Welding helmets work, but only if they are at least Shade 12 or darker.

Or if you don't trust ready-made glasses, just grab a bit of mylar (e.g. https://www.amazon.com/Baader-... ) and make your own.

Well...when driving EV, at least for me the "anticipation" is adjusting recuperation level (my car has five different settings, from 0-1-2-3-B, where 0 is coasting and B is, well, maximum that doesn't engage brakes), depending on situation.

Or on highways, just go with adaptive cruise control.

After reading a lot of these comments there seems to be some consensus that with manual you get more "control" and "connection to the car" that will somehow be of benefit in slippery conditions and whatnot.

No you don't. Not unless your car is 20+ years old. All the "manual" cars these days have traction controls, ESPs, limiters (so you can't even blow your engine by going downhill in first gear). Technically you can try burning rubber by revving the engine and releasing the clutch - but not really, unless you have some "launch mode" or whatever in your car.

For me, a car is a gizmo to get me and my family from point A to point B, and I'd like it to happen with minimum amount of hassle. Since Elon cannot seem to get the full self drive working quite yet, I'm stuck with watching the road. But at least I no longer have to jerk one more stick around. I still remember my first car - an old Volvo - where you had to do double clutching to shift gears. Can't say I miss those days. (I have not yet seen anyone who endorses manual to also get rid of synchronizers - isn't that giving you even more connection with your car?). Now when I'm driving an EV, even going back to CVT automatic feels like going to stone ages because you always lose the power when the gearbox decides to shift.

Old adage of thing becoming better when there is nothing left to take away applies. I'm just happy to get rid of one additional piece of hardware in the powertrain.

I mean, if I were a game actor - not a big name - I'd be worried. I'm not sure many people even understand what kind of work they do.

Wil Wheaton did a post years ago about what it's like to act for games - when you are not one of the main characters with lots of lines. https://wilwheaton.net/2015/09... - see the Excel screenshot mid-way through the post.

So there's no need to pay someone to create a "Death Scream 3" anymore. Nor do they have to use an existing sound library either (e.g. Wilhelm scream).

I mean, what will happen is that you pay some established actor for couple of principal roles (protagonist, antagonist etc), but the gazillion NPCs just get dubbed in by AI. You can probably even generate "deep narrator storyteller voice" and things like that.

I'd venture that somewhere down the line even those established actors might be hired just because of their names. I mean, if you can tell the AI "Please assign a voice that is kind of a mix between James Earl Jones and Patrick Stewart to the Captain (that gets killed in first act)", why would you even pay the real versions anymore? Especially if the AI has been trained with material from random dudes and told to "just make the voice deeper and punctuate for emphasis until it starts resembling the big names".

Same applies to animation as well. Why would you anymore pay for someone to voice Minion #432, when you can now have distinct voices for all of them if needed, without any humans involved?

VGA supported also the 320x200 with 256 colors.

Wing Commander came out in 1990, Wing Commander II in 1991. And Sierra's games were starting to be at their best (SCI engine). If you had 386, VGA, and a Sound Blaster card (not to mention Roland MT-32 or LAPC-1, but that counts as splurging), Amiga was already far behind.

Amiga had it's golden years around 1987-1990. E.g. Starglider II came out in 1988.

Many companies require you to use your own computer as a condition of WFH.

In that case, such a device can then can probably be designated as 100% working computer - no personal use. Esp. if they want to mandate things like disk encryption and the like - with corporate decryption keys?

Can't you get a tax deduction on that then?

Those refresh rates in the hundreds are not about visuals, it's about reduced input lag.

Then again, such differences really only make differences if you are competing in some shooter professionally...

Looking at AI-focused ETF, e.g. Wisdomtree's AI - https://www.wisdomtree.eu/en-g... - you can see that after the covid slump in 2020, it has, well, gained around 2/3 (15 => 25). Granted, that ETF mostly includes chipmakers (AMD, Nvidia, Broadcom, Mediatek, etc..) as largest stakes.

Anyway, that's pretty much the same ballpark that S&P 500 has done in same timeframe (from ~3000 pts to ~5000 pts).

Apart from Nvidia that has made a killing, there really doesn't seem to be much of a difference to other industries.

Just came to say "me too" - the Mobile was in bad shape for a while. However, after you were able to start using extensions again in the Mobile beta - I have absolutely no complaints.

Considering the Firefox Mobile is the *only* browser where you can basically install any extensions you like, that would seem to be quite a differentiator against other offerings...

That's a great quip but what about 4G? Is that widely available?

5G SA is starting to get deployed. 5G (non-SA) is widely deployed. 4G is *everywhere*, 3G is almost turned off, 2G is remaining in place due to legacy M2M applications.

Heck, 4G has 90% coverage of the population in *Ukraine* of all the places. Granted, 5G deployments are a bit stalled because it's a bit harder to do infrastructure installations with missiles flying in.

The EU requires that chargers accept payment cards. Requiring an app is not allowed, and even with Tesla you can just pay via their website. In fact, Tesla is an outlier in that they still bother with an app. Most of them have a payment terminal on the charger, and maybe an RFID card option for loyalty schemes.

Nope. That regulation only comes into effect on 13th of April this year. And existing chargers have until 2027 to do retrofits.

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/...

Furthermore, it's only required for main roads (TEN-T network). A random charger back at the boonies is not required to accept cards.

Europe has a much wider selection of EVs on the market, and much better charging infrastructure.

Actually, not all that good. Yes, there's starting to be plenty of chargers, but looks like every single one of them (apart from Tesla) requires their own smartphone app to use.

No paying with credit card.

EU has made some new legislation about this - starting this April, all new chargers *must* accept credit cards, and in 2027, all old ones need to be retrofitted, but at this moment it's a complete shitshow. With a ICE, you pull over to a gas station, show card at pump, stick nozzle in tank and fill up. With EV, if you have never used that particular charger chain before, you need to download their app, register, hope that it works. Even if you have registered, you still need to look at things like exact charger number ("I'm at pylon 2 at the station X"). If you happen to miss, in worst case you start charging someone else's car.

And try going across country borders. If I drive from Finland to Estonia or Norway, looks like the local charging apps do not actually accept Finnish-bank issued credit card despite it being VISA/MC just like everything else. This also applies to rentals. Try flying to other side of EU, rent a EV. Good luck in trying to get it to charge up on a random station.

This is the number #1 reason I loathe long distance travel with EV. For 98% of drives, I can luckily charge at home, but for long distance, I'm always considering whether to pull the mothballed ICE out of garage or not for that road trip. My wife does not even bother to consider - she just grabs the ICE and goes with it.

And then Android also exits the market because of the same regulations, and now Europe is back to using Flip phones with basic SMS.

One can dream...Maybe then I don't need an app to start charging an EV.

The shift from cloud back to server closets is already happening. Only, this time they are calling it "edge computing".

Yes, there are lots of nuances like processing a sensor network on-site and only sending aggregate to the cloud, but ultimately it means that less stuff is going to the cloud. And if cloud goes down for any reason, you still get to access the on-site elements...

When the day comes that I can watch whatever I want because I just ask my TV to make something for me, to my specifications and on demand, that's the end of the studios, the end of distributors, the end of theatres.

Depends. I mean, assume you work it like holodeck on Star Trek. You still had to do quite a lot of specs. Setting, characters, some overarching plot.

"Give me a fair-play whodunnit story that lasts two hours".
  - "Ok, what time period?"
  - "80s"
  - "What setting?"
  - "City"
  - "Who's the detective"
  - "Just a city cop who has just started at homicide"
  - "Who's the victim?"
  - Just go with what you think is good already!
  - Ok, Generating....
  [Opens with an establishing shot of Times Square, New York]
  - HOLD IT, I don't want this to take place in New York!
  - You specified "City" ... and so on. Of course, you could get something like fanfic community going on where someone else does the actual prompting and generation and you just experience their stories. However, at that point you start approaching the same situation where we are already - best storywriters get paid better.