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Comment Re:Will it make ICEs irrelevant (Score 0) 180

You asked why people want 600 mile range on EVs. People are telling you and you keep not listening. Just because you don't need it in your circumstances doesn't mean other people are wrong for wanting it in theirs.

No clue why so many EV enthusiasts have such a hard time with that concept. Some people want big cars or trucks. Some people want small ones. Some people live in places where a lot of range is necessary. It's not one-size-fits-all, so stop whinging when car manufacturers respond to demand.

Comment Re:Will it make ICEs irrelevant (Score 2) 180

It makes no sense to me that this is your experience as an EV owner, but I guess the US really is miles behind in infra.

It depends heavily on where you live and whether or not you can use Tesla's charging network. In California with a Tesla, sure, generally not a problem. In Texas and can't use Tesla's chargers? Welcome to my world.

Here in the UK

The UK is tiny. Very different situation than driving across Texas, much less traveling to other states in the US.

I frequently drive between Austin and Houston. There is one (one!) non-Tesla L3 charging station between those two major cities on the main highways. It has 6 charging spots (3 pedestals) and it's fairly typical for half of them to not be working. I had to move spots twice trying to get one to work last weekend and almost had to move a third time until I happened to try tap-to-pay instead of inserting my credit card. If that hadn't worked, I would have had to wait for others to finish charging before I could start.

Given the number of users at that station, I'm no longer willing to take my EV on holiday weekends because of the risk of having to wait for an hour+ to charge on the way.

Will it eventually get better? Yes, but it is not good enough yet for people in most of the U.S.

Comment Re:Will it make ICEs irrelevant (Score 2) 180

Because whatever mileage claims are made about the EV don't translate to real world performance. First, cut ~30% off whatever the claimed range is because you don't want to take the time on the road to charge higher than 80% and you don't want to get below 10% and risk the charging station you are planning to stop at being broken or having cars already queued up.

Next, give the range another big haircut because you aren't getting anywhere near that at 80mph on the highway.

Winter driving, take another big chunk off the claimed range. Looking at the battery life after I've driven it for 150k miles, give it another haircut.

As an EV owner, if they are claiming 600 mile range, the effective, real world range probably is about exactly what I'm looking for.

Submission + - GPT-4 can exploit real vulnerabilities by reading security advisories (theregister.com)

tippen writes:

In a newly released paper, four University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) computer scientists – Richard Fang, Rohan Bindu, Akul Gupta, and Daniel Kang – report that OpenAI's GPT-4 large language model (LLM) can autonomously exploit vulnerabilities in real-world systems if given a CVE advisory describing the flaw.

"To show this, we collected a dataset of 15 one-day vulnerabilities that include ones categorized as critical severity in the CVE description," the US-based authors explain in their paper.

"When given the CVE description, GPT-4 is capable of exploiting 87 percent of these vulnerabilities compared to 0 percent for every other model we test (GPT-3.5, open-source LLMs) and open-source vulnerability scanners (ZAP and Metasploit)."


Comment Re:Why is this problematic? (Score 2) 44

Give it time. Redis Labs already reneged on the promises made when they changed licensing on Redis modules.

From their Redis Labs' Modules License Changes announcement in Feb 2019:

This has no impact on the Redis core license
This change has zero effect on the Redis core license, which is and will always be licensed under the 3-Clause-BSD.

Can't trust Redis Labs anymore. They haven't gone full Oracle-mode yet, but they are headed down that path.

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