That's your tell that fusion has a promising future. Some people aren't like a stopped clock (broken but occasionally correct by sheer coincidence), so much as like a compass whose needle has been magnetized backwards and always points south (always precisely the opposite of correct, and therefore informative if you know to negate their indication).

The problem with Gaudi is that even if you did everything right, it was still embarrassingly behind nVidia offerings. So after a lot of work to *try* to support Intel as an nVidia alternative you still end up just in a terrible place.

They spent some time trying to spin it as 'well if you don't need a H200, then Gaudi 3 is good enough', except by that argument the H100 is the right choice. So the only thing they could have done is be way cheaper than nVidia and AMD MI.

Now the bubble is indeed fishy, but Intel's incompetent swings at a product for the segment is a separate thing altogether.

I think they are only hypothetically 'current' as in not really available. I think if you wanted to buy a Gaudi solution new you might find no one really ready to sell it to you.

Intel abandoned the concept, again. What you see online is mostly the corpse of a product and vendors playing with leftover samples to hedge their bets in case Intel decides to get back into the market with a follow-on product.

I mean, we already have those all over the place, except they don't change while parked because why would we ever want to do that and focus exhaust in a bunch of stationary cars, exacerbating air quality particularly in things like parking decks?

I *guess* you might be imagining a gas engine so weak as to not keep up with driving that needs extra time, but that's just not an issue. Even if we did want to go with a tiny engine block, it could still keep up with average power demand of going 80mph. However once a car has committed to owning the intake, cooling, and exhaust of a gas engine, it's not like going from a 500c to a 1500c engine is a big deal and that gives you *plenty* of power headroom

My household has one PHEV and one full EV. If we *all* want to go to somewhere together, then for a short trip we don't care which car we take, for medium length trips we will take the full EV since it is generally a more pleasant quiet drive and if it's a trip longer than 200 miles, then it's back to the PHEV for the short gas stops.

A friend once worked in Washington on a defense project, and took classes in Russian at the Washington branch of the Defense Language Institute. He was very proud of himself and after a while, he decided to head to a Russian bookstore in town, walked in and told them in Russian that he was looking for some books on biographies of Russian diplomats. The clerk looked up and with a big smile exclaimed DLI !. Apparently Russians can tell that youâ(TM)ve been trained there.

Q: What's in the box?
A: We don't really know, lol, but it seems to work okay!
Q: Will it keep my data secure?
A: There's no way to know, let's just hope for the best!

That may explain it. I have a Qrevo S, which is from 2024, while yours is from 2022. The only thing that it ever gets stuck at is one spot where, from under the couch, it can see out the ground-level window, and get stuck between the couch and window ledge (not actually stuck, just confused), because the LiDAR sees out the window. And I fixed that just by setting a small exclusion zone there. It never "gets lost" - maybe your house has some vast open spaces that it can't handle? But the LiDAR seems to see pretty far. The only other issues I've had are things like where I'll have a loose cord on the floor or some large piece of debris or whatnot, and even then, it's usually good at not getting stock on them. I'm also impressed with how well it deals with doors vs. a Roomba - my Roomba used to always get itself locked in rooms by accidentally closing doors after it entered, while the Roborock really tries to avoid ever touching them.

The Qrevo S has actually rotating mops, and they do a superb job with the floor. Spotless. My robot has the hardest mopping job in the world, too - it has to clean under my parrot's cage, and he poops off the edge onto a plastic mat under it ;)

I've never had to contact support - hopefully I don't need to :)

Personal preference, perhaps.

I listen to podcasts while I'm working in the shop or driving around. Usually at 2x. It's usually media and news analysis or long form stuff that I'd not have the time to consume otherwise.

Obama replaced protein with canned veggies, soy products, and other low-nutrient foods. That increased the amount of processed foods the kids eat (unless you don't think canned veggies counts as processed?)

It's long been thought by alternative health folks that Parkinsons and other related neurological disorders are largely environmental - due to toxin loads, from everything from heavy metals to pesticides.

My great-grandfather died of Parkinson's disease - or more accurately, hung himself at the sanitarium because of the repeated electroshock 'treatments'. It doesn't run in the family. It just so happens that he had a fairly excessive canned peaches "addiction", sometimes eating several cans a day. We think his disorder may have been related.

although map editing sucks and it often gets lost and can't properly reset its position. It needs to be rescued pretty often which is a major fail.

That's very distinctly not my experience. What version do you have?

A real vacuum cleaner just about maxes out a standard residential 120v 15a circuit, as anyone who remembers the incandescent bulb era can attest to. A circuit with a few lamps shared with a vacuum cleaner could easily end with you flipping a breaker or replacing a blown fuse.

When you look at the absolutely tiny lithium ion pack these robo-vacs come with, ...

Sitting on my kitchen table right now is a drone pack. It's 57,5Wh, smaller the batteries of most modern Roombas. It's 50C - thus it can output up to 2,9kW. And there's even higher packs available than that. Lithium ion cells can handle some truly high power outputs. It's *energy*, not *power*, that is their limitation. Run a pack at 50C and it'll be empty in a bit over a minute. That said, on hard floor surfaces there is absolutely no reason why you should be drawing more than 300-400W or so, and you can get by with well less than that. High powers are for like shag carpeting and the like. Also, the head matters more than the power (though of course contribute) - for a hard floor, for example, a fluffy roller head is ideal.

Pet hair has never been an issue for me with robots. My long hair always is. It's way longer than any pet's.

Yeah, my Roborock has rotating mops, and I can say with 100% certainty, I haven't lived in a cleaner house since I moved out of my OCD mother's place as a teen. You could eat off that floor.

Facts. I used to have a Roomba for years, but as I live in Europe, it was getting increasingly hard to deal with modern features (like the self-emptying base which needs 120V power). I reluctantly switched to a Roborock when my power converter died, and just, wow, they're light years ahead of iRobot. I think iRobot has been coasting on its name for a while now.

Yeah, the charging situation is interesting.

If you charge at home, so much cheaper than gas.

If you can't charge at home, so much more expensive than gas.