https://www.politico.eu/article/ukraine-security-service-blew-up-main-railway-connection-between-russia-china/

So far it’s been contained by hitting supply routes between the two. The rail line in particular is vulnerable due to the terrain it runs through.

I suspect the China is quite happy to sell arms, but doesn’t want to actually enter the war.

I think it’s a bit reductionist to say “similar mentalities”. They’re both authoritarian states, but that’s pretty much where it ends.

Putin’s Russia is all about reviving the Russian Empire and reliving past glories. China is capitalist through and through. They want to own world trade. As such they do not share goals, and if there is an alliance it will be a utilitarian one and probably short lived after it’s usefulness has ended.

Nobody in Europe buys American cars (except those that buy Tesla). Some American companies make European cars (e.g. Ford) or American conglomerates have European companies they’ve bought (e.g. Fiat). All of those would be made in Europe with European workers though.

I thought this already happened.

Baltic states unplug from Russia and join EU power grid

Edit: Oh it’s additional links.

They maintained it, but I think it was energy negative.

No, which is why people saying “Buy it and don’t connect it to the internet” isn’t helping. More people need to not buy it and tell other people not to buy it.

To get them to stop they need to lose both the original sale and the additional advertising revenue. Right now their thinking is:

• People are buying our TVs
• Putting advertising on them isn’t causing our sales to drop
• Therefore it’s costing us next to nothing to do.
• It often gets us extra revenue if they connect to the internet.
• If they don’t connect, we still more than covered our costs.

There is no downside for them. Only upside. The equation needs to change for them to stop doing it.

Ta

They’re industrial boxes with a screen. Not aesthetically what I want in my living room. The displays are chosen for their longevity, not their picture quality. They’re often actively cooled with fans, so adding a noise level to their operation.

Have you asked an LLM to translate anything bigger than a few sentences? It doesn’t have enough contextual storage to keep a whole paper “in mind” and soon wanders off into nonsense.

Google translate is a different beast.

You’re still rewarding bad behaviour. They still put all the crap on and made the sale anyway.

I agree, but with TVs (or large displays" we’re at the point where there are no good options. Commercial displays are over engineered for the home and lag in technology Vs home TVs. So they’re not an option. Lg and Samsung are the display technology leaders, but their TVs are full of crap— so no. Monitors don’t go large enough for the living room.

Guess I’m stuck with what I have.

The US has an export ban from Taiwan?

Translating is the process of rewriting the paper in another language. The paper has been written (in English) by an LLM.

Check the results though. Google translate is far far better at translation than a generic LLM.

Adding extra polish like nonsense phrases. Nobody is supervising it then.

Translating them…otherwise know as rewriting the whole paper.

It’s not that the entire papers were being invented from nothing by Chatgpt.

Yes it is. The papers are the product of an LLM. Even if the user only thought it was translating, the translation hasn’t been reviewed and has errors. The causal link between what goes in to an LLM and what comes out is not certain, so if nobody is checking the output it could just be a technical sounding lorem ipsum generator.

For a company like blue sky, you bow to all governments, or you bow to none. One way you become so milquetoast nobody wants to use you because nothing interesting is ever said. The other way you become 4chan.