Is it? Getting improvements?

I read the summary and yeah, it uses that word but... what - specifically - does it mean? The code was "cleaned up" and "restructured". So... were any bugs fixed? Is there any real-world performance increase? In what way has this driver improved?

This is elderly code which likely has had any impactful errors discovered and corrected. Any major changes at this juncture risk introducing new problems regardless of if they're made by a human or an AI coding tool. While restructuring the code may make it easier to maintain, at this late date there shouldn't be much maintaining.

Unless there is concrete, measurable improvement, this is just PR AI cheerleadership.

A foreign company buying output from an American company is profitable to America. Selling the company itself isn't.

Let's simplify and imagine a Hollywood studio that produces say... sitcoms. Money comes in from viewership... either from advertising income or streaming subscriptions. Money goes out to the employees that create the sitcoms and the profit pile.

If the company is American-owned, the profit says in America and is spent on (mostly) American stuff. Sure, the C-suite folk may buy some yachts made in other countries, but mostly they'll buy mansions and whatnot where they live: America. If the company is foreign-owned, the profit will be spent (mostly) on stuff where its owners live.

Imagine if the Americans owned those oil companies in the Middle East. Imagine if they owned TSMC and Samsung. Foreign investment can be good, to produce liquidity allowing projects that you can't fund yourself, but in this case, Warner Bros could have remained domestically-owned.

"Paramount maintained that the merger would strengthen competition rather than diminish it, creating a media company better positioned to compete with streaming leaders and deep-pocketed technology rivals."

They'd otherwise continue to struggle to compete. This time they only had* $111 billion dollars available to buy a massive collection of Hollywood properties, out-bidding the streaming leaders they will finally be able to compete with.

*"Had", as in "don't actually have, so need to sell lots of shares to Saudi Arabia despite the current America-First agenda that has slapped massive tariffs on almost every former ally.

Hahahahahaa. That's so funny.

What if, indeed?

I suppose they'll continue to revise and refine their models, teaching, and textbooks as information arises. As science does.

You and I are as Bonobos weighing in on if the guys who designed the SR-71 are right about this flight thing. We're no more equipped to weigh in on quantum physics than my cats are to opine on the efficacy of mRNA vaccines. Science is a process and that process involves peer-review, and constant checking for flaws. This isn't multi-level marketing or religion where we just take it on faith that the invisible sky-man is why seasons happen. Many tiers of experts test the veracity and plausibility of the work of those above and below their own level of expertise.

This is all my way of trying to politely saying the question is not useful. Come back when you are a physicist and a mathematician and wax poetic to us.

First up, I need to preface this with conceding that I absolutely, positively do not claim EVs are suitable for all use-cases, all drivers, and all trips.

That said, am I understanding the invalidating scenario here is:
Father drives ~500km round-trip to and from the cabin, draining the battery.
Father is concerned about a medical event that he'd have to drive to hospital for, where the hospital is more than about 50km away, and this medical event is happening within an hour of returning home:?

I'm just trying to wrap my head around this. Because many EVs have around 500km range these days and a level 2 charger will get you to 10% in an hour no problem. This just seems an odd worry for someone who's willing to drive 250km away from civilization in the first place. And willing to live somewhere that you'd drive to the hospital in a life-threatening circumstance instead of waiting for ambulance service.

I'm not criticizing or even arguing. I'm just trying to wrap my head around the parameters of this particular "an EV can't work for reason X" scenario.

Nope. Doesn't work that way. You get to cite your references. LLMs scrape the Internet at large, including FUD and troll content and assemble plausible responses based on linguistic probability, in addition to be being biased by whatever prompt they're given. They aren't primary sources.

They won't be involuntarily celibate. In fact part of the point is that they - in sheer numbers - cuck the existing, fertile male population.

Now.. if you'd made a joke about there being so many of them running a train on the unsuspecting females and maybe mentioned your mom, that might've been funny, if only speculatively more accurate.

... so the person you send it to can eat 20% of their battery life to inaccurately summarize it back into one sentence?

To be fair, nobody ever should think "we lost the election so everything the winners do should be accept unopposed no matter how much harm it does." As long as the opposition means are legal, they shouldn't be scoffed at. Some are deliberate checks and balances against abuse by the elected. On-topic, why datacenters - which contribute nothing but tax money to a community - should be enticed with... a tax break is questionable at best. It's almost like building a landfill solely to accept someone else's waste at a discount under the rate your own waste costs to dispose of. Vacant land won't remain vacant forever.

How about recognizing that (many) people will do enjoyable things even if they have long-term negative consequences?

There needs to be a word for "the fear of making a typo while insulting someone online." There probably already is one in German.

That you included the word at all is what makes you a racist.

If you want to have a discussion about if First Nations people should have special treatment, that's a path to constructive discourse. But just throwing out sarcastic hyperbole when nobody else in the thread has is revelatory. And you know it. It's why you did it.

Good job dodging the entirety of my reply with a red herring.

So... a couple things that might be useful to re-align your head with reality.

Most on-topic, this isn't about indigenous content, and it's a bit of a red-flag that you think it is and that you'd think it problematic if it were. The sarcastic "holy" also strongly outs you as a racist. Just in case you weren't intending to broadcast that, you are. This is about Canadian content. That varies from things like Letterkenny to This Hour Has Tweny-Two Minutes. Yes, Canadian productions can and should include indigenous performers, crew, and topics as part of our culture just as it includes French-Canadian content and Newfies. But CanCon does not mean IndigiCon.

Second, I'm not aware of anyone claiming mass graves of indigenous people in the usual sense. While I'm not super-fluent on the topic because it's grim as fuck, it's about graves, period. These kids were taken from their parents to be raised in religious indoctrination schools and some of them died there. Not necessarily because of abuse or intent to kill, but their bodies were never returned to their families is - as I understand it - a big sticking point. Nobody is claiming this is like the Holocaust with outright mass murder and disposal. It's individual neglect and abuse because of racial hatred. When a grave with "X bodies" is found, the horror isn't that X kids were offed and chucked in a hole at the same time, as I understand it. It's "oh, look, we found another graveyard with X kids that were stolen from their families and died away from home. Again."

Don't care. This both-sides stuff doesn't help anyone. There is a difference between the two sides.

Fiscally, yeah, power-seekers of every description are going to be looking to profit from you. Granted. Corporations are in charge at that level. But first you stomp out the fascist right. Then you keep on voting in the least-evil. Again and again and again. Change what you can instead of worrying about what you can't.

I'm sorry, but the problem is way, way bigger than that. Anything that involves "people would wake up" is missing what's going on.

What's going on is that there are a lot of fundamentally defective Americans. I'm not saying that's unique to the US... don't take this personally. You've got your racists. Your misogynists. Your homophobes. Transphobes. Conspiracists. Vaccine-paranoid. Science-averse. You've got your insular, ignorant, cruel, and cultists. You've got your gun-fetishists, your narcissistic and greedy and your genuinely stupid.

You've got one political party that has united all of those people who range from just genetically sub-average through authentically evil and accepted that a vote is a vote.

Are you in a depression? Probably. Does it matter if the press call it that? Not remotely. Because "bad thing is happening" is not a secret. There's a solution to billionaires. The French used them, famously. But the real danger is your brother, neighbor, coworker or friend who voted for a party because they're offended by pronouns, not by being lumped in with all those other defectives. Convince them their fellow Republicans are the horrible, horrible people they are because of whatever horrible topics they don't like. Divide the racists from the greedy. Sow dissent between the religious and the gun-nuts. Rip apart the union of the evil.