

Let’s call it dEUfence
Let’s call it dEUfence
The car itself is heavy, so it obviously requires a lot more energy to move itself then say a bicycle.
It would help a lot if there are strict weight restrictions on cars and lower speed limits. Small cars, or also quadricycles, are much more energy efficient in construction and use. These already exist but get selling SUVs is more profitable.
It’s going to get worse. I suspect that this’ll end with LLM taking the part of a production programs. Juniors just feeding it scenarios to follow, hook the thing up to a database and web page and let it run. It’ll gobble power like there’s no tomorrow and is just a nightmare to maintain, but goes live in a quarter if the time so every manager goes with that.
That is Project 2025. Kill federal agencies and replace with privatize those functions. Reduce justice until it’s just the enforcement arm of the administration. Kill everything to do with climate or equality in any form. Cut taxes.
In the end, replacing non profit bureaucracy with for profit monopolies is asking to be beaten to death with fees and legalized bribery making everything more expensive.
The Mumptin government. Musk and Trump falling over themselves trying to please Putin.
A chess program is officially AI. Certainly not human level or general intelligence of course. Kinda like a wheelbarrow is a vehicle, but so is the space shuttle.
For a short time until they get enough market share and they switch on monetization.
No, it was a bit crappy before, then got pretty good, but then went to shit.
Even the solitaire game in Windows now needs an Xbox account, shows an ad before you can play, nags you for s subscription to make ads go away and keeps sending notifications for challenges.
When elephants fight, it’s the grass that suffers.
Seeing how Tesla sales took a nosedive after Musk went full Nazi and the eXodus is still ongoing, the everything app is not going to be popular.
Who knows it will spawn an industry of standardized EV chassis you can buy and 3D print shops for the custom body when regular car producers go too far with spying and nagging.
It was both. They promoted the sound quality and ease of use of a CD, the reliability and ability to recording of cassettes and smaller form factor than both.
I suspect for a bunch of projects, AI going to make programming itself obsolete. If it comes pre-trained to use a number of libraries, protocols and databases, giving the thing a bunch of specifications and scenarios and let it do the actual work of doing bookkeeping or whatever becomes possible. Most managers would jump on the idea to throw extra hardware at a problem to run AI locally is it means shipping in half the time. As long as the problem to solve is generic enough and not too big. And those limits will go up quickly.
The issue isn’t the way of testing, but the two standards. If Musk blows up rockets in testing it’s a genius move with rapid iteration. If NASA does this it’s irresponsible handling of tax payer’s money on risky endeavors.
Your body has evolved to eat organic food. Processed food is engineered to be as cheap as possible to produce first, edible second and nutritional last.
Eventually it comes down to the military. If the military decide to park their tanks in front of the white house and shoot or bombs protesters it’s game over. If they decide the president is a traitor and go after him then he’s gone.
First they used venture capitalist’s money. It was just free mana from heaven during the period with near zero interest rates after the 2008 financial crisis. They used that money to get market share by making deliveries very cheap. Intrest rates went up, they went public to get more money, and then it was time to see how much that market could bear and rake in the profits.
If nothing happens now, there’ll be another chance sub enough. Industrial animal husbandry is pretty much a pandemic generator.
But the battle for public transportation has been fought and lost already.
Mass production of the lowest common denominator had always been its thing.