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Re:BYD launches sodium-ion grid-scale BESS product by shiroiushi on Friday November 29, 2024 @01:11AM (#42271302)
>Unless there is an underlying assumption that the US is incapable of producing these better technologies itself, in which case the US is probably fucked regardless.

That seems to be a safe assumption these days: I just don't see the US producing these better technologies itself at all. It's still pretty good at making cutting-edge software, but that's about it.

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Re:BYD launches sodium-ion grid-scale BESS product by quasse on Friday November 29, 2024 @02:07AM (#42271603)
> It's still pretty good at making cutting-edge software, but that's about it

Chinese software engineering seems to be catching up extremely fast in this regard too. I'm surprised how often I find an interesting new open source tool or library on GitHub and the comments in the code are all in Mandarin.

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Re:BYD launches sodium-ion grid-scale BESS product by est on Friday November 29, 2024 @02:17AM (#42271649)
Chinese devs were never behind, they just don't contribute much in the past and very few were active in open source community.
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Re:BYD launches sodium-ion grid-scale BESS product by darkstar_16 on Friday November 29, 2024 @03:07AM (#42271945)
This is true. So many CNCF projects for example these days have a lot of contributions from Chinese devs or originate from companies like Alibaba/Tencent etc
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