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One is an objective measurement, the other is a completely subjective judgement. As they say, there's no accounting for taste...

You're absolutely wrong on both points in my case. I've driven many "real sports cars", and I'm not not just "posting numbers from the Tesla spec sheets", my Model Y is my daily dr…

I've yet to have any issues with the battery overheating, and most if not all of the braking is regenerative (no brake pad wear).

By the way, the stock Corolla GR can pull right around .95 G, just like the Model Y Performance...

I also have an EV, probably the same one as the grandparent...a Tesla Model Y Dual Motor Long Range. It's rated at 0-60 in 4.8s. It also has good handling, with very little body le…

This seems like a ton of hype for a marginal (if that) improvement over existing art. We've had "truly random" numbers for a long time, starting with those based on radioactive dec…

Most commenters here are focused on the Microsoft hardware, but the article mentions systems from several other manufacturers using the same hardware. Some of them, Dell and Lenovo…

LOL! (And I haven't written that in a very long time...) The article is delusional. In particular, these claims: - The Iran war is over. - Iran has "won" the war. - The US has lost…

I'll have to take a look at OxCaml. I'm leery of "C-like" performance claims after Java has thoroughly failed to live up to a similar claim after thirty plus years of development..…

Illegal orders?

The disincentives to nuclear war are glaringly obvious enough that even politicians (and their masters) get it. AI isn't like that. One problem is that it's rather generally misund…

I agree that if the best we can do is something that can't be self-sustaining, Mars should wait until that changes. I disagree with KSR's main points. Perchlorates are solvable, th…

LLMs are amazing technology. It's crazy to interact with something that knows a lot about effectively everything that's ever been written, as well as mimicking human cognition to a…

According to current theory AIUI, cosmic inflation greatly influenced the CMB. It ended approximately 10^-32 seconds after the Big Bang: "Cosmic inflation is believed to have occur…

Any Faraday cage, bag or not, will eliminate surveillance of the phone until it comes online. Physics wins again.

Sadly, I’m old enough to remember that Ada was the result of a US initiative to standardize a capable language for embedded development. A good friend worked on the well regarded T…

Total nonsense. Just avoid Minnesota…

I'm surprised the author of this article thinks Go is a "system language". Go uses GC, and therefore can't be used for hard real time applications. That's disqualifying as I unders…

I think there are some major problems with this thinking. How does this relate to human artists who studied prior art and then produced something? I’ll grant you that AI isn’t actu…

… TBC

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Ayn Rand had many insightful ideas, however she took them to an extreme.

What you see as “corrupt government” others see as a “virtuous cycle”… The main problem with your thought process is that your conflating “wealth accumulation” with “wealth creatio…

One reason foreign enrollment is declining is concern about (mainly) Chinese espionage. That’s entirely reasonable, given the vast amount of stolen engineering and research…

Buy a Tesla with FSD. No, it’s not L5 autonomy, but it’s already safer than the average human driver…and autonomous cars will only get better.