So many purchases of non-physical items are a revocable license. There's a good chance they didn't use LaTex to create their court filing documents because that software too probably comes with a revocable license to use, not own.

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If you look at what company owns LinkedIn you will understand why it has gone to sh;t.

hint on who it is: Their headquarters are at One Microsoft Way, Redmond WA

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My bad, those were Telsa global delivery numbers, not US. For the US sales numbres:

Q1 Sales: 128,100 vehicles were sold and Q2 Sales: 143,535 vehicles were sold for a total of 271,635 which would mean a significant number of EVs were purchased from other vendors this year in the US. THAT's a big deal if you're a Tesla stock holder or employee.

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Obviously stated by someone who has never driven a modern EV. Because they have the torque of a turbo diesel, the speed of an LS8 and at more than 2x the energy conversion efficiency. They get ~300 miles on effectively the energy of 3 gallons of gasoline.

But, if you REALLY like driving snow plow looking vehicles becasue they look manly have at it. But don't judge until you've pinned yourself into the seat a few times in one of the many EVs on the market today.

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Google says Tesla sold Q1 2025, 336,681 vehicle deliveries and Q2 2025, 384,122 vehicles delivered.
I guess some of those could have been sold in 2024 but a full 100,000 unit difference and that's just Telsa so the 50,000 or so GM and Ford sold aren't even counted. Note, just guessing on the Ford and GM number since they are usually just a fraction of Tesla sales.

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I grew up down the street from her house. Went to the first Chuck E Cheese's across the street often.

Civilization didn't collapse due to her house. It wasn't even the first revision of her house (IIRC got leveled in the great SF earthquake) There's a lot of people that look at the Victorian adornments of her house as a sign we had civilization. Compared to the Soviet Bloc style housing we have going in today that has surrounded it, the Winchester house now looks out of place.

All kind of sad really. Town and Country was a beautiful shopping center. The trailer park next door provided low income housing, and the Styufy dome theatres looked straight out of a moonbase. Nothing is allowed to have exposed wood beams or rounded edges anymore.

THIS. WSL was designed for surveillance and tracking for marketing purposes. Remember what Monkey Boy said? Developers developers developers!

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And yet none of those were called "Windows Subsystem for _____"
The naming was designed to get hits and to confuse management. Developers were showing management what could be done with Linux for very little cost and getting approval for Linux systems to develop on. Windows Subsystem for Linux makes it sound like they can run Linux and still have access to Windows when it was bass ackwards. IMHO

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hmm, I thought it was because so many Windows devs were installing Linux on the hardware and writing their enterprise apps that way and therefore nothing was traceable. Even running Linux in a virtual machine eliminated Microsoft tracking except for how many times or how long the VM was run. WSL is a whole complete tracking system since it goes into kernel space. Not sure how much tracking WSL2 gives but it's gotta be far more than VMs or directly on the iron.

BTW, I've seen it personally where people will jump through hoops to get a project working within WSL rather than boot a full Linux system on the hardware.
I've also seen many give up and either install another SSD or partition to dual boot.
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Today I was looking at an AI Asian woman on Facebook. She had a whole page setup of her in various outfits, and I am not kidding I was having a difficult time discerning if she was real or fake. It wasn't until I went to her profile and saw all the videos was I able to tell the difference. Even here, I'm using a "She" pronoun, when it should be an "IT" pronoun, because it is not human.

No joke though, the realism and attractiveness was just.. off the scale. I'm not one of those guys into Waifu anime, hug body pillows, etc. I'm married, got kids, I'm older and I've been in tech a long time. I removed myself from my emotions for a minute to examine what was happening, and I closed the page.

If AI visually can do this to me, a guy with a 138 IQ that has been on this site forever, can usually discern if these things are real or fake, imagine what happens when these things are talking to people of lower IQ, coupled with realtime voice chat and response, programmed to understand your likes and interactions on facebook, to get you the perfect group of attractive friends, that treat you like the center of the universe.

Or worse yet, overlayed on the actual people you interact with on a daily basis. Like "Mudd's Women" from Star Trek TOS or Pike in "The Cage" Slapping on some Meta Quest glasses so everyone you meet and interact with is attractive... for only $99.99 a month.

Zuck isn't stupid, the population is. People will be throwing money at this if he gets it right.

Screw em, just make VS Code forks act like what the extension needs.

They still want their cake and to eat it too.
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Even that 2 seater is only going to get a few miles of added range after many hours of sitting in the sun so it's just not worth the effort.
They had to curve the panels to the body shape, wire them in and get that wired into the battery to put charge into it. The weight alone probably negates the added range.

They really need to get off the gimmick train and start showing how they produce those in quantity and at a profit. And to heck with the 400 mile range goal, get something together with 300+ miles of range and get it on the road in numbers. It's already a pretty small battery so it should charge rather quickly.

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If after 93, you couldn't see where the world was headed, you weren't paying attention.

I was 20 in 93, my first ISP was PSI-Net and prior to that it was Fidonet strung together by BBS's. People were already sharing news articles via Fidonet mirrors of NNTP servers. Granted, there was no URL share button, and they were retyping stuff word for word, but they did it. By 93 however people were starting to take scans and images as well.

Fast forward to 1995, when a lot of my friends were graduating SJSU. A few of my closest friends got degrees in print. It was interesting watching and comparing our career trajectories. When I was a young man, my family and their families were so proud of them. "Oh so and so does LAYOUT for the Mercury NEWS!" "So and so does PHOTOGRAPHY for Wave Magazine!" When attention turned to me it was, "MIS? What is that?" While I struggled at first to get my footing in MIS, they were hired right away by local newspapers or magazines, but slowly their careers petered out, and mine is still raging.

I now work for one of the largest IT departments in the world, making great money. A few of them stopped trying to find jobs in journalism, one went to work for the local equivalent of a Kinkos.

Ironically their parents carry computers in their pockets.

If you're young, like I was, and you don't want to become obsolete, don't look at jobs and say, "Oh I like the idea of this, that is what I want to do!" No.. Look at what is being used as building blocks in the world. You want to work with the building blocks, not what comes after the construction. Right now? It looks like AI is huge. GPU design is HUGE. Quantum is going to be the next building block after. Get into quantum.

When C++ and OOP were starting to go strong I met a guy showing a desktop environment for Linux called Gnome. When I asked about what was great about it he said it was like object-like. Now I'd run UNIX, DOS, Windows, Solaris, HPUX and OS/2 and CORBA was starting to spread its wings too so I didn't get why someone on a *nix platform wouldn't be doing full blown OOP. So I quizzed him more and he went off on how much like Microsoft's COM, and possibly DCOM it was. He clearly held Microsoft up on a pedestal. I don't recall if I'd said anything in return but I walked away thinking why on earth would this guy be copying stuff Microsoft was doing when more often than not it was inferior to what corporate America was working on and always has been a reaction to far superior technologies.

That guy was Miguel de Icaza and the rest is well documented. I wouldn't touch .Nyet with a 20' pole on purpose and the couple of times I did have to touch it, it broke. So many resources wasted.

Wine should not have taken on the project. And from the other comments, the one dev on the project is over his/her head.

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The hugh ivanpah concentrated solar generation plant is being shut down because solar PV and batteries can do better faster cheaper. People are buying solar and batteries for their homes and not using anything from the grid. People are charging EVs from solar and EVs are well over 80% efficient compared to gasoline based cars, trucks and SUVs at around 20% efficient.

The writing's on the wall and investors want their profits now while they can and have some time to sell before the floor falls out. There's less than 10 years in the oil stocks.

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