Truck engines are built to much higher reliability standard since they have to survive driving for very long times. And they cannot fail, because that costs fleet operator a lot more than just repairs.

Also diesel, has to be overbuilt due to compression ratio involved.

Gasoline from same time period still had the OG "magic smoke" moment when seals finally blow due to wear and tear. And then car loses most of its power, and drives with that hilarious amount of burning oil smoke until you rebuild the engine. If you even can because in many cases, wear pattern will have caused cylinder wall damage of the kind you can't really repair.

Hint: automatic chokes between manual and ECM were fucking awful in cold weather, because they had poor edge case adaptation. They were better than manual at getting choke valve angle mostly right once you get the car actually started. Essentially, those are a really small analogue computer that switches the angle of the choke based on temperature return from a powered thermocouple. That's why they needed outside power to work, and needed tuning to work properly in the first place.

This is why everyone switched to ECMs asap. Even before fuel injection in higher end models. Fully computer controlled engine that functions off the multitude of sensors means your engine tunes itself all the time to the optimal running pattern.

Most people forget that engines used to only last somewhere around 100.000 km, and automatic transmissions even less. They were more simple, and as a result ate far more wear and tear. Cheaper to repair and replace, much less efficient, and far less durable.

No one sane wants them. Even in developing countries, they're avoided like the plague for most uses, because they just wear out. The longest lasting engines (other than that one hilariously overbuilt full analogue Volvo that still runs North Korean taxi fleets) are all the early ECM versions, because you had massive overbuilding of the old analogue engines coupled with very low wear and tear due to ECM optimization of the operation. Go to African shitholes, and you see tons of those old Toyotas, Hondas, Mazdas etc with early ECM engines still running fine clocking kilometer readings that is closer to a million than zero. But almost no engines before that time. Those are long dead no matter how hard you try to maintain them, because without ECM, wear and tear is horrible.

And that is why no one wants engines that aren't ECM controlled any more. Or anything else for that matter. Remember early automatic windows? Ever seen the wiring diagrams of those cars and why no one who wanted a maintenance nightmare wanted them?

Automatic chokes remain a thing on motorcycles and such. Modern are all ECM based (solenoid).

One you describe didn't work off a pedal. It worked off a thermocouple in the flow, that tried to determine what temperature of the engine was and open or close the choke accordingly. It's essentially a very simple analogue computer. They're generally avoided because they have severe issues in extreme cold compared to both manually choked cars and ECM driven solenoid chokes in modern carburetors.

Do you also believe that Hitler and Anne Frank are the same people too?

What actually happened is embodiment of the meme: "America designs, China builds, EU regulates".

Here EU's regulatory supremacy made bureaucrats at all levels believe that it's the bureaucrats within every organization that matter, not the people being managed by bureaucracy that actually produce things. So when confiscating Nexperia... they confiscated the HQ. The place with the company bureaucracy.

Chinese took one look at this idiotic confiscation of bureaucracy that never touched any productive parts of the company, did a "are you really this fucking retarded" double take, concluded that yes, European bureaucratized leadership is in fact fucking retarded, and simply ordered the production facilities in PRC to... stop taking instructions from HQ.

Because bureaucracy is utterly worthless without someone to actually do things they order. It's not a producer of anything. It's a necessary evil. A symbiote at best, and a parasite at worst. Which can in fact be simply cut out and replaced rapidly, as long as productive parts of the company remain, because there's plenty of comparable symbiotic systems out there. But there are very few if any producers.

We still make them for vintage/hobbyist things.

They're awful. You need to actually manually tune them every time you start, and change the setting as engine warms up to ensure approximately correct mix is fed to the engine and so it can generate power appropriately. Ever heard of a "choke"? As someone who had a car with manual choke, let me tell you about amazing adventures of starting it in the winter.

And by amazing adventures, I mean utter shit show.

Those engines are really easy to make. No one but classic collectors want them, because they're horrible from driver's perspective. You want an engine with proper ECM, that just makes it run for you, instead of having to manually adjust choke, being really careful with throttle depending on the current oil temperature, and not having a clue what's going on with the engine until it blows up.

This is cool and all, but cellular networks have always been been B2B subscriptions. This isn't "mobile phone" Nokia, this is cellular infrastructure Nokia. Former Nokia Networks unit of Nokia.

It sells to telcos. With massive support contracts, because this sort of hardware needs constant support. There's no other way to get this hardware. So in this regard, this would change nothing. You're describing a status quo.

The only thing I can think of with AI integration into cellular is better adaptation mechanism for things like avoiding congested ranges faster, or maybe adapting better to uncommon situations like large public gatherings and general load balancing.

Does nvidia even make anything suitable for that sort of work though? Other than chips for potentially training algorithms for this sort of a thing? Or are they just thinking of moving from algorithmic to inference?

>Who defines "expertise"?

Relevant agency within CCP, local or national branch, on case by case basis.

>What happens to independent creators who challenge official narratives but lack formal credentials?

Typical solution for undesired speech until now has been permanent ban from all social media. In more extreme cases, vanishing and likely involuntary organ donation.

>And how far can regulation go before it suppresses free thought?

There is no freedom of speech in PRC. It's a communist nation. Only sanctioned speech is allowed. If you attempt non-sanctioned speech, Party has all of the state's apparatus at its disposal to do whatever it sees as necessary.

And it is indeed "Party", and not "state", because in PRC state is actually a rather irrelevant bureaucratic structure. It doesn't even have the most basic thing a state needs to be considered sovereign, namely a military of its own to ensure soveregnty. The Party on the other hand is sovereign, and has its own military (People's Liberation Army).

That moment when you know nothing about the world, and only know how project your pet issues on it.

Hint: Official mainline medicine in China is TCM. Traditional Chinese Medicine.

Science based medicine, known as Western medicine in PRC, the one you're referring to with vaccines is a side show for urban elites. There's a credentialed TCM clinic in every small town. Not so much for Western medicine.

These are the people who are the reason why there are so many extinct species in Africa now. Because things like rhino's horn powder, when properly prepared obviously cures a lot of things. In TCM.

That's who's going to be talking about medicine on PRC's social media now.

Huang built the company from ground up. He cleaned toilets during his student years.

He knows far more about poverty that champagne socialists who spew this nonsense do.

My concern is the opportunity to lie.
An empty room is tough to gauge the size of (even in person).
A staged room, with a bed and dresser gives you a better idea of how spacious or not spacious the room is, and how you might furnish it. This is valuable information when forming an opinion about the house and its suitability.

Realtor photos already have a fisheye problem with a lot of the pictures and video as they trying to show more of the room at once which causes scale to be tough to determine.

Add AI staging to that and it is even more problematic, because they can stage it with furniture that isn't scaled correctly. I've seen some AI staging where things are just scaled wrong, like the bedroom dresser is only 4" deep, and couches are sunk into walls. But its not obvious to look at it. Or there's two cars in the garage but they're 15% smaller than they'd actually be so it looks more spacious. OR there's two large couches with a large coffee table between them with a fireplace off to the side, and room to walk around it all and then you realize that either the fireplace is 8 feet high and 12 feet wide and the ceilings are 25' high ... or the furniture is scaled to 25% actual size.

You didn't say what size the TV is though or where you sit.

I have an 85" TV in my media room and we sit quite close to it maybe 8-9' away from it.

The difference between 4k and 1080p is very noticeable when watching 4k content. I also use this screen for gaming, and text is noticeably clearer and sharper and easier to read at 4k from the couch (shout out for factorio).

Most movies and games don't really benefit though. I'm just happy when i get good actual 1080p content without lots of compression and other artifacts.

If you are buying a TV to put over the fireplace (too high to sit close comfortably) and/or your living room is laid out that your seating is 15' - 20' away, and you are putting in a 44"-55" TV... you aren't really going to see a difference from 4k.

That's the key: for 4k to be really 'worth it' the TV needs to be BIG and you need to be pretty close to it.
And once you have that - then the content really matters too.

I have yet to see use case for 8k. The same BIG + CLOSE argument for 4k vs 1080p applies but now it needs to be even bigger. And there's practically no content.

We're actually observing a very complex multi-factoral pattern. For example, it's true that in recent past, was was poor who were having more children than rich. This is no longer true in most of them, as situation has flipped.

In many Western countries this pattern flipped in last half a decade or so. Rich are now having more children than poor. It gets even more interesting when you consider US and African American culture, its current obsession with single motherhood and having lots of kids by many different men so you can extract maximum child support and tax payer support.

All while black fertility in US also flipped this year to being below white fertility this year. There has been a small correction to the numbers since, suggesting that it's actually just a little bit higher than originally stated and may be the same as white fertility. But black trend is rapidly downwards, whereas white is only slowly downwards. I.e. if it's not this year that whites are having more children than blacks per capita, it will be next year.

If I were to meme on it, "Planned Parenthood has finally succeeded in doing what it was created to do".

But that's the reality of multi-factoral issues. We don't actually know why it is as it is. We can name some factors that played some role in changes we're seeing. But we have no clue how much relevance each factor has. But we can in fact observe how many babies are born to each group. And we know that everyone is having too few of them in our cultures to ensure that those cultures will continue into the long term future.

"My pet subject is the only relevant thing for this massive global obviously multi-factoral problem. Address my pet subject!"