As far as I understand, the only way to get anything resembling usable output for coding is with massive, expensive, labouriously hand-tuned models, not local ones.

You are useless to me.

So there’s not enough evidence in the 40 years since the Satanic Panic got going for any investigative journalist from any publication to write an article about it.

Referring to “the captured media” doesn’t really dress that up any better. Enjoy your conspiracy theory, I hope you feel superior to the subscribers to all the conspiracy theories you don’t believe in.

I didn’t ask for an “exposé”. An article would be absolutely fine.

Well thank you for your frankness but it sounds like there’s not sufficient evidence to convince me, or the ordinary person.

Source?

That doesn’t sound like a disinformation campaign though.

I can’t find any corroboration of that, can you say more? The D&D thing specifically was started by someone whose son committed suicide and she attributed his death to D&D.

I would say there is no such thing as a “simple” database system. Databases are extremely complicated.

Determinism for the same prompt means you can’t give it context through a conversation, which vastly shrinks its utility.

That said, even that form of determinism can be unreliable: the example of arithmetic still works; you could have it completely deterministic, but if it only performs correctly on 80% of arithmetic problems, it’s still unreliable.

Not really… Determinism would only help if you could copy someone else’s prompt and history 100%, which you generally would not be able to.

Because maybe it always gets 1+1 correct, but fails 1+2.

Water tastes give, but cola tastes better, as do a lot of flavoured things!

Water that tastes fuckin well good? Sign me up

Nope, daemon is just the Latin spelling. Sometimes we use it nowadays for fun to mean different things.

I wouldn’t say that… at a maths conference there are far more talks (n-1) that you don’t understand than there are talks you do (1: your own. if you’re lucky).

I don’t buy this energy figure at all - where are you getting it from?

120 GWh / 500 million is 240 Wh per person.
The download is 4GB. Downloaded over a 100 megabit connection, it takes about 5 minutes.
240 Wh / 5 minutes is 2.88 kW.

What equipment is consuming an extra 2.88 kW due to me downloading something?

This sounds like one of those pants-on-head “calculations” about how sending an email consumes five billion gigajoules or whatever. They typically add up the energy usage of a data centre and divide by the number of emails going through it. Is that what’s happening here?

Supply is exactly as limited, in this scenario, as it is now. A queue does not cause valve to manufacture more.

Why wouldn’t the scalpers just fill up the queue?

You ask too much.

Sleep on Linux is never quite as reliable as it should be, and I end up with a laptop gently roasting itself to death in my bag more times than I’d prefer.

No, “most” can in principal be answered objectively. “Most games that a particular person plays” depends on the person, but that’s not relevant when talking about why there aren’t more PC-first gamepads, the topic of discussion.