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by _ea1k 3y ago
I'd guess that's true, and also that the people on the most patents are just "co-inventors". It likely makes the program highly profitable for a few, who may not even be the ones doing most of the followup work with the
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by _ea1k 3y ago
Possibly an indication that the value of patents has declined? It'd be a good thing if that is the case.
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by _ea1k 3y ago
I can see what you are getting that there. The problem is that Chicago actually caused a pretty extreme case, mostly due to infrastructure issues. Cars waiting in line for hours at low states of charge effectively couldn't precondition
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by _ea1k 3y ago
True, but in an extreme case, the battery may not take a charge at all without being warmed up. This may take 30+ minutes if it is extremely cold soaked.
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by _ea1k 3y ago
Yeah, that's the video that I was thinking of that explicitly tested it. It usually isn't a thing that happens in the real world. The last couple of days have been different. People have left their cars in the parking lot for hour
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by _ea1k 3y ago
I'm not sure how an Uber driver can solve the Chicago problem for himself. More infrastructure is really needed. Although the amount of additional infrastructure needed isn't necessarily vast. It sounds like they had enough charge
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by _ea1k 3y ago
Yes, and it sounds like this is exactly what happened in some cases. People would charge hunt until they were out, wait in line for hours, then get to the unit with a cold soaked battery. Even if the charger is working perfectly, the first
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by _ea1k 3y ago
I used an EV for years with a 120V. It also would "take days to charge", but 12 hours would net ~24%. It is surprisingly usable, especially if there is a nearby DCFC bottom charge at if you ever get a little low. Of course, there
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by _ea1k 3y ago
There are a lot of cold towns in the US that didn't have the same issues as Chicago. There's more to it than just "Cold weather". TBH, perhaps the more general problem is that EVs aren't fully ready for dense cities
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by _ea1k 3y ago
> When it's -40c and you're running the video security systems. It only drains about 1% a day. At least with Tesla, it isn't this good. Running sentry mode will cost a lot more than 1% a day. Best to leave it off if the ca
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by _ea1k 3y ago
I've heard of a lot of that happening too. Tesla nav was also reporting a decent number of stalls out of order, so there were some outages as well. TBH, it sounds like a lot of things going wrong (or even just weird) at once. In every
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by _ea1k 3y ago
There's a 52 stall supercharger planned near O'hare. I'd guess this problem would have been much less severe if it had already opened.
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by _ea1k 3y ago
Yes
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by _ea1k 3y ago
True, and the issues haven't been prevalent in other cold parts of the US as well. Less urban areas wouldn't have the same issues, even if they are colder.
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by _ea1k 3y ago
They already do this, but it tends to turn off at low states of charge. I'm guessing that people saw the lines and tried to put off charging as long as possible. If everyone does that and shows up to chargers with cold-soaked batteries
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by _ea1k 3y ago
A lot of them didn't buy them. There are a lot of Uber/Lyft drivers up there and many use the Hertz Uber rental program ( https://www.uber.com/us/en/drive/vehicle-solutions/hertz/tes... ). I
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by _ea1k 3y ago
It can work for daily use, as long as daily use isn't more than ~60 miles and the car is warm while charging (eg, garaged). Charging on the street in subzero temperatures isn't likely to work with 120v.
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by _ea1k 3y ago
We all know that. There are even some good things in SaFe. Where it loses value is that it imposes those organization level planning ideas at too many levels and ultimately impedes the most effective teams.
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by _ea1k 3y ago
Of course! The problem is that this "accountability" is the grease on the slippery slope towards doom. If I need every epic, story, task and subtask to be labelled in the correct way for your organization, then I no longer have an
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by _ea1k 3y ago
Don't forget to tag and label every story appropriately, use the corporate standard for sprint names, and file those tps reports on time. That would be great.
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by _ea1k 3y ago
"Way of work should be defined at a team level by its people, not by the company." - This is basically the origin of scrum. Essentially every problem ascribed to scrum is its departure from this origin story. Scrum is about making
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by _ea1k 3y ago
On battery life? Its hard to say. On things like GPU and LLM performance, I'd say they already have, and often at significantly lower prices.
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by _ea1k 3y ago
I read this and though "I bet that EV think will get more skepticism than all the others". And then I read the comments. :lol
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by _ea1k 3y ago
Maybe it is a real word from 2525?
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by _ea1k 3y ago
I wouldn't say that nobody lifts a finger. There's a lot of analysis going on each year to try to improve the situation. And vehicle automation is seemingly starting to make progress on reducing various collision types, especially
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by _ea1k 3y ago
I feel like this is the norm at big companies. Oh, noone is using platform abc any more, it is too basic. We must switch to def! And we can't afford the retain old links feature, who needs that anyway. I've seen platforms where if
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by _ea1k 3y ago
The bad thing is that you'll likely have to spend a few thousand to get them into decent shape. It sounds like the cheaper ones are pretty rough.
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by _ea1k 3y ago
That sounds like an easy problem to solve, tbh. 100 miles and l1 at the airport. It'd be nice if they all installed at least a few rows of those.
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by _ea1k 3y ago
Also, with business travel, I generally haven't been allowed to expense fees to returning it with less than a full tank. With EVs, this would mean that I couldn't pay even a reasonable fee for this service. That'd be enough t
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by _ea1k 3y ago
Some have Tesla superchargers, but not necessarily Chademo for a leaf. It would take hours to charge on their L2 and they probably have fewer L2s than EVs. It is pretty easy for them to fall behind on charging vehicles during peak periods,

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