I live in Oslo, Norway. I'm driving a BMW i3 I bought new 12 years ago. It was a piece of shit the day I bought it. It's the exact same piece of shit now. I've calculate that so far, I'm at about $245 USD per month total cost of ownership including charging and toll booths across these 12 years. I suspect I can drive it for another 6-10 years and by then I expect the TCO to have dropped to about $195 a month before it starts increasing again.

I can't drive this shit heap too far, 120km on a great day in the middle of summer. And I had an incident a few years back on the countryside in -11C temperatures where I only got 50km in the mountains that day.... that was REALLY COLD but I had blankets for the 3 hour wait for the tow truck.

We'll take a vacation in a few weeks, we'll rent a crappy tesla and drive to Gothenburg or Stockholm. Still massively cheaper than wasting money on a new car that would give me better range for the week or two I need it to. But I still go grocery shopping a few times a month in Sweden because I'm not stupid and this crap car can make it there with a little extra charge each way. Which is no problem because there are chargers at pretty much every exit and they're cheap.

So, that brings me to trucks...

1) one driver 5 truck caravans. This is close and it's going to happen. In fact, I'm pretty sure within a very short time, we'll see most trucks driverless on the highway and then you'll see professional drivers being delivered to trucks for last-mile travel where the trucks will still do the driving, but supervised. And then in time, no more drivers... except in New York where some guy named Joe Joe who graduated from "Vinnie's airplane towing school" is considered more qualified than an airline pilot with a hundred thousand hours of flight time and a formal education and tows airplanes to the terminal because "we're a union shop".

2) Telsa isn't selling the trucks to make money from the trucks... oh they will... but consider that a model-X at 1/50 the size is like 1/3 the cost of the truck. The money comes from the infrastructure. Tesla will build out a charging network even if they have to dip into the college funds of Musk's 72 children to do so. And he'll use fuel cell and solar and possibly wind to charge up the battery power banks. He'll then find a way to cut deals with the truck stops that he'll install the chargers at their truck stops in exchange for parts of the food profits and for massive discounts on any fuel needed for the fuel cells. Then he'll make a deal with netflix and disney plus and all of them for the entertainment systems in the trucks and he'll charge the truck drivers for Starlink. And he'll then have a huge fleet of spare Tesla Semi's that can be quickly delivered to drivers on the road who have problems. They'll then arrange for the semi to be serviced and returned to the driver as he passes back. Of course, all at a cost.

Within 5 years, he'll have streamlined most of the US land freight infrastructure, bled everyone dry in the process and be strongly positioned to sell Tesla Semi as a service in competition with the existing fleets.

Europe and Asia (outside of Russia and India) will be a much tougher win because we prefer rail where possible. And at least here in Norway, we would still rather invest in new rails rather than new roads.

The Windows Start Menu is so frigging confusing that I use it for two things

1) press windows, type name of app, press enter
2) press start, type basic equation (I.e 5/1.35), pray it gives me numbers and not an advertisement for feminine hygiene products

I am terrified when I need to use a mouse on the start menu. It's as though it can do everything except start programs

I would mod you up if I could. As an American, I had no idea at all who they are. I suspect most of my countrymen can say the same. Not saying this isn't news and shouldn't be reported, but I guess it will only be a big deal to what I assume are the 100 or so weirdos in the USA who bought their phones and thought they were clever for doing so.

Cuba has a mix of domestic, institutional and national level installations, same as everywhere else, as I mentioned above. Why would you think it would be otherwise?

But not as fast as I'd have imagined, tbh. 1GW added in 2025, which took renewables from 3 to 10% of Cuba's energy mix. I'd have imagined they'd have put in more like 5GW by now, but I guess they really are pretty small and poor, so it's tough for them to finance, whether at individual, institutional or national scale.

I found both of these articles quite interesting:
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/0...

https://www.aljazeera.com/feat...

Broadcom is actually fabless, except for some mostly irrelevant research facilities.

I have a crappy old IDE (not even SATA) cdrom in my closet which I bought a usb to IDE cable for. I can't find the power bricks to any of my old laptops with working DVD or CD drives. I think it would be hillarious if they just made a CD with an autorun.inf that played Never Gonna Give You Up. How many people would actually know

I just wanted to say. I don't think C or C++ are good languages and while I think clang is a pretty decent C++ compiler, I think it's far from what it could become.

Why not use an llm to audit code?

Maybe they should use a lot of LLMs, get second and third and fourth oppinions.

Or is the article making a point that the US government is limiting themselves to one llm and if you want to hack the government, you just need to find Mythos's weaknesses?

Seriously?

I used to hand code boot sector viruses by disassembling the msdos mbr and boot sector in debug.com and then making my own.

These days, if I wanted to hack, I'd load up vllm on wsl2 running Qwen or similar, open up opencode and just tell it to hack. I would do a much better job of covering my tracks, but Windows, Linux, Mac... it really doesn't matter. They're all the same.... the trick is you start by saying "find me a cloud service somewhere which I can use for running anonymous Linux vms, or find me a way to setup payment methods I can use to anonymously create accounts on cloud services".

I think NVidia is not particularly worried about it.

NVidia is an odd duck because they are profitable. And, they have now locked in long term contracts in business, industrial, automotive, aerospace and more. NVidia also has a surprisingly small footprint. Only 42000 employees. Facebook by random comparison has 77000, IBM has 264,000. They have $80 billion in cash and infinite credit lines.

Jensen is already working on the next big thing because he knows data centers is short term. And consider this, a full populated HGX B200 Board (8 GPUs + Baseboard) which costs $350,000 a pop, they have a 75-80% margin (all public info) and they sell data centers full of then. And, oddly, even though it will be a fraction of the margin, NVidia's consumer CPUs are soon going to utterly eclipse their data center profits because they let Qualcomm foot the bill to get Windows on ARM ready, got Microsoft to tune WoA for NVidia, and my guess is, they'll get MS to seed 5000 developers with dev units at Build.. which Qualcomm didn't do... which is why they failed.

I have been testing Intel ARC heavily for a week for local AI. Intel has a lot to do. I don't think AMD even has a plan.

Jensen is creepy as hell and is using FUD to cash in. And this announcement will have him staging a dinner with someone important to make a big deal about how this will push China into the lead and the US needs to get serious.

BTW, Deepseek making their own chips is a non-starter. They already have a tiny footprint compared to their peers, they actually wouldn't profit from it. It might just ge a fund raiser.

October 13, 2023
I would have expected the layoffs closer to two years than three, but Microsoft probably had a huge accounting mess to sort from the merger. And the DDR price hikes needed to be massaged until it could be a strong enough excuse to appease the unions.
The layoffs were planned as part of the buyout. They always aee.

OK, but those are all ancillary and not core. You implied core capability in your original phrasing: “ software does need to be updated because most EVs use connected car features and software for DC fast charging. Your EV may work fine in 15 years, but it may not support certain DC fast chargers“

Some (relatively minor) features may stop working, but you’ll still be able to charge 15 years from now.

I’ve never heard of this, and I’ve been driving EVs for 10 years. Maybe Tesla superchargers for their handshake so that plug’n’charge works, but that would only prevent plug n charge, not fail the whole handshake and stop the charging entirely. Which specific DC fast chargers and which cars and what specific requirements? We have plenty of 15 year old computer kit that can still connect to modern routers, and that kit is not expected to be anywhere near as long-lived as a car.

I'm American and Gen X. The Gen X thing is actually important. We were the original video game kids. We were the first generation to enter the work force where everybody in an office had a PC on their desk. We should be way better at tech stuff than we are. One of my high school classmates, who was a nurse by the way, almost brags that she "can't use a computer at all" and does everything tech related via her phone. This has not always worked in her favor. I have friends around my age who have no idea at all how to send money via Pay Pal, Venmo, etc. One friend who is an attorney and runs a small but reasonably successful legal practice with his wife (also an attorney), just kind of has his eyes glaze over and acts like "it's TOO hard!" if he has to click more than 2 buttons to do anything on a PC. Now if Gen X, again my generation, is like this, imagine how utterly hopeless older generation people are. My late uncle, a silent generation guy, kept creating new accounts on Facebook every time he forgot his password because that was somehow easier for him than trying to get help with the password. Sigh.

So I have a Gne X friend who got scammed a few years ago. We'll call him Adam. Adam's job is an elementary school teacher. His computers skills are very poor. On a scale of 1 to 10 with 10 being great and 1 being terrible, I'd rate him a 2. He's a 3 at absolute best. How bad is he? Attach a USB flash drive to his PC and ask him to save a document to it. He has no understanding at all how to change directories so the document will save to a new place. He got scammed because of his poor computer skills and the fact that he doesn't do his own income taxes, which as I will explain led him to believe a false claim the scammers made and this false claim was what made the scam work.

It was during summer break from teaching and one morning his mind was distracted over some activity he had coming up in a few days. He was on his PC, probably visiting a site he really shouldn't have been on, and some pop up appeared claiming that his PC was under attack, but click on this button and we can help you save it. The distraction thing played a huge role in why he clicked on the button. He clicked on it and immediately got contacted by "Microsoft Support" and got on a phone call with the scammers. They told him some wild tale about his bank account possibly being compromised, so he gave them control over his PC and allowed them access to his online bank account. Some banks have an offer on their websites where you can "apply for a loan in minutes", so with control, the scammers did that. They did not actually get any money but the loan application got approved and that approval changed some sort of total in his account to show the addition of the loan amount. With that change, they convinced him that scammers had deposited money into his account and he would have to pay taxes on that money, so he was in big trouble. That's not how US taxes work. If things worked that way, Elon Musk and others like him could destroy their critics by making massive deposits into the critic's bank account, taking the money back, and laughing as the victim had to pay taxes on a, say, $100 million deposit that is now gone. So the scammers got him to use his bank money to buy Amazon gift cards, which he transferred to them as they assured him it would "protect" his money from a big tax bill. I think that after that they tried to get even more money from him and that finally made him suspicious and the call ended, but his bank account was drained of a little under $20,000. So these scammers pray on people with weak PC skills and little knowledge of how the US income tax system works and that's how they get suckers to give them money.

We *expect* calendar life to play a role for LFP and sodium chemistries, but the truth is we just don’t know how significant it’s going to be. For NMC, it’s clearly going to have an impact. Even given calendar life, I still think the dynamics of the used car market shift significantly, because that market has all the volume at 3 to 10 years, after which the value drops off a cliff. There’s no volume market for 20 year old ICE vehicles, but there will be for EVs.