The 3 cylinder Geo Metro in the 1990s achieved over 40 miles per gallon. 30 years later you're telling me we lost that ability?
Yes, but only because most Americans are unwilling to drive a Metro-sized car anymore. They've been conditioned to think small/lightweight cars are unsafe or unmanly or etc.
The fact that the government is mandating fuel efficiency means that most people don't care. If they cared, nobody would buy the inefficient cars so the manufacturers wouldn't make them, no need for government intervention.
The invisible hand of the free market solves a lot of things, but it's never quite figured out how to avoid the tragedy of the commons. Everybody wants to live on a livable planet, but nobody wants to pay for the technology required to keep that way.
I traveled to poor countries where traffic is 90% scooters. This is all they can afford. I hope we can do better.
Being inexpensive to purchase and operate is one advantage scooters have over automobiles; the other is that they are small enough to maneuver quickly through heavy traffic and easier to find a parking spot for in congested areas.
Maybe I'm just a weirdo but I am very annoyed at them for trying to take away the option of local-only accounts. Why do I need to let them be a third party to everything I do starting with logging in? Nobody asked for this.
At this stage, the best way forward is to apply the "Debian" patch to your system to restore local accounts, and strip out the all the daft AI guff
I don't think slashdot has had any actual developers working on its since the early 2000s. It's a mature legacy codebase, destined to run as-is until it can't anymore, then go away.
I saw an interview with Linus Torvalds the other day, and he seems to think Nvidias getting better behaved with its drivers now (although my understanding is he's not as fussed by closed source drivers as others are in the industry).
Nvidia are shits though. I know they used to maintain a CUDA implementation for macs. Now? Nope...
As are the GPUs on both the mainstream major gaming consoles (PS5 and Xbox). AMD GPUs arent going anywhere, especially now that their AI picture is starting to come a bit more into focus
Eh. To some value of yes and some value of no.
The library aint nearly as large, but surprisingly a lot of it is there. But don't expect it to be equivelent to a frebreathing 64 core Ryzen 9 with 5090 GPU. Obviously.
If Googles teeth-grindingly stupid AI is what it takes to kill this stupid bubble, well I'll grit my teeth and go along with it.
Because I really feel like I'm in the stupidest industry right now. And thats not what I signed up for 30 years ago.
In a foreign country, you have to follow their laws, just as foreign businesses must do in the US.
I generally agree with this. But I dont think apple is saying they will break the law, but rather that they'd just wIthdraw from the market if forced, which has been their approach in the past.
Plus, while india is a big market, apples 10% of it probably isnt a huge segment of apples revenue, and they have the warchest to just sit it out until Gen Zs flip out hard enough to force the govt to back off.
Yeah I wanna know this too. This is pretty alarming.
Guess thats what happens when you trust a google project.....
Because we don't want them to instantly kill the first kid who jumps the fence, or the next careless service technician. Automated industrial robots (which is what these cars are, really) have these things for a reason.
I really hope that Waymo's cars aren't relying on their Nader-beepers to avoid killing people. They should be (and AFAIK are) relying instead on their video cameras, LIDARs, and other sensors to stop the car before it hits the wayward kid/technician.
Remember that these are the people who invented the use of CTRL-ALT-DEL hardware interrupts to "secure" the Windows login screen. That tells you all you need to know really.
Yes, they should have done it the right way instead!
Err, what was the right way? It's not obvious to me, given that Microsoft doesn't have design control over the hardware its software runs on.
Do you really think Karen in Finance is going to request an RDS instance and vibe code a nice react frontend for her CRUD??
At this point, my biggest fear is that she will -- and then call me over to debug the AI-generated codebase, when it inevitably doesn't work quite right.
No, actually theres plenty of studies. You have to look first if you want to know!
Look up "watching eye effect supermarket" in google scholar or your academic search engine of choice. Theres literally hundreds of studies.
"In the face of entropy and nothingness, you kind of have to pretend it's not there if you want to keep writing good code." -- Karl Lehenbauer
