Well, like I said, appearance isn't the most important thing; in the movies, Herbie doesn't even always have his standard paint job. Sometimes he's (visually) just a plain VW bug. It's what he does, that's important.

Three words whose first consonant sound is /r/ and refer to subjects taught in primary school are reading, writing, and arithmetic.

I'm sure it has nothing to do with the fact that most houses these days don't have peeling lead paint, like basically all of them did in the seventies.

In literary terms, Herbie is absolutely a character, but I'm not sure why anybody would set about to make real-world replica versions of him. All of his distinctive characteristics (that make him different from an ordinary, non-sapient Volkswagon Beetle, a model of car that was chosen for the films specifically because it was extremely common), are either so cartoonish as to be impractical to replicate in a real car (like the ability to be sawed completely in half and continue to operate as normal) or concern the car's behavior, rather than its physical characteristics. (And it's not enough to make the car drive itself. You have to make it have consistently smarter ideas about where to drive, than the person behind the wheel; and it has to go markedly faster than any other car in its immediate vicinity.) Several of the movies do feature a version of Herbie with some distinctive markings painted on (particularly, the number 53 in a circle), but these markings (and his paint job in general) are not consistent across all the movies and so really cannot be regarded as a core aspect of Herbie's identity. When he's an old secondhand car with a standard-but-weathered paint job, he's still very much Herbie.

"I don't think this extra billion is going to do much if he can't deliver HLS"
Elon not deliver on a technology he promised?! That would be crazy.

"If they have hearings with young men who have been alienated by Democrat policies and actions"

There were no goddamn policies that alienated young men. It's a lie and you're a liar.

Landing on Mars is the easy part, getting back off is the hard one, even with the lower-than-Earth gravity. China has a bit of an advantage in that the Chinese government is willing to risk astronaut lives a lot more than the US.

Fortunately he's incompetent and has already run Tesla into the ground. The company is basically living off schizoid incels buying the stock. SpaceX's success is largely based on the fact that they keep Musk away from actual management, but with Tesla a smoking ruin he's going to push his way into that and mess it up too.

The Ethereum blockchain's "Merge", switching from proof of work to proof of stake, freed up all the GPUs for the generative AI boom.

This article claims that the camera requirement exists to support Windows Hello authentication. How would Microsoft's Windows Hello or Apple's Face ID work without a camera? Or what other means of quickly authenticating the user to the operating system and to the external passkey/password store would you recommend instead?

The only downside I can think of is that low-end Windows laptops could become a lot more expensive to support display and 40 Gbps on all ports. This could drive laptop makers toward an operating system with even more restricted functionality: ChromeOS.

Incidentally, there was such a discovery. 'It's not wrong that "[facepalming man with brown skin emoji]".length = 7' by Henri Sivonen came out in September 2019. It explains the difference among code units, code points, and extended grapheme clusters, the difference among UTF-8, UTF-16, and UTF-32, the difference among JavaScript, Python 3, and Rust length semantics, and the difference among storage, display width, and arbitrary quotas that are roughly fair across languages.

Sure... Yeh. I used to use 3-5 juniors and interns on my projects. Starting two years ago, when each left or their contracts expired, I didn't replace them or hire them. They have been replaced by AI. I am currently running a side hustle non-profit to help gather AI refugees start their own gigs... Using AI instead of teams of engineers.
Outsourcing is quickly during too. We used to use AI (actual Indians) by the score. One $10 a month subscription replaced them all.
One "startup" I'm assisting will use robots to traverse clothing stores, pick up unfolded garments or garments hung in the wrong places and correct them.
Another is a fast food restaurant in a box. You use self driving vehicles to replace inventory using cartridges (like an Atari) and once someone places an order, the food is cooked and delivered and the kitchen is cleaned. We're working on a fully self cleaning eating area too. All containers the food is delivered in will have a minimum 500 use expected duty cycle and be completely cleanable by machine and be 100% recyclable.
Then there is the recycler which employs dumbwaiters to move trash to a room in a building. This includes dirty dishes too. It then identifies and sorts everything. It even attempts to separate plastics from papers where glue or other methods are bonding them. It also will include bottle and can deposits, crush and compact them and prepare them for automatic self-driving pickup.
And my favorite "the milk man" which is a self driving van with 6 Wall-E type robots that go door to door to pickup empty glass milk and juice jars and replace them with filled ones. The customer just needs to place the jars in a small low-power box outside their house that can store milk or juice properly for hours. On the side is also slots for letters and small packages. The van has a dishwasher/sterilizer that cleans, inspects and refills the hard. I want to add egg delivery as well. It will be awesome to add additional features such as cleaning supplies, personal hygiene items, and baked goods
We're doing it all 100% open source. And all machines are being designed to be 100% assembled, serviceable, and recyclable by machine. We're trying to manufacture everything with as little plastic as possible. It will be more expensive per item, but the consumer will pay a deposit per container which is refunded on return.

Compared to?

Not being political here, but it's been decades since I've seen news rather than opinions backed by the opinions of selectively chosen experts.

CNN was a covid disaster. They kept presenting medical doctors, often general practitioners as scientists. It was like watching auto mechanics giving "educated advice" on structural engineering for bridges because cars and bridges are connected.

It would be even better if they license out the tech.

It sounds like the C1 has reached "competitive against Qualcom". I wonder how they compare to Huawei.