Apparently not. Otherwise, consumers would not buy all those additional features.
Consumers have no choice.

If they want a BMW i3X// and that thing only comes with "no buttons" - how the fark would they be able to get one with buttons?

Oh, they should not buy the BMW i3X// but rather an Austin Martin.

Sure ... good idea. Which part of: they want an BMW i3X// did escape you?

Another opportunity for Trump to put his name on something.
After the revolution he will be punished with "damnatio memoriae".

In the Greek city-states (poleis), being remembered through public inscriptions, family lineages, and civic rolls was the ultimate civic honor.

Erasing a name was a form of political death.

Chiseling and Smashed Inscriptions: If a politician or general fell into deep disgrace or committed treason, the city assembly would order stone carvers to physically scratch, gouge, or chisel their names out of official state documents, treaty stones, and naval catalogues.

Destruction of Statues: Honorific monuments, busts, or statues dedicated to the individual were smashed, thrown down wells, or melted down.

The "Ban of Mention": In extreme cases, a city would pass a decree making it illegal to ever speak the criminal's name out loud, effectively forcing the society to collectively "forget" them.

In one hundred years he only will be remembered as the worst president ever.

You forgot:
- do you have an EV
- do you have solar panels :D

Or if one would be cynic: can you afford to have kids?

Nope,
we were talking about that flying over the pole increases "radiation", which it does not, as you perfectly pointed out, as the solar wind particles most likely wont penetrate the hull.

We did not talk about the other points you make at all.

They are btw. only depended on flight height, and have nothing much to do with magnetic fields, poles or not.

You probably misunderstood to what I was answering.

Also, the cosmic ray flux is higher at the poles.
Could be the case, as the poles are aligned with the sun's poles.
Perhaps there is some effect as the sun magnetic field is weak, but gigantic.
As nearly every cosmic particle is charged, it might be curved into a way that from the earth it appears as if it comes from north or south above the pole.

Well,

I worked on that system.

So I likely know more about it than you do.

The cars run on ADAS made by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

https://www.continental.com/en...

The new AI stuff is for route optimization and LIDAR and other cloud stuff.

And has nothing to do with the autonomous driving itself.

But we can be :D
Just kill the upper 10.0%, 1.0% and 0.1% :D

Actually they have.

However they have not the right to attack the position of the party from outside of the party.

Might sound strange for you, but point is: if you want to do "politics" you are supposed to join the party. And do it from inside the party.

Being a lazy fellow, not joining the party, not raising your voice where it is welcome: makes you an unpleasant fellow.

Actually a simple concept, which makes from their point of view perfectly sense.

Make sure to have a back up.
At least from your home folder.

The upgrade was not super smooth, but was okay (was working on a different computer, so I was a bit sloppy).

The computer is lighting fast with the new OS ... at least for the stuff I do.

You get some simple things wrong.

An US engineer has not 25% more purchasing power, when everything he wishes to purchase: has a 375% tariff.

And where did you get your numbers from?

What does a Chinese have, you don't have?
- healthcare
- an EV
- fibre internet
- G5 and soon G6 phone
- uninterrupted power
- cheap food
- mostly free education
- cheap housing
- cheap clothing

And so on.

No idea what kind of "purchasing power parity" you want to factor in when objectively a random Chinese has a higher standard of living than a random USian?

You can run models at home since quite long time.

Depending what you want to do, even pretty powerful stuff.

I ran Qwent(sp?) on a 2011 Power Book last week. Not fast, but faster than talking to my father :P

The people of China consider their country a working democracy. Not a dictatorship.

Perhaps you should read up how modern China works, politically, and socially.

The decline started with Reagan, perhaps already with Nixon.

A country that has no vision where it want to be as a culture in 30 or 50 years ... how is that supposed to work.

Nitpickers claim: US of Awesomeness, has no culture.

Well, Americans you meet all over the world look like humble and educated. Perhaps because they travel? Perhaps they are well off enough to travel, and hence well off enough to be educated?

As a mass: you look like barbarians.

Well, he wants to do it to China, but needs a testing ground first.

35 years ago there were no LLMs / ANNs in cars.

I actually read up on this and thegabz's post about Daimler using NVIDIA and LLMs.

They only do route planning and lidar for "looking around". Why anyone needs an ANN for route planning is beyond me.

The real driving is still done by Continentals ADAS (now AUMOVIO SE).

Interesting is: Continental is in a cooperation with NVIDIA, using its millions of miles visual and other sensorics data to actually train new models on chips made specifically for automotive/automatic driving.