Sometimes yes. But it's not usually the government itself producing and thus pushing out private enterprise. Usually it's the leader establishing close personal relationships with loyal private businesses, and funneling money their way without bidding or due process. A king picking the winners and losers. This is what Hitler did in the 30s and 40s as he built up his war machine, what the CCP in china does now, and what Trump is doing in the USA right now. In fact Brandon Carr just boasted in front of an audience of thousands how he has used the power of government to get rid of Trump's media critics and helped his friends buy up all the big media companies.

Is the rise of cheap but powerful embedded processors and the Arduino ecosystem partly to blame? I don't think I've seen very much high-quality and efficient arduino programming done. C++ with lots of unnecessary OOP. As long as there's a watchdog timer to reboot the thing every couple of hours, she'll be right. Ship it. Heck I use micropython for a lot of projects lately. It's very cool but it may not be preparing young developers for the rigors of aerospace development.

Yes you can. You have to boot into recovery mode and then change the security level. This is already something you have to do to load third-part (even signed) kexts, which are sometimes required for certain types of presumably poorly written (or not Apple-blessed) hardware drivers.

Apparently this is even still possible on the iPhone chipped MacBook Neo.

This thing was never about "dangers to defense." The original contract was signed and had clear terms that humans would always have the final say. The DoD unilaterally wanted to change those terms and Anthropic said no. In reasonable times this might result in Anthropic simply losing the contract; plenty of other companies including OpenAI are perfectly happy to sign under the new terms. To declare them a supply chain risk as punishment was unprecedented and illegal apparently.

Anthropic was never a danger to defense. They fully allowed their technology to be used to kill people. There was no issue there.

The idea that the DoD wants to allow AI to kill people without any human intervention (and responsibility) is really disturbing. But given the way things are going, maybe if AI simply ran all the wars we'd all be better off. You've been declared a casualty. Report to the absorption chambers! Time to watch "A Taste of Armageddon" again.

Except MS Office was based on Carbon, not Cocoa. So it was basically OS 9 code that had a prettier face on it. But you could always tell Carbon apps as they never looked or acted quite like a normal Cocoa-based OS X app would.

The parliamentary system has one thing going for it. The prime minister must also be elected as a lawmaker, so he has skin in the legislative game, and can't just say off the wall garbage. He has to appease his party, including back benchers, and any coalition participants. And like you say, he or she is vulnerable to a non-confidence vote.

In all democratic countries democracy really tends to break down at the lowest and most important levels. The things that impact peoples' daily lives the most originate in local government, and voters have the most apathy at this level.

Mr Putin, is that you?

Every fact checker out there declares this one false and bogus. While corruption happens under all parties, this story is false. Repeating it as fact is dishonest. Please stop.

The current crass state of political discourse seems to use this sort of lie to justify one's own political team's increasingly lewd, illegal, and unconstitutional behavior. If you think we're bad, you should see those awful, evil, Democrats! Or, if you think we're bad thank your lucky stars the Republicans aren't in.

It stinks.

I've often thought it would be nice to simply replace the smart TV motherboard with a generic screen panel driver that only has HDMI. Unfortunately 4K really complicates things over the older LVDS interface standard. It's still possible, but not easy.

Yes I'm one of them! I don't see any contradiction there. Like I said an efficient EV shouldn't need full dash screens, always-on data, always-on navigation.

You're lucky then. Because in a lot of jurisdictions in North America, the used market is barely there. Looking for a used car for a college student recently in a western US state and there was nothing under $20k. Cash for Clunkers really destroyed the American used market, honestly.

Where I live used vehicle prices 80% of new cost often.

And how is the US government and companies different from everything you just described? The trump administration is perfectly happy to do all those same things you ascribe to the CCP. There really is no "good" side anymore.

Regardless of the effects of subsidization, Chinese companies (even after many disappear from over supply) have tremendous knowledge and experience now making EVs and batteries which will place them a huge advantage over American companies. It's unreal that the US government seems to want American companies to be at a disadvantage globally, and just complain about how they are treated so unfairly.

Indeed the biggest turn off for me for any electric vehicle and most ICE vehicles now is the need for lots of computers, stupid large screens, and always-on data connections. Do not want any of that. There's no reason an efficient EV can't operate without all that intrusive technology. I don't want or need a big screen. I don't want to have to use GPS navigation for every drive (and to condition the battery for fast charge, Kia).

Good luck with that. By the time they are actually in mass production I'd be very surprised if they sell for less than $50k. They definitely won't hit their original goal of $20k. Not even close.

Wait what? The Falcon 9 has an impressive track record for recovery and reuse. Turn around time is about two weeks and the cost to refurbish the rocket is far less than building a new one. They have been so successful that other companies and countries are now following suit and moving in that direction.

Starship, on the other hand... that remains to be seen.

What? Tesla FSD works best in an urban and suburban environment where the roads are well mapped. It very much can pull out of your driveway, go down the street, enter a multi-lane road, handle stop lights, turning lanes, etc. It can enter a freeway on its own, and take an exit. Seriously, it is good. Not perfect obviously, and has glaring flaws. I would think FSD would perform the most poorly in rural areas where road markings are lacking and the maps are not as precise. The 8-Bit Guy posted a complete video a while back on youtube showing an entire journey with FSD from his house in the suburbs to a downtown destination (Dallas I think) where FSD did everything including backing out of the driveway. Funny that trolls have said his video is faked.

As for inclement weather, yes there are limitations. Tesla's lack of LiDAR, or any other kind of non-optical sensor such as RADAR, is a glaring omission that limits what FSD can do under such circumstances.