Visual Studio and Eclipse are typically used for statically typed languages (C# and Java), so you get IDE magic like automatic refactors, renaming, jump to definition, etc. It's nice, and helps you program faster.

However, in the real world most people use dynamic languages like Python, which loses all that IDE magic (AI can kind of help here). btw IntelliJ has been more popular than Eclipse among Java programmers for more than a decade now.

The conclusion is that most programmers don't care about programming more quickly/efficiently.

I'm now not even sure what your point is. The population decline was reported in multiple places, if you don't like Al Jazeera, then feel free to find a different source.

I assume strong AI is possible at any time, as soon as the algorithm is figured out.

You can't call something a "serious bid for top talent" when you don't even know what the terms are. Applications haven't opened, and the details about eligibility haven't been released. It's premature to make conclusions about what they are trying to do (let along what they will do) without those details.

The Soviet Union never even pretended to be communist. They claimed they were socialist, and working towards communism. But they were quite aware they hadn't achieved it yet.

What on earth are you talking about? Rosseau doesn't have anything to do with electric cars.

The government. That's why they are complaining (according to the summary).

If the gate to production is lithium batteries, then you might as well use the batteries you have in luxury cars instead of cheap cars. At least, that is optimal from the manufacturer's perspective.

If you can get batteries for both (which will eventually happen as production increases and prices come down), then you will make both luxury and cheap cars.

Is that really true?

I thought they got bought? Did Oracle re-capitalize? I need an upgrade on Niagara.

make that comma.ai. sigh. No AI assisting me here tonight. Or spell checker apparently.

Never mind that their FSD is more capable than any current system on the market today. Unless you've ridden in a Tesla with FSD activated and witnessed the problems first-hand I'm not sure you are qualified to speak to how bad it is. The "8-bit guy" did a random off-his-normal-topic video recently about FSD and it was eye openingly good.

My issues with FSD have more to do with the fact you don't own the car really, and you are constantly beta testing it for them. But it's remarkable how well it does work.

I've been temped to try out the very affordable comma.si driver assist system (not quite FSD) that can work in any late-model car. I don't mind having more assistive technologies.

Maybe. Here in North America, the big three have already conceded the budget market. None of them are interested in anything other than luxury cars. For the first time, the average car purchase in the US has hit $50k. Europe ceded the entire EV market years ago to China.

Canada is set to relax the Chinese EV ban and tariffs, which I'm in favor of (maybe set them to 50%). However the only Chinese EV manufacturer that will actually be allowed in is Tesla. Our market is just too small to for Chinese automakers to justify complying with our North American standards when the US will never ever allow them in. On the other hand if we allowed cars meeting European standards in, that would open the door to a ton of Chinese vehicles coming here.

Meanwhile the fetish with touch screens and always-on internet connections is a real hangup of mine for EVs. That and how every charging station wants you to use a crummy app, instead of just being like a gas station.

*Used to* be Democrats and really, that was more California osmosis than their actual beliefs which always leaned sorta-libertarian (cuz taxes) and they did the "both sides" because it was smarter to stay apolitical and thus was so very easily co-opted by the current fashy personality cult regime where they get a taste of sweet oligarchy.

Also I am not talking rank-and-file which is all over map but the upper echelon. I mean Musk bought Twitter pretty much to affect the election, Andreesen is in the White House, Larry Ellison is kinda the shadow VP and is turning CBS into another Fox right now. Want me to go on? Just own it already, Republicans are not victims.

And no, I don't mean technocrats, there's a very obvious authoritarian thing happening here. Techno-Authoritarianism? Is that a thing? Did American just will that into being?

Pundits, wags. Maybe it was just something i read on social media but it's been a term since like the 70's. You get the idea though. The premise I read it in was that in 2020 during the pandemic with WFH and stimulus payments and other relief it really honestly gave employees more bargaining power with their employers and 2024 with the noted swing of the tech industry rightward was a sort of revenge for that happening.

Anyone else noticed these? I thought popup ads had disappeared years ago because they are so annoying, but apparently not. Although I'd rather have these ads than those pernicious and malicious html-load.com scripts running on this site.