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> Toyota’s current chairman and former CEO, Akio Toyoda, warned [...] in July that the company is being forced to adapt, or “it cannot survive,”.

THIS is why I hate legacy auto companies. They don't want to delight customers. They must be dragged and forced to offer the bare minimum.

I have a Hyundai EV and it's the best vehicle I've ever driven. Japan and Detroit (et al) can suck it.


What's your definition of "legacy auto company"? Wikipedia tells me Hyundai was founded in 1967.

I'm suggesting they self-identify by resisting changes customers want.

Detroit fought against safety features until it was forced on them and Volvo led the way. They continued to fight against infotainment, offering horrible in-house trash, until Tesla shamed them with something from this century. All the Japanese makers fought against the EV wave by putting up a fake signal with H2, which they knew would never fly, which let them continue without retooling.

Now, BYD shames them all with scores of features at a reasonable price. If it weren't for protectionism, they'd be wiping up western markets. And to your point, yes Hyundai is old but they're listening to demand and responding by delighting customers.



Pretty much!

Now all they have to do is solve the incentives problem, which seems far more difficult.


We've seen this before - it's called the Eliza effect. People appear emotionally driven to communicate privately with a machine even if they understand logically it's a machine with chat logs that will be read by people.

https://www.centerconsulting.com/ai-library/stories/eliza-ef...


A simple tablet holder on the fridge door would do this way better.

Aren't all the Android Snapdragon phones already mostly there?

Android phones don't need (and often don't have) upstreamed "drivers". They use qualcomm's closed-source code. Also, Android user land driver (HAL) isn't useful for non-Android Linux distros.

Yes, with proprietary blobs. Oh, and also running a version of the Linux kernel that’s been out of support for years (on some devices, not all).

This is the danger when you don’t upstream your shit. Now you’re stuck on kernel 3 or 4 because your chip vendor is lazy. And Qualcomm has got to be one of the laziest.


Would it make sense to send better robotic analyzers there than to bring the samples back here? Fighting gravity and kilometers involves spending many billions on return; a lesser amount could be spent on surface activities.

We would need to move people and cargo back and forth eventually, so best to get started on that ASAP. Not to mention sample return has been done from the Moon & asteroid to great success, its a proven concept on how to get the most from the samples.

The issue is the size of some of these analysers. For instance, a synchrotron, which is required to non-destructively generate nanometer-scale 3d images of the samples are 3-4 times the size of a football stadium

An AFM can get atomic resolution imagery and is not the size of a football stadium.

An AFM is completely useless to identify the chemical elements, protein or crystalline structure inside a sample.

There are tools used in UHV surface science labs for that, in the same head as a AFM/STM.

Heck, even on Macos 26, I have all the Siri and intelligence toggles turned off. Yet all these processes sitting around.

    (me)      11386   0.0  0.1 435334816  22528   ??  S     3:26AM   0:03.89 /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/VoiceShortcuts.framework/Versions/A/Support/siriactionsd
    (me)       1099   0.0  0.0 435344416   3360   ??  Ss   27Aug26   0:01.95 /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/SiriSuggestionsSupport.framework/Versions/A/XPCServices/SiriSuggestionsBookkeepingService.xpc/Contents/MacOS/SiriSuggestionsBookkeepingService
    (me)        941   0.0  0.0 435440384   3776   ??  S    27Aug26   0:04.52 /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/SiriInference.framework/Versions/A/siriinferenced

I foolishly bought a Macbook Air with only 256GB of drive space. Now whenever I need to "upgrade" OS versions, there's not enough drive space to do so. It sure would be nice to delete all this unnecessary Siri bullshit bloat so that I can use my laptop with the latest updates.

Are these Spotlight? The New Siri combined Siri and Spotlight into a single agentic retrieval thing, so it’s possible that when you turn off “Siri” they leave on Spotlight but it’s reported under the new branding.

Inconsistent & confusing if so.


There are 400,000 to 800,000 utility strikes a year in the US. Sure you could bury (!) an instance or two of sabotage in there with an "oops".

Recently, I tried calling 811 before digging in my yard. The webpage was broken and the hotline kept me on hold forever. I gave up. Small wonder.

https://blackhydrovac.com/underground-utility-strikes-learn-...


In my country if you want to dig into the ground more than a few meters you'd need to get a permit. Officially everything that is buried is registered but every once in a while they find an old pipe that nobody knows what it is for.

Same in the US, most places. In some cases, it’s even a criminal offense to not call before you dig.

Plenty of people don’t bother and YOLO it, and usually it’s fine - until it isn’t.


Yes that was the 811 I referred to - a US compliance and permitting hotline. They send any utilities mapped in your digging area to come mark their buried lines.


> featureless suit coats

Not a fashion expert but mandarin jackets seem like one of those prospective futures from the 60s that never came to pass. Probably that was the time culture in the West just started discovering Asian culture.

Eg: Dr No and probably lots more. https://i0.wp.com/www.retrozap.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/0...


If the community isn't proactive with safety nets for elders, let's say the childless ones, those elders will become everyone's acute problems. Better to plan for it and better to share the cost to everyone. Some might call that a government.

>Better to plan for it and better to share the cost to everyone.

And what do you do when your geopolitical rival is not doing that and using that money instead for their economy and military to maybe one day destroy you as they grow big and you grow small?

Investments in humanity work when everyone is on the same page in good faith, not when you're rivals have imperialistic wishes and no democratic process or care for human rights to stop them.

The other domestic issue is that if you make care for old people a guarantee for the elderly financed by a mandatory burden over the working population, then people have little incentive to be responsible for the future with their finances during their working age, making sure to not have kids and to spend everything because "why bother, when the government will take care of me?".

>Some might call that a government.

Some might call this wreckless planning of an unsustainable welfare state that can bankrupt a country.


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