ha ha ha, flamebait? ) existance of ruzzia is a flamebait. Existance of ruzzians is a flamebait, a troll actually.
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ruzzia is a scourge unfit to exist in the world

Why would a developer bother to optimize their game? That's actually a good question, given some of the recent releases.

Yep. CAFE-style regulation is the wrong way to attempt to reduce carbon emissions. The right way is to impose a carbon tax, then let consumers vote with their wallets and engineers work to make the right tradeoffs to meet customer demand. My guess is that consumers would choose to buy the more fuel-efficient vehicles and engineers might make the same tradeoffs... but now it would be clear that those tradeoffs are worthwhile.

Gas is pretty much exactly at its long-term, inflation-adjusted average price, and right where it was in the 1950s. Since then, it was a little higher in the 70s, a little lower in the 90s, a little higher in the early 2000s, but we're now back at the long-term normal price.

See https://afdc.energy.gov/data/1...

Whether the normal price of gas is "cheap" or "expensive" depends on your income and lifestyle, I'd think.

This is an appropriate place for tariffs. Not ridiculous, exclusionary tariffs like we have, but tariffs carefully calibrated to offset the subsidies as precisely as possible, putting BYD's cars on a level playing field against US EVs. I have great faith in free market capitalism and dislike anything that distorts the market, but sometimes you need to use regulation to correct for external market distortions.

How many airbags are required in a car these days? What features are now standard that used to be high end luxury stuff? $28,000 may not be cheap, but it's not TOO high for what you get these days.

Design language is a thing and has been since an industrial designer was an occupation. It encompasses the looks of something - like how John Deere equipment is green and yellow in particular ways. Apple had several design languages - anyone in the 90s is familiar with the Platinum design that encompassed the colors of the computers as well as the lines on the case.

It's also how you can tell a ThinkPad laptop even though they've been through different owners and many generations of computers.

It plays a much bigger part than you might imagine. Though for some things, like say, TVs, monitors and phones, it's fallen by the wayside because the functional bit has pretty much consumed all visible bits of it so there's no real need for a design of something that is just a screen.

I'm not sure there is any amount of money that I'd accept to engineer a product that involved looking at thousands of photos of unflushed toilets.

Your comment ignores why NEW products cost more, and the more new stuff is in a product, the higher the price will be. Once those features have been around for a few years, the price for those features can come down because a fair amount of the R&D costs have been covered by product sales. There is also the idea that higher volumes of sales will allow for lower prices, because 500,000 vehicles sold vs. 50,000 vehicles sold and how many sales are needed to hit break even for the R&D.

My 2022 Hyundai Elantra SEL gets upwards of 50 miles per gallon highway/33 city as long as I stick to 65 miles per hour and that's the non-hybrid version. The real key is that the majority of people don't need a big SUV or truck for their normal daily activities. The obsession with big vehicles as though we live in a war zone is why Ford and GM complain so much about fuel economy standards.

We would certainly be at a disadvantage if Russia was able to copy rockets that constantly blew up shortly after launch.

This "researcher" doesn't seem to know what end-to-end encryption is, or why what the manufacturer says is true. Their blog says that "[t]he term is generally used for applications that allow some kind of communication between users", but that's not true. The most common type of end-to-end encryption is HTTPS, typically between the user and a web server.

Also, they offer an AI powered service to analyse your output, and state that they use the data for further training. That is well within both expectations of what an AI powered service will be doing, and what their privacy policy says they will do.

I dislike how privacy is treated as a premium product, and how many companies feel entitled to our data, this case is nothing special at all.

They are probably hoping that developers start releasing ARM native versions once Steam Machine sales start to take off. This will be aimed at older games where the developer is unlikely to go back and rebuild for ARM, and performance isn't too critical.

Better headlines:

"Your next car just got shittier"

"White House vows to win war on your lungs"