What you say is not credible, the provider has no way of knowing what your software does, whether it is patched or not or has known vulnerabilities. All they can do is auto update the underlying OS the same as would be done with any Linux distro.

We have some customers using AWS and it shocking how out of date their VM images are. Some of them using Amazon Linux don't even have systemd support. I remember having to patch our system to not be fooled by Amazon's half assed head fake where they pretend to have some systemd files for "compatibility" without actually supporting it. What a clusterfuck.

This is nonsense, to get any useful administrative benefits you need to move from running your own software to using someone else's service otherwise it is no different than any of your run of the mill Linux distros with auto update.

A less than ideal approximation, not a proposer answer or solution, often "good enough".
And this is where ML gets interesting, with its own take on a "good enough" approximation. Would this be fair to refer to as a "computer instinct"?

Some people, like some ML systems. have less useful or more useful approximations.

I am referring to it just repeating back (not necessarily quoting or plagarizing - some rephrasing often going on) what its training materials told it. It's not really reasoning out new things. It's a faster and more comprehensive version of you looking things up in reference materials, reading discussion on programming sites, etc. Can it tell you about several well-known algorithms that can be stitched together to solve a problem? Sure, but it probably read someone's comment on that during its training, not somehow reasoned out that solution.

Go re-read, you misunderstood. The pruning paths was only referring to traditional AI chess playing software.

Not everything AI is LLM.

The one beginning with "There are dedicated chess engines"?

An ML system is a black box, we don't necessarily know specifically how it is ranking things or discerning things. We do know it is not doing a brute force approach and has devised some "pruning" method from its training. "Pruning" used as a terminology carryover from older AI chess approaches.

No. It's ignoring your unsubstantiated and politically manufactured pedo accusation. You're just the left's version of a pizza-gater. Why would anyone take their claim, or yours, seriously? That serious accusations are coming from victims and the court is sorting those out. Do you have a pedo in mind named by a victim or just one "named" by a political party or its rabid zealots as we saw in pizza-gate.

The EU has experienced slowdowns too. The EU seems a little farther ahead in terms of what the different market segment are buying. Farther along in general, but not without the slowdowns that naturally occur when one segment is getting saturated and the next segment still has many unconvinced members. That's just part of the technology adoption process.

Optimal locations. Owners and management that are accustomed to ongoing maintenance. Beyond Tesla's network, there is a maintenance problem.

Because these locations are going to be very slow to deploy chargers and problem not more than a couple showcase chargers. My main argument is against the notion that we need to go out and acquire new land and build new charging stations like so many government programs seem to suggest, the "build new infrastructure" notion. I think "convert existing infrastructure as needed" is more helpful and rational. Again, primarily referring to those deterred from going EV because they cannot get a charger at their current home.

I think restaurants and such will function less for general purpose charging and more for emergency charging. The "oh shit I'm low" and may not make it home sort of situation. Probably a few reserved spots where charging can added to your food bill. Not for the general pubic, for customers only.

Its a collection of many things that combine to drop people into buy now, maybe buy later, wait until some problems are fixed, wait until its working well for most people, etc. Paraphrasing very loosely, the categories defined by researchers are a little different.

Cell phones and Smart phones went through the exact same process. Multiple market segments, all with users of means, risk tolerance, concerns, circumstances, etc. As described in the Technology Adoption Life Cycle and Diffusion of Innovations links you have.. For example first gen 1 iPhone was very much early adopter only.

You are confusing product categories with product/market fit. The product/market fit would involve higher level economics issues like ease of charging for a demographic.

What criticism of a current gas station based charger do you have that does not also apply to a brand new charging station based charger on newly acquired land?

Chargers are not install and forget, even is solar based. As various auto exec PR cross country EV stunts demonstrated. Broek and unmaintained chargers quite the embarrassment, requiring changes of plans, routes, etc. This sort of stuff deters buyers from segments of the market that come after early adopters. Again, see the two links from previous response.

Brilliant 'memetic judo'. Whoever is on their marketing team should be CEO, I hear the position's open.

FWIW what I found interesting is that if neither of them had reacted at all to being on the kiss cam (or reacted normally) we wouldn't even have heard about it.

Cell phones and Smart phones actually spread pretty dang quick.

And we have a number of EV "product market fits". We have everything from the Nissan Leaf to the Cybertruck, for example. Do we need even more models? Probably.

But I'd argue that a single "Tesla Diner" is more a market test than a serious effort to spread the concept. Also, that just replacing gas station pumps with EV chargers also doesn't acknowledge the very real differences between charging vs refueling.

You're probably going to want more dwell time for charging.
I tend to generate a generic priority list for charging:
1. Home
2. Work
3. Convenient spot they already spend some time at
4. Inconvenient spot that they can at least find something else to do.
5. Inconvenient spot that they can't find something else to do in.

Worst case, businesses can always put in a couple EV chargers and check use. With solar power, there's actually arguments for increased daytime charging, so put in enough for employees + some percentage of customers. Check to see how often customers are using them. If it goes over some usage level, install more.
One can also figure that the chargers will have a lifetime - build enough to satisfy demand during that lifetime, maybe, figuring on assessing expansion options when time to replace the overall system comes up.

He'd also donated to Democrats.
In fact, he appears to have been barely political at all.

I'm going to guess you're a leftist, so that makes it funny to criticize priests fucking altar boys, given how hard the left has tried to normalize pedophilia for the last half dozen years.

If the moon is split in two and we are living through Thundarr the Barbarian I can first shot at wooing the princess!

Being a huge fan of the original cartoons, I was really sad to hear the whole story of Coyote vs Acme being canned. So while I am not sure how good the actual movie is, I'm really glad it gets a chance to exist and I will probably see it just to support the pushback effort.

There's not much other stuff I am really waiting for but am cautiously hopeful about Tron, and actually will try to see Alien: Earth which looks like more fun than a lot of SF Horror has been recently. But I am keeping expectations low for both.