calinet6

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by calinet6 13y ago
Yes, analyze in terms of understanding how the quality is created and may improve, sure. This article appeared to be overanalyzing, and the wrong things, in the wrong direction. It was pointless.
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by calinet6 13y ago
It tastes good. Some tastes better than others. Lots of people agree in general terms about this. No need to analyze it or suspect a conspiracy. Move along.
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by calinet6 13y ago
This happened to me 6 weeks ago. I'm now happily employed at another (slightly more stable) startup with good work and a better situation. Trust me, any employee would be happier to be in a stable and improving startup than in one that
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by calinet6 13y ago
I've been through all of this, it sucks. But this line sticks with me: "Honestly think the only thing that keeps my health and my marriage intact is my running." I gotta start running. That's the one thing I always get w
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by calinet6 13y ago
An engineer at Tesla, who has actually worked on the problem, rather than someone who believes he has enough information to make a judgement on a problem which you have not studied or thought about for more than a few minutes. /interne
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by calinet6 13y ago
Exactly. Americans have too much an Individual focus, not enough Systematic focus. It is to our extreme disadvantage.
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by calinet6 13y ago
The max Model S range is 265 miles. That's tremendously larger than 100.
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by calinet6 13y ago
If you're comparing on performance alone, you better get the upgraded Audi to match the Model S...
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by calinet6 13y ago
These are literally all engineering problems that can and have been solved. You have no idea what you're talking about as it applies to this situation.
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by calinet6 13y ago
Agreed, it makes sense at small scale to make it an individual system. Once the system grows, it'll be easier to spread the cost over more users. It's like insurance. I hope that's where they're going, because it's
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by calinet6 13y ago
Please, you think they haven't thought of those problems? I'm sure it's a sealed system designed for real-world use. Otherwise why would they even create it? You could say the same about the car itself, but that appears to wo
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by calinet6 13y ago
Ideally the system would be extremely smart: not just freely circulating anything, but tracking the health of each and every battery, doing automated maintenance as much as possible, and circulating certain batteries out for refurb if they
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by calinet6 13y ago
Oooh... that's not good. I envisioned it as an insurance-like system: you pay for battery swaps, which cost X amount, which goes toward the collective maintenance of all the batteries in the whole system. Thus you don't have to wo
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by calinet6 13y ago
The point is that before this, charging (even with a supercharger in ~1 hour) was the accepted method of filling the battery, and it was free and/or cheap. That is still a perfectly acceptable method. Now you also have the choice of sw
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by calinet6 13y ago
You're going on long trips every single mile? Otherwise you're charging it at home, at work, or using a supercharger while you eat lunch. You may only swap the batt 10 times or less in those 37,500 miles. And you still get all the
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by calinet6 13y ago
They have your serial number. I'm sure it's just billed directly to your card on file.
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by calinet6 13y ago
Used to work at Patagonia, who installed a large-scale solar array in their parking lot in Southern California. Over a few years, at least 4 panels were stolen (of about 150 I believe). These things are all valuable, just have to account fo
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by calinet6 13y ago
This is a ridiculous discussion. It takes about 3-5 minutes to fill up a large-tank performance car, similar in features and trim to the Model S. It takes about 2-4 minutes to fill up a smaller car. It takes less than 2 minutes to "fil
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by calinet6 13y ago
This is really splitting hairs. They made a fun demo, and their whole position is to surpass the total experience of the gasoline car. I think they've shown that they're at least equal, which is an incredible accomplishment.
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by calinet6 13y ago
Everything seems to indicate that this is in reference to all Model S's.
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by calinet6 13y ago
This is the key reason you'd want to do this in the first place. It not only solves the problem of quickly charging the battery, it solves the problem of battery quality over time! The mere fact that you have batteries being swapped
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by calinet6 13y ago
Lesson #1: Hacker News is not your audience! Just forget about the nerds with a megaphone up their collective butts yelling about the evil Facebook and go for your actual market: everyone else.
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by calinet6 13y ago
That's quite beautiful for such a small stylesheet. I once almost started a web site called SimpleStyleSheets that had that goal -- maximum of 4 lines of CSS, no ugly compression, maximum of 120 characters per line. And see how good yo
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by calinet6 13y ago
Google Now is basically the same idea, but even more interesting/extensible. Maybe not quite as "Morning" oriented UX-wise, but it satisfies the same needs for me. I can look at it in the morning and see the weather, commute
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by calinet6 13y ago
The Mini is supposed to be that, ideally. The graphics are the bottleneck, but they'll get better as the Intel integrated graphics pipeline improves.
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by calinet6 13y ago
Only $249 and $299! Dreams are expensive....
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by calinet6 13y ago
That's ridiculous. The power from the wall has the potential to be much cleaner and more predictable than that from a PC power supply. If that's the issue, then the device's power supply is designed poorly. I think there will
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by calinet6 13y ago
Thunderbolt Dock would be the dream... I settle for an external USB hub, wireless keyboard and mouse, and outboard audio. It does enough to reduce the number of things I have to plug.
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by calinet6 13y ago
Audio pros want everything outside the box anyway: interference from the power supply, motherboard, etc are unacceptable. External peripherals are the norm. I don't see any problem with this whatsoever.
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by calinet6 13y ago
It's basically a PCIe x4 interface, so it's about 1/4 the bandwidth of most high-end video cards, and you should be able to make an external enclosure for them. So yes, it's possible to add one, it just won't be qui

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