Palantir's owner (Thiel) is guilty of capital crimes in Saudi Arabia. A great country for him to visit!

People with autism are generally OK with the general pattern recognition. It's very typical to not be able to subsconsciously read _emotions_ from facial expressions.

I like the idea of a Basic Attention Token that can be sold and bought. Each site visit can result in a transfer of a slice of your daily attention token to the site owner. And you can _receive_ tokens by watching ads in turn.

But this has to work globally and _without_ any whiff of cryptoshit. So it's not happening.

They should have just reduced their MAFIA-like cut to something reasonable, like 5%. Then there would have been no real incentive to integrate third-party payment systems.

Yeah. Apple sends these developers free Mac Pro stations yearly, and pays each one of them at least $100 per year so they would develop for Apple.

And Apple also give away phones to consumers, for free!

Those damned squatter developers. Apple is doing everything for them, and the ungrateful bastards don't want to shell out a mere 30% of their gross income!

Apple sent an email saying that the restrictions are lifted in the US. The injunction doesn't apply to Europe. But Europe is annoyed by Apple side-stepping the DMA, so Apple is likely to just abandon the Apple Store restrictions everywhere.

To oversimplify a bit: you need _one_ person to write matmul for your chip, and you're done. The entire source code for something like DeepSeek starting from raw GPU instructions can probably fit well within 50kb of source code.

It's not a conjecture. Here's one attempt to do that with AMD GPUs, it really does everything starting from command submission: https://github.com/tinygrad/ti...

It's not. The total uranium cost through the entire lifetime of a nuclear power plant is around 1-2% of the initial construction costs.

Mirror housing might actually be stamped steel. Bumpers are by design not load-bearing and are meant to crumble in a collision. And them falling off because the clip attachments fail due to vibration is _the_ most common mechanical problem with car bodies.

Oh, I don't doubt that the panels can last for 3-5 years. The average age of cars in the US is now around 13 years, though. I don't see how they can last that long.

Why? There are plenty of people doing things like mail delivery on Teslas. They can rack up a lot of mileage pretty quickly.

The _average_ age of cars on the US roads is 13 years: https://www.spglobal.com/mobil... You are seriously underestimating how well the modern cars are made. Even Teslas.

Car electronics are usually tougher than most industrial electronics. That's why they are so pricey.

Exterior materials typically don't really bear any mechanical loads, apart from occasional wind load. In places where they have to do that, plastic typically performs worse than alternatives. E.g. vinyl floor panels wear out faster than hardwood. Building materials are also far less weight-constrained compared to cars.

So I'm not at all optimistic about the composite panels. I like the rest of the design, though. I'd also add 48V electric system to make the truck more future-proof.

If you're driving as a part of your job, it's not unreasonable to do several times more than that. Or even if you're driving for fun. My 5-year old Tesla Model 3 has 150000 miles on the odometer.

Plenty of industrial electronics can last that long.

Composite panels have been tried multiple times, and they are a bad idea. Affordable composites can't tolerate vibration, moisture, and temperature extremes. They fairly quickly become brittle and/or delaminate. Of course, carbon fiber composites exist, but then your car's price will approach that of a small airplane.

On the other hand, if you are comfortable with just dumping the car's body panels every couple of years, then it might be OK. But I'm personally not at all enthused with increasing amount of plastic waste.

It requires around 700kW of power. The already installed Tesla V4 chargers can go up to 350kW and the new ones should go up to 500kW. The standard technically allows up to 1MW.