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Comment Re:A sad day (Score 1) 163

Typical Superchargers will put out 250kW and now some will reach 350kW, with plans for 500kW

Oh, I hadn't heard that, but do you actually get that in practice? It sounds like many stations "share" a portion of the cabinet kw, so if other drivers are charging too it slows it down. Also, some testing revealed Tesla was exaggerating the kw throughput (*shocker*) of some of the chargers (https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a32132062/tesla-250-kw-vs-150-kw-supercharger-tested/). And for Tesla, "planned" means "we'd like to think that we will do this in the future," like their "planned" autopilot...

But I stand by my bigger point that it is unlikely to have any kind of routine access to a 700+ kw charger in the U.S. any time soon.

Comment Re:Weird (Score 1) 104

I mean, when you had a cocktail or beer in your left hand and a smoke in your right hand, the world just felt right

This is nothing but the power of advertising. The tobacco and alcohol companies spent billions and billions to build the association between their products and "having a good time." But there's nothing inherently fun about sucking sticky tar and toxic chemicals into your lungs, having ash fall all over your clothes, having your teeth fall out, and literally burning money. But thanks to the power of advertising, we somehow have had our brains trained to see this as "fun."

Remember that the next time you have this longing - it's not true, it's only something that's been planted there by years of brain programming through advertising.

Comment Re:A sad day (Score 1) 163

BYD's new electric vehicles can add around 250 miles of charge in 5 minutes now

You are not doing this at home or at any charging station currently in the U.S. None of the articles I could find detailed what the load coming IN to the car was; but even at 4 miles / kw you'd need something like 63 kW delivered to your car in 5 minutes to get 250 miles of range. Which would be something like 756 kW / hour for the charger, which is something like 7 times more than you get at a Tesla supercharger.

In other words, forget about it. Even if you could buy the car, you're not recharging at these rates anywhere in the U.S.

Comment Re: How it's made (Score 1) 202

Good luck artist

AI is basically game over for making a living in music. And basically game over for Spotify, for that matter. Feed AI 20-30 of your favorite songs, and AI will generate an endless playlist of similar sounding songs for essentially no cost. No Spotify needed.

In a good mood? Tell AI, "make these songs happier." Done. Have a romantic break-up? Tell AI, "turn these into break-up songs." Done.

And the songs can be about whatever you want. Your dog. Your favorite coffee store. Your heroic resolution to that printer driver problem at work. Your amazing job cutting the grass and how hot you are with your shirt off.

Sure, there will be a handful of celebrity entertainers that dance, maybe even sing, maybe even sing live, but AI is quickly going to kill 90-95% of the money in the music business within a decade. Movies and TV, you're next.

Comment Re:Song writers too (Score 1) 202

Execs really dug their own grave by making music so drab, boring, repetitive and especially by removing all requirement for any kind of musical talent

But musicians who actually have talent, and tens of thousands of hours of practice and hard work, and play in one of the country's symphony orchestras are struggling to find an audience. Most major symphonies are struggling to make ends meet, many have cut hours and pay, some have even closed. And they play newly-composed music, too, it's not like they sit around playing Bach over and over again. But most people just aren't interested.

Comment Re:human safari (Score 1) 252

In that example, he was only 1/2 a mile from the Ukrainian lines, so a very short walk vs. 12 miles which would be at the long end of the range for the drones. He also was almost killed by an artillery strike along the way to surrender.
It also isn't clear, as far as I know, based on international law if surrendering to a drone requires the same laws of combat as surrendering to someone in person, especially if they are miles and miles away from any practical capture.

Comment AI is massively overvalued (Score 4, Informative) 68

AI is important and can provide value to users, but it is massively overvalued and I suspect you will lose most of the $$ you invest as AI is only going to get cheaper and cheaper as models dramatically improve. It's an investment bubble and I think those who make wise choices will be very happy in 3 years.

Comment Re: Why???!?? (Score 1) 154

Personally if I owned a restaurant I would want to keep out anyone who takes pictures of their food and posts on instagram

One of your top responsibilities as the owner is to know what your customers think about you. Unfortunately, people today are much more likely to share their opinion on their social media than to tell you directly. So, if you want to know what your customers think of you, you have to go there.

Comment Re:human safari (Score 1) 252

Can you really surrender to a drone? Are you really going to expect an enemy combatant to walk 12 miles across contested territory, with a drone following them the whole way, so they can be taken into custody? The drone battery will die long before the soldier can make that 12 mile hike, at which point would they just turn and run? But, at the same time, killing a wounded or unarmed or obviously defeated soldier with a drone simply because they can't practically surrender also seems like a war crime?

I don't know the answers, but drones have dramatically changed war and our rules of engagement have not kept up.

Comment Re:effective? (Score 4, Insightful) 129

Trump did create the vaccine under Operation Warp Speed

Nope. He did not "create the vaccine." He agreed to let the government throw some money around to various companies who wanted to try to make a vaccine with the agreement that the government would get first dibs on any successfully created vaccine. In fact, as a taxpayer who probably paid more in taxes than Trump during those years, I likely had a bigger role in "creating the vaccine" than Trump.

Comment Re:Nothing was going to help (Score 1) 199

From what I've read, nothing was going to help

The kids at the camp who were in cabins on higher ground all survived. The cabins where the campers died NEVER should have been there (and it seems the long-term owners of the camp knew it from prior flash-flooding incidents). Relying on alerts is foolish because they often don't work.

Comment Re:The economy is struggling (Score 1) 241

I don't believe any job is truly safe from AI. It is extremely difficult to predict how AI is going to disrupt the jobs of the future, and I would not recommend pursuing a career or job pathway simply because it seems to be "less likely" to be affected by AI, because the truth is we really don't know.

The only real answer is to never stop learning and keep growing your skills. Never stand still and assume that you've "made it."

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