While a sudden simultaneous shutdown is sometimes unavoidable, there is no reason why everything has to come back up at exactly the same time. Certainly, supercomputers of decades past didn't expect that all systems would spring to life simultaneously.

This is unknowable until we stop finding more complexity in the brain. That we keep doing that is how we how we can't make a brain replacement yet.

Most out-of-warranty service isn't done at dealers, because they tend to massively overcharge compared with independent garages. Most out-of-warranty repairs are done with parts salvaged from wrecked vehicles, i.e. they are factory parts.

Repair for $4k + labor or replace for $9k. Still not a write off.

Nissan Leaf batteries can be obtained for $4,000 to $14,500, depending on capacity. I assume that is plus installation, but not certain. That's considerably less than what the resale value would be after the repair, so not a write-off.

"New York's GDP per capita is higher than Californias, so if they were the same sized state with the same population they would outperform California."

Wat

Rent free

Yeah, that is ALWAYS wrong, PERIOD, because the government is inducing profit for someone at your expense. Literally everything you are required to pay for should be provided at cost.

They don't do it when I walk into a bus

They are evil, not necessarily incompetent. They make more by shafting customers than by serving them, and they buy laws which let them do that.

A traditional UPS comes in two variants, UPS and SPS, U = uninterruptible and S = standby. But anything which can supply backup power is arguably a UPS and that includes solar power systems and the like. These days it is common for them to be grid tying. And it's now common for grid tied inverters to have a boost mode, where they will compensate for voltage sags by supplying synchronized power. Therefore the functionality is absolutely available, though what exactly the hardware is called may vary.

He doesn't know shit except how to abuse customers and employees. He could definitely fall for someone telling him it's possible. It's fundamentally a stupid idea, because the brain is not a computer and doesn't execute instructions like one, and therefore doesn't have any such thing as a core algorithm. The closest thing it has to that is physics.

It's one thing to retain all of the video forever. It's another thing to analyze the video and store notes about what occurred forever, and store any interesting video forever. They can be and probably are doing both things because it would be valuable AI training data.

FTFS:

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If it took three months to figure out it was a Waymo, they weren't working on that case for most of that time. Perhaps they were working other cases, but not doing some quick preliminary work when new cases come in to see if they can be moved forward is fucking up by definition.

It's more likely to get sent to the nearest news outlet by the other side. Literally.

As you imply, Perl is naturally obfuscated. I worked in Perl for a year and was so relieved when that was over. I remember as a beginner, I would submit a 20-line piece of slow code and ask for advice on how to improve it, then a better programmer would come up with a 5-line version, then a guru would offer a cryptic 2-line code, and finally an elder god would spew forth a one-liner which would freeze your blood upon decipherment attempt...