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I guess it depends on how many of the newly minted green voters have moved across because they have carefully read their policy offering and how many just wanted to vote not-Labour because they were unhappy (i.e. protesting) with the government. Things will become clearer next month and finally at the next general election.

Energy efficiency is great but we still need to get the power from our new shiny off-shore wind farms to where the population centres are. The original grid was very much designed to radiate power from the big generators which are more central (modulo the nuclear generators which tend to be coastal).

The problem with all protest parties is it's easy to oppose things but governing is about making hard choices. UKIP made progress in the polls until they got the Brexit they were after but haven't exactly been able to point to the benefits since. We are seeing Reform suffer the same when they realise there aren't piles of "woke" projects to DOGE away to fund local councils.

I'm sympathetic to the core Green mission but opposing the expansion of the grid we need to supply renewables is peek contraianism.

It's not entirely unexpected, all the AI companies have been heavily subsidising inference to get customers.

I don't use Codex but I've been experimenting with ECA and I can track my token API costs across Gemini and Anthropic. I'm mostly using Gemini and a heavy days usage would be £1.50 in API costs and I'm certainly not doing that every day. I have to wonder if these Codex users are conscious of how many tokens they are burning underneath or just YOLOing everything until the computer says no?

ECA allows you to mix and match models to sub-agents and I could certainly see me offloading some tasks like code exploration to a locally hosted models and saving the expensive reasoning tokens for planning.

I didn't say that they were only protesting the ban. That is what they were arrested for through.

I'm not arguing about the designation, that's up to the government. However the people that been arrested for holding up the signs knew exactly what they where doing and had been warned before their arrests. They were protesting the proscription of Palistine Action rather than generally supporting Palistine.

We will find out how it all plays out once the appeals process is completed.

They'll arrest you for supporting Palestine Action which has been designated a terrorist group by the government. You wouldn't be arrested for peacefully protesting and supporting the Palistinian cause.

I have a sneaking suspicion a lot of the posts there are just engagement bait anyway.

Especially useful on my TV's anemic Sony browser when I'm trying to diagnose of my network is crapping out or the apps are just in a go slow.

So algorithms then?

LLMs have some interesting properties and certainly can do a good job sifting through large amounts of raw data. They are however a very brute force approach compared to say a network routing protocol. Sooner or later people will start to realise (again) that engineering is about trade offs and you need to work out what your constraints are and stop trying to solve every problem with massive amounts of multiplication.

I swear people have rose tinted glasses as to the state of the init system before the current generation of system management daemons.

If you really want to have Debian without systemd there is always Duvean but the Debian architects are free to choose the technologies that solve the very real system orchestration problems that exist.

Mine has two, one which is very vanilla for local events and the like and has a strict no moaning policy. The other one is where the local gossip is and is as unhinged as you would expect.