I hope all these lay-offs and job cuts are worth it when this "AI" bubble bursts by the seams. These companies are looking damn foolish by doing this.

Funny you should mention badge removal: Chinese manufacturers will send out response teams to remove logos and badges from EVs that catch fire in mainland China.

Which is fine, because we have non-Chinese influenced EV data as well. China exports a lot of their EVs to Europe and Australia, so if they had a habit of catching fire, we'd know about it.

And starting in January 1, 2026, China would require an export permit to prevent exporting low quality EVs, the sale of such has brought down their reputation (see a recent French EV crash test of a Chinese EV which was miserable compared to other EVs).

So if they're keeping the crap for themselves and exporting the good cars, we all benefit.

The BYD Dolphin, which is among the smallest and cheapest EVs you can buy (except in North America) reviews quite favorably - https://arstechnica.com/cars/2...

It's not flashy, it's not fun, it's an EV that'll get you around town like any other car.

The illusion of intelligence evaporates if you use these systems for more than a few minutes.

Using AI effectively requires, ironically, advanced thinking skills and abilities. It's not going to make stupid people as smart as smart people, it's going to make smart people smarter and stupid people stupider. If you can't outthink the AI, there's no place for you.

Glyphosate (plants are also pests).

It might not even be necessary to fork much. Genuine Arduino hardware is so expensive most people use clones, lots of people use Platform IO instead of the Arduino IDE, and the Arduino core for the newer microcontrollers is not made by Arduino anyway.

The "magic" Arduino bit is the Arduino bootloader. That is also open source and anything that can speak the protocol can upload new firmware.

That's why Arduinos encompass more architectures than just AVRs - you can get ARM based Arduino compatible boards, I believe there are a few RISC-V ones, and at least one ESP32 based one.

The fact it's just a bootloader is why clone boards exist - there's nothing special about the official Arduino boards. It's easy to make your hardware "Arduino compatible" which makes it often much easier to develop with as you can easily update it without needing the AVR programmer.

That said VOCs is a better proxy. With VOCs you can approximate CO2 as well, but also pick up other things such as someone's farts, though I suspect you don't need electronics to tell you to open the window then.

The problem is VOCs are a poor proxy for ventilation. By VOCs, most people mean benzene based substances (6C rings) - which are things like paints and plastics and polymers. And in smaller quantities as perfumes and such. Flatus, is mostly stuff like methane and hydrogen sulfide, which doesn't usually show up as VOC - methane is classified as a hydrocarbon and hydrogen sulfide an acid gas. VOCs also dissipate, which is why "new car smell" is named such - after a car is manufactured the seats, fabric treatment, plastic, etc, all offgas and into the enclosed cabin of a car causing that scent. But once it's done, it dissipates.

CO2 is a better proxy because it means there are living things in the space and thus can be used to determine how well the ventilation is working. If the CO2 is rising, it means there are more people than the ventilation system can handle as it can't replace air fast enough.

Problem is many older buildings are designed to maintain temperature more than circulate air around as air quality is a more recent thing. Made all the more relevant due to recent events that raised awareness.

It seemed much faster than 80MPH to me, but having only seen trains in the States up to that point which do go slower than that, I suppose that would have seemed like a bullet train to me. Thanks for the info.

I took my iPhone 5s to Broke Ass Phones in Cleveland for a battery replacement a few years ago. I can get 2 to 3 days out of a full charge.

I'm still rocking an iPhone 5s like it's 2013. I was forced to ditch my dumb phone a while back because of 3G being deprecated. I got the 5s for free, my wife's old phone. Makes calls and texts just fine.

Something to sell off later on down the road at a loss to private equity for a tax incentive.

Yep, said the same thing a month ago when the news was first posted on Slashdot. It won't be long now until private equity snaps it up and bleeds the platform for every last cent before destroying it completely.

All the Arduino stuff is open-source. All Qualcomm bought was just a lot of assets including the name. But the IDE, the bootloader, etc are all open source.

Just fork and continue.

Semiglutide also has a dulling effect on taste buds. Many have reported their favorite foods taste terrible once they started on them.

So it also has the effect that foods responsible for weight gain are also now unpalatable so you'll just eat less in general, making you lose weight that way as well.

Download Microsoft Powertoys (not to be confused with Sysinternals). Universal, unformatted text paste available. No more shuffling it through Notepad.

There are a lot of quality of life features in it. All I do now is hit CTRL+ALT+V and plaintext, universally for the most part.

No. That's what Regedit (I use Registry Workshop) is for. There haven't been flat-file text configs since, I dunno, Windows 3.0? Everything beyond that, Windows 95+, it's just legacy jank. I like that 3rd parties refuse to use the registry, especially if it's a portable app, but I wish they'd let you know when they do. And then there's the whole AppData kerfuffle. Is it in Local? Local Low? Where the hell did you put your text config file?!

Many Win32 and AMD64 programs have plaintext configs, as do games. You still need a text editor. But for Microsoft stuff, I highly recommend Registry Workshop. Faster search. Undo. Multiple search windows. Really good stuff.