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kalleboo

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  • Apple argues in favor of selling Macs with only 8GB of RAM

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  • It mostly just shows how crazy fast modern SSDs are that they can do swap duties with performance that is acceptable to many people. The SSD in my MacBook Pro can read/write at 5-6 GB/s. That means it can write out the whole 8 GB of memory of one of those smaller machines in under 2 seconds. As long as your current task fits in 8 GB and you're fine waiting 2 seconds to switch between apps...

  • No, electric vehicle sales aren’t dropping. Here’s what’s really going on

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  • Incentives like that are a lot easier your entire national population is smaller than some cities.

    Maybe you should split your country up into smaller, independent regions that can govern more effectively.

    You could call them "States"

  • Korea slaps $327,067 fine on Twitch for suspending service

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  • Who makes money when AI reads the internet for us?

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  • It used to be you'd search for something, click on the results and load the ads on the page with the info.

    Then google started adding their snippets with direct answers, and yes, there has been an uproar from content sites about that. But some fraction of people still click through for more context.

    With LLMs, all that traffic is 100% gone.

  • Rumored 'Big-Block' Duramax Diesel Could Be 8.3L and We’re Off the Rails Now

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  • You certainly can run freight trains off of electrified tracks. E.g. the iron ore trains in Scandinavia, which go up to 8500 tons, using a pair of locomotives that together output 10 MW https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malmbanan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iore

    The US is running longer and longer trains as you have observed (up to a max of 14,000 tons), but that is only because they keep fucking over their staff so they quit, so they have to do that out of necessity due to a lack of drivers. It's far more dangerous as it increases the risk of derailment, it means the trains can't fit in sidings (which screws over scheduling as trains can't pass each other) and ought to be stopped.

  • Shell Is Immediately Closing All Of Its California Hydrogen Stations | The oil giant is one of the big players in hydrogen globally, but even it can't make its operations work here.

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  • The higher the density of the city, the better public transit works. You can live in Tokyo or London and get by without a car, but everyone in the world can't (or won't) live in Tokyo-dense cities. It doesn't make any financial sense building a subway in a city of only 100,000.

  • The unstoppable rise of batteries is leading to a domino effect that puts half of global fossil fuel demand at risk

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  • My favorite is the IEA forecast for Solar adoption

  • GM Reverses All-In EV Strategy to Bring Back Plug-In Hybrids

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  • Selling their own music and maps subscriptions, ads, selling location data. Enshittification.

    GM also views the new infotainment system as a way to generate more revenue from subscription services, including music streaming, audiobooks and vehicle maintenance. GM’s chief executive Mary Barra has set a target of $20 billion USD (about $27 billion CAD) to $25 billion (roughly $33 billion CAD) in annual revenue from subscriptions by 2030

  • Sam Altman Says AI Using Too Much Energy, Will Require Breakthrough Energy Source

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  • I love nuclear but China is building them as fast as they can and they're still being massively outpaced by their own solar installations. If we hadn't shut down most of the research and construction in the 80's it would have been great, but it's not going to be a solution to the huge power requirement growth from EVs and shit like AI in the "short" term of 1-20 years.

  • Sam Altman Says AI Using Too Much Energy, Will Require Breakthrough Energy Source

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  • If we're still talking about AI, you can ramp up the AI training and batch workloads when the sun is shining and stop them overnight. It's one of those things like aluminum smelters where you can adjust the load