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by Workaccount2 9mo ago
You can get Model 3 LR that will do it for $20k used. Like everyone else, you are thinking in "gas car" trying to resolve an electric car problem. You start every trip in an EV with full range (unplug from home base charger). You
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by Workaccount2 9mo ago
I recently did a road trip to Maine, and the whole week it didn't get above 15F. The difference in range was about 20% less. But I drive at 65mph with cruise control all the time.
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by Workaccount2 9mo ago
If you often mowed a town park, you wouldn't buy a hand-push lawnmower and then be upset about lawn mower technology. The Renault 5 is a town car. Its specs are closer to a golf cart than a motorcar. It fills a niche, but if you are tr
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by Workaccount2 9mo ago
In truth you cannot really do this because range is a function of drag, not really weight. So if you are towing a 2000lb empty box mobile home it's gonna be worse than towing an 8000lb flat bed of decorative boulders.
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by Workaccount2 9mo ago
In your typical 475km EV sedan, you would only need about 20 minutes of charging to do that 700km. This is why I am like a broken record repeating that EV misconceptions kill EVs. You are applying gas car logic to electric cars, which is wh
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by Workaccount2 9mo ago
A 600 mile trip can (theoretically) be done with 1 charge, because you leave home with full range, and arrive with 0 charge (and fill up overnight). That one charge is done while eating dinner, or spaced out in increments over the course o
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by Workaccount2 9mo ago
Range is the misconception, because people view range through the "sit and fill up then drive till empty" paradigm. That is not how EVs work or how they should be used. They should be charged overnight/when you are doing some
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by Workaccount2 9mo ago
The lighting is fine for towing, especially the type that people usually do. You can tow up to 10,000lbs and the truck has ridiculous power to pull it. What you can't do it tow it long distances (>90mi, worst case) without 40 minute
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by Workaccount2 9mo ago
I disagree along with you. EVs would work for 80% of the population, there is a long tail of people who an EV will never (well foreseeable future) work for. Thankfully, the mass of humanity that should be transitioning lives in populated ar
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by Workaccount2 9mo ago
It's a shame the Lightning got discontinued. As an EV owner, it sucks that the main thing holding the technology back is misconceptions and misunderstanding, rather than actual practical matters. People think EVs are cars with tanks of
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by Workaccount2 9mo ago
LLMs will never achieve anything as long as any victory can be hand waved away with "in the training set". Somehow these models have condensed the entire internet down to a few TB's, yet people aren't backing up their te
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by Workaccount2 9mo ago
Let me just remind you that Microsoft owns the elder scrolls franchise now, for better or worse.
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by Workaccount2 9mo ago
The hardest pill to swallow as a musician is that despite everyone who ever listened to you telling you you're great, despite being in a band and playing shows, despite maybe even selling some merch...if you are not in the top 1%, you
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by Workaccount2 9mo ago
I strongly suspect that the advent of LLMs stalled the new elder scrolls game another 5-6 years.
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by Workaccount2 9mo ago
What are all the grifters going to do when AI can reliably tell people if a study is shit?
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by Workaccount2 9mo ago
These studies are done to rebuff claims by people whose cohort largely overlaps with those who believe that homeopathic medicine is legit. It's not gonna change squat in their minds.
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by Workaccount2 9mo ago
Don't worry, they are already salivating at the idea of a tallow renaissance, where they can do a viral marketing blast of "McDonalds Tallow fries"
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by Workaccount2 9mo ago
>Most people do not live near "beef operations". Yeah, but lived experience shows that a lot of people do.
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by Workaccount2 9mo ago
That's what I am saying though. Anecdotes are the wrong thing to focus on, because if we just focused on anecdotes, we would all never leave our beds. People's choices are generally based on their personal experience, not really a
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by Workaccount2 9mo ago
I'd be skeptical about even new LLM siri being able to dial 911. These models tend to have a "mind of their own", and I can totally, absolutely, see a current SOTA LLM convincing itself it needs to call 911 because you asked
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by Workaccount2 9mo ago
Apple likely wants to post-train a per-trained model, probably along with some of Google's heavily NDA'ed training techniques too.
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by Workaccount2 9mo ago
Frequency vs. convenience will determine how big of a deal this is in practice. Cars have plenty of horror stories associated with them, but convenience keeps most people happily driving everyday without a second thought. Google can quarant
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by Workaccount2 9mo ago
If nothing else, this was likely driven by Google being the most stable of the AI labs. Gemini is objectively a good model (whether it's #1 or #5 in ranking aside) so Apple can confidently deliver a good (enough) product. Also for Appl
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by Workaccount2 9mo ago
RFK's playbook is to wake up, check what the crunchy moms on instagram are cackling about, issue policy based on the comments sections.
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by Workaccount2 9mo ago
1. I'm saying the choice is faux. Healthy people will have dramatically lower medical bills throughout their life, so why shouldn't they get discounted health insurance? Which leads to your second point which I already addressed
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by Workaccount2 9mo ago
You said enrolling in insurance was a choice. If everyone with a BMI under 22 who did at least an hour of cardio a week had their own health insurance club, they would be doing excellent with cheap premiums and great care, while everyone el
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by Workaccount2 9mo ago
This is a macro problem larger than health insurance, and exists everywhere from employee bonuses, high school group project grades, handicap parking, gas prices, Everest summits, to gas prices. Those might all seem wildly disconnected, but
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by Workaccount2 9mo ago
Its dumb to create an insurance program using anecdotes. The system can accommodate (and frankly is the ideal many people strive for) some health nut getting long drawn out cancer battle at 41. Its rare enough to be noise in the giant money
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by Workaccount2 9mo ago
The most cataclysmic thing that could happen to healthcare would be chronically healthy individuals creating their own health insurance.
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by Workaccount2 9mo ago
The actual realization, which usually comes years after the realization that there is no bottom, is that there is no top either. The battle along the spectrum of privatizing gains (lower healthcare premiums for a healthy lifestyle - high pr

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