Hi Elon, nice of you to join us.

Chinese cars sold in the UK and Europe have to pass EU safety standards, which are significantly more stringent than US standards. I can drive for 30 mins and I'll see loads of Jaecoo, BYD and MG cars on the road here in Scotland. Jaecoo, for example, offers a 7 years/100k miles warranty and 8 years/100,000 miles on the batteries. MG offer 7 years/80,000 miles and BYD offer 6 years/100k miles with options to extend. So, yes, they do safety tests and, yes, they support their cars.

There were problems with local availability of parts initially, which led to sky-high insurance premiums with Chinese models, but those issues seem to have largely been resolved - or at least are no longer regularly reported in the media - so the issues you raise don't appear to be valid in 2026, at least not here in the UK.

You may be (read: are definitely) being flooded with FUD propaganda by the US automotive industry.

Pollute, baby, pollute.

Dear AC, it's not privatized in Mississippi. That's what TFA is about. Mississippi SB 2838 which would have allowed alcohol retailers to purchase from out-of-state got voted through almost unanimously but then died in Senate Conference a couple of weeks ago, hence the State of Mississippi still holds a monopoly on the supply of alcohol in the state.

Did you get your "information" from ChatGPT or do you have a brain injury?

From where, pray tell, did the state get the money to buy the booze?

The submitters copy and paste and the editors add spelling mistakes.

Question: why do they need any of that at all? Why have your employees do this stupid shit? What does it accomplish? Can the bros really not think of a better way to spend $500k? Does this really enhance your product? Does this really help people get their work done and gel as a team? Or... is it really so the CEO can say "hey guys, guess what we did, lol (not me, i was faking E.Coli so i could stay in my room)" to his cadre of other insufferable douchebags at the next conference?

Exactly. WP have had years to sort this shit out, but they were too afraid of cannibalising their existing base. I genuinely hope this gains support from plugin authors and wipes WP out.

Nope, it's 100% the WebView2 component. Video adds a bit but not much.

Microsoft Teams is an egregious one. It used to be Electron-based and nominally used gigabytes of RAM, was horrifically slow, etc. So, they switched to their own WebView2 (i.e. embedded Edge instance) and now it typically uses hundreds of megabytes instead...

...but that's still hundreds of megabytes to display a chat window with some text and a few images. Yes, the kind of thing you could do in literally a handful of megabytes with native code. Instead, we have an entire browser engine rendering this stuff and eating RAM like it costs nothing.

Just by scrolling up in a Teams chat window I got it to go from around 600MB to 2000MB RAM use in under 60 seconds. Bear in mind that all it's doing is fetching and drawing images and text. That's the power of the web, baby.

Nah, I think MS consider .NET code to be "native". The CIL gets JITted (and usually cached) into machine code at (or sometimes before) runtime. .NET apps don't have the massive overhead of an Electron app, for example. WinUI is native and not the worst UI toolkit MS have ever released - aesthetics aside.

Node.js and NW.js are only really awful because people realised if you just bundled them with a Chromium engine you could create multiplatform "desktop apps", and voila, you've invented Electron; 10x more resource usage and 10x less performance compared to a native app because web browsers are ridiculous behemoths these days.

Pretty sure Sam Altman has that exact phrase tattooed somewhere intimate.

Yep, and if the system isn't built to shield those doing the "verifying" then there should be a clear audit log proving exactly that.

Want to bet that log is incomplete and/or missing? I can't read the paywalled article to find out.

The AI does that without any prompting. That is the problem.

My (jokey) point was that the actual data between the samples doesn't exist in the file; you're always hearing an approximation. An infinitesimally close approximation at high enough sample rates, but still an approximation.

Your name checks out, tho. :D