Glad to lighten up the day!

Hm. I could self-host that.

That’s how the meme goes though. Anytime someone suggests, says something positive about one of vim or emacs, the response should be that they should use the other. 😄

It’s an almost 40-year-old flame war.

I was hoping we’d get bargain-bin pricing for local AI but the market is flying so high that the 24GB models are still not no-brainer priced.

If it’s this useful, we’re (and them) fucked too because the economy would collapse under falling aggregate demand due to falling wages and layoffs. The “people will find new jobs” won’t save us from a shift this large without a depression. And all sorts of things happen during depressions.

How large is the dump and does it have images in it?

You really should use vim though.

How were collaborators treated the last time around though?

The market controls are the least of the problems for reshoring TV production. The knowhow for producing panels hasn’t existed here for a long time. Pretty sure that’s also the case for various other inputs. We’re currently in the position China used to be in, when we had the active manufacturing and knowhow, before we built the same factories and transferred that knowhow to China. There’s a long path via re-researching our way into it. The fast path is getting FDI from China, or Korea who still can produce TVs, for now.

I think theirs is also not PRC-owned but if I recall correctly they’re not sold in Canada.

Oh my god. I specifically bought SONY to avoid Chinese TVs in 2022, when I was still on the China-bad train. SONY was pretty much the only brand except for the Koreans not owned by a PRC firm. I guess it’ll be TCL the next time I have to buy one.

Yeah they can’t match top of the line Li-Ion like lithium-cobalt batteries. Neither can LFP, but LFP is good enough for lower range EVs cars as they’re already used in such. Sodium ion has even lower density than LFP but not dramatically so and it’s still early days so their density is likely to improve. Look at these two cells currently on sale:

The first one is a CATL-made LFP. The second is some smaller manufacturer’s sodium ion. The 729Whr vs 713Whr, 1944cm³ vs 2593cm³. If the sodium ones can be made cheap enough, these are already usable in low range vehicles like Nissan Leaf or equivalent. And then there’s buses, trucks, other ICE powered equipment.

Beyond EVs, the much cheaper sodium-ion battery is entering mass production in China. We can already buy B-grade cells on AliExpress. This will have implications for all sorts of use cases that could use batteries but don’t due to cost.

Shitty ass thin client running cheap hw that can’t do anything, a.k.a. Chromebook.

The warm and cozy feel of a VC-funded social network.

Is there difference in how much storage space is needed between the two approaches?

It’s possible that Samaung doesn’t use 100% of the battery capacity, similar to how EVs don’t. Then the cycle life can increase significantly.

That’s crazy. Not impossible though. If you have an oversized battery for your usage pattern for example, it could last long. Or if you baby it.

That’s the reason I switched to a Fairphone recently. Still evaluating it but so far so good. There should be replacement parts for many years and easy to replace.