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Submission + - How much schadenfreude is bad for me? (bbc.com)

Submitted by shanen on Friday February 28, 2025 @06:16PM

shanen writes: I'm just submitting the story to be part of the rush, but I'm actually not a bit surprised that Zelenskyy told the orange buffoon to take a flying leap. Nor that Cheeto Jesus was caught completely off guard. He wouldn't recognize an actual patriot until one bit him on the arse in his own precious office.

Mostly I just want to add another joke to the melee: How can he change the subject now? But making a new sales pitch for his vanity cryptocoin: "Buy my crypto-coins and the decryption keys for everything are included! What do you mean it doesn't work like that? Elong [sic] told me!"

Submission + - DeepSeek, China and the Japanese art of 'kaizen' (ft.com)

Submitted by berghem on Saturday February 01, 2025 @05:20AM

berghem writes: An Article on FT.com (paywalled) reports how behind China’s recent achievements — in LLMs like DeepSeek, electric cars, robotics, electronics, etc — some version of kaizen is at work.

Kaizen is a patient process of iterative improvement of product and process, which Japan made famous in the 70s and 80s.

According to Japanese recruitment agents, China these days employs older and experienced "Japanese semiconductor, railway and robotics engineers as consultants". Japan did not pay these engineers very much, and China has found that they can tempt them away from their own country with better pay and by valuing their expertise. "Kaizen is fundamentally a process of trial and error, and an experienced engineer can impart the invaluable, cost-saving nod on what was tried but didn’t work."

Comment Re:Its been done (Score 1) 214

by alister667 on Saturday December 09, 2006 @06:48AM (#17172630) Attached to: Open Source Car on the Horizon

You're absolutely right.
There is a huge community out there improving on and refining the design, helping each other through builds. These cars (especially when fitted with light, powerful motorbike engines) can do 0-60 in under 4 seconds, lap racing circuits quicker than just about any road car and usually cost anywhere from $500 to about $12,000 to build. As far as value / performance goes they're untouchable.
A quick plug for the UK locost builders website http://www.locostbuilders.co.uk/, and here's the web site for the one I built and raced myself http://members.lycos.co.uk/alister667/, although watch out Lycos is pop-up-tastic!

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