This isn't news. Tesla has had thermal regulation in place for a long time and they even allow you to set a departure time so that it climatizes not only the cabin, but the batteries, before you leave. Ideally, you would do this while plugged in so it draws from your mains power, but it is still better to do this off battery than not at all because it is only pulling current for climatization instead of trying to do that and drive at the same time.

AI is managing its descent.

I came here to say the same thing. Perhaps any pleasurable scent would yield positive benefits. Maybe that is the key. That means it could be highly personal to anyone.

"AI" does not need to be used as often as possible. This is having seriously diminishing returns, at this point. There are kiosks and mobiles apps handling an ever growing portion of orders. For drive-thru, they could literally consolidate order taking in a call center (many have, perhaps even Taco Bell). Investing in "AI" handling it isn't going to yield returns at that point... especially as the actual costs for running these starts to be shifted to the customers more and more (no longer being subsidized by the not-so-endless pool of VC capital).

I get the sentiment some people have over this entire platform supporting a negative narrative. It is disgusting and it is BS.

On the other hand... this entire tyranny online of doxxing people for any minor infraction, deemed by some dumb haxor bitches personality, is worse.

Seriously? Decades of promoting solar power... and now that it has some good support and adoption, you want to blot out the sky? Sounds like some evil psychopaths.

Correct. They applying for financial aid, usually via identity theft. They get signed up and stay long enough to get the excess financial paid out, then they leave. Community colleges are rather inexpensive compared to others.

Directly reduces energy costs? I'm a fan of Energy Star... but it doesn't directly do anything. Manufacturers have to make appliances that meet standards and consumers have to actively choose those appliances. Those are the two direct actions. Energy Star accomplishes anything it does indirectly.

Seriously, if they want to be able to rug pull... fine! Quit buying their garbage. They'll wise up in a hurry.

Boy, I thought I had a smart contribution, like "Nah, capitalism will solve it if you can get the Republicans out of the way." You had the hot take, though.

We've been sending money to the telecoms for decades to ensure that there is adequate infrastructure for rural populations. It was done for telephones and Internet. Those telcos had adequate means to build out the infrastructure by blanketing it with 4G/5G service. Go ahead, drive down the highway and exit in a rural area... keep going 3-4 miles away from the highway... your service will be useless. That service could be used with home hotspots to deliver speeds in the broadband range (they already do offer these services... they just wouldn't work in these rural communities).

Now that there is a viable alternative that could actually deliver on the purpose of these funds, we can't do it because you don't like the person that would benefit from it?

I mean, I don't like the subsidies to begin with, but this is lunacy.

Those kids need some reality. I say we all become activists to have him reinstated. If he actually isn't good at the job, then we fire him for that. It will set the record straight about why he is fired. Being fired because of emotions is stupid.

This.

If they can promise big for 5 years from now, their bonuses and pay for the next 1-3 years stand a better chance of looking nice while they search for the next CEO role.

People think they know what should happen and want to use the government as a weapon. Well, you get some "know-nothings" making decisions and stupid things happen.

I love how ridiculous all of the anti-trust stuff has happened over these past few decades. They finally want to take action against Google when their dominance is faltering. The LLM tools, and specifically NOT Google's because it sucks, are implementing better search than search engines and people are using them. So... they don't have a monopoly. A monopoly is not just some party being the dominant (even if by a vast majority) or a long time. It is that they are actively trying to prevent others from entering the space and being successful at it. The main issue has been that others just haven't been able to make a quality product, until this year. Sure, they have done things to try and direct people to their search engine, but it has never been tedious to get around that. You can literally just type a different URL... the other search engines have even purchased advertising so that there is awareness. Influencers on YouTube (another Google property) promote other search engines for purposes like privacy, and more. When you use them, they offer up recommendations for making them your default search engine.

The argument is stupid. And I am not being some apologist for Google. I haven't used their search engine as my default for years. I don't use Chrome. I avoid Google services because I don't like their privacy practices and I think that they're hypocritical with their "do no evil" statement. I do not like Google. This is just a stupid thing on its face.

Right, a "bootloader". Because when it failed... it returned to a DOS prompt.