Apera started out as ICE and is nowhere close to solar powered. Aptera is allegedly a car company, yet it claims that unsprung weight doesn't matter, it's not at all clear that anyone should even consider them a car company.

"They are not a fake or phony company."

No, they're a company pushing a fake and phony product. Good job, though, AC promoting Aptera lies. Maybe you can make that "extended wait" another 20 years.

And Aptera's "product" is NOT solar powered, originally they made that very clear. But then they decided to get some mileage out of that lie.

To be clear, the Aptera, when operating, consumes electric at least 10x the rate that its solar panels can generate it. It should also be known that the Aptera, as undesirable as it is as a car, gets about 6 miles/kWh according to their own testing, not a lot better than the Model 3. Doesn't keep them from continuing to claim they get 10 though.

Aptera is a company of liars based around the same decades old, tired idea from graduate school that no one wants. These people are not automotive engineers.

That bubble is filled with the toxic pus of a dozen Elon Musks. It really needs to be drained, but we aren't going to like it when that happens.

Sadly, the lesson is that we have allowed billionaires enormous economic power to cause problems like this yet that will be a root cause not addressed.

Dang you can afford streaming services?

Nothing quite like the improvement of replacing cable with a half dozen streaming services. Hulu LiveTV, what a bargain.

Don't be naive, it's opportunistic corporations doing it. AI memory demands are an excuse, the shortage is manufactured.

And didn't the /. AI experts tell us that the only gating cost of AI was gigawatts?

You guys would normally love this, but ... lol

I think you are confused. The corpse of Biden has shuffled off the stage.

Yeah, it's almost as though you should hire actual Americans, as actual employees.

AV1 seems like a good codec - I'm always happy to use it though, even hardware assisted encoding is still a bit slow for me. If I'm reencoding videos for my own use I usually will encode to x265 instead, which has a good balance between file size/quality and compression speed.

They could say no. No-one is stopping them.

You're right. Also a professional baseball player *could* put their bats down and just stand at the plate, but pointing out that it's physically possible is stupid, especially if your argument supporting that "They Can Just Do That" is that baseball players *should put their bats down*.

This is why such people shouldn't be in positions of power.

Again with the should. It's dumb saying "they can do something, but they won't, but they should" because it's a moot point. Yes, they could also write a press release that is an 80 page Star Trek fanfic set in the narrative universe of Mr Rogers. Nothing is stopping them. But what is the value of pointing out something they are physically capable of when even you seem to understand why they won't? It's just a completely meaningless observation, particularly since you couch it in phrasing that suggests it's just a simple easy thing to do? You're trying to have your argument both ways - it makes you sound simple.

It seems like less than a week ago that the /. experts were telling us the only thing gating AI was gigawatts.

"AI will of course take over any new requirements..."

by simply reporting what it's told to. You need the average to be 40 mpg, then it's 40 mpg. There's a reason Teslas have such good range, the company is run by pathological liars.

"This is a much-needed move..."

Nothing the Trump does is a "much needed move" unless you are a criminal. I guess that tells us who sinij is.

"Trump needs to pick fights the USA can win."

Trump's definition of "win" is not the same as yours. Trump's winning always ends in bankruptcy.