ctdonath

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by ctdonath 6y ago
Agreed, and Cybertruck for the win. All the benefit of a pickup, with a big back seat and enclosed storage - with a multitude of power sourcing options (including just parked in sun, if the solar cover becomes a thing).
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by ctdonath 6y ago
“I’m going to chalk it up to iOS background process bloat and third party background app refresh, etc.” This. I’ve noticed my 6s is frequently warm, indicating heavy activity. Top suspicion is Photos processing faces/recognition/e
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by ctdonath 6y ago
If that’s my goal, I’ll have a Soylent drink or GreenBelly bar. https://Soylent.com https://GreenBelly.co I’ll eat a $18 hamburger because it tastes really good - yes, about 18x better than a $1 burger.
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by ctdonath 6y ago
“Sure you can get a hamburger for $1 ... but then you’d have to eat it.” - favorite ad
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by ctdonath 6y ago
That’s the curious bit: power generated per flat panel-rental fee is decreasing. Rental cost is consistent.
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by ctdonath 6y ago
Not convinced. I’m using utility solar for about 20% of my electricity needs, precisely to experience what’s claimed. Average cost is 50% above regular sourcing, and rising significantly. https://twitter.com/ctdonath/st
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by ctdonath 6y ago
That thing is the natural continuation of 1960’s-era oscilloscopes. Those steeped in the industry find it familiar. A bit puzzling that you criticize all from ancient knob proliferation to a single large flat screen. Only alternative is sma
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by ctdonath 6y ago
I expected a downloadable font file reproducing it. Want to show my dancer daughter.
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by ctdonath 6y ago
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=%EF%B7%BD Fun fact: it’s a single Unicode character.
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by ctdonath 6y ago
Yes, it is not. Every nation has reason to limit immigration for assorted reason - not to be confused with being “anti immigration”. Disease, crime, and simple assimilation capacity limits how many we can/should take in.
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by ctdonath 6y ago
I meant what I wrote. Sure you get 100W/m^2 when the sun is shining perpendicular to the surface, but divide by night, clouds, angles, dust/snow, latitude, air transmissiviness, line/battery/conversion loss, etc and you’
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by ctdonath 6y ago
No data link. There is an “interplanetary Internet”, look into it.
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by ctdonath 6y ago
All factors considered, solar panels average 10-20 watts/m^2. A Tesla uses ~325Wh/mile, Leaf ~250, Cybertruck ~500. Putting PV panels on a vehicle can give you a few miles per day - enough to get you to a plug if battery drains to
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by ctdonath 6y ago
Stop misrepresenting the point. Careful what you conflate. We do not have a "climate of anti-immigration". The issue is ILLEGAL immigration. Musk is a legal immigrant. Trump's wife is a legal immigrant. My wife is a legal
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by ctdonath 6y ago
In other news, Starman is at his orbit's apogee now (past Mars). https://www.whereisroadster.com
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by ctdonath 6y ago
Also interesting how NYTimes doesn't even mention Christie's until paragraph 20.
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by ctdonath 6y ago
The artifact in question was purchased LONG before COVID19 happened.
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by ctdonath 6y ago
Such is not the reputation of Christie's.
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by ctdonath 6y ago
NYTimes: "In a lawsuit filed on Tuesday, Hobby Lobby accused the auction house Christie’s of “deceitful and fraudulent conduct” in connection with an ancient tablet bearing a fragment of Gilgamesh. The suit claims “fraud and breach of
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by ctdonath 6y ago
Not weird. Chain owner has a HUGE collection of extremely precious religious/historical artifacts. I've seen it, staggering - a museum unto itself.
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by ctdonath 6y ago
I picked 500Wh/mi because Cybertruck will likely be first to use the new batteries, and will require more power than the cars/SUVs.
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by ctdonath 6y ago
Just have to efficiently & compactly convert thorium to electricity at a suitable rate in a sub-1000 lb package priced under $65,000 (cost of battery + 500,000 kWh).
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by ctdonath 6y ago
Point of this thread is new battery tech arriving soon, and hints during CT unveiling were it would be the first Tesla vehicle using the new tech. Notice the new “Gigafactory” will double as CT manufacturing, and Elon has referenced new bat
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by ctdonath 6y ago
If there aren’t regulations, there will be soon. Tesla needs to address the obvious before it becomes a problem.
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by ctdonath 6y ago
At least the FSD cars can drive themselves out of state, await paperwork, then drive themselves to customers.
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by ctdonath 6y ago
That’s the scale most don’t realize he’s operating at. With a goal of settling 100,000 on Mars, he has to reach a point of practically commoditizing production of factories.
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by ctdonath 6y ago
For comparison: SpaceX builds rockets in tents.
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by ctdonath 6y ago
Assuming 500 watt hours per mile for Cybertruck (likely the first Tesla vehicle using it), a million miles is 1.8e19 ergs. 1 kiloton TNT is 4.184e19 ergs. Million mile battery is 0.43 kilotons TNT, about 1/35th of a Davey Crockett man-
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by ctdonath 6y ago
Full autonomy depends, among other things, on regulators. Could be years before the right people are convinced it should be road legal. Hints I see re: Cybertruck point to new battery by end of 2021 (CT launch). Few/no regulators to pe
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by ctdonath 6y ago
Math. Once you account for night, impingement angle, weather, atmospheric absorption, panel efficiency, dirt, seasons, storage efficiency, etc it averages out around 13W/m^2 long term. Experience. I run my “office” all summer on solar.

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