FYI: KWh (it is a product).

Yeah, that would be an interesting modification, wouldn’t it?

Link? Searching for such a generic term didn’t reveal anything

They mean in the sense of sum, product, difference, and quotient. The comment they were replying to said KW/h (a quotient), but the term is KWh which is a product.

Not exactly the same but at least in Spain, the cost of constructing a new building subject to all the regulations makes them completely unafforfable for low salaries.

(There are other problems, I know, but the regulations are crazy).

What's been driving up the cost of construction (it's already up to 2000-2400 eur/m2 for a detached house in Portugal) has been mostly cost of materials and labour.

People complain about the regulations, but they also complain about houses that are structurally unsound, unventilated, flammable, badly isolated acoustically and thermally and so on... I don't think going back is the way to go. It's true that sometimes licensing that too long, though.

Yes, that is also true, of course.

But then again, we have turned "security" into something absurd which only adds costs.

Exactly: money disappears into the hands of Government (or because of hyperinflation) but somehow you can buy goods on a "free" Internet without the Government intervention. Also: all transactions are recorded...

Good luck with that.

The human labor aspect is very little discussed and essential and very abusive, I am sure.

People think of these models as "magic" and "science" but they do not realize the immense amount (in human years) of clicking yes/no in front of thousands of pairs of input/outputs.

I worked for some months as a Google Quality Rater (wow), and know the job. This must be much worse.

Why not use a client-server infrastructure for tests? The server sends the test code, the client runs the code, sends the output to the server and this replies pass/not pass.

One could even make zero-knowledge test development this way.

Nope: they have signed a contract with Microsoft, it is not oversight, there was a clear decission by the specific committee to buy Microsoft Products and Support, and it is costing us (EU taxpayers) lots of money just to interact with the EU.

One of the things about slave coups in ancient times was that they really believed there are things more important than life.

You seem to not have known the Altavista/Yahoo/Terra/AskJeeves/Lycos/InfoSeek era of search engines. There was enough market competition to not allow for ads to appear on every search.

And then, BANG!

The continuum. Connectedness.