JohnEdwa @ JohnEdwa @sopuli.xyz

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He has been going at it for over three decades already (Gates foundation was started in 1994) and he founded and signed the Giving Pledge in 2010, so it isn't really that late-life.

Gates foundation has donated over 100 billion already, 60 billion directly from him
That's a bit more than "tossing a few million a year".

The actual answer: It should be Level 4 autonomy. It is capable of full self driving, but only in certain conditions.

Do note that Tesla autopilot is actually only SAE level 2, so it's just a straight up lie :)

Generic in context.

Giving Tesla those trademarks would mean nobody else can call theirs using those terms. Giving both could mean they might argue the terms robocab and cybertaxi were too close and confusing too. But they are all terms we already use for that type of a vehicle.
We didn't call operating systems windows before windows, and we (mostly) still don't.

Also the trademark for X is like the trademark for Apple, very narrow in scope. You could start and trademark X as your own pretty much as long as it's something that isn't like Twitter.
And many already do exist (and did before musks X)

Because there isn't a trademark conflict, it's just too generic of a term to get trademarked in the first place, but it took seven months for USPTO to process the application.

"Tesla applied for the trademark in October 2024 on the same day that it revealed the Cybercab."

Yes, but there are limitations on switching, iirc something like 6 months between being able to join a different family and so on. They don't really matter for actual families, but does if you just want to share games with a bunch of friends.

There hasn't really been anything worthwhile to upgrade to yet. More powerful handhelds do exist, but most make use of APUs that are 50-100% more power hungry, while not actually achieving that much of a performance increase.

Valve is waiting for the next generation of 15W APUs, and meanwhile the new Ryzen Z2 A APU is actually based on the one made for the Deck because it's still basically the most efficient APU they have.

Better will happen. Cheaper than Meta selling the Quest 2/3s at a loss for $300 because they bank on the walled garden of the Oculus app store for profit? Rather unlikely.

Especially now that every VR headset seems to be a standalone and the simple "HDMI cable to a PC" doesn't really seem to exist any more, so you have to pay for the mandatory integrated gaming tablet as well.

Uh huh. The man who has donated roughly 100 billion in total - apparently as "tax writeoffs" - including funding the Gates foundation which spent countless billions treating malaria, aids, tuberculosis, polio, hiv and a myriad of other things, hasn't fixed anything because billionaire = bad.

There are two reasonably good ones, as far as I know - Gabe Newell and Bill Gates.

The rest though... yeah.
The world would be a very different place if every billionaire was anything like those two.

Discord -> Matrix or Revolt.

Though Discord is trying to be an everything-app these days so "alternatives" to it include old school forums, wikis, screen sharing programs, IRC, Mumble/TeamSpeak, file sharing site etc if you just keep spliting individual parts of it off.

economies of scale

And competition. AFAIK, E Ink Corporation holds all the patents (there's 47 pages of them), so they can ask for as much as they want for the tech.

The same as the M in ATM machine and N in PIN number, V in HIV virus and C in UPC code!
Oh, the dreaded RAS syndrome!.

I'm off to read some DC comics.

They were paying people to try to make them answer the questions correctly because getting an LLM to do what you want it to was excruciatingly difficult just a few years back (and kinda still is).
Especially when what most companies want (factual, accurate, intelligent answers to difficult tasks or questions) is not something LLMs are actually made for (slapping words together using probability in a way that makes a reader to think it might have been written by a human).

But yes. Professional google searcher, just from back in very early 2000's when there were TV quiz shows about people being given a question and trying to find the answer as fast as possible as it was an actual special skill (an sometimes it feels like it still is, judging by how often people ask stupidly simple questions on social media)

And the tree in question here was over 150 years old, planted by a man that died back in 1890.
Cut down by two 30-somethings.

Death penalty is an ineffective deterrent mostly because people tend to commit the crimes it's used as a punishment for while not thinking, or caring, about the consequences at all.

Now, forget cutting off the internet, if you'd get the death penalty for getting caught pirating music, it would prove to be a very effective deterrent at stopping it. I guarantee, zero piracy after a few years.
A lot smaller population left to buy the legal media too, though, but hey, no pesky pirates!

It's Oblivion exactly as janky as you remember it, this remaster is a weird mishmash where all the visual rendering is handled by Unreal Engine 5 but the game itself is running using the original engine in the background.
It's even kinda directly compatible with all the old mods, though most will need tiny tweaks to properly function.

So it can kinda be thought of as "Oblivion RTX Remix", if you know that tool.

Also AI isn't only LLMs and image generation, it's a massive field that's been used in different things for decades. "No AI" would mean "back to snipping movies using practical effects together from spools of film", as basically every CGI and editing software uses something "AI" in it these days.

Or just moron numerology. The last tariffs were calculated by taking the trade deficit and dividing that in two. E.g some country imports 10 billion to the US but exports only 5, so trump claimed there was a 50% "tariff" by that country and slapped 25% "counter tariffs" on them.

At least they capped it to a 10% minimum as otherwise there would be a bunch of countries the US should have added a negative tariff for making that stuff cheaper.

In theory.
And it actually probably would be pretty easy to do following US requirements, seeing how lax some of the "Made in USA" labels are:

Made in USA of Imported Parts
...the final construction is done in our country, but all or nearly all the parts have been imported from other countries
Made in USA with Global Components or Global Materials
...the final product is finished in the United States. There could also be a few or no parts of the product that are made in the US, but the majority are made and imported from foreign countries.
Assembled in the USA
...the majority or all of the product is put together in the United States or its territories. ...it’s a foreign product, with foreign-made materials that were only Assembled in the United States. -https://www.allamericanmade.com/what-does-made-in-usa-mean/

But the logistics of funnelling $450 billion worth of parts through somewhere else would be basically impossible.
...or they could just lie.