Depends on the programming environment: if it's a O(n) operation anyway, meaning you don't the times indexed, and your computation is colocated with the data and the db interface is using lazy sequences...

(Also, real-life systems of course do things inefficiently all the time)

Without trade interdependencies wars seem much more attractive to powerhungry leaders of countries, engineers can probably earn a living building killer ai robots.

See also Apertus: https://www.swiss-ai.org/apertus

Good to distinguish between publicly funded research models (like this one) and commercial ones (like Mistral in France). What are the chinese and usa public research models like?

Also increased threat of far-right rule in democracies and general dehumanizing attitude toward people in trouble.

What does Telegram run on?

Their possible DB-related single points of failure are located in on-prem DCs in the Netherlands.

not AWS apparently

Yep, like uranium is from the fossils of ancient uranium golems.

Interesting that there's zero mention of regulation, even thought that's cheap and effective in ramping down fossils use as proven by the carbon trading system in EU.

Carbon taxes are probably the most effective tool but politically unpalatable.

What's the advantage over the so far politically palatable carbon trading systems? Seems to me the end result is pretty much the same, except in carbon trading systems the market mechanism automatically adjusts the price to the available quota.

Terminology nit: An exploit is a technique or automation to take advantage of ("exploit") a vulnerability. So fixing a vulnerability breaks an exploit.

Interesting to view this from the POV of the fossil fuel usage rampdown needed because to mitigate the climate catastrophe.

It seems that the fact that a lot of people have utility gas over there, and low price of gas due to regulation (no externalities taxed in) is the big one.