I don't think you'll find anything much better than basis universal, assuming you want textures compressed on the GPU and the simplicity of shipping one file that decodes quickly enough. I've followed development of the encoder, and its authors know what they're doing.
You might beat basisu if you encode for one texture format at a time, and use perceptual RDO for albedo textures.
Another alternative would be to use JPEG XL for distribution and transcode to GPU texture formats on install, but you'd have to ship a decent GPU texture compressor (fast ones leave quality on the table, and it's really hard to make a good one that isn't exponentially slower).
Breakthrough in image generation speed literally came from applying better differential equations for diffusion taken from statistical mechanics physics papers:
EV motors typically outlive the rest of the car. Leaf is old enough that there's a whole cottage industry of battery repairs, replacements, and repurposing them for solar energy storage.
I've meant you don't need to worry about motors failing in old EVs, unlike engines that are the primarily concern in old ICE cars.
Apart from battery degradation, the other thing that may be the final nail in the coffin for an old EV (other than Leaf) is failure of HVAC. Temperature management is important for keeping batteries healthy when fast charging, and to prevent motors from overheating when you send them a quarter of a megawatt of power.
And the rest of the problems is the same like in any other car of the same era.
The absolutely worst efficiency I've experienced was 2.7km/kWh at 120km/h in DS3 e-tense. That was a v1 Stellantis drivetrain, without a heat pump. Peugeot e208, Corsa-e, etc. are the same thing. Stellantis sucks at EVs, especially their first gen, so that's probably really the worst case scenario (apart from EV's nemesis: towing non-aerodynamic trailers at high speeds).
So if you take an EV's battery size in kWh and multiply it by 2.7, that's the worst range you will get in km.
It depends where your contributors are coming from. For example for Rust, the crates index is the discovery mechanism. Contributors will come to your repo by whatever link you put in your package's metadata. I've split my Rust packages between GitHub and GitLab and don't see a difference in participation.
It gets exponentially better with bigger adoption, because chargers being in use pay for installation of more chargers (and batteries got cheaper, so charging stations have their own storage and are less limited by the size of their grid connection).
Service stations on my route in the UK went from having 2-3 medium-speed chargers total in 2019 to having 2 rows of 20 high-speed chargers, and another parking doubling that is under construction. The same happened all over Western Europe - grew from a few singular chargers at supermarkets and hotels to many large charging hubs along highways.
Reliability and ease of payment also got better, partly because regulations started requiring it, but also because the stations don't sit idle any more, and it started to matter for revenue.
Also in EU there's enough charger coverage now that there's competition. I don't have to sit in line to the only charger in town, I can drive few miles to the next station.
This uses blockchain only for marketing buzzwords.
Stablecoins require trusting that the coin issuer doesn't print money. This goes against the core premise of blockchain being trustless!
This is just a payment API with extra steps (all of the integrity and identity features use cryptography that works without blockchain, unless your definition of blockchain is broad enough to include git and matrix chats, then the stripe thing is a blockchain too).
Chain of thought seems to be an extraction algorithm for information buried deeper.
The models hold more information than they can immediately extract, but CoT can find a key to look it up or synthesise by applying some learned generalisations.
Maybe it's not a coincidence that public services got worse when everything moved online.
In the process lots of things have been captured by private companies that consolidated and got richer and more powerful than many countries.
Now we have a bunch of rent seekers who don't support our local economies, but pour profits through Bermuda-Luxembourg money funnels into their Scrooge McDuck vaults.
You might beat basisu if you encode for one texture format at a time, and use perceptual RDO for albedo textures.
Another alternative would be to use JPEG XL for distribution and transcode to GPU texture formats on install, but you'd have to ship a decent GPU texture compressor (fast ones leave quality on the table, and it's really hard to make a good one that isn't exponentially slower).