Population density and infant mortality had changed a lot too in the last 100 years. Income disparities, working hours, and climate too in the last 50.
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The lowest end of HDMI captures used to use HDMI-PAL converter wired to an S-Video capture chip onboard. That was completely superseded by MacroSilicon MS21xx chips that actually capture HDMI. The ones that are now everywhere are based on those MacroSilicon chips.
Maybe that might have happened already if Japan was as insane as it was in 1995, but it just costs too much right now.
The levels of financial censorship had reached the point where third party contents hosted by any centralized entity, be it a publicly traded company like Twitter or just a volunteer individual like on a Mastodon instance, is basically unviable. In the latest case with Clip Studio asset store incident that happened just last week, completely benign materials such as simple drawing reference materials of abstract men playing soccer/football and kimono brush patterns for a snake were flagged and deleted as "pornographic or violent". There is nothing SFW at this point; the thresholds for censorship just keeps going up and it maintains constant pressure against all expressions however innocent - if everyone follows their rules, their rules must change to make up violators. Rules and standards also significantly diverge between places and photos of people can be literally illegal by standards of somewhere or someone deeply disconnected, at this time.
While the absurdity of that is fought in the field of politics or whatever ways that works, social media has to switch to distributed online/offline mesh networks that can still create the viral behaviors, one which nobody is forced to host or share what they personally consider illegal or risky, unlike raw P2P system that could be labeled as itself illegal and/or its use inherently malicious, as how Winny and later Bittorrent, to some extent, was made out to be. It has to be something like a distributed hybrid of Google+, Discord, IRC and Reddit, but with minimum centralized infrastructure that can be plausibly operated as not primarily intended for blatantly illegal use cases that would justify helicopter raids and flashbangs into living rooms(which European counter terrorism units have done in the past; they've been that much deranged for years).
IMO the challenge is in making it trivially selfhostable. At least the server part has to be usable by someone who could barely install a GPU, and ideally the phone app should work as a server for local friends for completely legitimate fun purposes. Then it also has to be able to handle what comes down or goes up to the global net at the same time. How it could be done behind heavily NAT'd current Internet can be tricky.
If we put aside 5 hour commute, this describes central Tokyo, not bumfuck nowhere. Bumfuck nowhere has land for offgrid solar and therefore free home charging.
If the city you're in offers free roadside parking with L1 or L2 charging on light poles, good for you, but Tokyo and Japan at large isn't like that at all(unattended roadside parking is banned nationwide and robotic garages are everywhere).
Nissan is a bit of an outlier in that they are a bit more charitable and more invested in electrification, but they can't ignore the Japanese consumer demand that cars need to be able to run on gas. So they do exactly that, and make an EV with a gas engine that works with existing gas stations.
I think it's also because EREVs need a performant generator that isn't much different from the drive motor. So you'll have a full ICE+EV drivetrain on top of an EV as its battery for it to work, which is not ideal.
Compared to that, other hybrid systems like the motor-clutch combo packs that sit between the ICE and gearbox, as well as the fixed gear Toyota systems, can have motors that are weaker, lighter, and cheaper than the ICE, while being able to be additive to the ICE power output. That makes more efficient use of steel and copper than full serial setups.
BMW i3 had such EREV option, but it apparently used a cheap OEM bike engine(not like a BMW Motorrad engine) and also could not overcome power draw of the EV drive motor. So it literally just extended the range, not allowing it to run indefinitely at highway speeds with just refueling. Nissan e-POWER system is powerful enough to do that, but then the readers of comment will have to back to the line 3.
This is a different experience to GP from query to result. I thought they've all fixed that issue of difference in tones affecting results. I guess it was never easily fixed.
1: https://gist.github.com/numpad0/c40c16232288d544f7ea46521c64...
Car brands don't pitch cars as horse replacements. They put names and icons of horses on cars and horse riders love them. No one is complaining that horses had replaced cars.
AI startups pitched AI like it's a coagulation of malice and hostility against humanity on tap. People aren't liking it. Of course they won't. No intelligence would, natural or artificial. It's wild that they don't get that.
As for tokenizers - I reckon that most of them are not optimized for CJK; they're good enough, and AI performance in CJK languages, so far, haven't been the top priority matter.
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absolute OT trivia that I needed a place to drop: the Indian karma system do not consider beings outside of animal kingdom, e.g. a roadside tree, to be alive and directly involved in the karma and reincarnation and all that, and apparently so did not the original Indian Buddhism. It was originally Chinese, and more prominently Japanese, exposition and localization of Buddhism that changed it up to be the current Studio Ghibli form of it that yes mountains and rivers and 100 year old Italian combat biplanes can all be alive and sentient and that you just ate a carrot is a sort of your original sin and even strictest of vegetarianism is not guilt-free. Your LLM can elaborate on this if necessary...
It's just a type of battery, that takes fuel, as its refillable energy source. Weird but it works.