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Comment Re: Exported deflation (Score 1) 163

Colleague of mine bought a young 2nd hand VW EV (ID 5 if I remember well), in Luxembourg from a VW dealer and drove it to his home in Belgium. Very nice car, and it was priced very attractively. Looks big enough inside for you and your family. Similarly spacious as my Y.

Comment doesn't have to be bad (Score 1) 218

I thought the same about brand specific UIs before I got my Y. But must be said that I don't really miss CarPlay in it. The Y has a nice UI that is more sophisticated than the CarPlay UI. Yes I do play a little per month for connectivity, but not much really, and it allows me to see live traffic conditions in the gps or play my music and podcasts even if I don't have my phone with me.

Comment More interesting and surprising: the designers (Score 1) 131

Surprisingly, it will not be a Pininfarina design, rather Ferrari asked...
Marc Newson and Jony Ive's Lovefrom!
These are celebrated designers, however they have to my knowledge never designed a car.
It looks like Ferrari really wanted to have a blue sky approach for this important new car.

About the sound: check a YouTube test of the Lotus Evija EV hypercar. It sounds like a jetfighter engine, without fake sound generation. I can imagine Ferrari being able to design a cool sound for their car.

Submission + - SWIFT launches a global financial blockchain (reuters.com)

Camembert writes: In a move that is sure to make Ripple nervous, traditional financial network Swift announced yesterday that it is partnering with Consensys and more than 30 global banks to build a blockchain based network that will run in parallel with its traditional network. Interestingly, unlike XRP, there is no native coin, rather it aims for interoperability (probably using Chainlink with whom the company did case studies for a few years already). There is also a strong focus on regulatory compliance. There are several news articles and opinion pieces on this event, I linked the Reuters article.

Comment Use it sometimes for work (Score 1) 248

I needed to do a few presentations on technical topics the last few months.
The last time I thought, let's see if Chatgpt has some extra suggestions on the topic. I gave it the text of my presentation. It answered, "your presentation is already reasonably well structured, and I will make the text flow a bit better" - being not native English I appreciated the edits; and then it suggested some extra slides as I had asked. I checked with chatgpt and using google on these; and found them niche yet quite well spotted, even if not always all that important for my exact goals. I did use some of that material.
On the previous topic, I had more urgent things to do and was not so interested in making that presentation, it was just a job, so I asked a detailed question, it gave me the text of a presentation, and I kept refining my query over a few more iterations. In the end it came with a pretty ok presentation, with some errors present. I went through every slide, sometimes correcting here and there, sometimes dropping a slide or adding one. I had a reasonable presentation in 2h that would have taken me a good day.
Based on this experience I find it a great productivity enhancer, IF you read its output critically and accept that you will need to do some error correction.

Comment Re:"fighting to secure one of the limited spots" (Score 1) 27

>> It sounds like they need more universities.

They are apparently working on that.
check the table
https://journals.sagepub.com/d...
And google AI summarised (though I couldn't quickly check if fully correct): "China adds around 100 to 200 new universities each year, primarily focusing on expanding capacity and improving the quality of higher education. The total number of higher education institutions in China has seen significant growth in recent decades, reaching 3,074 in 2023. "
Top universities are expanding enrolment:
https://www.globaltimes.cn/pag...
https://www.reuters.com/world/...

In 2021 in Guangdong (Shenzhen is that province), they were opening 11 more universities. But might have been difficult to fill in teacher positions on time.
https://www.universityworldnew...

Comment Hypercard could have been basis of internet (Score 1) 53

Steve Jobs made a lot of good future-oriented decision for the first Mac. But he didn't build in networking from the start, which eh later acknowledged was an oversight.
Similarly, Hypercard was a fascinating single user experience for hyperlinked content. I did some early hobby programming on it and was impressed how you could make something cool with it. But imagine if it would have offered seamless connection to other hypercard stacks on remote computers from the beginning, it could have changed the way we see the internet.
Atkinson was indeed a genius... MacPaint, Quickdraw routines, Hypercard. Impressive!

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