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  • The thing is, these are nearly always voluntary features. Just because you gain the ability to check lock status and lock the doors from your phone doesn’t mean you lose the lock button on the fob. Teslas are just about the only exception there lol

    As for the coat thing, I don’t do it because I’m accustomed to it, I used to lie in snow piles in jeans and a t-shirt as a teen.

    But the annoying part is having to run downstairs, put on shoes, etc. My car takes about half an hour of running the engine to get the ice off the windscreen and the cabin warm enough for my toddler (did you know that thick coats or onesies are bad for safety while driving? I did not, but my ex does and she’s the kind of person to tell CPS I’m not keeping our child safe enough.) On an average winter morning that means I should be out of the door and starting the car the minute after I wake up. Kindergarten mornings are not fun in the winter. Difficult enough to wake up when it’s pitch black outside.

    But anyway, the reason I’m now looking at those old Range Rogers besides some of the comfiest seats in the world is that they have a preheater as standard equipment on diesels for those years so I can either program a schedule or use the remote if equipped, which works for me since I currently live in a detached home not the nth floor of a large commie block where signal might be an issue. I don’t think my neighbours like me idling the car for half an hour on a cold morning either, the preheater is much quieter and uses less fuel so there’s less exhaust gas too. Plus I get to start the engine when it’s already warm, rather than worrying about whether my timing chain will make it through the winter.



  • Luckily they test shock/strut function at the annual inspection. If it’s below a certain percentage, your car fails.

    If they don’t do mandatory inspection in your country, you’re sharing the roads with death traps that could crash into you at any moment because who knows if they even have brakes. In that case, who cares about worn struts?

    Anyway, from experience, original struts are usually good for 200-300k km but I’ve seen more than that and still good. On mostly German cars. Of course if you see an oil leak from a strut you should get that pair replaced immediately. At that kind of mileage, you get a handling improvement if you replace them before outright failure, but they’re not actually dangerous at anything resembling sensible driving.






  • Haven’t they clearly documented how they did it and what they used so that anyone can replicate it?

    They don’t put up the actual code for their training pipeline though. It’s more of a “if you have enough engineers, you can do this too” whitepaper, because they wouldn’t want any rando training their own model.

    Right now, even if you had the exact training set (which is a CRUCIAL part of an LLM and you can NOT replicate it without it), you couldn’t rebuild the thing exactly, you’d need to do a whole lot of extra work.

    So how is it not open source in this specific domain of problems?

    You could call all proprietary software open source then. The UI and user manual describe what it does, you can do your own engineering to duplicate the functionality.






  • They’re talking 10 gigawatt data centers now. That’s multiple small countries worth of power consumption and consequently heat generation. I live in a country of a million point something people and our peak is 1.6 gigawatts. For the entire country. Including multiple non-AI data centers.

    You can improve the HVAC efficiency but fundamentally you still have gigawatts of heat generation to dissipate. You know what’s really good for that? Evaporating water, especially in a desert where humidity is low.