I know electric aircraft are not quite feasible on the same scale as airlines.

On the other hand, China has an extensive high-speed rail network for inland travel. OI have no idea how often the Chine fly inside the country vs how often they use aircraft, but this is the sort of different technology for the same purpose I mean.

For jet engines, the only thing that comes to mind is electric aircraft. No single-crystal turbine blades needed at all.

I may have picked a bad example, but the principle stands.

EDIT: China has an extensive high-speed rail network. While those don't quite cover intercontinental flight, it is the sort of paradigm shift I mean.

And the state can exert control much more fairly (ie. to all competitors as well) with regulation and laws.

Regulations and taxes are seen as 'un-american' I suppose, while giving stock to the government is not somehow?

Meanwhile, it's such a cheap model that I've spent not even $25 over 3 weeks.

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The other models think I'm Dutch (I guess the 'van' gives that away?) and am a soccer/football player. I don't know anything about soccer though

I'm not holding my breath for this bubble.

The US is the IT-supplier of the world. I don't know how large a % of that comes for outside the US. But with all the 'shenanigans' of the Trump regime and the trust the US has lost due to that, that should lead to losing IT business from the rest of the world.

In other words, If Europe would disavow using US IT, as would be the wise choice I think, then Europe might close the gap.

I just hope this is not just wishful thinking though.

If I could get an affordable robot to do a subset of them, I'm in the market for one.

I had OpenCode with DeepSeek V4 Flash create a quiz about the HN FAQ, so use that to earn bombs :-)

You will need to place some ships (or have them auto-placed) before the game can start.

And instead of turn-based, you have to hike to/visit a physical location, fill in a code you found there to get bombs for the game. Or do a quiz and get the answers right.

Great fun so far!

Often there is an 'you must open source, unless you explain why not' and then there is some faff about why they really need to be buying more stuff from Microsoft (which is more and more cloud stuff and thus under the CLOUD act etc.)

Time to get rid of the 'unless' bit.

But I don't as well, and I have some intuition about numbers that I would probably not have if I always relied on calculators. Would the same sort of thing apply to LLMs? I'm probably anthropomorphising here...

- OpenCode one-shotted a basic implementation of the classic battlefield game, but with 6 players and visiting locations and doing assignments to earn bombs for the game. Over the last month, 'I' expanded it into something I could actually monetize I think.

- it's just productive at work