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BYD has already proven <10min
BYD needs to be heavily liquid cooled/thermally managed to achieve that. The Donut battery only had metal heat sink on two or even one side - and its performance was even higher at high temperatures. LFP doesn't behave like that, I think?
I'd assume datacenters built for space would have different reliability standards. I mean, if a communication satellite (which already has a lot of electronic and computing components) can work unattended, then a satellite working as a server could too.
I hear people say that, but I’m yet to see what’s unreliable about Windows. I’m running Windows 11 with latest updates on my ThinkPad X1 Carbon, and it hasn’t ever failed me, not even once. It has been solid as a rock for me.
Windows laptops vary in hardware quality and software support significantly, maybe that’s where issues arise for some people?
Lenovo ThinkPad laptop.
Most people are fine with Windows, including myself. I find it a good business workhorse with excellent productivity features that I can rely upon, knowing that it will handle pretty much any task I throw at it.
Another factor vs Mac (for me) is that if something to happen to my ThinkPad while I'm at a factory somewhere in rural Uzbekistan, there is always a store in the nearby city where I can grab a Windows laptop for like $400 and continue with the job, and/or have my machine serviced.
Windows has enormous userbase, and obviously you'll hear a high absolute number of criticisms, especially considering that those who actively dislike the OS for whatever reason will take take their time to bring their frustrations online, and those who are fine with it rarely comment about it.
This, and apparently they don’t have a track record of producing bluffware before. They already have some interesting know-how heavy products, and previously they have fully delivered on them.
I would have had a much easier time getting to where I am today if diagnostic criteria and awareness among clinical staff were better when I was younger.
When I have thoughts like this, I like to theorize about causality. If I had had an easier time when I was young, would I still have developed the qualities that helped me get to where I am now in the first place?
I'm a former AI-hater and sceptic. I do B2B consultancy/development work for my clients.
I understand why people are irritated by this.
However, recently I tried the GitHub Copilot agent with VS Code using Claude Opus 4.5. It literally implemented, tested and fixed entire new features in minutes, that otherwise would have taken days or even weeks of routine repetitive work from me. All while mimicking style and patterns in my existing codebase which made me instantly understand exactly what it was doing. I found it to be an insane productivity boost and I can see how it might be affecting hiring processes in numerous industries, especially in software engineering space.
Maybe, but with all the modern .NET tooling I feel at least 2x productive in .NET than in Spring Boot. There are a lot of quality of life stuff in .NET/C# that really does add up and makes a substantial difference (DX-wise) in the long run.
Your sample are tech people using Copilot, which is very small population sample. Hundreds of millions of casual users around the world default to ChatGPT, and for example in my country, it's basically household name at this point. They haven't even heard about Claude or Gemini. For Google, it looks like like Google+ vs Facebook situation all over again.
Where is that guy who coded RollerCoaster Tycoon in Assembly?
The best Reddit was the one the users from Digg were migrating to.
They were well positioned for cloud business long before AWS and Azure, but they still managed to lose this battle.
Google can be good on the technological side of things, but we saw time and time again that, other than ads, Google is just not good at business.
AI startups were easy cash grabs until very recently. But I think the wave is settling down - doing real AI startup turned out to be VERY hard, and the rest of the "startups" are mostly just wrappers for OpenAI/Anthropic APIs.
Redis, Akka, Hashicorp, CockroachDB, etc. Seems to be a common occurrence everywhere.
Technologically they may have caught up, but market wise they may have lost forever. In my country (and I think in many others), ChatGPT is already a household name, and nobody has even heard about Gemini.
This looks like the Google+ vs Facebook story all over again.
You are missing a lot of stuff Microsoft is doing. Azure, .NET, server tools, databases, VS Code, TypeScript, GitHub, (yes, OpenAI), gaming, XBox, desktop, business tools, Surface, Microsoft 365, Teams and lots more. I'd say much of the things they are doing is quite "fresh" and it's more relevant as it has ever been.
There is a reason it's market cap is bigger than Google's and Amazon's, and its downfall has been long overturned.
with a overwhelming marketshare of Windows & Office installations
It's interesting that you mention it, as none of these are very important on their own to today's Microsoft if you check their latest quarterly reports.
C# is a nice language, but it has a huge surface area in terms of syntax.
If you compare it to something like Java, yes, it has much richer syntax. But having to process some extra unfamiliar syntax is compensated by removing a lot of boilerplate once you get familiar with the features. Also, Java's simpler syntax is far overshadowed by much bigger complexity and cognitive load in other areas of the Java project, including the entire plumbing besides the code itself. Ergonomics, simplicity and comfort of a .NET Core project infrastructure is pretty much unmatched.
I clicked Copilot button in Bing with this search term and it said the exact answer I was looking for, in plain English:
"Yes, *Monday, January 27th* is a public holiday in Auckland. It's the *Auckland Anniversary Day*, which is celebrated on the Monday nearest to January 29th each year.
Do you have any special plans for the holiday?"
It cited 2 sources which turned out to be correct (this time).
Seems far more efficient than googling which nowadays gives you an entire first page of ads. Although I'm not sure to what extent hallucination issues have been sorted out.
The article says it will be in rocky grounds, and deep enough to be below any water tables.
Well, I think nobody can argue that Apple's tech is still better, but this is the first time someone was able to offer some competition that doesn't look like a joke in comparison to Apple's M series.
I feel like not only Copilot, but Bing’s general search has been better than Google’s for the last year or so.
I haven’t had a need to go to google for a very long time.
Another issue is round trip efficiency. Iron-air, I believe, is somewhere at 50-60% (you lose almost half of the energy that you pump in).
While LFP and the Sodium battery mentioned in the title, is 95-97%.
To take advantage of that charging speed, you have to supply 10x of charging power though.
10x of charging speed of Li-ion would be in megawatts per single charging device.
You are talking a different (nickel-cobalt-manganese, or NCM) battery chemistry. This is also a type of a Li-ion battery but has a number of advantages and disadvantages compared to LFP battery chemistry (which is just another type of Li-ion batteries).
As you mentioned, NCM has much higher power density, and allows charge/discharge at higher rates than LFP. But LFP technology is much better in terms of safety, stability, low degradation over time and much longer overall lifetime with high number of charge-discharge cycles.
A proper dictator will immediately remove all potential power from army generals, police chiefs, political party leaders and so on. He will not even remotely allow any potential challengers that are capable of consolidating enough resources to even think of causing any trouble.
On the other hand, he will allow his establishment to feed off the system, so they become dependent on him and remain interested in maintaining status quo and stay within the line. Of course, this is reinforced with brutal crackdowns on any form of dissent. He makes everyone worthless and replaceable, and makes it seem that it is very easy to lose everything if you show any disloyalty or try to push for your interests in a wrong way.
In the country where I'm from, military chief commanders were just some planted nobodies that were rotated every year or so. All political establishment was fully loyal and were too weak to even have fantasies on grabbing power.
Apple being allowed to dictate what businesses will and will not succeed by either locking them out of 1/2 of the major mobile OS, or by taking a 30% tax from their revenue and then competing against them
All app stores (and most real-world markets and stores) do that. This is a business model. And as a store owner who invested billions of dollars to build it, and the entire platform and infrastructure around it, you are in your full right to decide the rules on what is allowed there and what is not, and how much to charge. If your rules are unfair or disadvantageous to the competition, sellers and customers simply will not come. But as we can see, App Store is the most successful app marketplace on the planet, both for developers and consumers.
Just as Google is the most successful search engine on the planet for advertisers, website owners and consumers, regardless of the fact that Google can fully dictate what appears in its search results or what advertisers can put in their ads, and how much Google charges for it.
So I don't quite understand what exactly the argument here.
This this different argument than allowing sideloading apps (that one is quite fair, I'll admit).
People like this walled garden since apple promises that it's safe and they deal with all of the problems for you.
I get the "safety" argument, but it's also about the user experience. What if now Microsoft makes me install Microsoft store to use M365 apps, Amazon makes me install whatever store to use their products, etc? What do I win here as a consumer?
I buy iPhone specifically for what it is. I get that some people don't like walled garden approach, so they have Android at their service. Apple is not a monopoly.
What is the point of buying a phone knowing what you are getting, and then complaining about something you knew full well it doesn't have?
As an iPhone user, if I wanted a phone with Samsung, Amazon, Epic and Huawei stores, 3 different preinstalled browsers and my workflows depended on sideloading some obscure app for a website in Turkey, I'd go with Android. Such an option exists for people who are into that.
But I chose iPhone (and I think many other customers do) specifically for it being a walled garden. Now some other corporations like Epic, who want to have a cake and eat it too, are going to ruin one of the platform's key selling points.
If your stat and premise is correct, 100+ million people need to be prompting ChatGPT to render copies of NYT articles specifically, for 0.01% of them to have a chance to get a meaningful result.