Aren’t all the names ObviouslyNotBanana?

I had an Apple ][e I could use at school. It was preferable to the ][c for the same reason.

Just need a job as a mortician, or become friends with a mortician who has questionable morals and needs money.

Ads also cost many users to be served to their clients, and the more invasive and obnoxious the ad, generally the more it costs. If they don’t want to respect me, why should I respect them?

It will harm the owner of the server, who will be serving a large amount of data to someone he may not want to, at his expense.

Anything you do to inhibit LLM scrapers is by definition going to cost more energy in the short term. The idea is to drive them away by making it too costly. And realistically, in the short term, the only thing you can do to make AI farms use less energy is to have their maintainers turn them off. I’m not aware of anything we can do to make that happen.

I wish you had the power to know who to trust. I wish i had that, too.

Imagine knowing every time the person who cared for you most in the world almost slipped up because they were exasperated with you. And there’s no real way to know when it’s a bad time to read their mind, if it isn’t always on. I think it would be hard to be really close to anyone if you could read their mind and they couldn’t stop you.

Cashback was a good take on this.

The movie wasn’t half as good as the book, imo, except for the car scene.

The answer to that is to do what God said to do to hasten his coming: spread the gospel. Not ban abortions, arrest gay people, criminalize trans people. Spread the gospel. Anything else is them using religion as an excuse to promote their opinions. I realize a lot of people here recognize that, but I still think it needs to be said.

When that is the light in your day…

The McDonalds point is in reference to inflation, which will certainly have an impact on the cost of vehicles. And I feel like you don’t grasp the concept of a luxury vehicle. By definition, it has more than the basics. This could be why my EV cost less than $20k used and a Model S costs $151k new. No ponytail, but I don’t expect having one would hinder my basic math, economics, or English comprehension skills.

Tine to spin up some alts?

Absolutely. If we had done so with batteries and solar, imagine where we could have been. Both technologies languished for far longer than they had to.

All good. I just keep seeing this all the time about batteries, simply because most of the technological advances are slow, cumulative, aggregate, and largely invisible to consumers. Then people complain about how none of these advances ever make it to market while ignoring, for example, how many pounds old, barely capable cell phones were compared to the functionality of smartphones these days that can run for a full day on a battery a fraction of the size we had for those old behemoths, all apparently without any of those breakthroughs making it to market. I mean, look at the first cell phone in this article. I suspect some advancements occurred in batteries between then and now.

The point is not about this particular article, but the general attitude of that comment, which boils down to “Why is there an article about a technological breakthrough that may never pan out in my community about technology?” I feel like these guys would have complained about Newton’s quaint ideas for a new way to use mathematics. The fact this particular article is about technology that is demonstrably taking off while they complain about articles on battery tech not being implemented is pretty next level.

I’ll take out of context quotes for $100, Alex.

Those changes are over 40 years, only 13 years of which apply to your reference, and include only one component of a luxury vehicle. Also, the current base price for a Tesla Model S that it showed me was $150k. If we apply inflation to $140k since 2012 ($150k minus the $10k you said), we get a value of $197k. So, $47k cheaper in 2025 dollars.

I suppose you blame battery prices for why McDonalds costs more, too?

The sub is about technology, not industry. Also, look at the advances in battery technology in the last 30 years. There have only been 3 notable technology advances in the last 40 years from a consumer perspective, but there have been significant advances within each of those major technology changes, resulting in Wh/kg increasing by 6 to 10 times and $/Wh dropping about 99%.

If you want to hear about things that could happen or are about to start happening in industry, this is the right community. If you want to know what you can buy tomorrow, try Amazon.

I had to do a variant of this with my now wife. She never wanted to pick restaurants, so I’d suggest something i was okay with but knew she hated. She got a lot more willing to give her opinions after a few years. Now we can discuss it like equals instead of me making the decision all the time.