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Really seems more like you got used to their verbal tics and unmonitored quality, to be honest.

The 16 TB drive won't be anywhere close to 4x faster than the 4 TB drive, though. Maybe 20% (~200 MB/s vs ~230-250 MB/s). That's because most of the capacity increase comes from more tracks and more platters, not linear density, which determines throughput.

Non-plugin hybrids are just regular gas cars. It would be bizarre to give them any sort of preferential treatment in anything, though their rules are already strange to begin with (giving tax advantages to PHEVs and EREVs, which are almost exclusively used as pure gas cars).

The rogue unaccountable hacking will continue until OAI/Anthropic get their regulatory moat by banning foreign and open competition.

The EV6 GT is a 1550mm tall crossover SUV-coupe weighing almost 4900 lbs with 577 hp, but is more of a young man's sports car than a 1380mm tall sedan weighing 100 lbs more but approaching twice the power? Seems sensible.

Most hybrids Toyota sells have a ~1 kWh battery which cannot be charged externally.

Historically most of these "Whether it’s a battery EV, plug-in hybrid, hybrid, or internal combustion engine vehicle―whatever the power source" platforms have been utter ICE-first EV-distant-fourth-priority shit shows. Most of the exceptions are rather expensive.

Various OEMs have sort of soft-exited the US EV market, but that doesn't mean they're not offering the cars or stop development of them in other markets.

It just means the US market is too unattractive and low-volume for EVs that aren't a Tesla.

Stratigraphically the invention of agriculture and the first thermonuclear weapon happened at the exact same instant.

Transputerpunk.

Yes, and most of them are low or medium impact and typically only apply to relatively niche modules or configurations. I can't recall any RCEs from this decade that were widely exploitable. The most recent one could be CVE-2026-42945 ("nginx rift"), but even that requires a really specific and kind of strange configuration.

Humans give way more random answers than LLMs to questions like "give me a random number between 1-100" (when not giving the LLM any tool calls).

nginx serves a third of web traffic.

> The EV producer signed 16 commercial deals totalling more than SAR3.7 billion in February, seeking to localise 45 percent of materials and parts by 2034.

> Ceer is a joint venture between PIF and Taiwanese contract electronics manufacturer Foxconn. German automaker BMW is the component technology provider for vehicle development.

> In June 2024 the company signed an SAR8.2 billion contract with South Korea’s Hyundai Transys for the supply of EV drive systems, which will reduce size and weight while enhancing power efficiency.

> Interim CEO Marc Winterhoff of [majority] PIF-backed US carmaker Lucid Group said in January that full-scale vehicle manufacturing is expected to begin in Saudi Arabia this year, transitioning from assembly only at its facility near Jeddah.

Soap bubble bokeh comes from overcorrected SA. Onion rings and related brightness anomalies/unevenness in bokeh are mostly the result of molded aspheric lenses. Stopping slightly down has not significantly impacted bokeh (apart from apodized lenses) since rounded aperture blades have been invented about fifty years ago.

> Which human being is working on it

If you've ever used that tool you wouldn't ask this question, since it's obviously fully vibecoded.

Japan historically behaves as if they have nukes and need a totally sovereign HPC capability to support their stockpile.

Fujitsu dropped SPARC for HPC ~seven years ago with their A64fx. That's where ARM SVE comes from in the first place.

Demand destruction is a specific concept in economics where high prices for something cause a lasting reduction in demand. The other comments explain typical mechanisms for this, like high prices for fossil fuels spurring on electrification of machinery powered by fossil fuels, which then reduces the demand base for fossil fuels. Or the downturn of economies being accelerated by fossil fuel pricing pressure, increasing deindustrialization, and reducing fuel demand (e.g. what europe is experiencing).

The real question is how quickly demand can be destroyed.

Seemed to have been produced a bunch for never making it into production

> A limited production of 250 began by mid 2013 with pricing started at €111,000 (~ £119,000). As a plug-in diesel-electric hybrid, the XL1 was available only in Europe and its 5.5 kWh lithium-ion battery delivered an all-electric range of 50 km (31 mi),[3] had a fuel economy of 0.9 L/100 km (310 mpg‑imp) under the NEDC cycle and produced emissions of 21 g/km of CO2.[8] It was released to retail customers in Germany in June 2014.[3]

That rather seems to hinge on vehicle length, not height. Unless putting in skis upright in the passenger seat is the goal.

In terms of footprint (4.8 meters long, 1.75 m wide) I'd say it's only small for US standards. It seems to look rather smaller than it is.

> 188 inches (4,775 mm) long, 69 inches (1,744 mm) wide, and just 55 inches (1,392 mm) tall.

I doubt there's ever been a production car that used grease in the gearbox. Not outside the 1890s, anyway.

This car is roughly 3-4x more efficient than the average Chinese SUV, which typically consume well above 20 kWh/100 km (which energetically, though not in terms of emissions, approaches what an efficient compact ICE car consumes). It does this range on a 50-something kWh battery pack, instead of a three-digit kWh battery pack. Since consumption is so low, range added per minute of charging is up there. Everything can be smaller, lighter, made with less resources, creating fewer emissions, byproducts and downstream effects etc.

Yes, driving truck-sized cars with two-ton batteries the size of a french-door fridge also works and also easily moves 1.5 people per trip.

4:2:0 is the main reason why most games look like crud once they've passed through any mainstream video encoding pipeline. That being said, the bitrates used for streaming games and VoDs are so low everything looks like mush anyway and millions still watch that.

> There's no oil in electric motors.

Many EVs use hybrid water/oil cooling, typically water for the stator and oil mist/spray for the rotor and exposed parts of the windings.

It refers to the design lifetime of the vehicle. Usually accurate. Mileages may vary.

Transmission/differential oil tends to last a very long time (150-400k, unit doesn’t matter). Automatics require relatively frequent oil changes in comparison, but they’re using the oil to transmit power. Lots of greased parts, but again, the grease will last about as long as the part (mostly because the grease falling apart makes the part fail), which usually lasts the life of the car.

> Those two requests utilizing government agency-internal auth mechanisms we do not need to know or care about.

Most likely:

> and the whole thing was PDFs from .gov-ish email addresses

But I guess this moves the liability for answering fake requests to the local branch.