Despite all the great technology and improvements over the years, consumer energy in Europe has never been so expensive.

We have started to tax carbon in form the of the ETS system while now LNG keeps being the marginal producer in the grid.

Meaning - the interconnection queue for storage and new renewables is absolutely enormous but getting enough online to meaningfully alter the electricity bills will take years.

In the USA, eg California, the cost of building out the grid we need (to achieve netzero) is mostly borne by retail consumers. Versus industry and data centers. (IIRC)

Obviously, this creates huge push back, threatening the transition to renewables.

The Correct Answer remains federal policy and support. Just like the New Deal Era's electrification of our country.

In the beginning there was a saying, "nobody cares what your code looks like, as long as it works". We went full circle.

VB came around 9 years later.

The first versions of both Visual Basic and Borland C++ were released in 1991. Turbo C 1.0 was in 1987. Maybe you are thinking of Turbo Pascal 1.0, released in late 1983, but I’d argue that one wasn’t confusing, if you were in the business of using early DOS at all.

I used Turbo Pascal 2.0 in the early 1990's because that was the old version my dad happened to have. You could not just go online and find whatever latest version of software you wanted to.

As long as we dont fine the people in charge, these fines are useless and have no impact.

On top of that, if the fine is less than the money that is made, it's not a fine, it's a cost of business.

I see more and more GROK used responses on X, so its picking up.

Typo in the title, TIMELINE.

If you ask, where is this photo taken and you provide the EXIF data, why would that be cheating?

That really depends on your prompt. "Guess where this photo was taken" at least mildly implies that using EXIF isn't in the spirit of the thing.

A better prompt would be "Guess where this photo was taken, do not look at the EXIF data, use visual clues only".

404 on the demo link.

The issue has now been resolved.^^

But, its Google, you will end up as the product.

Why doesnt google offer the most advanced voice technology when they offer a playback version, it still sounds like the most basic text to voice.

Maybe it's good enough. In the end what matters is how strong the text of response is.