PRC's NEV industry is only slightly younger than Tesla, and has been a "strategic sector" in CCP parlance almost from the start.

You have no idea what you're talking about. Ask your favorite LLM to tell you about history of Chinese NEV industry.

You're almost certainly right, because we don't know how current teenagers are going to turn out as young adults.

Frankly only one thing is all but certain. They won't be like us. They'll be something different, something new, something that is a reflection of the world they were raised in.

And that is nothing like worlds that boomers, x'ers, millenials or zoomers were raised in.

Unfortunately sensitivity to degradation is an inherent disadvantage of density when it comes to magnetic and flash memory mediums beyond a certain point.

It's like running an MLC SSD in SLC mode. It will remain readable far longer after being disconnected from power, because there's a much wider tolerance for voltage shift.

The actual reality.

The reason why their cars don't last is the reason why their sales are high. They're selling cheap cars that last less than a decade in normal use, and then they get to sell another new car.

Cheaper Chinese models intended for domestic market often don't even have galvanic rust protection. They become rust buckets in just a few years in wet regions. And almost all of PRC's rich areas are in fact wet.

But even for more expensive models, UV exposure makes plastic come apart after a few years, and breakages begin around the same time. You're supposed to buy a new one at this point. In PRC, there's a reason why there are new EVs and older ICE cars, but there are almost no old EVs other than Teslas. They don't last, because they're not supposed to last. They're supposed to break down and look like shit after a few years, so you get a new one.

I don't think you want to make any claims about UK trains being "proper".

At least not until you try them out.

This is on the level of saying that "US projects housing is really nice for aspiring 19 year old white college girls to live in". Don't say this nonsense until you see what you're talking about.

The irony is that this reveals you to be the "old internet user" who's used to "people on the internet" being different from "people I know in real life".

For younger internet users, there is little difference. Internet is where they interact with schoolmates, work colleagues, friends, teammates, etc. They see people like you and I as "these weird boomers who think internet isn't full of real people".

Meanwhile interest based groups are reasonably localized. I know something like 75-80% of people in most of those, and have met them face to face at least once. Same goes for those massive snapchat/whasapp/discord/etc groups. While some are international, for most of the young people these have in fact replaced bars, gentlemen's clubs, book reading circles, bowling alleys, etc social gatherings. They're the normal place where they socialize with friends and acquaintances now. And these old ones are slowly withering and dying as youngsters don't see a reason to go to a bar to meet up with friends any more.

What happened to "AI factories"?

Also, it would seem that they have overhired on PR people, if they're this desperate for something to do.

Small "we focus on interest X, we retain with comment sections and we monetize through ads" websites got killed a decade ago by facebook that centralized that model to their site. If you want to do basket weaving or local HEMA re-enactment group or anything in between in your area, your state, your nation, etc, there's a facebook group for that now. That is vastly superior in connecting people and generating good articles that aforementioned websites ever were, which is why facebook won.

Then reddit killed the actual forums in the exact same way. It's both better and more convenient to have a centralized depository for everything, with common interface and rule set from perspective of 95% of users (I pulled that number out of my ass, but you know exactly what I mean).

What's left is mostly various wikis, and similar "we provide information" websites. Those are getting hammered by AI being able to answer faster and better than having to go through a wiki for a few minutes for that specific interest you're looking for. This is notably why google is losing profitability. It's bread and butter was monetizing the search that found those sites, and then monetizing their ad stream through google ads that were common on such sites. Today, google's AI search is better at answering those questions (not to mention just asking questions of other popular models), but on top of that if your AI answer to the question being asked is on point and answers the question user is searching the answer for... you don't get to monetize it nearly as well.

But the hilarity is that internet is more alive than ever. It has more actual users than ever, as older generations who don't use it are dying out, while newer generations basically live their entire lives on the internet the way older ones couldn't even imagine. But with people being more and more able to specifically select for their more and more specialized and narrow interests, those of us used to much broader communities with broader interests are left with a feeling that everyone is gone.

Meanwhile every football guy and every party girl is in fifty snapchat/whatsapp/discord/etc groups that have to be muted because otherwise the phone wouldn't stop going off with notifications from other people in those groups talking.

A small percentage of a few billion people is a big problem.

Yes, regardless of whether their name is Muhammed or Breivik.

Why not here? Because for starters, humanism isn't a religion (and I say that as a humanist). It's a philosophical stance within atheism. And atheism is the absence of religion** (it's literally right there in the name), not a religion. You can't claim "religious" exemptions as an atheist. What this person actually wants is a philosophical exemption, akin to, say, a vegetarian wanting an exemption from having to cook meat at a restaurant or whatnot.

** - Well, except for those atheists who worship Athe.

Yeah, nothing insular about the Amish.

(Oh wait...)

Headline from 1845.

Agreed. If you don't know what you're doing it's hard to even ask for the right thing or know what's possible. For example: I'm currently developing a system that uses a local AI to help debug internal issues. The initial incarnations of it were very slow to start up each command; clearly, it wasn't doing proper KV caching and was having to prefill every turn; it required patches on the llama.cpp fork and our API wrapper, and also adjusting the system prompt to keep variable content at the end. But if you have no idea about KV caching issues, how do you even know something is wrong with the backend, let alone what to tell the AI to fix? You'll end up deciding you need to upgrade the GPU instead.

(That said: "lovingly handcrafted" code is a hilarious phrase that should give any developer who's ever worked on a big corporate software project the giggles, and also, these software devs are clearly people angry at knowing they're going to be let go looking for revenge by badmouthing their boss to the press)

Google's fundamentals are web ads on its search.

AI search is more relevant and popular than ever, whereas web search results are less and less so. And AI search is proving to be less monetizable than web search.

Ergo, fundamentals have changed. More monetizable search is slowly getting deprecated, whereas less monetizable one is replacing it everywhere.

Escape from Pluto is much easier, and the Pluto-Charon distance is 1/20th of the Earth-Moon distance.