Cylindrical cells are not the future though, they are older tech and have proven to be largely inferior to prismatic and blade batteries. Prismatic cells for lower cost and higher energy density, blade batteries for extreme performance. Tesla is using older chemistry too.

You botched copy/pasting the quite. I fixed it for you:

That makes complete sense and is in fact how all major operating systems optimize boot times, and how software developers often optimize performance in general. Do as little as possible, and do as much of it in parallel as possible.

Tricky to do with init scripts because there are a lot of dependencies to manage and checks that need to be done for timing and sequencing. systemd makes it easy and I've used it extensively for building a custom OS for embedded systems where hardware init and configuration has to happen in specific sequences, but can be parallel with other parts of the OS starting.

It's interesting that you mention unreasonable costs for end users, because most distros have adopted systemd. That suggests that you want to impose unreasonable costs on distro maintainers for your own benefit.

There are no large sources of waste, unless you count "money spend for things we don't agree with". That said, I think you underestimate how much waste results from people doing things that computers could do, but which nobody has spend the money to automate.

Appropriateness of the response to the emergency is part of the legal considerations. Congress granted the power for a reason. Taking that and assuming it means arbitrary power is not operating within the law, not for Trump, not for Biden.

In what way? Please correct me.

Bah. If a human driver increased their safety and reliability by avoiding certain situations, would you call them a worse driver for it?

They provide full access to the regulators, and they've allowed academic researchers full access. Putting it all online would be more transparent, but they're a business and they have up and coming competitors.

Betteridge strikes again.

Muskrat bought a bunch of gpus before the AI bubble really got going because he was preemptively pumping the SpaceX stock by shouting look at me I'm buying all this computer hardware for my AI so you know I'm going to make you rich!

He never did anything with any of it because that wasn't the point. He wasn't building data centers he was scamming investors.

Now he's got stacks and stacks of gpus sitting around gathering dust and to keep the stock price pumped for the time being he needs to make it look like he's going to have a ton of revenue coming in. In practice he's not and he's just going to steal all your 401K money but we're going to get bullshit articles like this because anyone who does real journalism like Patrick Boyle over on YouTube gets fired or demonetized.

If you watch the most recent video from Patrick Boyle and go to the end of the video he explains how the scam works. Initially investors get murdered in by the promise of big fat returns but they can't sell the stock for the first 120 days as part of the buying agreement. Just one of those investors are at the point where they can sell the stock and it's likely to crash the rule changes to NASDAQ for SpaceX stock into safe index funds.

Your 401k will be forced to purchase SpaceX stock for the index funds that were the otherwise be safe investments. You will not have the option of not buying SpaceX stock. Eventually your 401k will be full of SpaceX stock and a variety of other rotten AI bullshit stocks that will collapse eliminating the value of your retirement savings.

When this happens the people who saw it coming will still be screwed because there's nothing they could do about it because the people who didn't see it coming refused to vote for the kind of reforms that are needed. It doesn't matter if you realize you're a crab in a bucket you're still a crab and a bucket and they're going to drag you back down every time you try to get out.

There is 10 trillion dollars in 401ks. If you think the thieves that have already created 1 trillionaire are going to stop and leave that money sitting there you're nuts. That money belongs to them not you. You gave it to them when you kept voting for culture War bullshit instead of boring annoying people like senator Warren who know how to regulate Wall Street

The batteries would have to be specially designed to fit in the 3d print. 3d printing by itself is both slower and more expensive than injection molding (unless it is a small run). Throw in custom batteries are you are probably making the items 10x more expensive for a moderate sized job. Economies of scale might work for something we are making in the tens of thousands.

LLM predict what responses a human considers to be normal. It does not tell the truth, it does not have a memory of what it has done, it does not think logically.

If you want to ban these you're going to have to give something up. Maybe not you personally but certainly some of the people reading this.

You have to change how you vote and doing that means giving up other issues. These are going to typically be issues that appeal to the right wing, especially culture War issues because you can give those up without it directly impacting your civil rights or your income.

That's a tough sale for a lot of people especially anyone older. And they can always just tell themselves, hey I'm not doing anything illegal why do I care? Meanwhile the cop shows they watch every night on cable television are going to tell them how these cameras are the best thing ever for catching those evil evil criminals...

The real problem is that the use of the Flock system is cheap. If the cops had to pay $1,000 per search request I guarantee that a police officer would become a gate keeper ensuring that each and every request was valid.

It's abuse in and of itself. I am so sick and tired of other people giving up my rights because they don't understand what the repercussions are of giving up their rights. I'm not so stupid that I can pretend I don't have to live in the same society as they do.

But I mean what the hell am I supposed to do in a country where we are about to give the Iranian dictatorship $300 billion of taxpayer money and 37% of the country is cool with that because they think it's going to be private money. Like what the hell do I say to somebody who thinks like that? There is a fundamental breakdown in thought processes in this country with over 1/3 of the country unable to think and reason rationally or competently..

Make "Buy", "Own", and "Sell" reserved for actually owning something rather than licensing.

Require the use of words like "Rent", "License", and "Borrow" when we are talking about licensing things.

After all when you pay a landlord a monthly fee for the use of an apartment nobody says you bought it, own it, or it was sold.

Similarly, we need to require IP businesses to follow the same conventions.

Do you honestly believe that mass debt forgiveness -- after COVID was already over! -- was a necessary emergency response to the pandemic? Suspending payments (and interest) during the pandemic made perfect sense, and that was not struck down. I don't recall that it was even challenged.

No, the debt forgiveness clearly had nothing to do with the (already-ended) emergency, it was just an attempt to skirt the law, and the courts were quite correct to strike it down as executive overreach. If Biden wanted to do that, he should have lobbied Congress to change the law. He didn't do that, of course, because he knew Congress would refuse -- even though his party held both houses.