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Do you trust ChatGTP to give you data, with a poisoned data set?

I will be honest: I don't get why your post is upvoted.
Brain-Fu is saying he is interviewing people with Bachelor or Master degrees, which means they are just ONE small step away from being completely on top of the Education pyramid with a PHD. Brain-Fu is complaining that he isn't really getting anything he couldn't have gotten from taking a few people who had completed pre college and just done apprenticeships.
Brain-Fu second point, is that the skill level Brain-Fu experienced would enable him to at the least have a chance in the interviews Brain-Fu commits. Brain-Fu is puzzled over the complete breach of continuity.

But let me come back to my point:
Vocation training exist where I live. A "car mechanic" is a certified vocationship where you can do school year 11+12 in school, and year 13+14 as a minimally paid apprentice with access to student loans and grants. For all intents and purposes, a car mechanic in this system comes off the mill with 4 years of work experience under his belt with a newly minted vocationship in Car Mechanics.
This again opens the opportunity to go to get a Bachelor and then a Master, while working part time and having RL work experience under your belt, possibly even taking the next step up the ecosystem and going from being a specialized and educated tool user to getting a degree to become a Tool maker tool maker. But since this is ecosystem related, a Mechanical Engineer should at the have an idea on what a mechanic is, and what a mechanic do.
As far as I am aware, where I live, you could do a Vocationship for IT: End user hardware, customer support, light scripting. School with specialized education for year 11 and 12, and a vocationship apprenticeship year 13 and 14 in a normal enterprise. And bam, 4 years of CV experience.
Because IT isn't very super secret expensive tool intensive, these people can and will work up the ladder in their field. But you should expect anybody with work experience to at the least do light scripting, but for an engineer that should be a given.

The essence is a bit more blunt: He is interviewing people with Masters degree in art, and they have the drawing ability of a toddler.

So Germany, Austria, Belgium, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland AND Holland has a population of 135 million together. That is including ignoring South Africa, for a lot of reasons.
That IS the Dutch market. What you are saying is a lot like saying "Texas is only a market of 31 million, surely they can't develop anything".

One of the great struggles with the EU project, is that it used to be what you said: Internal economies, language barriers, trade restrictions.
But there is a point here: What remains is that when it comes to large projects such as replacing the entire dominant OS stack and software.... somebody has to foot t he bill, and that somebody always has to be somebody else. Or a region tries to get away from paying the MS tax, only to discover that its competing with more than a decade of cumulative high end software, alongside the actual internal tech debt inside of each IT department and vendor.

I don't think anything will come of it. There is just something nice about precompiled binaries, MS computer fleet management systems, good software support, lack of broader vendor lockin on the upper layers, and using a HTML5 browser.

After a few rounds of driving the Tesla with phone key setup, i disagree.
You enter the car, and set it in gear, and drive. And maybe use the right side of the screen to add a address, where you get to see the car load in satellite images instead of the google maps UI. If you are going further than the range of the car, its going to plan out charging and manage battery pre heating to keep charging to a minimum.
And the only thing you would use the app for would be..... starting the car before you go out to it, such as heating the interior? Or sending in service requests, and see if its possible to remote diagnose it?

You have high tech and sleek, and high tech and clunky. The latter i don't really mind for industrial machines, but i really dislike it for home use, appliances and cars.
The Tesla is very close to the ideal. Seamless keyless experience, good follow distance on the cruise control, and no fiddly manual management of battery pre condition for charging for longer distances.

Partially agree, but here is the problem: Musk is by this point at his what... 5th good high tech venture?
Zuckerberg has bought a lot of IP, but has nothing to show for it beyond the continued operational capacity.

A small caveat: There isn't a "next cheap country" because the CCP bulldozing and industry of scale is keeping the costs reasonable.
"Move" and the Chinese will just keep the factory going and sell a competing product. Or the production line is China remains competitive because the infrastructure around it works, and the bribes needed to keep it running for import and export isn't a hassle.
And I find this.... very interesting.

At the current iteration of slashdot, your argument won't be challenged. Not because its wrong, but because it fails to address there is a even easier chink in the armor to aim for:
Aptera has still NOT shipped a "production vehicle".

Use case? Cost? Driving dynamics? Unsprung weight?

" sixth prize for Economic Sciences, endowed by Sweden's central bank, Sveriges Riksbank, and first presented in 1969, is also frequently included"

Sometimes, you do not pay for the service or parts. You pay for the possibility of buying another product down the line.
Sometimes an entire industry will collectively pay, to make sure their supplier will exist in a decade. And with the market slowly shrinking due changes in technology... you either got bankruptcies, selling IP, or success stories like Leica.

If any comparable organization is counted by region/city, then yes. But that is just splitting hairs.
Its also a matter on if you are just counting the doctors and technicians, nurses, low level healthcar staff, and the janitors.

At the same time, as a counterpoint... one could always just post the real world charts of what the actual real world wattage is for cars: The measure method is using the defined speed(90kmh or 120km/h, a few on 200km/h) via cruise control at highway, in similar weather conditions, blasting the climate system.
https://docs.google.com/spread...

A quick peak will lend such insights as: The refresh 64kWh Nissan Leaf has the same power consumption at 90km/h as a Tesla Model 3 Highlander at 120km/h.
There being a correlation between lower rim size and lower power consumption, Horsepower do not correlate with power consumption
This is all current consumer level technology, available right now even 2nd hand.

Its almost as if this kind of things define the difference between first and third rate OPSEC.
Why buy from a distributor instead of buying directly from China? Why not verify the logistic route? Why not verify the parts? Why not dismantle a few completely to verify integrity? Why one brand of pagers, not several?

>clearance to allow for tire chains
Isn't that like 1/20 of the suspension travel? What kind of question is that?

Alibaba exist so you can FIND AND NEGOTIATE DIRECTLY with a Chinese factory. 10.000 ekickbikes with some modifications? Sure. Copies of decrapted Swedish mining drills from the 1970s out of production? Sure. Copies of various larger construction equipment? Yupp
Shein, Temu, Aliexpress and others exist so you can buy cheap consumer goods almost directly from the first or second redistributor warehouse near manufacture. The entire point of it is that your local home improvement + automotive store Biltema or Harbor freight has a markup that is quite significant, and they might not import the gizmo you want to your region. The same is sometimes true for electronics.
Sure, you can attempt to dropship of Shein/Temu/Aliexpress/DX/etc, but its not in the economic of scale compared to Alibaba.

People used to pay for shipping to get a create of various samples, so they could order creates of only the samples.

After thinking long and hard about it, the government view in a lot of countries is that a Internet message app should be viewed as a postal service.
Which include police scanning, drug forfeiture, customs and toll, and end to end being under national claim.

The tl:dr of this case is that by making a P2P message app, making it mainstream, you end up in a situation where you could upset some rather lumbering and slow organizations.
Its also easier to take on high profile targets, than to deal with the culture that causes a lot of the scandals to take hold in society.