If a pedestrian steps onto the roadway 15 yards in front of a *human-driven* truck, it still won't go well for the pedestrian. There is nothing about that scenario that is unique to self-driving trucks.

Maybe you're joking...but driverless trucks are always looking around them, all 360 degrees at once. So no, they won't.

I would much rather encounter an Aurora truck on the highway, than a human-driven truck that's been on the road for 11 hours straight. And for me, that's a real possibility, since I frequently drive on I-45.

One minor note...*all* of I-45 is in Texas, starting in Galveston and ending in Dallas.

The only dumb question, is the one not asked, that should have been.

Actually, TFETs weren't conceived until 1952, and the first working model wasn't created until 1965. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... That's hardly "the beginning."

Maybe check your facts before you start calling people "dumb."

It's become little more than an electronic salesperson in your home. Who wants that?

Everybody I know, who had an Alexa device, has gotten rid of it or sold it or thrown it away.

Despite capitalism's flaws, it working out better for Americans than any other economic system anywhere else in the world. I'll celebrate that.

Every single income bracket has seen significant increases in average *real* wages (adjusted for inflation) over at least the last 40 years. https://www.visualcapitalist.c...

Indeed. If it's just for you, then why would you even think to put it in the cloud? That makes no sense.

If it's for others, then the cloud is definitely more reliable.

If it's just for your own use, then absolutely right.

If your server is for the use of other people in other places not using your ISP and not affected by your ISP's flakiness, then cloud hosting is superior.

If it's just for you, I agree, there's very little benefit to cloud hosting.

Thanks for providing the additional context. You might say that Einstein was the main one who popularized the model, though many contributed.

What technology made specific use quantum mechanics, in the "beginning" (in the 1920s when the model came into acceptance)?

More like, they're so confident in themselves, and they're so entrenched in the markets they care about, that they are no longer concerned with the competition.

Right! They're having such a tough time, they just became the second company to reach a $4 trillion valuation, second only to NVidia. Pretty rough indeed.

Or even your own food from home or the grocery store.

When competition increases, everybody wins. That's worth celebrating.

It's true that every large corporation has its issues, but they are not all equal, there are degrees of bureaucratic nonsense, and ever company has its own flavor.

Very often, the person who is your department head or your boss, makes more difference than anything else, about how good or awful your job is.