China is simultaneously destroying the environment for profit and investing too much money in green technology?

A distinctive feature of purchase subsidies for BEV in China, however, is that they are paid out directly to manufacturers rather than consumers and that they are paid only for electric vehicles produced in China, thereby discriminating against imported cars.

That’s an interesting way to spin subsidies on the production of electric vehicles. Why would China pay companies in other countries to produce cars?

The headline says “digital freelancers,” so maybe it’s talking primarily about small jobs that were being outsourced. A 21% decrease in regular job listings would be more concerning because of the amount of incorrect information and buggy software about to be created than job loss.

If your options are waiting at the station up to 2 hours for a pod or waiting anywhere else 3 hours for a train, are the pods better?

Would it though? It’s just vans on tracks instead of roads.

It’s not going to be more energy efficient with individually powered cabs. It’s not going to be more convenient unless your origin and destination are near a station. It’s not going to be more time efficient because of the extra distance getting to and from tracks and because you aren’t going to drive highway speeds in tiny self-balancing cars on old rails, especially when passing cars going the opposite direction. It’s not going to be more cost efficient because it’s more total moving parts requiring maintenance per person per trip.

It sounds like they are solving the problem of turning around only for terminal stations. This might make sense for trains that carry many people, but if you’re making cars on tracks there is no good solution. If you need to spend money on a system that turns the cabs around, then you either spend more money installing those systems at most stations or you spend money maintaining cabs that are driving around empty. Either way, cars on roads are cheaper.

They say it’s good for people who don’t want to wait for public transit, but they don’t say how this solves that problem. With public transit, you know when the train will be there. With this, unless they have a way for the cabs to wait at the station without blocking other cabs going the same direction, you have to wait for a cab to come and you can’t time your trip to the station around when the cab will be there. Maybe they have one? It would be a disaster if you wanted to get on from near the middle and needed to wait for either a cab that has already been vacated to come or for a cab to come all the way from the start of the track.

Isn’t this just Reddit with more steps?

I can’t because my instance blocked Threads. I guess it’s time to find a new instance.

Bluesky uses a non-standard protocol and isn’t really federated yet.

It’s not that easy.

Facebook is not (yet?) negatively impacting the fediverse. Fediverse users are.

I’m pretty sure this difference isn’t real. On both, the UI is supposed to be for the UI and anything that takes longer is supposed to happen on a different thread. Even Windows Phone had that. However, in practice developers don’t always do it and this isn’t as great as it sounds. If you’re scrolling or something and scroll faster than the background threads, it will stutter. If the app has a resource leak, it will stutter. If the graphics are too complicated, it will stutter.

RAM requirements depend on what you’re doing. I had a Pixel 4 and it always ran great. I had to get rid of it because it was physically falling apart and Google stopped releasing security updates for it.

Who would have thought that their truck would need a $5000 extra to be usable outdoors? Who buys a truck to keep it indoors?

With the Vision Pro you can sort of see the real world in nearly real time with some distortions because the cameras don’t match your eye positioning, and the dynamic range is clamped to what is supported by the cameras and displays, and everything is at the same focal distance, and your peripheral vision is limited. It’s definitely not the same class of device as what has traditionally been called AR.

A small number of people have been to varying degrees living in VR headsets and they’ve been alright, but it’s not for everyone. Besides the weight and having to manage the battery, you run into issues like the cameras having difficulty in dark environments or when objects are very close. After enough hours the motion sickness goes away.

The Vision Pro, despite Apple’s marketing, is not AR. AR devices like Hololens allow you to see AR overlayed on top of the world. VR devices like the Vision Pro allow you to see the world behind the headset through cameras. VR isn’t really new either, but VR headsets that you can realistically wear continuously like in Apple’s ads have yet to come out.

How can the Vision Pro be a winner if it doesn’t exist yet?

Some portion of it likely is. Medium is like Wordpress.com with paywalls.

If the common wire is broken, maybe depending on how the headphones are wired you will hear the difference between left and right instead?

More likely, they blocked IP addresses belonging to a cloud service provider which happened to also be used by the VPN service.

Are they fast now? The cheapest M2 MacBook Pro does not have a fast SSD.

It’s been partially live for weeks. If you copy a link to a file, including images, the link has the new parameters on it.

I don’t know how much of a difference it will make.

It’s easy to host files. Even if the malware “author” is clueless and just buying a customizable malware, either they’ll figure out how to host files or file hosting will be provided along with the service they’re buying.

It may not stop Discord from being the file host either. Malware distributing bot accounts could keep copying a new link to the file, or could upload a new version of the file on demand.

Discord can’t expire webhooks the same way so webhooks will continue to be used for exfiltration. Pointing out that it’s used for exfiltration as if it were related seems like bad reporting. It’s a difficult problem because if they did break webhooks it’d only make things more difficult for legitimate users. These malware packages usually hijack the user’s Discord installation and could send out the information as the user without using webhooks.