People also generally need support if they are to have kids.

If you have a cultural expectation that people need to move out when they are of age, they can’t rely on grandparents or extended family to look after the children, and if they are spending all their other time working, they’re just not going to have the time to find someone to have kids with, or be able to actually raise the children.

In the absence of other factors, like needing the kids to help out on the farm, people have no reason to have them. Especially in countries like the US, where healthcare and childcare are quite expensive. A childbirth alone is about $3000 - $30000 over there, to say nothing of health-care costs, complications, there being very little parental leave, or any of that.

Is it reasonable for them to keep their own local snapshots?

That’s not a trivial amount of work and data, particularly it it’s multimedia.

It is an online poll. You also have to consider that some people don’t care/want to be funny, and so either choose randomly, or choose the most nonsensical answer.

So prices may not actually drop, (even after the pop), because the companies still won’t be producing more hardware than they currently are.

There’s also the risk that they simply may not drop the price even after, because the customer base can bear that price, so it becomes the new normal.

Or for things like video editing. Video editors tend to be quite RAM heavy.

Though this is more targeting retrieval-assisted generation (RAG) than the training process.

Specifically since RAG-AI doesn’t place weight on some sources over others, anyone can effectively alter the results by writing a blog post on the relevant topic.

Whilst people really shouldn’t use LLMs as a search engine, many do, and being able to alter the “results” like that would be an avenue of attack for someone intending to spread disinformation.

It’s probably also bad for people who don’t use it, since it basically gives another use for SEO spam websites, and they were trouble enough as it is.

now they quit supporting old windows?

That’s not too surprising, since Microsoft stopped supporting it earlier this year.

Not much point supporting an OS the manufacturer no longer updates in any capacity. Similar to how Firefox no longer supports Windows XP or Vista.

You can still use the old version, they’re just not going to bring the newer ones to Windows 7, or fix issues for it.

For Toyota, it’s both. Both the hybrid and plug-in hybrids use the same drivetrain, except the PHEV/Prime versions have more powerful motors, so they can power the car at higher speeds than their hybrid counterparts are. Honda’s newer hybrid/plug-in hybrid drivetrain uses something similar.

You’re thinking of the one Nissan uses in their cars. They have a similar setup to a diesel-electric locomotive (engine drives generator, which powers the motor to drive the wheels).

With the Toyota kind, it’s both, but they have a special transmission/eCVT for it, rather than just bolting a motor to the driveshaft.

The motor’s also responsible for the engine gearing in that case.

The PHEV just uses a beefier motor, so it doesn’t need the engine to move the vehicle.

It’s the same process. Mpv uses yt-dl or yt-dlp on the back end when loading YouTube videos from the URL.

Even if they were, would it not be better to give the car better senses?

Humans don’t have LIDAR because we can’t just hook something into a human’s brain and have it work. If you can do that with a self-driving car, why cut it down to human senses?

It is quite funny that Cuba, a small, relatively poor country that has been embargoed for decades, is considered an unusual and extraordinary threat to American national security, compared to countries with fission weapons.

Do they have antimatter or something?

I mean, they are all pushing all their chips in at the same time. It’s like they know it’s now or never.

Even if they didn’t, they probably don’t want to seem like they’re falling behind, so once one person goes all in, so do the others.

They’re also trustworthy, reliable technology. Why change what isn’t broken?

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The trick is to not care, and to confidently do it like it was the most natural thing in the world, and it clearly was.

The world of the wealthy runs on appearances. The worst thing you can do there is to be ashamed. Arguably better is to look at them with confident disdain for using a knife and fork to eat a pizza, in much the same way that they might for someone using a soup spoon for dessert.

For the pizza, it’s arguably more regional than wealth related. In a few countries, like parts of Italy and Sweden, it’s more common to eat pizza using cutlery rather than using your hands.

Whereas for other places, like other parts of Italy, it may be more common to use your hands for it instead. It very much depends on where, and the local culture more than anything else. But using your hands is as valid as using a knife and fork.

“This computer will never go out of date” indeed.

Bridge market must be having a boom.

Not copyright, as much as if the book isn’t precious, it’s easier to do that, feed the loose pages into the scanner, and then get an intact one if you want it, compared to the additional expense of having to build and program a machine to carefully turn the pages and photograph what’s inside, or the time it would need by comparison.