TheMiddleRoad was making a joke about the "cadence" cadence.

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.

The logic is economic autarky -- the belief that we're always better off having complete political sovereignty over every part of our supply chains than having to depend on imports for anything.

This is likely also behind Trump's trade war with Canada. His demands with Canada aren't about discirimatory tariffs -- those were negotiated away with NAFTA then re-negotiated in his first term. His demands are now infringe on Canadian sovereignty, to give US control of Canada's external trade policy, and even on its internal markets (e.g., the use of French in Canadian internal commerce). Symbolically, that's why he wants to rename Lake Ontario to "Lake America". HIs establishment of US control over the Venezuelan oil industry is his greatest foreign policy achievement -- although it's not clear he understands the legal limits on what he can do with their money.

There's a foreign and military policy angle to this too: Taiwan is absolutely critical to the US economy, so we are absolutely committed to defend them if China invades. Semiconductor autarky would mean it's not our problem.

The problem with autarky is that even if it's a good idea (which economists don't believe), you can't conjure it into existence overnight. It will take many years, possibly decades for the US to replace the Taiwan's semiconductor industry. In effect, the administration is proposing to inflict the very damage on the US economy that a Chinese invasion of Taiwan would inflict.

And, once the US has voluntarily self-inflicted that damage, China would be free to invade Taiwan.

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.

Yes, Mac OS.
It is Sequoia, 15.6.xyz ... not sure about exact version number.

Was a bit complicated to get it installed (because I was working on the other computer, and clicked wrong in the middle).

The working experience is just fine. But in relation to older Mac OS (X)es, Sequoia is not really that fine. The settings dialog, once the most beautiful thing of Mac OS X or macOS, is a pain into the rectum.

At my specific laptop, I have the problem: it does not sleep when closed and plugged into power. There "should be" a fix, according to google Gemini, resetting parameter RAM and some other fix during boot, but I did not try it yet.

Anyway, the Mac runs just fine. And it is lightening fast.

I put the new OS on its own partition, so I can access the old data just fine, but did not risk to damage the old boot partition during install. So I can dual boot, the old stuff (which can not read the new partition because of different file system) and the new OS.

No, my sister lives on the other side of the planet.

No idea what my sister has to do with your bullshit.

It is nto a poor chosen example, as it is the only example I have.
I was on a pilots web site just recently, but got there via Instagramm, so I have not bookmarked it.

Point is: at the moment Russia is avoided, because of the war.

And from Tokyo to London, you would fly over Russia, but not over the pole.

The actual flight is also not over the pole, but passes mid Greenlands.

The discussion was not about poles or not, but about the fact that Russian airspace is either closed or avoided.

Well,

we are not talking about cosmic rays.
We are talking about solar wind. Hence the talk about flying over the poles.

Cosmic ray impacts have no real difference depending on the height above ground.

Sure, there is a big chance that a gamma photon hits something and does not reach the ground, but would hit you 10km above the ground.

However cosmic rays based on ions with close to light speed, they go down until they hit something in the earth core that stops them.

At this point, all models should be tested in air-gapped systems.
a) they are
b) in an air-gapped system: they can not do such exploits - so, you can not find them

Silly idea.

Is that a misprint? Shouldn't that be interlinked? Within cells interlinked.

Why don't you say that three times: Within cells interlinked.