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Yeah but petrol cars weren't serviced as well as now when they started (arguably with a much longer range per much faster "charge", maybe). EVs are probably goi

by xwolfi 3y ago

Yeah but petrol cars weren't serviced as well as now when they started (arguably with a much longer range per much faster "charge", maybe). EVs are probably going to be a good idea, it'll just take time. Imagine in 1995 saying emails will never replace sending around documents at the office, just because there wasn't any infra yet. Wait a bit, or even help !

fsckboy 3y ago
today, i consider email to be a failure, Imagine saying that in 1995. I rarely get them or have a need to send them which amplifies the spam ratio. It annoys me to get and send pdfs in text messages, but that seems to be how the world works now.
- pbourke 3y ago
  > It annoys me to get and send pdfs in text messages, but that seems to be how the world works now. Do you mean PDFs for correspondence such as bills or invoices? That is not common for me.
  - fsckboy 3y ago
    mostly referring to pdfs to fill out and "e signature", my assistant sends them to me all the time.
- bluGill 3y ago
  In 1995 email was very common, but it was always a propriatory system that only could be used in your office. Very little was connected to an outside network.
  - ghaff 3y ago
    We had an email system starting before I joined in the mid-80s (a product we made called CEO) but it was purely internal until well into the 90s. I'm not sure exactly when most people had some form of interoperable email but it was well into the dot-com era. I still use email pretty frequently even if communications are at least somewhat fragmented across SMS, Facebook, Slack, etc.
toyg 3y ago
ICE cars had an advantage though: if you ran out of petrol, you could hitch to the closest garage, fill up a tank, and you were back in business. With EVs it's always going to require a tow, which is a nightmare experience I don't recommend to anyone.
- bluGill 3y ago
  There are non tow options for evs. a ev can recharge another (non do this, but they could). Or a generator can be brought to the ev.

by xwolfi 3y ago

fsckboy 3y ago

today, i consider email to be a failure, Imagine saying that in 1995. I rarely get them or have a need to send them which amplifies the spam ratio. It annoys me to get and send pdfs in text messages, but that seems to be how the world works now.

pbourke 3y ago
> It annoys me to get and send pdfs in text messages, but that seems to be how the world works now. Do you mean PDFs for correspondence such as bills or invoices? That is not common for me.
- fsckboy 3y ago
  mostly referring to pdfs to fill out and "e signature", my assistant sends them to me all the time.
bluGill 3y ago
In 1995 email was very common, but it was always a propriatory system that only could be used in your office. Very little was connected to an outside network.
- ghaff 3y ago
  We had an email system starting before I joined in the mid-80s (a product we made called CEO) but it was purely internal until well into the 90s. I'm not sure exactly when most people had some form of interoperable email but it was well into the dot-com era. I still use email pretty frequently even if communications are at least somewhat fragmented across SMS, Facebook, Slack, etc.

toyg 3y ago

ICE cars had an advantage though: if you ran out of petrol, you could hitch to the closest garage, fill up a tank, and you were back in business. With EVs it's always going to require a tow, which is a nightmare experience I don't recommend to anyone.

bluGill 3y ago
There are non tow options for evs. a ev can recharge another (non do this, but they could). Or a generator can be brought to the ev.