They're modding you down because it's beyond stupid.

- There is no such thing as zero emissions ICE. A combustion reaction, by definition, yields water and carbon dioxide at the very least, with the sole exception of hydrogen, which is just water. However, hydrogen fuel cell is NOT combustion, it's done using reduction to get a more direct conversion to electricity by shedding electrons.
- Tire particulates are heavier than air, which means they can't contribute to smog in any meaningful capacity. Furthermore, this is also a solvable problem, both in theory and in practice, namely through materials science. The tires on my Tesla will outlast the tires on your sister's Pinto, without even needing thicker tread, with the added benefit of yielding better range. This comes mostly from reduced rolling resistance. And that's to say nothing of recent developments expected to reduce if not eliminate the use of petrochemicals in tires.
- People who one-pedal drive, which is most EV drivers, barely use their brakes at all, with some having had their breaks seize up from literally not using them enough.

My guess is you don't use Cursor very much if a $20 monthly subscription is enough for your needs. I still run into limits with Anthropic's $200 per month (I have 13% of my weekly allotment left with 13 hours left in the week), and I just use it as a hobbyist. Even though I am a very active hobbyist, I still can't imagine someone using these tools even 10 hours a week on just a $20 per month plan.

At least it's not more Star Wars slop.

Who do you know that was trained on stuff that will happen in the future?

Oh... really?

So all those .mbox, .eml, and .emlx files I have both on my Time Machine drive and in my Backblaze account are what... exactly? Figments of my imagination? Well, I must have that Twilight Zone superpower where my imagination becomes real. Because I can most definitely retrieve and view those files and the access mail that is in them. Or... perhaps the air in the room I'm in is filled with atomized LSD and ketamine vapor and even the ability to retrieve and view my backups is also a figment of my imagination?

Do tell... oh great guru of what is and is not possible to back up on Apple kit.

Since about the mid 2010's trolls have been winning too often. Cults based on morons are forming. Morongeddon.

So many really wanted the Musk vs. Zuck cage match. Too late? Is there a "both lose" betting category?

It will have a "Bible Mode" to toggle between definitions.

I guess entertaining villains are better than boring villains.

Hayes' real problem was that clones got cheaper, as they usually do. Hayes tried to stay ahead of the curve by making ever faster modems, but when the ISP ceiling that you mentioned hit, they couldn't use that curve anymore, and were stuck competing on price alone, the clones' forte. The premature "56" model mistake was just icing on the death cake.

China's R&D into EV's has paid off and now they are the lowest-cost-producer and have the most EV IP. China even invested in factory robots, making it hard for Japan to compete on labor costs by using robots.

Yes, the Chinese gov't subsidized much of the R&D, but it appears to have worked.

Detroit is also probably F'd. They can live on gasoline laurels for a few decades, but will probably gradually shrink. Most small cars will be EV such that gas stations will gradually close shop, making gas cars ever less practical. (Diesel might be slower to fade.)

The US is putting up big trade barriers to Chinese EV's right now, but that can't last forever, because when Americans see how cheap EV's are getting in the rest of the world, they will be frustrated with high car prices at home. EV's are cheaper to manufacture because they have about half the parts of an equivalent ICE engine. The batteries have been the bottleneck of costs, but get roughly 5% to 10% cheaper every year.

Sorry gas lovers, but gas looks doomed. Detroit & Japan have a hard road ahead, pun half intended.

Chips and storage are getting more expensive, reversing Moore's-Law-like trends. I know, technically that's not the definition, but the "feel" is a reversal of the usual gradual price drops per unit of computing or storage over time.

Eroom's Law: Bubbles f$ck things up.

Dude you're getting excited over one-off's when the hard part with batteries is producing them at scale. None of this even sounds that spectacular. Here's a great example of why:

https://insideevs.com/news/771...

I don't know why you think sodium ion is great for EVs given its theoretical maximum energy density is lower than what we're already getting out of lithium, and they haven't even reached that yet.

I believe Tesla is already well ahead of them on dry-cells, which they're already producing at scale and are in production model Ys already on the road, far ahead of a trade show demo. And they're still going to get more energy density out of them than they already are. Right now the problem is energy loss, which can be improved as the manufacturing process is improved. They should eventually be able to deliver on what was originally promised, just not in the time scale originally thought. Like I said, manufacturing them at scale is the hard part.

And Tesla is already selling $29,000 cars that do everything you're talking about and more. By that I mean, the Chinese made model 3 premium is selling for exactly that price in Canada.

No trade barriers without having to fuck with US politicians means competitive pricing. Who would have thought? And then you guys wonder why cars sold here are so expensive while you cheer on the CCP. Get rid of the Detroit automakers and the UAW and watch how fast shit changes here. They're more entrenched and complacent than a socialist dictator. The fact that literally everybody EXCEPT that corrupt bunch is able to deliver a profitable EV says a lot about just how bad they are. The Detroit three and the UAW deserve each other. It was funny how Biden joined the picket line completely oblivious to the fact that they've been lobbying hard against EVs while part of his platform was promoting them. The last thing they want are cars that require less labor to build and less labor to maintain. The last thing the Detroit automakers want are cars that are harder to plan obsolescence around. And despite Trump killing off every last incentive for EVs while leaving in place oil subsidies and lowering emissions standards, Tesla is STILL gaining market share while STILL being profitable.

As for that 800,000km battery, I'm curious if that reflects real world usage. Did they even say how old it is? The reason I say that is because very high mileage battery Tesla's are all quite old. I believe the current highest is 500,000km on a 7 year old model X, and it's still doing well. And that's 7 year old battery tech, which is missing out on a lot of improvements since then.

What you obviously don't understand about EV batteries is they spend most of their lives between 80 and 90 percent of the original capacity. Even with very little use, they'll lose more than the first 10% within the first year. Just like cars themselves, how long batteries last is not about "how much they're used" so much as "how they're used". Having it on the road is a lot different than putting it though 800,000km worth of charge/discharge cycles, or even putting that many miles on a track.

That and the whole fact that so much BS in general comes from China. Tesla has regained market share there, which I think is less due to any changes at Tesla or BYD, and more due to the fact that so many EVs in China were "registered" and "sold" to literally nobody over the last few years. Google the "zero mileage used car" for more details.

Only if you say it's OK elsewhere.

To train an LLM during flight.