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This is purely a semantic difference. If you travel once or twice a year beyond the standard EV range, then by definition it’s an edge case. Assuming you take o

This is purely a semantic difference. If you travel once or twice a year beyond the standard EV range, then by definition it’s an edge case. Assuming you take one trip a day, then you’re literally only hitting that case 2/365 days. Obviously there’s people where this doesn’t apply, but there’s outliers everywhere and they’re free to continue buying gas cars today.

lelanthran 3y ago
> This is purely a semantic difference. If you travel once or twice a year beyond the standard EV range, then by definition it’s an edge case. I humbly beg to disagree; it's most definitely not an edge-case as the phrase is defined. You're using "edge-case" to mean low-frequency event. How I see the phrase used everywhere I've ever seen it, is "edge case" referring to a low-probability event, i.e. an event that is predicted to so rarely occur that it can be dismissed from consideration. https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/edge-case https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/edge-cas... says: >> an extreme or not typical example of something, that should not be considered when forming an opinion about it: An annual trip is an almost guaranteed event, so it's a very high probability event. I get that it is a low-frequency event, but "edge-case" is the incorrect term used to describe the event. Use "rarely" or similar instead.
- lukas099 3y ago
  Maybe edge case wasn't technically the right term, but I did indeed mean a low-frequency event (as it's used in the article). Sorry for the confusion.
dagss 3y ago
If you know something will happen it is not an edge case, at least how the word is commonly used. Doesn't matter how often. System A delivering its event after system B may be an edge case. Daylight saving time computations are not handling an edge case but a normal case that happens twice a year.

lelanthran 3y ago

> This is purely a semantic difference. If you travel once or twice a year beyond the standard EV range, then by definition it’s an edge case. I humbly beg to disagree; it's most definitely not an edge-case as the phrase is defined. You're using "edge-case" to mean low-frequency event. How I see the phrase used everywhere I've ever seen it, is "edge case" referring to a low-probability event, i.e. an event that is predicted to so rarely occur that it can be dismissed from consideration. https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/edge-case https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/edge-cas... says: >> an extreme or not typical example of something, that should not be considered when forming an opinion about it: An annual trip is an almost guaranteed event, so it's a very high probability event. I get that it is a low-frequency event, but "edge-case" is the incorrect term used to describe the event. Use "rarely" or similar instead.

lukas099 3y ago
Maybe edge case wasn't technically the right term, but I did indeed mean a low-frequency event (as it's used in the article). Sorry for the confusion.

dagss 3y ago

If you know something will happen it is not an edge case, at least how the word is commonly used. Doesn't matter how often. System A delivering its event after system B may be an edge case. Daylight saving time computations are not handling an edge case but a normal case that happens twice a year.