The legislation introducing tax breaks and similar subsidies for PHEVs was argued for by larger savings in gasoil use. They don't realize, so what's to do about the subsidies? Why should PHEVs in some places get the same subsidies as EVs, despite only saving 19% instead of 100% in local emissions?

while it still includes two controllers featuring dials and number pads instead of joysticks, they're both wireless and charge when docked to the console.

Wireless, no matter how good, still has delays or blips which interrupt the signal. You need the consistent signal of a wired connection.

I know people will give me reasons why I'm wrong, but this is no different than having touchscreens for basic operations in a car. You need the analog touch for simplicity and reliability.

I love the comments here. Any other /. story: "Follow the science!" This story offers a scientific study and conclusion: "that can't be right!" You guys are not super-smart nerds... you're humans with the same monkey brains susceptible to confirmation bias that everyone else has.

Wikipedia is an interesting concept and it works decently well as a place to go read a bunch of general information and find decent sources. But LLMs are feeding that information to people in a customized, granular format that meets their exact individual needs and desires. So yeah, probably not as interested in reading your giant wall of text when they want 6 specific lines out of it.

Remember when Encyclopædia Britannica was crying about you stealing their customers, Wikipedia? Yeah, this is what they experienced.

I'm talking about sites other than Wikipedia too, which don't change.

The worst part of AI for search, is when you click through to the linked reference page, you often find information that directly contradicts what the AI summary is telling you. Absolute garbage!

If you really want to see how lost TED is, take a look at the story of Coleman Hughes who did a very reasonable and interesting TED talk and then they wouldn't publish it on their site due to bizarre ideological capture. Here's his story on the negotiation he went through with TED to get them to actually put it on their site and not de-list it. Very strange stuff.

Do you really think Apple Computer was finished growing after the Apple II?

More dubiously, the AI sometimes doesn't spit back out what you trained it on. Sometimes it just makes stuff up, even when training data was available that it should have based the answer on. The technology doesn't really work, and experimenting on kids with it isn't a good idea.

Apple Computer Corp

You're correct that Woz is brilliant, and did brilliant things, but it's completely incorrect to discount what Jobs did. For example, Apple floundered when Jobs left, and came roaring back when he returned, and Woz never worked on the iPhone, which was revolutionary. Jobs had an understanding of what people actually wanted, and had to work hard to get the people at Apple to actually do it. There's ample stories of Jobs insisting over and over again that the engineering team work harder to get the original Mac to boot faster, or insisting that people really needed to be able to draw rounded rectangles. Jobs was the one that pushed for aesthetics and user-friendliness, which became hallmarks of the Apple brand.

I'm pretty sure not one of these crypto companies could obtain, much less keep a banking license (at least, not in a proper country where you can't just buy your way in).

And you would be wrong. The first stablecoin bank, backed by billionaires who backed trump, was just approved by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency after a rigorous two month review (that's sarcasm in case you missed it).

Supposedly this "bank" will have to adhere to money laundering rules, but as we've seen with other digital money, that goes out the window because who needs regulations.

People using PCs to be "productive" has long been the minority of PC users. Microsoft knows this and is always trying to optimize for the "what's a computer?" crowd. But they don't realize that the *demand* for PCs comes from people using them to do actual work, and for that we need a mouse and a keyboard.

I agree, but when you look at who's suggesting the name changes, and why, it's always based on "white people bad / black people good" and that's unfortunately as deep as their thinking goes.

You seem delusional, or you've never studied history.