When I see trucks, the ones that most need to be replaced are the local ones - the ones with the 53' trailer delivering Corona to the corner Circle K. They get terrible mileage doing start/stops every block in the city, they pollute where the pollution is already greatest, and their fully-loaded acceleration away from a light is pitiful. Using an ET (Electric Truck?) for these kinds of deliveries would be great - they accelerate smoothly and quickly, they regenerate when braking so range should be great, and they don't pollute locally. When a truck finishes deliveries, it goes back to the depot - where a charger can be waiting for it.

If Tesla had focused on this market first, rather than the long-haul market, life would have been easier. You don't have to site Megachargers around the country - you only have to site them at the Pepsi distribution center. You don't have to have 500 miles of range.

Oh, well, Musk has proven himself to be a lot smarter than me a lot of times, so I guess I'll give him the benefit of the doubt here.

So looks like AI is taking over everything, every platform, every product, every service, every job, it's a plague, a virus, a disease of some sort and apparently there is no cure, someone is always pushing it. Is it AI that is pushing AI?

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    20% Overrated /. has long become a voting system for political opinions that the moderators agree or disagree with, 'Troll' or 'Overrated' means that they disagree with the opinion, yet the opinion is a fact in this case. It is a fact that taxes are introduced by majority voting to take something away from a minority. It is a fact that income taxes were introduced only to tax the top earners and it was 1% for incomes of 3000USD and over, 6% for incomes of half a million and over, it is a fact that can be independently confirmed.

The opinion in this case is that such behavior is confiscation and that it is not a sound foundation for the economy and that eventually these taxes expand to the rest of the population because this is how taxes work.

So I wonder is it the fact or is it the opinion that the /. moderates here? Neither facts, nor opinions are a way to troll anyone, if we mark everything that we disagree with as 'troll' then there is no discourse at all.

So are you saying that a large number of people ganging together to take possession of property that is already owned by a small number of people is a fair way to run society, fair way to tax people, just invent new "taxes" on the fly on property that has been taxed already or that hasn't been sold yet, so there is no transaction, no money exchanging hands? Is THAT how "happy places" operate? Is that a sustainable path towards happiness?

This is just property confiscation, I understand that poorer people do not care about wealthier people paying anything, that's how taxes and subsidies are pushed through in the first place. However call it what it is - it is confiscation of private property. As a side note, the so called 'income tax' also started as a wealthy people's tax. It was 1% and it was only applicable to a small fraction of the population who were earning over 3000 dollars a year or so and 6% of additional tax on incomes above 500,000USD, which was a tiny number of a small fraction of people.

You can go ahead and figure out what happened to that idea of only taxing 1% of a tiny number of people over the last 113 years without my help.

I've been wondering for a while what the steganography potential for AI generated music might be.

The photo side is awesome. Video is more awesome. Hide a whole movie in a movie you can.

If I have 50,000 AI generated songs in my albums, am I ever going to be asked to provide decryption keys?

You know, 'cause it doesn't sound quite right?

Like SETI. uuuggghh..... Like disco.

Where's a cryptography geek when you need one.

I've certainly never formatted removable media in NTFS. That sounds like a way to make your life more difficult than necessary.

Because programmers are prissy little ******* who want things exactly their way (remember, I are one too), and Linux is based on a 50 year old concept of how an operating system should be. So, there's tons of improvements and changes that can be made to the Unix baseline to bring the system up to 2020's expectations. But anytime you give 100 passionate people open source that needs lots of changes, you end up with 110 different sets of changes. Plus, you have completely disparate sets of users (Developers, Home users, Internet operations, Datacenters, etc) who have orthogonal use cases, so there is a constant tension between changes that are good for one group vs. changes that are good for another.

Microsoft can have one person in charge of the direction of Windows, balancing the needs (for better or worse) and delivering a product that's mediocre but consistent for all users. Linux has two dozen or more major distributions, and the winner is chosen by a convoluted process involving people dying or getting married or burning out or changing jobs as much as the size of the userbase for each distribution. You have profit-seeking companies like Canonical or RedHat pushing their own agendas, distributing their own wares, you have purist Linux aficionados who push bare-bones, roll-your-own distributions, and you have consumer-friendly distributions like Mint or Zorin trying to grind off some of the more prickly aspects of Linux. And this is all before we talk about the BSD Unixes.

And that's why there are so many derivatives and fracturing.
https://xkcd.com/927/

I don't remember her being in a bikini, but my mind blanked from self preservation almost immediately.

Well, if the chips operate well above 100C, you circulate water to them and let them generate steam. Then you use the steam to generate electricity, condense the resulting gas back to water, and circulate it back through. You could certainly power the circulation pumps, and perhaps a small portion of the electricity used by the chips. You'd probably also end up with significant low-grade heat that you could use in industrial processes or for district heating in the winter.

So the current production version of Mark Zuckerberg is building a newer version with a more intuitive human interface, I get it.

As anybody "gifted" with Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory (HSAM) can tell you, not being able to forget has major downsides.

I used a product back in the Win95/98 days, maybe called @Guard, which if I remember right was purchased and got rebranded and updated to ZoneAlarm. Either that or @Guard was discontinued and ZoneAlarm happened to be the competing product at the time. I just remember being disappointed because the former was a lot better than the latter. ZoneAlarm was decent, but I remember not really caring for it all that much.

I was talking about my fire tablets (8 inch, 10 inch).

You know, the color kindles.

In fairness, when they work, I haven't had any problems with formats (except pdf) and I use vlc for all my video and audio needs.

But randomly failing to read the sd card (top end SanDisk), requiring a reformat and recopying my library gets annoying, even if it's only every 3 months or so.

I'm sure the donated ones will be picked up cheap from Goodwill, and be used by someone more appreciative.

That's why I donate, not dispose.

You can shorten that list.

Meta, Microsoft, Alphabet are the only platforms now that protect my privacy and are the most secure.

The EFF told me so. Thank you.

I would have never figured that out on my own. /s.