Conceptually neat, but the reality is that wireless charging for even small devices like phones is a pretty significant waste of energy, at scale. The amounts of energy involved with wirelessly charging a heavy truck - or even car - would be unconscionably large.
It’s a bit like uber with their not-a-bus bus service. Humans already invented a solution that works really well. It’s called a pantograph. Sweden is testing a ground-level power supply that provides 800kW per vehicle at 130kph.
Home Depot is based in Georgia and the founder was fully supportive of republicans. Don’t be surprised when the store espouses his values.
“No threat to security,” says interior minister of state that has been repeated threatened with annexation by the megalomaniac head of a neighbouring belligerent state.
Sure thing, but a Latina from NYC won’t get votes in the flyover states and a lot of the South annd I don’t think electoral votes are distributed by population.
I know a bunch of people who readily admit they’re bad drivers. But there literally are no classes in their country to improve their practical skills.
The fact that so many people in car centric countries don't even have a back up when things go wrong is abysmal.
“We’ve tried nothing and we’re all out of ideas” is the theme with car-centric countries. Or they tried, built 1/10 of a solution and then absolutely neutered it by making it somehow secondary to cars. Where they do have practical public transit it’s absolutely slammed full of people but they wont even maintain let alone invest in it.
Yes that’s my point.
Ah, true.
They need 50x more revenue to pay off just the data centers.
The product is already expensive; there’s been minimal tangible cost savings as a result of using AI and they still have the problem where more usage directly correlates with more cost. We’re not creating NYT Online where the cost of development is spread across n users and approaches $0 per user as it grows. This is much more like non-tech scaling costs. For every 200 people using the service in a given day, we need a new A380. If they use the service twice, we need to fuel the plane twice.
From recollection, the chip in the iPhone 15 had the capacity to do the local model and perhaps they turned it on in an iPad. Or perhaps I’m confused. That happens a lot.
To be clear, it’s not that I oppose teaching sex ed at all. It needs to happen, because kids find it on their own. It’s just that it’s disappointing that society has come to the point where we need to discuss kinks with prepubescents. I don’t think their brains are developed enough to comprehend the complex decision process behind getting tied up and whipped, which I think partly this article is seeking to address.
It’s just a sad comment on society, I think. I want to have a healthy open dialogue with my kids about sex. The porn genie isn’t going back in the bottle.
It’s been my limited experience that parental controls are pretty strong these days. I think that a really key difference circles back to the social media exposure discussion. Sure, they seek it out eventually, but with always on social media they’re going to find out about things a lot earlier than they need to, which is why I also called out the social media companies for their unethical behaviour.
Don’t forget that the data centres are owned by dedicated data centre companies and funded by loans issued based on the (declining) value of the GPUs that will be installed there, by the promised future sales of the datacentre resources to AI companies that lose more money with every additional query sent to their service, and also funded by rebates offered by the companies that are selling the GPUs, which will only pay out of the datacenre company buys enough GPUs.
It’s a fucking catastrophe.
I know an undiagnosed bipolar guy. The highs are so high, and he’s such a wonderful person. The lows are so low, and come on so fast, and last too long, and he’s a miserable person to be around. And just as you think maybe the growing distance should be made larger and permanent, he’s on a high again and it’s really easy to forget the low period.
I can see how meds are tough to get right.