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I must be hallucinating all of those hybrid BYDs I keep seeing on the roads, then. You say 'EV', but the distinction that matters is battery electric versus high voltage hybrid, an…

A few companies have tried small APU range extenders, but there wasn't really a market for it at the time. The point was more that complexity is relative and not necessarily a give…

Methanol is the obvious choice, because there are so many ways to make it. Shipping certainly looks to be moving in that direction, though ammonia is also being trialled. Ethanol v…

This is what the person that I was responding to wrote, and it's objectively wrong: >Hybrids are the worst of both worlds when it comes to maintenance. They have their benefits and…

If we're talking synthetic fuels, you'd probably run cars on methanol rather than a hydrocarbon. Planes absolutely need kerosene, but cars can claw back most of the performance of …

Fossil fuels contribute to climate change. Methanol is likely to power global shipping in the coming decades, and there's zero reason it can't also run cars. The reality is that hy…

The issue with ICEs is the fossil fuel part, not the engine part. Synthetic hydrocarbons and alcohols don't contribute to climate change at all. And alcohol fuels are both easy to …

By the time you get to variable valve lift and timing, the complexity of hybrids is either a wash or in favor of the hybrid when compared to a traditional engine. Electronics have …

The surprising thing is that parts availability is even worse for new cars. Sensors are built into every part now, so it's no longer just a windscreen or a bumper. If those sensors…

This is a big part of it for me. With 'driver assist' systems that intervene when you're driving now being mandatory for all new vehicles sold in my country, I don't want anything …

From what I can see, nobody bought Chinese cars because the styling was terrible. BYD hiring western designers is what suddenly made Chinese cars desirable, because it kicked other…

China moved directly to hybrid drivetrains, which is where the future of the internal combustion engine lies. They did this while pushing EV technology, and it gave them a fundamen…

None of that is inherent. You could have said the same thing a decade ago about vehicle production, or microelectronics a decade before that, and yet here we are. The lesson we sho…

What comparative advantage exists for high technology? I get it for things like agriculture and resources, but what intrinsic barriers are there to computer chips and cars? Especia…

I switched to codex just before the Fable release. I got sick of Claude being lazy and not completing tasks. Imo, codex is currently a much better model, and it also seems to be te…

I'm out of the scene these days, and my field is more RL than LLMs, but my take is that all of this is telling us that meaning (and intelligence) is in the medium. If an LLM is a f…

Cars have a wide operating band, which is why hybrids make sense. Fundamentally, hybrid cars want to run the engine at a narrow set of operating points that are most efficient, and…

This is mostly correct. The Prius is actually a series-parallel hybrid, as it maintains a direct mechanical link between the engine and the wheels (and the engine is capable of add…

This is a shame, and hopefully it reverts soon. I switched from Claude to Codex just before the Fable release because Claude doesn't follow instructions and goes off the ranch too …

This is my experience with Claude as well, and the reason I switched to codex. Codex just seems far more efficient, despite the smaller context window, and it actually follows inst…

And those of us working in the slopfields will probably be employed until the day we die. Love it.

This. German really isn't that difficult for an English speaker. And if someone really wants to make a home and build a life in a foreign country, why would they expect that they d…

No, because the thread is about preventing crimes before they happen , and asserting that this is unquestionably good and an unambiguous moral position . It isn't, even if we accep…

Fair enough, I was under the impression that enough data was sufficient.