But sure, I'm glad now you can say whatever you want in your code comments. Seems like a good trade. /s

And that's even assuming anyone who runs these sorts of systems have "hacked to turn on defrost mode" on their bingo cards at all, which probably isn't the case.

On top of that, upgrades carry risks of their own!

I do wonder if having an electrician come by after the fact to inspect it counts as "supervising", though.

(My installer ended up flaking on me, and then I gave up because NEM 3.0 was coming too soon to find a fallback.)

That doesn't make sense. Whenever someone wants to build something, they start with 0 users. They don't say "huh, I have 0 users, I'm not going to build a good product".

People who build things recognize that they won't get more users if they don't make their product better. If you have 1,000 users and you want 1,000,000 users, you work more, not less.

I know or have heard about quite a few people not in that 10%, who were able to leave. Not sanctioned; they had to more or less sneak out. Now they're mostly living in various countries in SE Asia, where they've arrived with only what they could carry with them. The more fortunate/skilled among them have been able to do knowledge work online, but others have had to take on odd jobs and live fairly roughly.

And of course I've also read about Russians fleeing to Central Asian countries, as well as eastern Europe, and to other places.

I get that we have rules of warfare that nations (sorta, mostly, at least when it suits them) agree on, but if the choices are between ceasing to exist and doing something the rules of war prohibit, I'd choose the latter every time. Maybe I wouldn't be able to live with myself afterward, but that's likely a small price to pay when balanced against the rest of my people who'd otherwise be dead or under the oppressive regime of an occupying force.

In this scheme of things "targeting data centers" doesn't trigger my concern-o-meter at all.

(On the other side of this, the Russian government is already reprehensible for starting this war, but any time they break the rules of warfare, that's an additional black mark on their reputation. They don't have to do any of this; they choose to, for Putin's own selfish, war-mongering reasons.)

Sure, but there are many different ways of making your attacker unhappy, and some of them might decrease your chances of winning, so you might not want to do those.

Not saying that's the case here (I don't think it is), but the concept is sound.

Cops coming to your door to ask, in a disapproving manner, why you're doing something... well, that's not a friendly visit from the people with guns who are allowed to deprive you of your freedom.

Then the cops then decide to stop by his house to talk about it... that's intimidation and bullying by someone with a gun and the force of the government behind them.

There was an article posted here recently that dives into this in more detail, and was eye-opening for me: https://asteriskmag.com/issues/15/so-you-think-you-could-be-...

The point is that it's reasonable and possible to predict the compiler's assembly output from high-level source. Maybe each individual can't do it, but they could, with a little learning.

With LLMs, you just can't predict the output for a given prompt, and can't predict how changing that prompt will change the output (or how much it will change the output). Even the people who build and work on LLMs every single day and know them intimately can't.

I do think perhaps LLMs could give product-minded developers more time to think about and refine those ideas, though.