does what he tells it to. The only recourse any other investors have is to sell.

Re: Only one choice, really

I don't know about that... Steve's in his 70s and unlike Space Karen, Zuck has actually been training.