I do find it quite funny how unless you're using one of the frontier labs interfaces, more or less all other 'model providers' are using small models that work on a macbook. Proton did something similar - I've tried their version and I find it pretty awful relative to just running Qwen 3.5 locally.
Caveat that I'm talking about when it's something that's in depth or requires some nuance beyond just a surface level information. They don't know themselves, so rather than saying "oh, sorry I don't know, this document or person might help."
As an example I might post in our teams chat, that I've seen an issue on our physical hardware, there is a step change in the telemetry (increased vibration or some other erratic behavior on a thermocouple). Has anyone had experience with what can cause this on this type of installation.
Then you get a Copilot paste of the prompt "what causes high vibration on rotating machinery".
If somebody clearly asks a question that could just be answered by Google or a LLM prompt quickly then fair enough, but I'm after specific product knowledge from our technical team. In self reflection I might be very specific in my question so other members of the team can't go down that route as easily.
Yup, OP is from the UK. In the UK I got a ThreeUK business SIM for £49 that lasted 2 years with 500GB data. It sits in wan failover and manages about 50mbps which is perfect to keep most services running.
Very much location dependent though. I lived less than a mile from Southampton city centre for a while and could never get anything close to dial-up standard download/upload speeds.
I've heard similar from London residents.
Interesting. I'd not considered the loss of mass as a means of propulsion.
Obviously there was the kinetic energy transfer but the impact ejacted some of the asteroids mass opposite to it's trajectory further increasing it's trajectory change.
When the impact happened the news articles seemed to imply some surprise about that as well which seemed strange to me. I just wrote it off to the journalist just not being up to speed on the subject matter. The size of the debris field trailing also seemed to be a surprising result.
It's the butterfly effect. After the momentum exchange (the rocket slamming, stuff being ejected in the impact, etc), the entire system was left with different properties. From now on, the equation F=Gm1m2/r^2 will have a different m1, and you can sum the equation over all m2 (literally every other massive object in the universe).
Yeah, I sort of meant in the context of an object losing its mass, it's seldom used on earth as the effects are small but on the timescale/distance/speeds of an asteroid it could have noticeable effects.
Rockets are using mass loss but there's more going on with the rapidly expanding gas causing the increased impulse.
Rockets are able to optimize due to dealing with a gas. It's still just pushing off of a disconnected mass. You go one way the lost mass goes the other.
If you think about it that's how a cannon works. The projectile gets pushed forwards and the barrel gets pushed in the opposite direction. Some of the larger ones can push their launcher back quite a bit more than you might expect.
My point is that this is actually a common failure of intuition. We tend to think of larger objects on earth as fixed and in our day to day life on dry land they often are (at least more or less) due to static friction.
A slightly more interesting observation (I think) is that if the bodies don't achieve escape velocity relative to one another then the forces all cancel out in the end. It just might take an arbitrarily long time in the case of similarly sized masses.
Wrote this quickly earlier. I don't write so excuse the grammar.
Finally with QPR3 on pixels you can intercept the search bar intent if you disable the google app - I don't use google search
The same reason I pay for proton and they insist on showing ads for upgrading my subscription. I click no don't show this and then a month later when there's a different promotion, there's another ad at the top
Same with Kagi. Thats where Kagi news was born.
I quite like the ethos, but this Ensu definitely seems underbaked.
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