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Submission + - Robots taking the place of soldiers in Ukraine (pravda.com.ua)

sinij writes:

Russian first-person view (FPV) drones have made it increasingly challenging for Ukrainian forces to resupply their positions. To save lives, the Ukrainian military has turned to ground-based robots for logistics and evacuation tasks.


Submission + - Hidden Car Door Handles Are Officially Being Banned in China (caranddriver.com)

sinij writes:

Automakers have increasingly implemented door handles that retract into the bodywork for aerodynamic reasons, but they are now off limits in China.

My issue is with electronic-only door latch mechanism. It should be possible to open the door from both inside and outside the car in case of complete power loss.

Comment Modern refrigerants suck (Score 0) 46

I really hope that it is important (I am being factitious) to force everyone to switch refrigerants every decade or so, to something that is inevitably more expensive and less reliable. We need to be constantly scrapping and replacing all this otherwise working equipment, because it is bad for the environment.

Comment Return on investment for LLM AI (Score -1) 19

What was accomplished with LLM is really cool, I am sure there will be many future applications of this technology, just like there were many new uses for WWW after DOTCOM bubble burst. However, I just don't see anyone investing into AI making any kind of return, considering that most of it will evaporate in the inevitable market correction. This will likely also take down Microsoft that all in on AI and maybe even Google.

Submission + - The $100 Billion Megadeal Between OpenAI and Nvidia Is on Ice (wsj.com)

sinij writes:

Nvidia's plan to invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI to help it train and run its latest artificial-intelligence models has stalled after some inside the chip giant expressed doubts about the deal, people familiar with the matter said.

Is this the end of free money for AI slop?

Submission + - China executes 11 members of Myanmar scam mafia (bbc.com)

sinij writes:

China has executed 11 members of a notorious mafia family that ran scam centres in Myanmar along its north-eastern border, state media report.

Hundreds of thousands of people have been trafficked to run online scams in Myanmar and elsewhere in South East Asia, according to estimates by the UN. Among them are thousands of Chinese people, and their victims who they swindle billions of dollars from are mainly Chinese too.


Comment Re:Shortage of building permits (Score 1, Funny) 120

For example:
The Rents of Whiteness: Dismantling Possession and Exclusion in Anti-Racist Urban Planning

Planners confront the rents of Whiteness in many forms, including neighborhood exclusion, environmental injustice, and the occupation of tribal lands. Conceptualizing these situations as racial rent-seeking clarifies how benefits captured by White communities are inexorably linked to harms done in non-White communities. I conclude with recommendations for dismantling these rents.

Planning against planning: Anarchist urbanism as a critical praxis

Taking up the debates between Marxist and anarchist currents within radical geography, this study argues that the value of anarchist urbanism lies less in offering scalable alternatives than in exposing how planning reproduces property relations, expert authority and capitalist spatial logics.

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