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• seathru@quokk.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Motorsports. Altho emission/pollution regulations are pushing them out of that too.

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  • greyscale@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Dozens of annual sales I’m sure.

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    • Goodeye8@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      You’re mixing up “miracle tech that leads to nowhere” with “niche tech with little mass appeal”. A rotary engine car has won Le Mans, The Mazda 787. I’m pretty sure one of the recent Mazda plug in Hybrids (I refuse to call those EV-s) has a rotary engine as a backup for the electric engine.

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    • seathru@quokk.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I’m truly sorry 2-smokers peed in your cereal.

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      • greyscale@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        But you’re proving my point. They’re a dead end and technologically LLM as a vector towards AGI is like thinking Rotaries are a vector for motoring… They’re not and they’re not.

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