Are you talking about Vehicle Excise Duty? All cars pay that although at various rates, the more CO2/km attracts higher rates, going far above what the EVs pay.

The NHS has a wealth of data which makes conducting studies across large population groups possible. For example Dexamethasone as a treatment for COVID was identified thanks to having access to a medical history and outcome data across the NHS.

Even so there has not historically been a unified data storage solution as information is split between GPs and individual hospital trusts. Previous attempts to have a single system failed due to complexity and cost overruns. The current solution is the federated data platform (FDP): https://www.england.nhs.uk/digitaltechnology/nhs-federated-data-platform/ which attempts to interoperate with multiple primary data sources to help clinicians access patient records as well as help with resource and service planning.

I assume the Palentir system is involved with providing some sort of AI insights into that data store.

I think it’s a bit early to be locking down your local LLM setup. The history of computing suggests there is some cost reduction to come for the hardware. In the mean time there is time to find the sweet spot for performance of the small and medium models. There are plenty of cloud hosts which can run the open models and allow you to experiment while the models mature. Hopefully your not burning 6k worth of tokens anytime soon.

I personally have email integrated into my editor (mu4e) so I can apply patches and search code directly from the email thread. It handles threads and searching really well.

Issue triage, code exploration, extracting information from disparate sources, first pass code review. There are loads of use cases that it’s potentially useful.

For me it’s a lot better at extracting the requirements for a CPU feature from a 10,000 page architecture reference manual than I am.

I have API access at work because I don’t want to be tied to a UI. I’m very aware of the cost because I’m trying to see where it offers good value for money.

Of course things like the deep research and notebooklm are covered by the Google workplace fees which while including more than the personal plans are also a fair bit more expensive.

Your making a big assumption extrapolating from one particular study involving Java code and a static analyser.

How is that patch sloppy?

I feel the term slop is being overused to cover anything an LLM has touched. If I ask an agent to re-read a mail thread for me and apply the changes to my tree to review is that slop? Would you feel better about it if I copy and paste from email to code in my editor?

I’ve just been doing a bunch of bug triage which was mostly driven by the agent although I checked the issues where it had commented. Was that slop? Ironically a lot of the issues where AI generated although for the most part more complete than a lot of the purely human submissions we get. Are those bug reports slop? What about the poorly drafted human ones?

That’s not kernel policy but LF guidance. From the kernel’s point of view patches still have a high bar to pass to get merged and I don’t think we have enough data yet to see if LLM based submissions to the kernel have a higher or lower error rate than humans.

I certainly feel the uptick in LLM reports though - one of the projects I’m working on is seeing a deluge of them at the moment.

It’s not quite so simple. First of we don’t elect prime ministers we elect MPs. Second these were not Westminster elections so we’ve elected councillors and MS/MSPs.

I have no doubt Starmer’s personal ratings had an effect on the overall vote but it won’t have been the only reason for the vote.

In my neck of the woods Labour need to be careful about blaming their loss on Starmer and not looking at their own record in Cardiff Bay.

I’ve vibed a bunch of apps and scripts and it’s great for that project you never found time for. Importantly they where all local and ultimately throw away things.

The idea of relying on vibes for production seems insane to me. The most important thing about software engineers is not how fast they can type.

This is going to be a big test for Plaid. Their local councils haven’t exactly had a stellar reputation for competence but given how long Labour have had the wheel it’s obvious the Welsh people want change. I suspect if Plaid don’t perform they will be looking for another party next time.

At 43 that’s probably a little earlier than the OP expected and if their daughter wasn’t planning on starting that early it’s going to affect school and job prospects.

That’s not too say it can’t work. One of my in-laws had their first at 18 and now as their last leaves for uni they are still fit and young enough to enjoy the empty nest experience.

What is the minimum necessary force for tackling someone with a knife and possibly a bomb?

There are certainly arguments to be had but seeing him react in near real-time before all the facts are clear says something about his priorities.

I think Labour and Reform are also being crap here. However Zack has been riding the protest vote wave and as he gains popularity he gets more scrutiny. You might say it’s all the biased media’s fault but a politician complaining about scrutiny is a poor look.

He certainly spends a lot of time on social media happily clicking away. He should spend more time learning the basics of economics so he doesn’t complain about being ambushed on understanding the debt and the deficit.

I think the debut season has been pretty good. It’s nice to have sketches set within the British context and the performers have certainly been up for the live format. The last sketch of the most recent show was especially funny with Fouracres trying not to crack up and the old footage reveal at the end.

He’s making it easy by saying or doing stupid things.

Where you live maybe. The NHS is centrally funded through taxation.

If course you do - if the cost of treating the patient down the line is going to cost you more. Public health systems have a vested interest in healthier citizens.

The majority of my gaming is on the road too but I’ve found the Steam Deck hits that niche for me. I carry a thin Chromebook for work related things. Admittedly you don’t need as powerful a GPU for a small 720p display.