Last time I checked supertankers are not very useful on roads.

You seem confused. The GP was talking about a claim that the range reduces to 200 miles when there is a trailer and cargo. Which is bogus.

Your like is just a confirmation by Grok that 833 of these plugged in at once will use all the power of a typical nuclear reactor which I suspect he agrees with.

If for some reason the computer can't do this, the foreman or a helper can get in the truck and drive it to the correct location manually. Or (more likely imho) some kid in Korea will drive it remotely. In any case, the long-distance trucker is out of a job.

The ID proves who the holder of the ID is, and then they look him up in their database of who is a citizen.

This "Real ID does not mean citizenship" idea is being repeated over and over again here, seems to be a concerted effort to try to discredit this story.

Whatâ(TM)s interesting here is that as a professional musician, this guy is a public figure and the âoeactual maliceâ standard for defamation applies â" a standard that was designed when defamation could only be done by a human being.

This requires the defendant to make a defamatory statement either (1) knowing it is untrue or (2) with reckless disregard for the truth.

Neither condition applies to the LLM itself; it has no conception of truth, only linguistic probability. But the LLM isnâ(TM)t the defendant here. Itâ(TM)s the company offering it as a service. Here the company is not even aware of the defamatory statement being made. But it is fully aware of their modelâ(TM)s capacity to hallucinate defamatory âoefactsâ.

I think that because the tort is based in the common law concept of a duty of care, we may well see the company held liable in some way for this kind of thing. But itâ(TM)s new law; it could go the other way.

The laborious, linear interface is of course another limitation of all kinds of tapes -- digital or analog. But getting rid of this also changes human behavior. People don't listen as much to long form collections; they don't even necesssarily listen to entire songs.

A mix tape is essentially a long format program manually and personally curated for you by another human being, unmediated and indeed untracked by any third corporate party. Losing the mix tape was a real cultural loss. Sure they didn't sound great, but they didn't have to.

I suppose every technological advance is potentially double edged. When people get books and literacy, verbal storytelling declines. That doesn't make books bad. the technical limitations of verbal stories -- say limited repeatbility -- are real limitations, but that doesn't mean something wasn't lost.

A brutalist redesign of the ballroom

I see a problem if the deposit is less than the value of the battery. If the deposit is equal or exceeds the value of the battery then it is exactly the same cost as if you bought the first one. I suppose you could say you get the money back when you get rid of the car, but that means cars have to be sold or scrapped without a battery which makes them much more difficult to move around.

Thank you. Absolutely the idea that this would be useful for privately-owned vehicles was a scam to try to make EVs sound bad. It is patently obvious that any serious proposal from a company actually intending to make money was to swap batteries in FLEET vehicles. Not private cars, if you think that then you have bought lies from the anti-EV people.

Wayland intentionally sabotaged focus-follows-mouse by making clicking on a window raise it unconditionally. Gnome did the same thing (for a while there was an option to turn off the raise, but they made it also ignore any requests from the program itself to raise the window so you could not actually rearrange windows except by closing and opening them again).

There does appear to be a large faction that wants focus-follows-mouse to go away and will do anything they can to achieve it.

Actually even the big republican states will not give up their power to make the 48% of their population that is not Republican count as Republican votes. Democrat states do support this because it would be a gain for Democrats overall, but I'm sure they would be against it if the population of other states was minority Democrat.

Yeah, one of the things I like about Claude (and Gemini 3 as opposed to 2.5) is that they really clamped down on the use of "Oh, now I've got it! This is absolutely the FINAL fix to the problem, we've totally solved it now! Here, let me write out FIX_FINAL_SOLVED.md" with some half-arse solution. And yep, the answer to going in circles is usually either "nuke the chat" or "switch models".

The Epstein files are full of both Democrats and Republicans (and probably every other political party you have heard of). Nobody in power was ever going to push for their release, since it would be full of implications for themselves and their friends. The side *not* in power will push for the release, safe in knowing that it won't happen.

It seems like they are coming up with a fake release now. Purposely-obvious redaction will discredit it and even exonerate those who are shown, and foot-dragging will not be fought at all seriously.

I saw something that might work: make the districts elect 5 representatives, using proportional representation. This would keep the politicians local, which Americans appear to like. This does mean about 5 parties will be in congress, not more, but judging by what happens in Europe it would not be much different, any fringe party is forced to immediately merge with another and there seems to be about 5 already.

I think this also makes gerrymandering very difficult, though it might be best to just outlaw it. Districts are drawn by a computer with the only rule that they be as compact as possible.

Actually it would work if the electoral votes were proportionally allocated in each state according the popular vote in that state. This would actually result in the same winner as the popular vote in every presidential election in history. The problem is not that somebody in Wyoming has 4x the voting power of somebody in California or Texas. The problem is the fact that the winner in a state gets *all* the electoral votes. This means a member of the minority party in California or Texas has -1 (NEGATIVE 1) voting power, in that their existence adds to the population and thus the electoral votes that go to the candidate they are against.