No one buys a 1-ton to feel quick in traffic. A few thousand lbs going uphill can be easily done with a 1/2 ton, and the majority of them are now turbocharged.

Forced Induction has made its way tho. Not all, but a lot of modern turbo engines are great in all three aspects of reliability, performance, and efficiency.

I can see turbo'ed PHEV being the solution to heavy-duty use cases one day. Pretty stoked for the Ramcharger.

People don't buy 1 tons to feel quick. But they want their 1 tons to feel quick.

The examples you gave show that turbos are nice additions to a specific displacement size.

Op said turbos are a replacement for displacement. My example is there to show him they are not.

I was given a 2023 Dell XPS 13 for work. I was pretty stoked to go back to an XPS after using one in 2019 for work.

For some reason, the MOBO was dying slowly after a year. My other coworkers also reported similar problems.

Lenovo-wise:

    My personal Thinkpad X1 Extreme was a champ for 7+ years, and a few P series I've used over the years since 2021 were also great.

At the end, I just built a desktop and use a Macbook Air. So far so good.

Thanks. Another commenter also mentions about a desktop. Maybe I'll go down that route too. The problem is: Linux doesn't support USB wifi driver very well, so I might as well install Windows LTSC and VM into Linux. Oh well.

If you go desktop then running network cable or using PLN becomes a good option.

I had a X250 who died less than a month after the warranty, now got a E14 since ~2 years and it got keyboard issues

You should tell us your name and publish the result so we can credit you for the work. Would love to call it whatever your name is instead.

i find it shameful to take credit for obvious things that other people probably did before me.

i refused to sign my name on a bunch of patents at work because they were too obvious (they were still granted USPTO)

> self-driving cars use RL

Some part of it, but I would argue with a lot of guardrail in place and not as common as you think. I don't think the majority of the planner/control stack out there in SDC is based. I also don't think any production SDCs are RL-based.

Based on the zoox iccv talk, it sounds like their main planner is RL.

We gotta add in the "and here's what B2B Enterprise SAAS sales taught me"

> I say weird because 99.9% of people in the world would consider it on a range of weird all the way to unethical that you spend tens of thousands on pants.

TIL it's unethical to spend a lot of money on clothes. It's not like the sub-thread's OP was spending $10k on a pair of <Insert crazy designer brand name> pants that actually have more form than function. It's a $500 pair of pants. God forbid people spend money on their own preference for their own comfort.

Pragmatically, capitalism brought in more good than bad. Are we arguing that we would've been better off if the world had gone the way of the soviet/pre-80s China way of life?

Cries in the number of "next Silicon Valley" in the last 30 years.

Silicon Alley, Beach, Hills, Slopes, Forest, Prairie, Bayou, Desert, Roundabout, Docks, Glen, Fen, Cape, Oasis... and that's not the complete list!

Your reasonable AI cannot resolve the fact that its arm can only lift 2KG.

I am impressed by Unitree, but the problem that needs to be solved here is not just better software. Better hardware needs to come down in cost and weight to make the generalized robot argument more convincing.

There is still a long way to go for a humanoid to be a reasonable product, and that's not just a software issue.

> its arm can only lift 2KG

That covers more than 90% of the objects in my home, and most people's.

> the problem that needs to be solved here is not just better software. Better hardware needs to come down in cost and weight

I disagree. Software seems to be the main limitation to me at the moment. Bigger motors and batteries are readily available on the market already. Software is advancing rapidly, and seems to me will quickly be up to the task (i.e. within a few years), but at the moment is still the domain of research projects.

> There is still a long way to go for a humanoid to be a reasonable product

Whether or not you think it's a reasonable product, it's clearly already an available one which is already selling in volume. As with all things, future versions will be more capable.

At the end of the day, you need to put food on the table and a shelter over your head. That doesn't mean you cannot pursue your profession and dreams. It's just harder.

One way I was told how to find product (your service) and market (labor market) fit is to focus on the problem. Sell yourself as a problem solver rather than a software developer. The software is just a tool, and software engineering is a framework to apply those tools in practice. Although the current state of your locale lacks software dev opportunities, it might also be that most people aren't aware of their needs for digitization yet. Software is also in a lot of things. Don't limit yourself to web development.

Closed-form solution makes verification much easier. There's the design and solution space for an engineering system, and then there's V&V.

Yes, you can just ship it and test it in your customer's environment, but that doesn't scale very well if you have to run 1-2 months of testing every time you deploy to make sure the ML model doesn't give you random bullshit that flings the arm around and wack someone in the head or damage other equipment.

Not to mention, IK is something so well understood that it would be stupid not to use it at least as a start to building an arm motion software. It's also much faster than doing inference on a model.