It's not even intelligence, artificial or not yet. It's still just brute force machine learning. Until the day comes when you can show an AI system a picture of 2 cats or dogs or cars or humans of different shape, size and color and it can then immediately and correctly identify all cats as a cat, dogs as a dog, cars as a car, or other people as humans it cannot think and is not intelligent.

We passed that milestone in the 1990s champ

Keep up.

To justify that assertion you must have a very specific definition of what "reasoning" entails. Would you care to share it?

In the definition of reasoning that I use, e.g., alpha-beta pruning would count as reasoning. Clearly you disagree.

I'd say it's a reimplementation, but not an emulator. It's circuitry, not microcode; the code only determines the configuration of the circuitry. It's also not the original hardware, though, it's only as close as you can get. On the other hand, they could also potentially make improvements later.

You drive your car at 200mph on the roads? I don't think you're car is faster than a train.

Anyway at least you've tacitly admitted that size has nothing to do with it, it's all just performative political nonsense. Nonetheless it's funny how a "brokeass" country can actually afford the thing your are apparently quite jealous of. And socialist isn't really the insult you seem to believe.

I'm not really sure either why you think I'd get a burst of hurt national pride over the most boring, utilitarian roads in the country.

What's funny about this is that I get modded down hard for preaching fiscal responsibility, one of my typical detractors' alleged core values.

Amazon doesn't have a search for only name brand products. You'd have to search each brand individually, which would be agonizing. Even if they did, it would just include bullshit brands.

Today it seems like most products are designed by Chinese OEMs and then "American" brands contract them to produce them with their logo on them. You can often find the same product with another brand on it, usually with no other visible changes except being in a different color.

Some of those products might have different internals than the name brand version, but then, the name brand version might have multiple versions with different internals.

Can't you get something that will take PoE and put out Type C power?

PGE is downright evil and neither the CPUC nor any other part of our government seems to be able to do anything to rein them in, maybe getting some other states involved will help shine a light on whatever corruption allows this to continue.

No, but I'll anticipate the incoming "the US is so backward because it doesn't have a dense national rail system like my $TINY_DENSELY_POPULATED_COUNTRY does!!1!!!11!!!" comments.

Ah yes, the old excuse that Alaska is huge and empty therefore so therefore LA (which is much smaller and much denser than the UK) must also have a shite public transportation system because Alaska!!!! Eagles n' shit! Guns! America Fuck yeah!

Thing is this pathetic excuse repeats ad nauseam across the whole of America. No one cares or expects Alaska or the vast tracts of sparsely populated farming country to be well served by trains, but there's no reason why many towns, cities and metro areas which are dense and rich don't have decent rail.

Spain isn't wildly different from California. A bit bigger and a bit bigger population. And it has high speed Rail. France is a bit more dense but not a factor of 2. And they have an amazing high speed rail network too.

Your excuses don't hold up to scrutiny.

Why drive that far when it's likely cheaper to make that trip by sea? Or by train?

America has loads of goods trains too. And the longer the distances, the bigger the gain, since they're more fuel efficient and need fewer staff.

A stopped clock can be right twice a day. And two wrongs can make a right.

I am not sad about this. Vance is still a deeply sketchy person. Starmer is still a petty authoritarian and a hypocrite (and yet still better than the last lot), and back doors are still stupid. Political pressure over commercial laws is dubious too. Also fuck the police they can't be trusted with this sort of thing either.

Biden? He supplied Ukriane with PATRIOT missile defense systems, HIMARS, and long-range missiles.

He was hardly a dictator. He had not even expanded the SCOTUS to rubber-stamp his opinions, or argued that his word is the law.

I'm not sure exactly what we would call an F-150

I don't know what we call an F-150, but I know what I call someone driving one of them in London. Sounds a bit like with ducking brat.

RTFH (read the fine headline) dude.