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BMW did have the _iconic_ "halo angel eye" headlights in the mid-2000s - the most iconic headlight signature at least in my memory. So your point would make sense. Those were often…

Afair, e.g. Land Rover stopped producing the classic Defender due to more stringent pedestrian protection regulations in the EU. They introduced strict front-end safety requirement…

Hard to find reliable data, but could only find (shared) data for 2022 for large SUVs - whatabout doesn't quite cut it imo, feel free to look into midsize SUVs but imo the really l…

There's Will Whang's boards - IMX585 [1] (16:9 1"-ish) and even IMX283 [2] (1") and even IMX294 [3] (Micro 4/3). But just those camera boards run $199 to $399, and released in "art…

I don't think this is solely tied to car manufacturing automation. Even though Hyundai Motor Group is acquiring them, I would imagine they'd be well-positioned to commercialize gen…

I've sort of been thinking about this as well. Personally, I'd like to re-capture the era of personal blogs and niche knowledge discovery of the earlier web I experienced - crossed…

But these AIs need energy and GPUs data-centers ... who pays for those? I could imagine a circular mini-economy between a few companies making the bare essentials to keep AI runnin…

Exactly. But I did find an article ([1]) and spend doesn't seem that high per engineer ($150 to $250 per eng) - at least on average, I assume the costs were skyrocketing towards th…

Maybe that's the plan :) But on a more serious note, do we know how much Uber spent per technical employee/month? I assume it is far more than even any of those $200 "max ai" plans…

Otoh, you can buy contact lenses OTC in other European countries... not saying Europe isn't over-regulated (try legally building a bike-trail on your own forest-land in Germany!! .…

Once you have a reliable printer, the workflow is mostly to slice -> send to printer -> wait and check on it every couple of hours until it's done ime. Imo it no longer super matte…

Bambu also tried to patent several widely used techniques in china, fyi. https://www.mdpi.com/2411-5134/8/6/141

My thing with bambu was always that they polished whatever the industry (and hobbyists) had invented and closed it all off, then also innovating on top of that but never giving bac…

I would have said Prusa a year or two ago but they've reneged a little on their open-ness. That was probably in response to Bambu being fully closed and gaining so much market shar…

I really like the look of the car, but from the title it sounds like a Mustang has been converted into an FSD Tesla ("teslafied" Mustang) - but Tesla suspension, Tesla interior... …

One reason I used it was that I wasn't locked into a single provider and switching them was as easy as changing a drop-down. Small feature? Sonnet or GPT5.4/mini? Large changes? Op…

Interestingly, Espressif nowadays does something similar on the ESP32-P4 which is RiscV but doesn't have builtin Wifi/BT. So they tend to pair it with an ESP32-C6 which runs the Wi…

If I'm mistaken, then the article states that the investment is $1T annualized when taking software development costs into account [1] if the labs don't all suddenly decide to stop…

Thanks, I'll have to try that. I've only had mediocre success with Jules using it for a couple weeks after launch but I always felt like it may have been running one of the smaller…

Maybe it is my way of using Gemini 3 Pro but I don't see the benchmark gains of 3 Pro over 2.5 Pro reflected in my daily use at all. There's definitely none of that "wow-factor" wh…

you can bring your google api key to try it out, and google used to give $300 free when signing up for billing and creating a key. when i signed up for billing via cloud console an…

$30B ... 2GW datacenter ... ??? ... AGI

I think Lucid just released their SUV, Lucid Gravity. That might explain it. I've seen a few driving around now but that's about all I know.

It seems like most buyers are with you, but for me I'm not going back to a daily-driven ICE vehicle unless I have to. I do wonder though if part of the problem is that EVs are pric…