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Comment Re: Market forces at work (Score 2) 200

"The only silver lining of Trump's demented Iran war is diesel hitting $6 per gallon and the sound of all those F150 tears."

150s don't run on diesel. Only Dodge has a half ton diesel pickup because only they have a mid sized diesel engine. Ford uses turbo gas motors for that market. Those are F250 and larger tears.

Comment Re: These are just US sales (Score 1) 200

Most people don't know the difference between a SUV and a CUV, which is because the manufacturers deliberately created confusion on that point in order to sell vehicles consumers were rejecting. Most people don't know the difference between full frame and unibody either, they only know whether the vehicle crashes over bumps or not. It's irrelevant because it's irrelevant to the majority of buyers, who don't know shit about shit

Comment Re: All according to plan. (Score 1) 200

"the Lightning was always a glorified grocery getter for people who didn't use a pickup for a work-use. It was suburban vehicle for those that didn't want to have an SUV. It was an upscale minivan that you could put plywood and crap in the back - if you didn't care about messing up your $70,000 truck. It was a great vehicle - but it wasn't a "Truck"."

Trucks are heavy vehicles. They're defined in the code as such. The lightning is a pickup. Like the lightning it was named after, it's not a great one in terms of maximum pickup ability. It's a lot more useful than the last one, though.

Comment Re: Bullying the AI (Score 2) 63

Which, of course, is AWESOME.

A human who knows something will reject an obviously wrong answer, but since the LLM knows literally nothing and the AI companies won't pay for it to check even its own work (which won't solve the problem but will REDUCE the major fails) it will just happily shit out a catastrophe.

Comment Re:beat them senseless (Score 1) 95

People aren't "printing guns", at least not with plastic printers.

Yes, they are. They aren't printing every single part of the gun, but yeah, they are printing guns. And I say that as someone who plans to print one eventually, though probably not while I live in California. You can make your own rifled barrels with EDM, too, so you actually can manufacture every part of the firearm yourself.

Comment Re:beat them senseless (Score 1) 95

Many printers, including Bambu Labs', don't have endstop sensors. They run to the end and detect the stepper stall.

Yeah, that's also done with a sensor. It's done with current sensing. And it's not a hard stop, it's a soft stop. So, exactly what I said it was. Note I didn't mention a switch or hall sensor.

They're direct driven by the stepper motors and don't have the power to "strip belts or cogs."

Then they can kill the steppers. That's not better.

Comment Meanwhile, at Carnegie Mellon... (Score 4, Interesting) 123

Jensen Huang to college grads: "Run. Don't walk" toward AI

https://www.axios.com/2026/05/...

Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang told graduates at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh yesterday that demand for AI infrastructure is creating a "once-in-a-generation opportunity to reindustrialize America and restore the nation's capacity to build."

Why it matters: With many college grads fearing AI could obliterate their career dreams, Huang pointed to boundless opportunity as a "new industry is being born. A new era of science and discovery is beginning ... I cannot imagine a more exciting time to begin your life's work."

Nvidia, which makes AI chips, is the world's most valuable company. Huang told 5,800 recipients of undergraduate and graduate degrees that the AI buildout will require plumbers, electricians, ironworkers, and builders for chip factories, data centers and advanced manufacturing facilities.

"No generation has entered the world with more powerful tools â" or greater opportunities â" than you," he said. "We are all standing at the same starting line. This is your moment to help shape what comes next. So run. Don't walk."

"Every major technological revolution in history created fear alongside opportunity," Huang added. "When society engages technology openly, responsibly, and optimistically, we expand human potential far more than we diminish it."

Full speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Comment Re:Poor strategy by Ford (Score 1) 200

F-150 people don't strike me as the type to accept anything really innovative like the lightning.

Ford wasn't counting on people switching from gas F-150s to the Lightning. They were counting on the F-150 name helping to sell their new product. This has essentially been effective, in that they sold about as many of those as they reasonably could have hoped to have done. People who bought them generally seem very happy with them, though not very many people were ever going to be in the market for that vehicle.

With that said, Ford should have parlayed that success into a lighter, cheaper EV pickup. Call it the F-100 Lightning. I'd guess they haven't been able to execute on the supply parts of the picture, and that's the real reason it hasn't happened. It took Tesla a while to get into the swing of having battery supply at a good cost. Ford simply isn't there yet, so they are using protectionism to delay the progress of the entire market in an effort to to catch up.

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