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.

At least read the summary! "declining emissions in the travel, cement and steel industries."

I didn't get into P vs NP until my second year of college.

The real answer entirely depends on if they succeed or not.

If they manage to build real, strong AI, then it won't be a bubble. If they manage to replace a significant amount of the workforce with automation, then it won't be a bubble. The LLMs have already proved useful in some areas, but probably not enough to justify the valuation.

If it's mostly vaporware, then that bubble will pop hard.

In particular, I don't think there was any significant population that described themselves as woke. It was a pejorative from the beginning.

The al jazeera article means that births have been declining since the 1980s, which is true and obvious if you actually had read it.

These are not particularly exclusive to each other and right here in America we are in the middle of supposed "smart guy authoritarianism", the tech executives have thrown down to have a ruling class and government with "complete, un-challenged power", there's a reason the 2024 election has been called "revolt of the bosses"

That's what they are paying for, it's contractual. You're gonna get as many resources as you need to do the work you want to work on but it's for the benefit of the state, make no mistake about that. That's the agreement.

You likely would not be imprisoned for your science work so long as you were doing it as agreed. It's political extracurricular activities that are gonna get you in trouble, particularly as a foreign national.

We'd like to think so but how many other things in society would we say the same about, particularly in fashion but people still buy it. Go into any mall that deals with high fashion and selling $600 shirts and Ballenciaga $6000 ugly coats but those companies are always doing well.

I remember so many saying the same about the Apple Watch when it launched and here we are on like it's 8th generation. Social signaling is very very strong.

Good thing when you buy an iPhone it doesn't include this sock? Nobody would argue with that statement?

Good virtue signal nobody was asking for though?

Application portability doesn't enter into it, nor does this have anything to do with code at a binary or library level. Nothing to do with Windows drivers! Not sure why you brought that up.

This is the Linux kernel we're talking about. This extension allows slightly cleaner, easier-to-read syntax in certain circumstances. As I understand it, it's syntactic sugar that brings a bit of C++'s ability to cleanly extend structs to C. This is clearly shown by some insightful comments above.

Nice dig at systemd, but completely nonsensical. All three major compilers support these extensions to the C language. Application developers can use them as they see fit. And have for decades.

Not utility, the money is for the social signal.