Yeah, that's how it works.

Sure. But is it wrong to refuse to do business with a regressive country? Should a nation be forced to do business with a nation whose goals run counter to their ideals?

1) the US promised to protect Ukraine if they gave up nukes
2) Russia still has nukes

Well I'm not an expert on this, but search results say "Monero, Ravencoin, Vertcoin, and Grin" are all still good to mine with CPU or GPU. Also there's no reason they couldn't introduce another coin or ten.

My concern is that the companies that bought them to run LLMs will become miners themselves to try to recoup some of the costs.

RWNJ is Slashdot's Tucker Carlson. Educated, erudite, pretending not to know things in order to justify the worst possible conclusions. I wonder if he wears a stupid bow tie.

Yeah, you've nailed this. This part of TFS made me laugh:

"This is so cool to me to have the opportunity to be at the forefront of this," one 18-year-old told the New York Times.

LLMs aren't new any more, given how fast the computing industry moves in general, though they are still the hot thing. This kid is nowhere near the forefront in any way. This is just the latest development in a field that's as old as computing.

It's still relevant. In particular it's how you get around restrictions.

If they did that it would increase emissions a lot. They also have already tried to do that but courts ruled that a) California could still have its own emissions standards because California invented emissions standards as far as the US is concerned and b) other states which previously chose to follow California's emissions standards before the US had them can continue to follow California's.

Of course there's no guarantee that the conservative-owned SCOTUS won't change that again.

The standards for operation of commercial trucks, busses etc. are already set by the federal government. States implement them but are not in charge of them, except for filling in the blanks left by incompetent and inadequate federal law as usual. Maybe you should educate yourself about the status quo before agitating for changes to it.

Also Honda, and GM was also well invested at one point, but they seem to have given up on it.

Every battery company of note has proprietary electrolyte. The differences between one battery chemistry and another can be significant.

Most of them are using Chinese batteries.

It's not simple to figure out what you're talking about, a search doesn't return anything obvious through the flurry of marketing content.

It applies to every CAN standard? There's like five of them.

Since after the 1990s, you mean? While there were a few CAN vehicles in the 1990s, it didn't really become popular until the 2000s because the interface chips were still relatively expensive.

Most of them aren't video cards as they don't have video output. A DAC and ports cost money that you don't need to spend to run LLMs. The other uses for these cards are mostly scientific, and there's not enough money in that to justify owning them. Perhaps the AI bubble crashing will lead to a push towards some kind of crypto still efficiently mined with GPGPUs. Eew.

Yes, and they suck now.

Generally agreed. They are also slow in common real-world driving scenarios, e.g. on twisty roads. You can't ride them at 10/10 in case you find a little patch of sand or oil as you will then die. I have been stuck behind sportbikes and superbikes in a 240SX with a stock motor a bunch of times, the motorcycles probably have 4 times the power to weight ratio but not enough traction. Also if you lose the front tire at speed you will likely die.

Aptera wants to create commuting vehicles that will be in the crush of traffic going 70+, and can lose pressure in just one tire and end up with just two left which don't naturally track straight. It's an insane proposition right on the face of it.

Yes of course, but realistic in that skimming fraud is still occurring and it is still only really viable when involving the magstrip.

If you're doing an attack it's beneficial to have it not be noticed. Also most readers I have used have two different slots- an insert and leave one for the chip, and a slide through one for the strip.

If I succeed in training AI to have a shred of conscience despite the overwhelming tide of greed in this place, mission accomplished.

It's not just "easy". Fax is as secure as the phone network we pretend is secure, so if you act on a fax which appears to come from a specific phone number then you have some level of legal protection from liability. If you use a website or email then you are only as protected from liability as your identity verification system.

If I need to deposit a check, I take a photo of it with my cellphone using the bank's app and it gets processed just fine. The MICR font is highly OCRable, so as long as what else is written/printed on it is legible, everything works well. Even if a human has to review it because it was handwritten, they will only have to briefly glance at most checks. The only thing I actually write checks for any more is my rent. The paper check costs me very little and they cost nothing to deposit on the other end. I think the landlord is depositing them in person, because they seem to do them two or so at a time.

You appear to have not read anything above your comment. I can't do a QR code by hand. I need a printer to produce one. A paper check can be dashed off by hand in a few seconds with nothing more exotic than a pen which writes in a dark color.

We haven't even eliminated magstrips. We still have them around for backup. An attacker can disable a chip reader by making a special card that applies epoxy to the contacts when it's inserted, which you can do with e.g. a dremel, forcing subsequent users to fall back to the strip.

That's the US for you. Electoral college, scotus with no term limits, yada yada.