(snip)China has always required a visa, but now they're expanding their visa-free list and we're not on it.
FWIW, China offers a "travel without visa" for USA citizens for up to 10 days. I benefitted earlier this year when it was new. Other than Shanghai passport control needing to review their new rules (I guess I was among the first) it was simple and painless.
I do support this bill for a simple reason: You sign for service X for 2 years. After 6 months, the service is degraded for any reason, or the company decides to alter something that makes the service less valuable to you. It makes sense to have a clear picture, and a cap on costs, so I can decide the cost of 'betting' that this company will be able to offer consistency over the period of my contract.
I understand that the businesses like to know their future income to plan things ahead, but as a customer you have little protection in the quality of the service changes, and you don't feel like a battle with the mandatory arbitration company of their choice.
I generally support consumer protections, though California already protects against situations like you mention: if the service degrades, or the company makes an alteration, you have recourse to cancel. To add to your protection, put the recurring charge on a credit card and the CC company will go to bat for you.
It should still be vented outdoors, if only to handle the smells. Expelling hydrocarbons is a bonus. And, no... I am no chef, so comparing my cooking to the French Laundry is unfair.
Actually, with the increased credit card reward, Costco pays me foe the privilege to shop earlier than others.
Having been on the autobahn a lot there's no cruising comfortably at 155. There's wildly switching between smashing the accelerator and smashing the brake. That's on a good day. On a normal day it's mostly plodding along at 40 stuck in traffic.
The autobahn is *AT BEST* describable as short bursts of high speed driving.
If you say so. My time there in the south of Germany (near Ramstein) my brother in law and I were buzzing around 200km/hr between cities. Sure, we slow down _quickly_ as the towns approach but the left lane was moving fast... and we weren't the fastest!
4 is efficient. 6 is smooth. 8 is loud. All can make lots of power with turbos and more with hybrids.
And they all suck compared to evs.
My other car has 8 cylinders and is quieter... much quieter... than my 6. Both were tuned for comfort. Oh, and both are quieter than those silly alien spaceship sounding EVs. Explain that?
The AMG badge typically meant you either had a tuned V8 or even V12. And it wasn't for drag racing or making noise. It meant you wanted to cruise comfortably at 155+ on the autobahn.
They days you can do that with a not particularly advanced six, or a high end four. Modern four cylinder engines make over 400HP with turbocharging, and an engine with 300HP is more than enough to do speeds like that. The idea that you need a V8 or V12 to cruise at 155 is nonsense. (The four would be loud, but a good straight six would be fine, and since hoods are getting longer again there's room.)
I presume we're talking mph and not kph. My V-6 matched to an 8-speed sounds overly loud at the legal limit of 80mph. I can't imagine listening to that thing at 155mph for any length of time... at least not in any "comfortably cruising" sense.
you wanted to cruise comfortably at 155+ on the autobahn.
Except nobody actually does that.
Tell us you've never been on the autobahn without actually saying it.
All this time, I though he crashed closer to the North Pole.
Just rented a Mazda 3 last weekâ¦. The screen was a touchscreen. And the CarPlay controls there were crap compared to my wifeâ(TM)s Hyundai.
It looks like cities with fair weather, no snow and limited rain with newer cleanly constructed and laid out roads that are pre-mapped in exquisite detail ahead of time and curated with constant updates are successful in limited areas of those cities. It remains to be seen how this will expand to areas where all external sensors on all vehicles fail regularly, areas with older badly laid out roads and intersections, and rural areas will actually pan out. Maybe in 50 years but we are going to see the lowest hanging fruit areas fill fast then completely stall out like we are seeing with AI.
Los Angeles decisively fails the "newer cleanly constructed and laid out roads " test. Citation: I live here. Another test: "that are pre-mapped in exquisite detail ahead of time and curated with constant updates are successful in limited areas of those cities" in spite of socially driven apps like Waze, construction zones are plentiful surprises, and it is common for streets to become blocked so that Wazers don't get shortcutted through the canyon roads.
don't say "86," someone might think you are out to get rid of a competitor.
According to a display at Disneyland's "Soarin'" ride, '86 is related to being shot down by an F-86 aircraft.
American schools are probably the most prepared in the world...
Probably true. My kids' private school certainly is. I am not sure what letter grade I'd give them for AI preparedness, certainly a B+ but maybe it's an A.
My kids get to go to Disneyland relatively often since we live close and have passes. So, naturally, their chosen AI project was a critical analysis of various facets of LLM trip planning. LLMs are very good and scheduling down to the minute, as long as the people don't need to eat, drink, use the restroom, or sit and rest. The students' prompts even inserted those details, but the LLM couldn't quite "get" human frailty. Earned them a trip to a nearby University to present, in turn earning them top-3 standing (out of around 30) and big scholarship offers. Not bad.
I'd like to know which schools WERE prepared for ChatGPT.
My kids' private school did pretty well. They tailored testing to avoid wrote learning, and reports and written projects were adjusted to personalize the expected answers.
I think for most students, eventually they'll be found out and realize using AI to do their work will not help them long term.
What a few classes did was turn on ChatGPT (and others) and learn to ask questions... relearn to ask better questions... prepare a list of prompts... and then learn to figure out if the results were "correct".
I thought I heard enough about Apple lying about their own AI being vaporware, how are they going to pull off this kind of move?
I am more bored than you could ever possibly be. Go back to work.
