Every one of these only makes me say “wouldn’t it be great if we did everything with RPN”?

Your post is still just speculation based on personal understanding. I can claim every word of it is wrong and be just as credible.

Are you going to post an actual study comparing the manufacturing costs? You made the claim first, so you get to do the work first.

I’ll offer as many references as you did in your claims.

Least surprising headline of the year.

Pirating Harry Potter stuff is now not only a moral thing to do, but almost a moral obligation.

Did you know the Cybertruck was designed to mimic a Porsche? Specifically, this one.

It’s almost certainly something that will get worked out on its own. There isn’t enough volume to justify lithium battery recycling at this point. After a decade of EVs being mainstream, there will be.

That said, GP is correct that EVs are about saving the car industry, not about saving the environment. Getting better walking/biking/public transportation infrastructure is the way to go. Ebikes, in particular, open up biking transportation to a lot of people who hesitated before. The amount of lithium used in them is tiny compared to cars, and the market can likely be served by sodium-ion batts, anyway.

I thought it was widely accepted . . .

No. Not even close.

The US is allergic to it, but needs to get over it.

Aluminum wire was tried in the 1970s due to a spike in copper prices. The problem was that they just tried to swap it right in. Aluminum and copper have different rates of expansion. Over time, that would slowly loosen the connectors, and the wires would pop right out and cause a fire.

You can design connectors to handle both, and you’ll see many electrical things today specify that they’re good for aluminum or copper wire. It still has a bad reputation among electricians; they haven’t unlearned the problem yet.

Now, one place it’s more of a problem is in things like transformer windings. There are kilometers of wiring in any of them, so the higher resistance of aluminum is a problem.

From old electrical connections that weren’t designed for the different rates of expansion of aluminum and copper. Today, most of them are.

There’s a thread of thought that pops up in pro-AI posters from time to time: technology can’t go backwards. The implication being that the current state of AI can only improve, and is here to stay.

This is wrong. Companies are spending multitudes of piles of cash to make AI work, and they could easily take their ball and go home. Extending copyright over the training data would likely trigger that, by the industry’s own admission.

No, self-hosted models are not going to change this. A bunch of people running around with their own little agents aren’t going to sustain a mass market phenomenon. You’re not going to have integration in Windows or VisualStudio or the top of Google search results. You’re not going to have people posting many pics on Facebook of Godzilla doing silly things.

The tech can go backwards, and we’re likely to see it.

To salvage the argument, it’s quite possible this would have been different if they were from GM rather than VW.

Last part that I need is for SSDs to come down in price to where ~80TB isn’t too ridiculous (that’s 40TB usable space with RAID1). Cut the price per TB in half two more times to make it there. Otherwise, spinning platters are the bottleneck with my 10Gb network.

Which probably would have happened in the next few years if not for tariffs.

They’re apparently in talks to sell off their network division. Future there is really up in the air.

A lot of those modules would work fine if the companies didn’t fuck with their drivers.

The Linux ixgbe driver (for Intel 82598 and 82599 chipsets) was submitted with a whitelist for Intel SFP+ adapters. Linux devs added a module option to shut off the whitelist, and tons of stuff is perfectly compatible.

Yup, it is. You think it’s gross. Then don’t seek it out.

Yes, it did. Most of the basic research came from there. The first section of the book “Hackers” by Steven Levy is a good intro.

If you don’t want to see people publicizing their sex life, then you can stay off OnlyFans and Fetlife. It’s not difficult.

“I’ll give you five cucumbers with salmonella for a dollar, or four with listeria”

“How much for three without?”

“You can’t afford it”

The major thing that killed 1960s/70s AI was the Vietnam War. MIT’s CSAIL was funded heavily by DARPA. When public opinion turned against Vietnam and Congress started shutting off funding, DARPA wasn’t putting money into CSAIL anymore. Congress didn’t create an alternative funding path, so the whole thing dried up.

That lab basically created computing as we know it today. It bore fruit, and many companies owe their success to it. There were plenty of promising lines of research still going on.