Wait until you find out how domestic automakers and oil companies also receive government subsidies.

The same people can be right and wrong, because there's a lot of different aspects to most situations.

Sam Altman is a sociopath that isn't quite able to reach the "high functioning" metric.

I wish I had funny mod points to give you - that's the most hilarious thing I've read all week!

Trump's self-worth has basically doubled since he was sworn in the second time. He's pretty obviously making copious use of insider knowledge, accompanied by vast amounts of pure grift.

He's probably recently invested in OpenAI through some shell scheme, and is now looking to drive the value up even more.

This is slashdot. Who here isn't using any form of ad blocking?

Have you ever punctured a lipo cell? I have. Nothing happened. Then I put it in water. There were a few little bubbles. Over the next two years the pack gradually grew until it was about three times its prior size, and hard. At no time did it emit flames. (I kept it in a coffee can.)

I think NCM batteries in particular are fucking terrible and I don't want to downplay that there is a risk of thermal runaway for all lithium cells with liquid (etc) electrolyte, but overstating the case is not a help.

When was their enterprise product solid? When it was Xenix?

I agree we should generally be going EV (I can't, though) but it's convenient to have a gas station in your neighborhood because you might be headed away from wherever else it might be located.

For EVs filling up is more annoying (as it takes longer) so that raises the desire to do it closer to home. And indeed, people do tend to do it there. I don't have anywhere else convenient to do it, and it's not convenient at home, which is why I can't reasonably have one.

He wanted to sell them to business as well. But then Motorola started to choke while Intel and AMD were executing, and they had to port to PC. Then there was no justification for a big price tag.

The BeBox was really a marketing stunt more than anything else. It was built around a Motorola PPC dev board. (sidebad: The "Geekport" a breakout box connector on the original hardware, and was included only because there were other needed ports on the same board that port is on.) With its dual PowerPC 603e processors at either 66 or 133 MHz, it wasn't exactly slow, but it wasn't as fast as any but the slowest Alphastations. What roped people in was the case design. Otherwise it was obvious that you'd be better off running the OS on a PC soon, because they kept getting faster and cheaper and a good one was already faster than a BeBox.

I had a 66MHz BeBox and also ran BeOS on a Pentium Pro 180. The experience was comparable on both machines, with no real leader. All of the same demos that were so impressive on the BeBox were just as smooth on the PC. But no, the BeBox was not way ahead of the NeXT Cube; it was way after it, as in, five years after. That's a long time in computing now, but it was an even longer time (so to speak) back then. The PowerPC didn't exist when they built the cube; the best processor ever in a NeXT machine was a 68040 @ 25 MHz. (another sidebar: That was an extremely respectable processor for its time, but it also represented the last time Motorola would come up with a competitive chip without help from IBM. 68060 had competitive performance, but not competitive cost.)

It seems like a few NeXT machines were in fact sold into higher education. I knew one guy who had a turbo slab as a CS grad student. He really loved Objective C.

Absent his RDF, yes, he would have been. But he was an effective marketing tool. He was also intelligent enough to see that the Newton was overwrought as a portable device and demand something simpler. The market was moving in that direction anyway, and he charged out in front of it successfully.

Yes in fact they are, or at least, any persistent particulates are dangerous. That's what makes automobiles so bad, and why DPFs actually make diesels worse. We've discussed here on Slashdot before that gassers actually make just as much soot as diesels, it's just far finer so it's much harder to detect, which is why this fact went unknown for decades. The reason it's hard to detect is that the particulate sizes are very small. When they get very small (PM2.5 and below in particular) cilia have a hard time removing them from the lungs and they tend to persist. The soot particles are very stable since they are made out of carbon. All persistent irritants are potential carcinogens.

Some of the additives in tires are very carcinogenic.

It's both infeasible and impractical. Even the carbon black and silicates in tires can cause cancer for the reasons explained in the first paragraph. At best you can mitigate risk, you'll never make them non-carcinogenic. It would be better to also reduce the number of vehicles and also make tire compounds harder to reduce wear. This does reduce safe effective speed around corners and such, but most vehicles have a lot of excess in that department these days, and the ones that don't usually aren't going very fast. I like hard cornering, it's where the fun is in my opinion, but I do consider it to be more important to improve health.

Plenty of high end cars depreciate at incredible rates. You can buy a Mercedes S63 and it loses like $12k a year in value.

Conversely people are thinking gasoline isn't ever coming back down in price. I always figured it would be more patriotic to NOT send more money to hostile middle eastern countries.

And probably bitching the entire time when they see a tank of gas costs over $150.