If you're tired of AI now you're gonna hate where we are going. Strap in!
(…or take a good step back from the news cycle, check in once or twice a week instead of several times daily. News consumption reduction is good for mental health.)
Really don't understand the constant crypto comparisons. We have one technology that hasn't provided any benefits whatsoever in 10 years and one that has provided real utility from day one. One deserves the hype, the other doesn't.
Bitcoin has provided hundreds of billions in value, chatGPT has provided me with one hundred times the spam.
I'm actually optimistic about both crypto and AI, but I see the authors point. I really don't think the comparison is hard to spot between the AI hype and, say, the NFT hype from 1 year ago.
A lot of people are claiming that these technologies will imminently change everything, fundamentally. In reality, both of them are just neat things that give us a glimpse of what the future may hold, and hold a bunch of promise, but aren't really changing anything fundamentally. Not yet, at least.
This could lead to never finishing anything. OP is asking about how to get through the infamous "valley of death". Just stopping is not necessarily the right action.
That is not what OP asked. You are throwing an assumption into the mix - that the goal of the project is to be completed. While that assumption is reasonable, it is also the core problem. Hobby projects do not need to be completed - they can just be for fun, for learning, for experimenting, or for any other goal wherein the journey is more important than the destination. If you get frustrated and tired of it, as the above comment said... stop.
The idea that all projects must push through all struggles and succeed is exactly what causes frustration. There can be other goals in life.
Are you me? I've been keeping a txt file for the last 12 years too.
Synced in Dropbox, only available on my laptops (on purpose), only ever opened with Sublime Text, and using my own syntax highlighting, keywords and autocompletions. A new block of text for every day. Nothing is ever deleted. Consistent writing style, lots of checkboxes, and an onthology of tags to categorise everything.
23andMe provides checkboxes for everything you could want to change. Even better than checkboxes on a paper form, these are consents you can give / retract at any time:
Are you sure about that? Appears to me that you need a registered trademark in Cape Verde, which Marcaria also has a process for (costs a lot and takes up to a year). I'm fairly certain your domain will expire within three months after purchase without a valid trademark certificate.
S&P500 has a total market cap of $31T. Tesla's current piece of that index is ~2%. A bubble pop would be unlikely to "take the whole economy with it" (thankfully).
When Tesla pops, it will potentially lose 80 or 90% of its values over a couple days/weeks. Even though that's only 2% of the SP500, it will trigger a panic sell for related companies in the same industry, and it might eventually become a macro indicator.
After emissions is solved (EVs), tyres is the next big challenge in a sustainable car. Been thinking a lot about this problem. Up until I saw this video I thought it was almost unsolvable because something needs to touch between car and road. That friction will rip something loose. The fact that those microplastics are positively charged is, at least to me, very good news. Maybe micro debris from the asphalt / cement can be captured as well.
EVs actually make this problem worse because they are heavier. Both brakes and tires release toxic pollution.
While I fully admit that these are all engineering challenges that people could make progress on, there's also much simpler and more immediately actionable ways to improve this situation. Like encouraging walkable neighborhoods.
Also, while I can see various synthetic tires being an issue, is vulcanized natural rubber actually a problem? It’s starting off as tiny particles which should degrade fairly quickly.
The finished product isn’t considered toxic, but some individual ingredients are, including heavy metals like cadmium and lead, and high aromatic oils (more commonly known as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons or PAHs)
So, presumably non synthetic tires are actually fine. Though, it’s not clear if that was the intent of the article.
It's the brake disc. Some rust on the surface is not a big problem, but if it starts digging in to the metal mass it will cause reduced brake capacity. In Europe a car with lots of rust on the brake disc will not be certified for use (mandatory checkup every two years) until the brake discs have been replaced.
Regenerative brakes translate kinetic energy into stored potential energy, with marginal friction and resistive losses. Friction brakes translate 100% of the kinetic energy into waste heat, through abrasion.
While it's true that regenerative brakes are not frictionless, none that I'm aware of rely on friction. One could imagine using a clutch to controllably wind/unwind a spring, for example, but auto manufacturers aren't rinky-dink steampunkers and even so you'd still do everything you could to minimize clutch slippage.
This thread started when someone said ‘both brakes and tyres emit pollution’. The point was the brakes don’t when they’re regenerative. I’m sure the tyres still do. But that wasn’t what the thread was about.
This variable is a constant between both types of brakes. How is this relevant when comparing brakes? They both need it, one puts energy into a battery, the other one just heats up air due to the friction created by the system.
> Regenerative brakes rely on friction just like any other. Pollution is a given.
The article is about pollution from tires. Regenerative breaking can't cheat the laws of physics. That force has to be applied to the road through tires, just like any other form of wheel braking. And tires have significantly more mass to shed over their lives than brake pads.
EV doesn’t solve much actually. The total impact of an EV car is quite devastating on the environment, about the same as a gasoline car once you factor in manufacturing and mining and transport of lithium.
"Low CoG" and "Heavy" are not at all the same thing, and frankly I've known plenty of people in meatspace who genuinely thought "moar heavy === better grip", so I may be over-sensitive to this particular falsehood.
