We can discuss the quality of the offering. But that’s a different discussion

And from that perspective RSA-1024 is still perfectly adequate

And if it were the former it wouldn’t be the “next” in line that would be cracked…

Selling spare parts was worth when things broke often and labor was cheap. We don’t live in that world anymore. That means a broken device will no linger get fixed. But on the plus side there are far fewer broken devices. I’m pretty sure that has the same problem shape as “there is no glory in prevention”

The price that HE is paying is essentially "have to run every possible contributing computation", which means it has to scale extremely badly for anything real world complex

The downside is that we have three phase power supply anywhere halfway recent. And that only gives you a single phase. In _most_ cases that’s fine, because you get a net-sum of all three phases at the meter, but technically you are only drawing/supplementing one out of three phases. In practice this likely doesn’t matter since different house put theirs on different phases and it all washes out.

[1] the DC side can have up to 2kW of panels. But that’s not visible to the grid

If that’s the case, then we really don’t have to care about usage amounts _during the surplus time_. That in turn will enable completely different patterns. I think the correct analogy is the movement from candles/gas lights to electric lights. Before electricity was widely available nearly everything in life had to be done during daylight hours. Today we don’t even think twice about whether a meal can be cooked “after dark” or to move to a different location or ...

And yes that means I say: We will provide electric power for free [2], just like we do with street lighting

[1] let’s just call all replacements of cells and inverters maintenance for this discussion here [2] at the point of consumption. But that happens if the cost is smaller than the implementation of the sales system

On the other hand: the usefulness of LLMs will always be gated by their interface to the human world. So even if their internal communication might be superseded at some point. Their contact surface can only evolve if their partners/subjects/masters can interface

But that's not what OP was contesting. The statement "$LLM is _doing_ $STUFF in the real world" is far less correct than the characterisation as "super-charged search engine". Because - at least as far as I'm aware - every real-world interaction had required consent from humans. This story including

If you are interested in the mechanics, then _I think_ (i.e. not first hand knowledge) the operator will join each auction (once per day for each 15 min interval of the next day) and offer his energy amount there. He will then receive the integral of (auction price) times (volume) from “the grid”. If that is too little money he then goes to the government and asks for a top up to (contract price) times (volume). If that was too much he has to pay the government the difference.

But again. That is purely mechanical. The end effect of the contracts is you will always receive say 80£ per MWh delivered. Independent of the MWh was worth 500£ in that 15 min interval or -50£. It’s “just” a risk transfer

Ah I’m seeing a possible confusion. There are two different auctions in the description. The first one is for the CfD price and happens (for each project) once. The second one is the daily-price-discovery one and happens daily