Yeah, I read the article because I wanted to see why they were claiming the pole flipping would make a noise at all. Given that the idea it would make this noise will still be at least some people’s takeaway, this presentation of the data is worse than useless, it’s misleading.
That is a pretty low bar.
Consumer Reports. You do need a subscription, but they tabulate a lot of service and warranty info, do a lot of surveys, and do in house testing. If you’re buying a large appliance I’d say it’s worth it. They do other stuff too.
We we considering a samsung fridge among our options when we needed one a few months ago. Ended up going with a brand with higher reliability ratings (for reference, that’s most other brands, according to consumer reports anyway). But man, don’t I regret it now. I could have paid for the privilege of having ads playing in my kitchen at all times (at least until the fridge broke), what a missed opportunity.
A few months before. Theory checks out.
A truly horrifying prospect.
Well, don’t be hasty. Being sent back to Venezuela may not be the beginning of justice, depending on why they left Venezuela to begin with.
Well, I can understand the feeling, but it’s not true. Many of the states in between have a better ratio of relatively sensible people to fruitcakes than it looks like, but the fruitcakes have gerrymandered voting districts pretty severely. Which is a self reinforcing issue.
If you made money doing that, it probably would be illegal. You would certainly get sued, in any case.
USA had the same thing, “Cash for Clunkers”. Some of the cars we were better off getting rid of. Some of them not, whether because they were rare or classic, or old but still more fuel efficient than a truck or SUV. Sure increased the average price of a used car though.
Of course. But I’m not a machine churning out an endless spew of those bits and pieces with no further creative input. I’d be on the side of giving any truly conscious entity rights (including creative ones), but LLMs are not, and I don’t think ever could be, conscious. That’s just not how they work, to my understanding anyway.
Of course. Those resources are just a much larger impact percentage wise on an appliance replaced every two years vs 25.
But you can’t make copies of it and sell them.
In this analogy, the AI uses books like a remix DJ would use bits and pieces of songs from different tracks to splice together their output. Except in the case of AI, it will be much harder to identify the original source.
More water and energy efficient to run, yes. If you have to replace them every couple of years the resources used to make new ones need to be included too though, and that will have a big impact on the comparison. That said, I have had a modern front load pair for at least 5 years now, no issues.
They don’t add nicotine to tobacco, tobacco plants produce nicotine. That’s why people have smoked it for 100s of years.
I hadn’t heard of this, but as far as insecticides go, this sounds about as benign as possible.