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Are manual transmissions being regulated out of existence? - Truck News
Here is an example of how greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions credits, or a shortage of them, can impact fleets’ spec’ing decisions. Under current e...
Peter Todd
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Interesting read. Canada is effectively regulating manual transmission commercial trucks out of existence, as well as certain higher horsepower commercial trucks.
Trucks in the commerical market are bought to be cost effective. Nothing more. $1 million trucks certainly aren't bought for fashion. Obviously, there's a market for manual transmissions and higher horsepower because commercial truckers need them, and the Canadian government doesn't care.
Prada blockchain NFC tags:
The NFC tags are just a dumb URLs IIUC:
Even though even item in the store had them, and this is a fairly recent initiative, the URLs seem to be broken:
https://aurablockchain.prada.com/?v=01&t=YVpB2MpJhwQD7HbouOm3_A4BZ4AQkbCDYAAAO
Even though even item in the store had them, and this is a fairly recent initiative, the URLs seem to be broken:
https://aurablockchain.prada.com/?v=01&t=YVpB2MpJhwQD7HbouOm3_A4BZ4AQkbCDYAAAO
The distress in question? The front fell off.
Also, these weren't Russian cargo ships. They're Russian oil tankers built for river service that were used in the open ocean due to sanctions. Sinking them is a major success of sanctions; hopefully more will sink cutting off Russia's illegal oil exports. Luckily the oil slick is moving towards Russia too.
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ChrisO_wiki (@ChrisO_wiki) on X
1/ The two oil tankers that have sunk in the Kerch Strait were specialised river-sea vessels that should not have been operating at all, according ...
Trump gets $15m in ABC News defamation case
The network also publishes a statement expressing "regret" for statements by George Stephanopoulos.
The Rage
Chainalysis Claims Cryptocurrency Funds Syrian Rebels
...but won't say by how much
“I see a lot of confusion about Google's Monday press release about quantum supremacy, so let me try to clarify a few things.
They say they did a computation on a ca 100 qubit chip much faster than a conventional (super)computer could do. The particular calculation in question is to produce a random distribution. The result of this calculation has no practical use.
They use this particular problem because it has been formally proven (with some technical caveats) that the calculation is difficult to do on a conventional computer (because it uses a lot of entanglement). That also allows them to say things like "this would have taken a septillion years on a conventional computer" etc.
It's exactly the same calculation that they did in 2019 on a ca 50 qubit chip. In case you didn't follow that, Google's 2019 quantum supremacy claim was questioned by IBM pretty much as soon as the claim was made and a few years later a group said they did it on a conventional computer in a similar time.
So while the announcement is super impressive from a scientific pov and all, the consequences for everyday life are zero. Estimates say that we will need about 1 million qubits for practically useful applications and we're still about 1 million qubits away from that.
Also, it's been a recurring story that we have seen numerous times in the past years, that claims of quantum "utility" or quantum "advantage" or quantum "supremacy" or whatever you want to call it later evaporate because some other group finds a clever way to do it on a conventional computer after all.”
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I see a lot of confusion about Google's Monday press release about quantum supremacy, so let me try to clarify a few things.
They say they did a c...
The fork we'll do to fix the 2106 problem is neither a soft fork nor a hard fork.
It's an alternative to suicide fork.