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Comment Re:Perhaps I'm just unusual (Score 1) 53

A long time ago there were editors without plugins or extensions. I don't know if emacs lead the way using lisp to make it all extensible, but back in the day, it was a fantastic way to make your editor more of an IDE.

Once you've written thousands of lines of lisp code to make your editor/IDE just the way you like it, why would you change?

Comment Re:When I hear "Air Conditioning", I think COLDER. (Score 1) 160

In a refrigerator or air conditioner, heat from the warmed-up fluid would be dispersed in the environment, while the cooled fluid would serve to keep the interior or the room cold. For heating, the heat pump would cool down the external environment, extracting heat from it to be pumped into the building.

It's a standard heat pump that uses ceramics instead of compressors. Which is .. cool.

Comment Really!? (Score 4, Funny) 57

Are they planning on announcing, or are they just thinking about it? Because if they're really planning on announcing it then that's super huge news. But if they're just thinking about it then we should probably hold off until they're really planning on announcing that there is going to be a GTA VI some time in the future.

Wow. That'd be news indeed. But only if they're really planning on announcing.

Comment Re:It was an MG ZS EV (Score 1) 351

You're probably American.

I am! To be fair, I don't much follow cars (har har), and it coulda been any number of manufacturers here or abroad.

Mostly I was peeved that the summary didn't even mention.

Now that folks have pointed out that MG is the shadow of the old British car company, it does ring a bell. Cute little cars is my mind's image. This ain't that.

Submission + - With a New Commissioner, FCC Finally May Try to Reinstate Net Neutrality (gizmodo.com)

AsylumWraith writes: Gizmodo reports on the possibility of the FCC reinstating Net Neutrality:

"It’s been six years since internet service providers were granted a boon allowing them to push and pull the levers of internet speeds for any website that may not want to pay a ransom. The end to limitations of what is called net neutrality has tugged at the heartstrings of many internet advocates

According to unnamed sources who spoke to Bloomberg, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission is just about ready to announce plans to bring back net neutrality rules. It comes just a few weeks after Congress finally approved new commissioner Anna Gomez, allowing for a 3-2 Democrat majority on total FCC decision-making."

Comment Re:Nobody should be surprised (Score 1) 102

Fact is China is making huge numbers of EVs, selling a big and rapidly increasing % of EVs. And making cheap ones too. Easily an example India can follow.

China are adopting EVs so fast there was an article here the other day talking about peak oil in China already being reached.

I think the electrical infrastructure in China is actually better than that in India.

Comment Re:Subscriptions Were Cheaper (Score 1) 73

Uh, yes, you absolutely DO own the car. Nobody can come over to your house and take it away from you. And if you sell a car with FSD, yes, it transfers to the new owner, and as a result, used cars with FSD sell for more than equivalent cars without it (though it depreciates just like the rest of the car).

What you're talking about however is how if you sell the car to Tesla, they'll strip out FSD before they resell the car, in hopes that the new owner will pay full price for it. Which is certainly their prerogative, as they now own the car after they pay you, and can do whatever they want with it.

Those statements feel a little mushy. Whose car is it? Whose FSD is it? If I buy a Tesla with FSD then I can sell the car, but I can't just sell the FSD. Tesla gets to sell the car with or without the FSD and gets to also sell the FSD to whomever they like. For you and I, FSD is part of the car. For Tesla it's like a wheel upgrade. For you and I, it is absolutely NOT like a wheel upgrade.

And I'm not saying that's wrong or bad. But it is kind of new and weird.

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