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To be eligible for a specific subsidy, the gas engine had to have less range than the better. So they electronically set the amount of gas you were allowed to use from the gas tank even though it held more. Sure the difference was only a half gallon or so but it's stealing your gasoline, and making it staler.

It was either 1.9 or 2.4 gallons depending on the model year, but they physically had the same gas tank.


Maybe you could evaluate the reasons for yourself instead of just looking for an authority to tell you what to feel.


The Guardian printed the same quote without em-dashes, and with spaces around hyphens instead. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/18/hazardous... And in the next paragraph of the Arnika article, they have em-dashes surrounded by spaces, in contrast to the quotation which doesn't leave any space around them. It's not clear where the style choices were made in the quote.


Browsers use available RAM for cache, but they don't require that much. Firefox officially supports running on Macs down to 512MB of RAM. It will just be slower.


Try opening a google spreadsheet in 512 Mb ram.


Interesting, what happens?


Whatever happens will take a while, since the one google docs spreadsheet that I keep open - which isn't complex - uses 399 Mb just for its own tab.


Any chance of getting it covered in media?


The linked project includes a very different way to launch docker containers.


Put two spaces at the beginning of a line for monospace.

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Thanks for the tip! It won't let me edit it. I think I will hide and repost it does look sloppy.


Ars isn't winging it here, they are following Conde Nast HR processes. https://arstechnica.com/civis/threads/editor%E2%80%99s-note-... "I can confirm that the HR processes are intricate and complicated. I can confirm that we have union writers. I can confirm these things take time." -Aurich


Isn't Ars agreeing with you here though? It's not excusable and they fired him even after the apology.


Maybe it's plagiarism because he did not attribute the LLM output to the LLM.


Yeah, it's the lack of attribution that is key, even if it sounds like a trivial and ceremonial step. If a New York Times reporter writes "'Our investigation has completely stalled,' Kings County Sheriff Bob Jones told the Springfield Observer", I can infer that the NYT is reliant on local reporting for this story and may not have done original on-the-ground work themselves.

Imagine how flimsy Ars' story about a blog post would look like if the story had correctly attributed the quotes (fabricated or not) to, "according to Claude AI's analysis of the blog post". The reader would have the right to wonder if the reporter had even read the blog post.


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