The one good thing with China's authoritarian state is they can drive rational national policy.

They know they need to rapidly industrialize, and they also know that global warming is real and will be a disaster for them.

So they're doing what you'd expect. Expanding power generation as quickly as possible in the short term with coal.

And in the long/medium term building and developing non-CO2 alternatives like Nuclear, solar, and batteries.

On this I partially agree as for new cars this is less then the incentive program which they already ignored.

But it might be worth a used EV.

A lot of the ones I've seen are newer leased vehicles.

If their daily mileage can be done on a single charge the fuel savings could add up pretty quick. Otherwise a hybrid is a no-brainer.

Tesla's are notoriously expensive to insure, but fuel costs would definitely be lower with at-home charging.

Public chargers? Not so much.

I'm assuming there's conditions around it. But it does seem to push against Uber's narrative that their drivers are contractors and not employees.

Ah - yes, I did misread it. Jobs did push people and created the Reality Distortion Field, but he could not have gotten much going without Woz.

And, yes, I was talking about Woz' accomplishments.

I'm surprised that Alphabet has done as well as they have in the era of LLMs. They're as much an AI company as anyone in big tech, but I've always heard that search is they lynchpin of Google, and LLMs must have decimated that.

Some of his logic designs were amazing. I was learning digital logic when I got my //e and started studying schematics. (The //e was a generation removed, but had some features from the ][ series and I studied those as well.) For one example, the ][ disk drive. Just as a quick and simple example, he had a 7400 chip needed and used 1 ro 2 of the NAND gates on it. He used the other gates as amplifiers from the disk signal. Not something that was at all standard at that time (don't know if it is now). That's the one I can remember, but he was using ONE gate as an amp instead of at least one, if not three more chips. Things like that kept the costs down more than most would think.

I can't remember other examples, but his habits of having to keep chip counts down, so he could make what he wanted when his family didn't have a lot of money, came through in a number of ways in his designs.

Hmmm...

That's being a little bit harsh.

He sold *new* cars! ;)

> ads that pop up piped in directly from Microsoft.

When did Windows turn into a shitty mobile game?

> "Tea; earl grey; hot." and you wind up with a 3d print of the letter "T" painted earl grey and warmed to 100

LUL! That is a perfect example of voice UI being ambiguous. I've had these discussions for decades but never had a good example. I'm cribbing that.

> "Computer, fire torpedo bays 1 through 5!" takes a lot longer than me pressing the button

Yup, as much as I love ST:TNG I've had that criticism for decades. Voice UI is HORRIBLY SLOW, not to mention ambiguous.

Why the hell wouldn't the captain just press a button to raise shield instead of wasting time to say "Raise Shields", waiting for Worf to listen, and wait for them to actually execute it. That's at last 1 - 2 seconds of wasted time.

Also, wouldn't the computer monitor this and automatically raise shields? I'm sure its reaction time is helluva lot faster then humans!

They really should be honoring Steve Wozniak instead. He's the one that did the work, did the innovation, made a floppy disk drive work for a price lower than anyone else could imagine by innovating. He's the one who did the designs and made it all possible. But Jobs was more visible and knew how to capture headlines.

Seriously, Jobs and Apple would have been NOTHING without Woz doing the kind of stuff he can do.

I'm not sure you understand how venture capital works.

something about cats?

Agreed. Dropping a ticket in the driver's seat is kinda ridiculous, but there certainly should be a mechanism for recording infractions and penalizing the company.

To put a major social media company under the control of right wing political actors.

Robots.

They got more self-driving cabs than Tesla, and Tesla is getting hundreds of billions in valuation from their "Robotaxi".

In either case, if they can scale this there's loads of money waiting. I think they're currently Waymo's only real competitor.