As someone who daily drives an EV and has done so for years, I'm obviously not overly paranoid about the battery fire issues out there. But the faster you charge a battery pack, the more heat gets generated. And the higher the battery pack's capacity, the more potential energy is contained inside it to cause a problem if it has a sudden failure.

While the same could be said about the potential energy in tanks of gasoline or diesel fuel? The challenge for EVs is that extinguishing battery fires is FAR more difficult to do. A number of race tracks have established a burn area to tow an EV with a battery fire to, so it can sit there as long as it needs to burn itself out. They don't even try to extinguish the fire. Clearly, that's not such a viable plan for a crowded interstate during rush hour.

I know there are a few experimental technologies out there, like the device a fire department can attach to the end of a hose, so it rolls under an EV and sprays water directly upwards, to cool a battery pack right above it. That's good stuff, but I'm not sure it's being adopted in the mainstream as quickly as battery pack capacities are increasing.

If only they could have noticed something was up when Melinda Gates resigned from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and filed for divorce from her husband over Epstein ties in 2021.

But that was fairly subtle so it's hard to blame them for not connecting the dots. It would be foolish to accuse them of being complicit in the coverup of heinous crimes.

Sounds like a Conspiracy Theory only People Magazine could come up with.

This set of anomalies is meaningless because no causal link has been proved.

In fact it never makes sense to look into anomalies unless you know what the outcome will be.

Detectives are stupid. Science is stupid.

Trust the Experts and whatever you do don't do your own research. If something is important the government or Fox News will let you know.

Turn on Netflix and zone out if you have spare time.

You ain't one of them "readers", is ya?

SRAM has never been built at this scale, afaik. Cerebras was ahead of the curve here, building wafer scale SRAMs years ago. The penalties of DRAM (even with HBM) are now so severe that everyone is taking the gloves off and building mighty SRAMs. This has always been possible in theory, but the high cost never justified it.

The impact on semiconductor fab demand is significant. SRAM cells are larger than DRAM bits: more silicon die area for the same amount of RAM.

Also, the training vs. inference split Google is baking into actual hardware is a big deal: it's the reality that training and inference are very distinct things asserting itself, which has been obvious to anyone that hasn't been drinking excessive NVidia cool-aid: there is a future where costly, general purpose GPU-like devices aren't actually necessary for operating LLMs.

The Chinese Wall legal strategy is to have Team A produce a specification and Team B produce an implementation.

If these guys can't show a specification they're screwed.

Claiming there must have been one in abstract Platonic space inside the LLM network black box isn't going to convince a Court.

So do the work of making an actual specification generator. Then write a coder. It's not impossible. You still won't get updates, fixes, support, community, or features added. The guys who just steal ffmpeg won't even bother. The AGPL haters might bite.

Also, he seems quite angry.

When gas hits $10 there may be too much pressure to bring in BYD to stop it. At least atomic energy isn't more sensitive to global price shocks than it needs to be (EPA being the champion of high energy prices).

Automated lights-out factories are a total game changer and basically nobody cares if domestic auto workers lose their jobs due to sales collapse or to automation. It didn't have to be this way but Kissinger sold out Middle America so GM became a sales tactic for GMAC loans. We'd need a time machine to stop the collapse of the US auto industry at this point. Or a total fascist takeover of industry and crippling tariffs (not ruling this out).

Toyota and Datsun used to be shit brands fifty years ago. Now we have Lexus and Infinity. Heck we had those 20 years after they were shit brands.

But Tundra engines are getting famous now for lasting 6000 miles before blowing up, so perhaps the torch is being passed.

Yes, "to bring Jesus back".

They actually believe this. Like, you can spend money to get God to change his calendar.

We don't have to believe it - we only need to understand that they believe it. Red heifers, Gog and Magog, Third Temple, they jump up and down and speak in tongues when you talk about it.

Meanwhile Americans spend 60% of their wages on taxes and regulations and don't complain. They vote for anti-war, anti-spending candidates and get the shaft after elections. $10 gas might actually change things.

>Now how about finding a way to do it with silicon-based rather than lithium-based batteries so that we're not using costly mines to create the batteries?

Why silicon rather than sodium?

Sodium is right under lithium in Group 1.

>> The company also announced plans to begin mass delivery of sodium-ion batteries in the fourth quarter. Sodium-ion technology is seen as a lower-cost alternative that could reduce dependence on lithium, cobalt, and nickel.

> Then they just need to keep doing that for the new code.

"You Insensitive Claude, why haven't you made Thunderbird multi-threaded yet?"

(there appears to be evidence of significant limitations in its understanding of complex code)

> Is it appropriate to cite the old proverb, "Physician, heal thyself" here?

Years before the physician was a fentanyl addict living in a cardboard box on the street you would have been compassionate to do so.

At some point you just can't help people who don't want to be helped.

It's sad because the physician was once a happy baby who gave his mother delight. So much waste of care and resources.

It's a click bait headline. This is a $10 billion option, not a $60 billion acquisition.

$10 billion is still on the insane side for a vscode extension. However, Elon has an AI platform, and that platform lacks the IDE integration that others have, so my guess is he's looking to plug that hole with money.

When you couple all that with the recent "Terafab" kickoff, it's clear Elon wants his whole AI compute stack under one roof; from the chips to the developer stack. He's building a vertically integrated AI platform.

He's doing all that because he's convinced solar powered space compute is the answer, and will make him billions. He's been right often enough that I'm not betting against it, but it's a big bet. He won't die a pauper either way, so why not?

Weasel words.

Cite your "evidence."

What's ironic is that feeds his megalomania. Extreme-ego types love that their detractors are thinking about them all the time.

"Living rent-free" is the ultimate payoff.

Best to ignore them as much as possible.

Instead of 10 activations limit it to n number of sync chains.

Pair the activation authorization to the hash of a chain code or whatever on the Brave activation server.

Reduce the number to 5, that's fine.

A good number of privacy folks have extra devices to run certain apps. You might trust Brave and have them all synced but not some odd banking apps or dating apps or stuff work makes you have.

A decent used phone can be had for $50; keeping all those apps on one device seems nuts.

5 sync chains would effectively be a family license around here. Sounds like a good deal at $60.

Having a license wear out because your phone needed a factory reset or went in for service just doesn't make sense.

... and with all their mass-firings probably AI slop too.

I prefer the small rural theaters with a dozen people at a matinee.

Big and Loud will appeal to the Zoomers who aren't broke. That's about 10% of them.