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Just to clarify, because I feel that I’m being impuned in some way, my only comment was that while there has been significant development in batteries in the lab up until now this is the first commercially available battery includement since we got off lithium polymer.

The original comment I was responding to was trying to suggest that battery technology over the last decade has significantly improved but realistically all we’ve done is being come clever with the technology we already have, and that this is the first time battery technology at a commercial level has improved. After all, a lot of ICE cars are still using lead acid batteries, and the remote control for my TV uses batteries that my grandparents would have recognised.

I remember while back when lithium oxygen batteries were the new hotness and that never went anywhere.

Yeah those silly left people hating musk because he’s in Nazi rather than because of sensible reasons like him being a con man, which seems like a less egregious, but also bad thing to be.

Get more evidence for continental drift.

So true, it fits on my phone screen. A large pizza definitely wouldn’t fit.

Well not exactly because it’s still a misleading projection, because Spain is also incorrectly projected given how far north it is

Well all those graphs show is that the cost of batteries has gone down and that as a result electric cars contain more batteries and therefore more range. It doesn’t actually show that the individual battery capacity has increased.

The third graph that indicates battery performance vs battery chemistry doesn’t really show incremental improvement it just shows general improvement but there’s plenty of battery chemistries that are worse than pre-existing ones.

According to my neighbour who owns a Tesla he had to take it to a Tesla dealership in order to replace one of the headlights because there are non-standard design. So even if he could get the part from Tesla the mechanic wouldn’t have been able to change it because they wouldn’t have the tools.

Yeah I’m sure they had absolutely no idea before. Because Peter Thiel such a trusted and reputable name, how could they possibly known that doing business with him would be negatively construed?

These people aren’t early adopters. These people are doing the equivalent of putting a lump of uranium in a bucket, and calling it a nuclear reactor.

AI is our version of the demon core, and these idiots are dicking around with it with zero safety precautions.

Meanwhile the rest of us are just smart enough to not go in that room.

Cheap for the kind of hardware you need to run an AI.

It’s Meta, her experience is probably an MBA and she did a side course in “computing” where they learnt how to use Excel.

In slight fairness to them the Mac mini isn’t actually pretty decent PC, unlike their laptops which are absolutely not worth the money. Although maybe these days $400 for 16 gigabytes of RAM is actually market value.

You wouldn’t even need to hide it since apparently she wasn’t paying attention.

Yep that’s about the level of intelligence I would expect from Meta’s AI safety director.

Doing the one thing that you’re never supposed to do, letting an AI loose on anything sensitive.

For her next trick she’s going to run while holding scissors in one hand and a bottle of boiling acid in the other. What could go wrong.

I don’t understand this hate just because musk came out as a Nazi.

The cars were awful even before all of this, you should have already not been buying them. To get them repaired you have to take them to an authorised dealer which is basically just them, and they will charge you on obscene amount of money to replace the door handles or something, add onto that poor quality control and a prevalence to put everything behind a paywall and you’ve got a terrible value product on your hands.

Consoles have never been more PCs than now.

In the past, especially with the likes of the PS3, there was a bit of a distinction, so you can see the rationale behind maybe not releasing a PC version of a game, or vice versa. But these days with the PS5 and whatever the hell the Xbox is called, not so much.

Yeah if they can bring them prototype back that would be great I feel like the games haven’t aged well graphically speaking. So even just an HD rerelease would be great.

I get the the some capitalist reason for this but what’s the actual justification given for that? My house was built before the invention of indoor plumbing and it seems to be going ok. Admittedly they didn’t use plywood and the occasional nail as the primary building material so perhaps that has something to do with it.

Americans need to learn about the concept of mixed use. The suburbs are awful because they’re out in the middle of nowhere. They’re always built in fields surrounded by other fields and with a big wide highway connecting them to, eventually the local city, but only have to passing through several industrial estates and a retail park.

Or you could just build your housing and your business right next to each other so people don’t have to drive anywhere.

But if you actually suggested that to someone they’d start going on about some weird conspiracy theory.