Comment Re:Phasing out the wrong thing (Score 1) 117
Your idea is that Chinese people don't choose their car based on ego?
Comment Re:Import of Chinese EV's will be prohibited (Score 1) 117
Which regulations have come into existence in the past eight years that make it impossible for there to be a sub-$15,000 vehicle? The answer is 'very few'
The CCP has taken control of the lithium market. You can't get batteries for a sub-$15,000 vehicle outside of China anymore.
Comment Re:Subsidies (Score 1) 117
The subsidies aren't even the problem. China has taken over the lithium mining pipeline in the same way that they've taken over the rare earths pipeline.
Now only luxury SUVs in America can afford batteries.
Now only luxury SUVs in America can afford batteries.
Comment Re:Most People Have No Idea (Score 1) 102
I'm saying this because I'm not aware of a way to allocate memory that the OS can reclaim at any time...
You don't need to, the OS knows: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Comment Re:No. (Score 1) 102
We are not going to let tech Bros blame programmers for the memory shortage.
I had this thought too...gotta blame the programmers for something so that they feel bad about themselves, and are easy to control (Even if they don't actually care about memory).
Comment Re:Challenging, thank you (Score 1) 102
The reality is, however, a programmer does what works to get their project out the door. If, because they have bad habits, it contains bloatware, noone has any incentive to do anything about it.
The way you write it, it sounds like you are an asshole trying to make excuses for your bad habits.
Comment Re: Bizarre wishful thinking (Score 2) 102
I just hand them a 400kb binary compiled with rustc that doesn't even give a shit which libc version you have installed, because it doesn't even need that.
How many times have you done that?
Comment Re:False definition of 'bad' (Score 1) 102
Wow, work on your reading comprehension before posting again.
Wasting time reducing bloatware is an extra cost that doesn't have a market value, so will be not be done.
You missed the part where it doesn't take more engineering time to be efficient, and in many cases it takes less time.
Comment Re:Bizarre wishful thinking (Score 3, Insightful) 102
Arguably the reason it costs money is because software engineers are really bad. In most cases, it doesn't take more engineering time to be efficient, and in many cases it takes less time. It's a skill issue.
Comment Re: Bizarre wishful thinking (Score 1) 102
That's what you get for using Chrome. I use Lynx.
Comment Re:Bizarre wishful thinking (Score 1, Troll) 102
I have not run out of memory on my computer in years. Unless you're doing something very unusual, RAM is not the limiting factor. CPU speed is more of a problem.
Comment Re: Crappy report. (Score 1) 33
American minimum wage is more than China's median income.
Comment Re: Crappy report. (Score 1) 33
Based on what I can see from vloggers who actually visited China
Sounds like you are not well informed.
China's median income is less than USA's minimum wage. The elites in China are rich, but the average person is poor.
Comment Re:What could possibly go wrong? (Score 1) 264
Actually not that great, LLMs do not scale well with size after a certain point that has been reached some years ago
I have written chat bots in the past, and as a chatbot, ChatGPT is really impressive.
What? That sounds like complete gibberish.
Yes lol
Comment Re: Crappy report. (Score 0) 33
What they do expect is that their leaders will take responsibility for guiding the country into the future, which they seem to be doing a fairly competent job of (unlike some of their past leaders). In barely three decades they've gone from being an almost completely rural Third World country
Yeah, this is the propaganda, but in per capita terms, China is still a poor country. The leaders are rich, and the average person is much better off than before.
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