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by EngineerBetter 8y ago
No car in existence can make use of them yet. It's a bit like networks bragging that they have 5G base stations before any 5G phones were created.
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by EngineerBetter 8y ago
Not sure what you mean. The current European superchargers use a Type 2 Mennekes adapter, but the protocol is proprietary. I gather that European Model 3s will have CCS sockets (a superset of pins of Type 2 Mennekes) so they will be able to
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by EngineerBetter 8y ago
Other bathrooms are available. Your Tesla should be able to stop at those; it doesn't only stop at superchargers. One-mile-per-minute definitely sounds like something was wrong. Did you try other charging stations? How full was your ba
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by EngineerBetter 8y ago
Folks are speculating that a Model S/X refresh will be announced at the end of the Model Y unveiling next week. It'd make sense, as both have had massive price drops recently, and haven't had a battery upgrade in two years.
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by EngineerBetter 8y ago
Thanks for the critique of Facebook as a technical implementation. I was curious as to what societal good the company and its products have done. It sounds like "saved people a bit of time by doing all the things separate services used
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by EngineerBetter 8y ago
As a person who has never had a Facebook account, can someone explain what societal good they've done? I see none. I see espionage on a massive scale. I see democracies weakened for profit. I see self-obsessed shallow folks constantly
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by EngineerBetter 8y ago
Likewise, very happy to still be using my 2015 MBP. I don't feel any envy for users of the newer models.
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by EngineerBetter 8y ago
I have exclusively been driving EVs since 2013 (Renault Zoe and a Tesla Model X), and also use a Brompton folding bicycle on my commute to work (total 6 miles cycling). I've never understood the appeal of electric bikes. It just seems
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by EngineerBetter 8y ago
It appears that in China, the state tracks your every move, whereas in the West private enterprise tracks your every move (Google, Facebook, et al).
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by EngineerBetter 8y ago
Anecdata point: I managed to make a commercial 2D platform game with GIMP. It's pretty powerful, even if the usability is not as good.
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by EngineerBetter 8y ago
I get the feeling the author found out what "a priori" means recently and is trying to find excuses to use the term.
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by EngineerBetter 8y ago
Kids in schools should not need to be saved by the responsible use of guns.
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by EngineerBetter 8y ago
They happen less in the UK.
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by EngineerBetter 8y ago
Really glad to see more pragmatism and less dogma in the Golang community.
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by EngineerBetter 8y ago
And this is why we hire for empathy, and pair-program instead of doing code reviews. Code reviews and features branches don't cause this type of behaviour, but they are a fertile field for this to flourish. I'd rather have ten med
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by EngineerBetter 8y ago
I was expecting a story about snakes.
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by EngineerBetter 8y ago
Dang, and there was me hoping for a write-up of the Fear Factory album.
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by EngineerBetter 8y ago
Using Goland and we have no performance problems.
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by EngineerBetter 8y ago
When are you all going to delete your Facebook accounts? I got 9 friends to install Signal yesterday to help them away from WhatsApp. I'd love to see widespread campaign to encourage people to ditch these parasites we're addicted
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by EngineerBetter 8y ago
I really wish I'd read these comments and realised the experiment isn't finished before scrolling up and down the article for five minutes trying to find the conclusion.
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by EngineerBetter 8y ago
Eating "right-handed" has always seemed irrational to me. It dates back to medeival eating traditions when folks only had a knife - therefore, it was held in the right hand as it was the primary and only implement. Fast forward to
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by EngineerBetter 8y ago
Does it matter for the people that die in the meantime because someone didn't read the instructions, the product description, or the in-car warnings? When you select full self-driving capability in the Tesla configurator, it states exp
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by EngineerBetter 8y ago
Consensus could be a synonym here for 'current trends'. I see no advantage of returning error types over checked exceptions. I'm happy to be informed, though.
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by EngineerBetter 8y ago
Thing is, that's been solved problem in open source at least since Ivy.
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by EngineerBetter 8y ago
Visited a customer recently who had inherited a monorepo. All their CI and release problems traced back to it. At the risk of sounding like an old git, package coupling and package cohesion principles were defined for a reason. I do feel li
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by EngineerBetter 8y ago
Cripes. The "pedo guy" thing made me cringe and reaffirmed that Elon is a fallible human, but this is the first time as a Tesla owner I'm worried about the leadership of the company.
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by EngineerBetter 8y ago
Soilwork - Stabbing The Drama is one of my favourite albums of all time.
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by EngineerBetter 8y ago
Your friend's problem is that she's a bigot.
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by EngineerBetter 8y ago
Ha! Gears! I remember those old fossil-powered cars had more than one of those. Apparently in some you even had to choose which gear you wanted, rather than the car doing it for you. Hopefully soon people will look at piston cars like IT fo
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by EngineerBetter 8y ago
Agreed - that is not how the platform should be used.

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