You don't have to turn your head to see it. It's always in the field of view.

It's how all Teslas work, and honestly it's no hassle at all. The speed is still shown directly in the driver's view (top-right of the central display in the UK, I guess top-let in left-hand drive markets). It's also far from a new idea, my 1970s Mini 1000 had this design as well.

Personally I like it and find a lot of the "more physical controls!" crowd to be vastly overstating things. Tesla are always held up as the example, but they have physical controls on the steering wheel for most things you actually use. They did take a wrong turn with this ridiculous yoke and dropping one of the indicator stalks, but they've backed out of all of that and gone back to normal. The only truly daft omission for me is the lack of button on the glovebox - that one I'll give you is truly silly.

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Am in the UK. Am being paid for exporting solar-generated electricity from my house.

It's actually an old idea. Back in the 90s I worked in a school computer lab where on one floor there were Sun workstations students used. On the floor above, there were Tektronix "dumb" terminals that connected over the network to the workstations downstairs providing users a keyboard, mouse, and monitor. The workstations on the first floor were providing "remote desktop" to those terminals... essentially "Desktop as a Service".

I donâ(TM)t think you actually understand the way quantum computing works and how the calculations per second expand with then number of qubits. A 30 qubit computer has the same processing power as a traditional cpu computer that is running at approx 10 Teraflops. With each added logical qubit, the processing power increases exponentially (2^N). Yes, there are problems such as useful life expectancy of the qubit, and that means needing to perform statistical analysis of the results. However, something like (2^N)/1000 will still very quickly outpace performance of traditional computing. With just 10 additional qubits, you have enough to run that statistical analysis, so it needs 40 qubits for the statistical analysis. This Helios system, this is 48 logical qubits, which is roughly 2,800 tflops of calculating power (or ~2.8 pflops). Just 1000 of these systems would have the processing power of the current fastest supercomputer cluster in the world as of June 2026. Do you know how many more logical qubits are needed to reach that level in a single quantum computer as opposed to a cluster? 58. That is way, way, way less than the 1000s to millions you are implying.

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I hate Donald Trump, but I agree with this particular decision.

That wasn't hard.

You do realize this very same company announced a deal with Oracle to get these very computers into their cloud data centers to sell time on them to customers within 2027 (i.e. by next year), right? That certainly doesnâ(TM)t sound like more of the same news we have had, but the beginnings of the first ones available for public use outside of lab settingsâ¦.

I think it is also more important to mention who ACTUALLY wiped the phone. Samuel wasn't the one who entered the code that wiped it, the customs/board patrol agent + FBI were the ones in possession of the phone and the ones who entered the code from everything I have read. If they had felt so confident in the fact there was evidence in there in the first place, the data would have been first cloned with a forensic data scientist and then that cloned data used to do any searches, keeping the original intact and exactly as taken so anything could hold up in a court of law...

Meanwhile I also own a Tesla, and am using a CarPlay adapter with it. Maps is better, particularly lane guidance and actually telling me which motorway junction number I'm coming off at. I can share an ETA with my contacts. I can listen to subscriber-only (paid) Podcasts. I can use WhatsApp (via voice of course), something sadly essential in the UK as the vast majority use that. I can listen to audiobooks from other than Audible. I can use the BBC Sounds app. I can...

You get the idea. I agree with you about integration - the time I will use the built-in map is if I'm on a longer journey that needs charging on the way, or if the journey is so short that none of the above really matters.

Personally I hope the rumours about CarPlay integration being worked on by Tesla are true, although I'd be surprised I must admit. But for me - works well.

I'd guess, but stressing guess and agree would need to be studied, that your bias would be correct. I'm not necessarily a fan of the every single person's study plan is different school of thought, and think there's a lot to be gained from structure.

On the socialising I'm not quite so sure though - it's definitely changed the nature of it though. My 'kids' (now all adults, youngest about to enter final year of university) socialising all the time on-line. Voice chats with friends, Discord is how they organise meeting up etc.. They've also all three kept a healthy in-person socialisation side too, which is the part I was initially worried by when I saw this panning out over several years. I think that last bit is key - if you can balance both, then you get the benefits of going out with your friends with also the benefits of having a wider geographical friend base and the ability to stay in touch more easily.

Perhaps read the actual comment? I am agreeing with the study - quoted directly: ""The findings suggest that screen time can support children's and adolescents' cognitive processing. Presumably, the essential point here is what kind of things they do in their screen time. Teachers and parents should encourage children to use devices and screens in such ways that promote active thinking, problem-solving, creativity and learning," states Doctoral Researcher Petri Jalanko from the University of Jyvaskyla.".

Yes, it's nice to see a study backing it of course but this has been intuitively obvious for a while. The "screen time is killing our kids!" crowd is just the latest generational re-incarnation of the "computer games are killing our kids" from the 1980s, or "Dungeons and Dragons is killing our kids!" from the late 70s through the 80s, "TV is killing our kids!"...right back to Socrates moaning about writing. Just another moral panic.

Since we're in 80s mode, let's quote The Karate Kid: "concentrate on quality of what you know, not quantity". It's the nature of the screen time that's important, not necessarily the raw bulk. Are you interacting with people online, are you reading stuff? Are you watching some videos where you learn some things as well as just the latest cat videos or TikTok dance? In short, are you using the screen as a portal to the generalities of life instead of just watching brainrot all day every day?

I suspect knowing that will be key to whether the screen time is hurting or helping. And as ever, a balance is required. 100% screen and no in-person interactions is obviously harmful, provably so thanks to the pandemic providing us with data here. I'd also posit that 100% outside and in-person will be good, but not as rounded as a decent mix between the two since you gain access to different experiences online.

Whether we like it or not, whether we use Windows or not, Microsoft is going to insist on adding the tax whether the PC comes shipped with Windows or not. This is illegal bundling, Microsoft has essentially ignored prior rulings, and it's pretty much a certainty the courts will be fine with this.