They did announce recently that they're gonna stop making and selling the Model S and Model X and put more emphasis on humanoid robots and AI instead of cars. Everything over there in Muskland seems so terribly chaotic.
i wonder if the saturation of Superbowl ads about one thing being an indicator of a bubble about to burst is kinda analogous to how getting on the Forbes 30 under 30 list and then seeing someone from that list get arrested for fraud isn't terribly surprising
Using flowing sand in a thermal battery is interesting. They're flowing cold sand through an electric heater to heat it up and store that heat, then flowing the hot sand as one of the fluids through a heat exchanger with whatever you're actually trying to heat, whether its air or water or oil, and then storing the now cold sand to be reheated.
I guess if you have some way of concentrating and dumping industrial heat into the sand, that could replace the electric heater and let it run off of some existing industrial process
The city’s enforcement data from 2021-25 shows 129 scooters seized, 74 impounded, 53 vendor warnings, 13 vendor citations, 3,016 rider warnings, 51 rider citations, five guns seized and eight arrests. No deaths were reflected in the city's data. Meanwhile, Houston last year recorded its deadliest year on record for vehicle drivers, passengers and pedestrians, with 345 people killed on Houston-area streets, a record high after two years of declines.
over 300 people died last year because of car accidents vs 0 from e-bikes and scooters in the past 4 years and you're gonna put a curfew on the e-bikes???
You can run LibreTranslate locally in a Docker/Podman container. iirc it does need a few GB of space to download the model.
I only played with it for a little bit maybe like a year ago and wasn't super impressed by its Japanese to English translations, but that could have been me just not setting it up right, or maybe its improved since then. I didn't try any other languages
Microsoft's really been on that "I'll do everything in my power to make number go up that isn't making a better product" grind for a long time now yea