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I really want to read this article, but there are too many spelling and grammar mistakes or lack of punctuation. Please consider spellchecking it?
by davedx 11y ago
I really want to read this article, but there are too many spelling and grammar mistakes or lack of punctuation. Please consider spellchecking it?
- kba 11y agoI absolutely agree. Already after the first sentence, I was questioning whether I was suffering from aphasia or having a stroke. It surprises me that someone would publish an article like that without having proofread it at all.
- Cyph0n 11y agoI didn't notice anything serious. Perhaps you should try to tone down your "superior grammar" dial?
- anonymousDan 11y agoNah, he's right it's practically unreadable.
- Cyph0n 11y agoUnreadable? Sorry to tell you this, but your standards are unpractically high. Welcome to the real world, where not everything is how you want it :p I'm sure that with such an attidtude, you'll be learning a lot from people with different backgrounds and cultures. /s
- snorrah 11y agoIf your English skills are reasonable, it's fairly easy to parse the article and fill in the gaps yourself. Probably easier than a non-native writer wrestling with a spelling or grammar checker when they might not know if the suggestions presented are good or not.
- Cyph0n 11y agoI agree completely. It seems some HN readers think that if they have perfect English (they do not, sadly), everyone else should rise up to their unrealistically high standards. I guess us programmers are a bit more sheltered from the real world. Add to that the primarily US-based audience, and you have what is called a "hivemind".
- padobson 11y agoI think it's more like Stockholm syndrome. Our compilers are berating us 100 times a day that we're making grammatical mistakes in the language we're using, and we begin to love them for it. It's no wonder we tend to demand a higher standard from the authors we read.
- stcredzero 11y agoSpellchecking? What about innumeracy? As you can see if you only drain your battery to 75% (meaning you only use 20% of your capacity) you get tremendously more cycle’s (more than double!) then say using 50%. So when systems are designed for energy storage you generally want your batteries to last a long time (since they’re expensive) so you want the maximum amount of cycles for them, which means that you should only discharge them 80%. As you can see this is getting quite frustrating, as now simply to power you’re off-grid system at night you need to purchase 80% more battery capacity than you actually need. 75 + 20 = 95. Okay, close enough to 100. But discharging to only 20% means you need to buy 500% the capacity, not 180%!
- aswanson 11y agoYeah, I was hesitant to click on the article based on the title. Thanks for confirming my suspicions.
- Fjolsvith 11y agoI did learn a few things from the article, though. The big one has to do with why the car batteries I use on a hydraulic and winch system have been failing fast. It has to do with the way I run them all the way down before charging them back up. In my shed delivery business, I have a custom designed trailer with a hydraulic lift for the tilt bed and a winch for loading and unloading the buildings. They are 12 volt and I just run them with a car battery.
- Dylan16807 11y agoPlus, getting 2100 cycles at 75% vs. 1000 cycles at 50% is barely an improvement at all. With this particular example battery there is absolutely no reason not to discharge it completely. You get roughly the same number of watt hours before it dies, no matter what you do.