The US is not a social democracy.

Thinking about it now, I don't think any social democratic countries have nuclear weapons. They tend to have very, very good healthcare too.

You can say that about any democracy, but the social ones are at least designed to prevent any individual or any party getting too much power. If you look at them, the governments are almost always broad coalitions.

That's right, it's a democratic system, the government is in charge and the government works for the people.

True, but also, glass houses.

I know it's fun to rag on China, but your statement doesn't even make sense. If someone is valuable enough to warrant a travel ban, they aren't going to murder them for expressing dissent.

The best system is social democracy. Government in charge, not corporations, and government working for the electorate thanks to an electoral system that provides proper representation.

It works because it's not authoritarian, but instead gives individuals a real stake on society and in government. There is a strong social contract that is upheld, where as in other democracies like the UK and US the social contract is more of a scam than a deal.

One of those rare occasions when Betteridge is wrong.

Musk has been quite open about this with Grok AI. When anyone discovers it going off message, he has his engineers "fix" it.

Waymo's system has better sensors than humans do too. The have lidar mounted high up, cameras all around, and a computer that "looks" in all directions at once. They can see hidden pedestrians that a human driver can't from the driving seat, that sort of thing.

Thing is, Waymo is concentrating on safety first, with an expensive sensor suite. Some other companies like Tesla are trying to cost reduce their systems aggressively, and as a result they are much less safe. Musk and some of the other tech bros seem to think that just being as good or a little better than a human is enough, but they also seem to be aware that legally speaking being liable for thousands of vehicles that are only a little better than a human is a huge liability. Rather than improve the tech, they lobby to change the law.

With solar it's more about the economics. PV is highly cost optimized so even if the new tech can scale up, it has to also be extremely cheap.

One comment on that screenshot. Your AI said that it fetched a Wikipedia page from the Internet Archive because Wikipedia blocked it, if I understood it.

Kind of a dick move. Wikipedia has clearly indicated that it doesn't want your AI using it as a resource, and so has the Internet Archive. IA in particular is a non profit and their servers are melting in the inferno of all these AI queries right now.

China hasn't lied about coal usage. We know because we can measure it from space, since they have to burn it to extract the energy. This is the same as the false claims that they covered up tens of millions of COVID deaths. We would see it from satellites if they tried to.

That said, everyone bullshits Trump. Denmark just got him to agree to a 70 year old treaty on Greenland by telling him it was new and he was getting what he wanted for defence. Chances are whatever the agreement turns out to be, it will be mostly what China wants, with a bit of input from US tech bros, framed to make Trump think he won.

I could be wrong about that. I thought I saw it, but maybe not. The RISC-V cores are much preferred over the other ones, not least because RISC-V gets more attention in GCC.

I think Espressif also used ARM in some parts. They are a bit frustrating because ESP32 has a good ecosystem and is cheap, but it's also got crappy tooling and its peripherals, it's microcontroller features, are lacking. As well as having to use their library code, unless you reverse engineer the part, they are just very basic and inflexible.

Unfortunately though they are the only option really. The RPi Pico W is more expensive and there isn't much availability of small modules. I haven't really looked much beyond that. ST don't have much, just one co-processor module which doesn't make me confident that they are looking to develop the product range. Microchip's WiFi co-processors are all legacy products now, and poorly supported.

I ended up just making my own WiFi co-processors with ESP32 modules. NEMA over UART and I2C device interfaces. Not finished yet, and it's a pain having to have two MCUs to program and maintain, but I haven't found a better option.

As I said, /. is flawed, but it's still the best system of any website I've found so far. Ars is a pile of manure for comments. Groupthink as bad as Reddit.

It buggered up the OS enough that it wouldn't boot, possibly because of the client side software for VM integration. I didn't investigate too much, I just made a new VM.