What a load of crap. From "motorway" I'll assume you're a brit like me. Everytime I stop at motorway service stations the chargers are always busy and good luck finding many off the motorway network.

I don't have an EV, but on my last long drive (i.e. motorways), there were loads of spaces at every service station I stopped at.

Those of us who live in terraced houses or flats don't have that option so using an expensive public charger would be the only choice and within a mile radius of my house there are SEVEN chargers that I know of - always busy - and I live in a city, not the middle of the country.

Maybe you need to change your vote at a local level? I live in a terraced house in London and yet quite a few of my neighbours have EVs. It appears there are (overpriced to be sure, but present nonetheless) lamp post based chargers on the street that many people use. I've also seen the odd person using a long cable and one of those cable safety cover things. Dubious legality I suppose, but cheaper.

An attractive woman using a falsetto to make her voice deeper,

I hate to be pedantic except that's a lie it's my favourite hobby, but flasetto is a higher than normal register, not lower. You use it to make your voice high.

I don't reckon.

I think Anthropic has learned well from Sam Altman. First make a whole huge fuss about how dangerous the unreleased model is, generating lots of press. Then release a "safe" version which doesn't actually need to be anything like as good as the fantasy press release version because you know it's safe. And Anthropic have a much better version. Right over there. That you can't actually see. But it's right there trust us and let's have a huge IPO kthxbai.

I think you are mixing up high temperature and room temperature superconductors. High temperature means liquid nitrogen temperature in this context rather than liquid helium temperature. They definitely do exist.

It's high relative to 4k, not high relative to 300k.

No one suggested that it should be. Don't make things up to be upset about.

Then you're suggesting nothing, so why bother posting?

With the EU everything is a "competition" issue and requires "opening up".

No it isn't, don't be a fucking moron.

https://www.linkmobility.com/b...

In many EU countries, whatsapp penetration is at 90%. This is absolutely a competition issue, because it's borderline impossible to engage in large parts of society without using whatsapp. Which means Meta can use that to basically force people to use their AI shit regardless simply because a chat app has such high penetration, not due to any merits of Meta's AI.

If you can make people use your product simply by large market share in a different area than that's pretty much the definition of a competition issue.

Next time, try engaging your brain and actually doing some minimal research before trotting out the tired old "herp derp teh EWWW sux0rs" line, eh?

And then I cringe at China's scripted response, pretending they operate a free market and welcome competition.

The trouble is the answers are layered and nuanced.

Firstly free markets are often something of a fiction anyway. They work in some cases, not in others, and I don't worship at that particular altar.

Second, foreign businesses operating in China do face something of an uphill struggle, I gather.

But also, trade with Chinese companies is often pretty easy. I'm at a pretty small scale company at the moment. We largely manufacture the end product in the UK, but use some components from a variety of places (including China). I must say so far trade with China is super smooth. Firstly Chinese companies will do stuff like specify the MOQ on Alibaba before you even open chat so you know whether it's worth either party's time to talk. Then if you're making at least the minimum they will talk to you and try and close the sale (unlike British and European companies who you will often have to beg to reply to you). Sure that's not the government. But, then they'll ship it and it won't get stuck in customs like it might e.g. from Germany ask me how I know.

The Chinese government does want to facilitate trade with other countries. They want people buying Chinese stuff. And my very narrow view of it is that trade with China is often very smooth and easy with minimal problems around import/export compared to e.g. our nearest neighbour.

Internally in China there is often a lot of competition in many areas between different Chinese companies. They don't it seems want much foreign competition, but locally they have driven prices through the floor. Like I could buy a small arbor press from a UK retailer (made in China, shipped, warehoused here then shipped to me) for less than I could buy the same weight of unfinished steel in the UK.

This isn't to say I want us to emulate China: I don't in many ways, but it's also not true to say there's no competition there.

I actually usually use the Intel SIMD C extension on the Intel side, and the NEON extensions on the ARM side.

Sorry you misunderstand: With SIMDe you use those APIs. You #include a SIMDe header and on intel it will simply pull in xmmintrin.h or whatever. But on ARM it'll pull in some SIMDe machinery and provide the intel SSE/AVX/whatever API. And it'll do the same for NEON.

The main thing is that if you (for example) write NEON but sometimes run on x86, you can run your hand-crafted NEON code on x86, e.g. to test it on CI without needing an ARM CI server. Likewise you can at least run and test x86 code on an ARM mac. My personal experience was that well crafted neon code usually ran somewhat faster on x86 than scalar code. For us that was good enough so we only ever had to write the NEON code path.

Personally, I'm skeptical of cross platform SIMD libraries because as you say there are often no direct equivalents when you get on to stuff the compiler can't auto vectorise, like obtuse shuffles and so on. SIMDe is a bit different as it's not providing a cross platform write once run anywhere base, so much as letting you run your carefully crafted platform specific SIMD code run at all (and probably run ok) on other platforms.

I just woke up to this? Nobody said people shouldn't have to have insurance, bro. The statement was that nobody should be writing profit for private corporations into the law.

I just woke up to this. Nobody's saying anyone's saying nobody should have to have insurance, bro.

The statement was that nobody should be subsidising cars yet further. Someone has t odo the work of amortizing the risks. Why should that be on the taxpayer not the car owners?

With motor vehicles, most people are getting the ability to easily cause damage far exceeding their ability to pay. I think it's reasonable you should be required to prove you can pay for the damage you're able to cause.

I also don't think cars need any more subsidies than they're already getting.

Might I introduce you to SIMDe?

It's really cool, they have a general implementation of the "platform specific" instruction set headers (like xmintrin.h). The result is you can target any SIMD intrinsics and run it at a reasonable speed on any CPU.

Obviously though the performance profile won't be right except on the intended CPU, but you can write, test, CI all the code paths on a single arch.

Apple isn't the best option though.

Technically the soc is excellent, can't deny that. Trouble is it's hobbled by the operating system. And ports.

I'm even seeing tiny firmware moving to Rust.

An awful lot of firmware moved over to C++ yonks ago, too before Rust was on the cards. There have been a few hold outs where reasonable C++ compilers didn't exist, usually on platforms so small you really can write it in C or even ASM without that much penalty.

Last time I wrote C in anger was on some 8051 base bluetooth controller years ago. The compiler was IAR Embedded C/C++ 9 I think (2010 ish?). Eventually after trying to write C++ I kept bumping into so many missing things I gave up trying to figure out what passed for C++ in their minds an wrote C instead.

Still, no allocation, some basic logic and a few FIR filters. It was fine.

All of them? How do you know?

It is very typical of an American to pick the worst instance of anything they can find in order to prove they're better than the very worst thing you can find! Good for you!

Meanwhile you have roads that are more dangerous than anything in Western Europe. I look forward to your excuses as to why this is the case.