Forgot your password?
typodupeerror

Comment Re:over 40 million ICE on the UK roads (Score 1) 117

One thing that can change the dynamic is if new cars become so cheap we treat them like disposable appliances.

That's already true, really. Most autos are woefully undermaintained. They're not generally designed to be affordable to fix.

But would disposable cars be a good development for the environment?

No, there are portions of the vehicle which aren't recycled, most of what's not recyled is plastic, the faster you churn the more waste there is. And recycling isn't free either.

Comment Re:I can't either (Score 1) 58

I'm sympathetic to the issue and not averse to the stories but salon.com actually ceased to function as a general news and politics site.

What a coincidence! Our nation has ceased to function as it has turned its focus to abuse of minorities as a distraction from enriching the worst people on the planet!

Comment Re: Uhh... Cool? (Score 1) 92

Shorthand should be something that other people actually use, and save significant space, not just be something you made up because you think it makes you look cool. It not only does the exact opposite, it actually makes the text less readable. It's no different from the hipsters who put their text in tt because it looks old timey.

Comment Re:I keep hearing this but (Score 1) 92

The LLM doesn't copy the code in any way during training.

That doesn't matter. The code is used in creating the LLM, and the LLM is used in creating the work, and the standard for a derivative work is whether it contains substantial recognizable elements. Exactly how that applies to LLM output hasn't been determined yet. Therefore there remains a risk that original copyrights will be held to apply to LLM output. The LLM itself might even be considered to be part of the work, and vice versa.

Comment Re:Goodbye.... (Score 1) 117

Japan, for various reasons (including extreme promotion by Toyota) is still much more focused on hybrids.

They don't have the power for EVs. They already have shortages and these have been exacerbated by Trump's child rape distraction war. They'd have to do grid upgrades and build more plants and dump the imported fuels into them, and this would cost a lot and increase pollution. They haven't gone all in on EVs because they won't work at home. This has been a big mistake though, as they are ceding the international market to China.

Comment Re: Another day, another baseless headline (Score 1) 117

Yes, but that makes this headline typically bullshit:

Electric Cars Are Close to Overtaking Petrol In the UK, Data Shows

An accurate headline would look like this:

Electric Car Sales Are Close to Overtaking Petrol In the UK, Data Shows

Either they deliberately ran with a misleading headline in order to troll people into writing more comments, or they're incompetent idiots, or both.

Comment Re:Poor statistics. What does this even mean? (Score 1) 117

If 37% of cars are "gas" and 32% are "electric" what are the remaining cars? Are you classing diesel as an entirely different species?

That's how it's normally done. They run on a very different fuel with a very different combustion cycle.

I would like to see internal combustion vs. hybrid vs. electric. Or just list all the segments, because the information here is so fragmentary.

The companies which collect it generally want you to pay for that information.

Comment Re: Uhh... Cool? (Score 1) 92

Because the AI is claimed to be washing away copyrights. It's creating code that cannot be copyrighted and therefore can be closed and hidden away and the benefits go to the corporations. Then you have to reverse engineer it again to benefit from it.

If it can wash away copyrights then it's stealing.

If it can't then it's still stealing.

Slashdot Top Deals

The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side. -- James Baldwin

Working...