China has technical superiority in a number of areas. Not across the board, but in enough things that we should care. Battery technology is the primary example. Solar panel technology, they may not lead the world, but they certainly lead the US. Manufacturing of small items, they are years out ahead of us, we gave that up, we can only cost effectively build large items now.

That's how they became the #1 place to make those things, which in turn is how they became #1 in technology to make those things. They copied their way to understanding the tech. That saved them a lot of time and money. Now they lead in several areas. Pretending otherwise is foolish. A lot of goods sold around the world are now not only manufactured in China, they are designed there as well. Corporations in other countries are buying complete goods, not just parts, and having their logos put on them.

The blind do not want or need to be paying for a display they can't use. The non-display parts of the functionality may be compelling, but they need the device to speak to them, not to show them pictures they cannot see. Who fucking writes this shit?

It was, of course, fucking shit. And it was extremely non-obvious how to do it. It wasn't in the kind of obvious location that it's in now.

Frankly, it could still be more obvious.

Rendering from memory to the framebuffer is trivial. Decoding the video takes processing time, probably on the GPU these days. Otherwise you have to keep the whole uncompressed video in memory. For a short loop that might be viable, except that resolutions have been trending upwards over time, so the memory needed for that has been as well. Most non-gamers still have 16GB RAM or less so this is still an issue. It's smarter to do live backgrounds as animations using pixel shaders, then the power consumption is much lower. This is what's done on cellphones where this feature is used with "live backgrounds" and such. Shaders are cheap and there's no video decoding so it doesn't use CPU or GPU much, and it also doesn't need much memory.

You are 100% wrong. The Uber business plan has always been to shift to self-driving vehicles ASAP, and to use humans only until that is feasible. He is planning to cause a problem, not to have a problem.

Some of us understand how it works, you simply aren't among them, which is weird because I can see from your comment that you have all the puzzle pieces.

VCs are selling out our future by being unwilling to invest in anything without short-term returns. That means fundamental R&D expenditures get cut, and mass layoffs happen every year. The best and brightest leave for greener pastures, and the technology stagnates.

How can you understand this and yet not understand what it causes to happen?

Why do you think that climate change doesn't have political ramifications?

"Maybe you just suck at it. Coding with AI assistance is a learned skill"

How do you get the software to not hallucinate functions or even entire libraries which do not exist at all? Even in writing a very small shell script the software makes these kinds of error, and then some more, like hallucinating flags and arguments which do not exist either.

Without GPS you need to use more visual clues. Using even very primitive computers you can follow visual landmarks. Yes there would be an adjustment but it won't stop drones.

If my costs fell, I'd be willing to decrease my salary, but no more than by the same amount, and also possibly less depending on how my finances were doing.

I WfH 4 days and this saves me 300/mo in fuel costs alone. But even with that my compensation is poor, so I'm not willing to take a cut.

That is literally not what this story is about. This is about China having technical superiority in a number of industries. This is an expected result of our allowing vulture capitalists to own everything, since they don't care about the future.

Factually, it is something being done to counter racism. But racists like you are allergic to facts.

He said a lot of stupid shit but not many of us are racist enough to latch onto it and make it part of our identities.

Oh look, whoever you are. Nobody knows you.

And American cars were still shit. If you RTFA I linked you'll see that the best of the 90s and 2000s were not what was destroyed.

Now go off to cry to someone else about your tiny penis, you will not be missed.

We never finished the first one. The losers were allowed to keep their flags and their guns. Instead of trying to be one big happy country we should have freed all the Africans and enslaved the Southerners, since they love slavery so much. Then we could have them picking fruit right now.