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by elihu 4y ago
Probably to some extent, but there are limits. If the charge is too low it damages the battery, and self-discharge is a thing. So, if you're moving cars with a low charge you're under a self-imposed time limit to get them where
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by elihu 4y ago
One of the problems is that lithium ion batteries can't be discharged fully without destroying them. Effectively, the batteries are a very large energy source that can never be fully turned off. Another problem is that (if I understa
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by elihu 4y ago
The last entry is 1979, which happens to coincide with the year of my birth. Apparently I am the final product of computer science research, and there is nothing left to discover? Anyways, it's an interesting question what ought to be
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by elihu 4y ago
I'm not any kind of stock valuation expert, but I figure a big part of Tesla's share price (and GME's for that matter) is just the natural market consequence of too many short positions and someone calling their bluff. The c
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by elihu 4y ago
The original OP-1 was kind of expensive, but it was a unique product that a middle-class person might buy if they're really into creative music making. Sort of like how a middle-class person might buy a high-quality guitar -- because
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by elihu 4y ago
I think if the parts were cheap and no special engineering was required, there would be a lot more people doing conversions. (And a lot of local shops that would do it for you if you paid them.) New EVs might outnumber converted EVs 100:1
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by elihu 4y ago
Is there even a motor controller (i.e. inverter) available for that motor?
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by elihu 4y ago
Also worth adding another caveat that the 12-tone equal tempered musical scale that most of the world uses these days is used because those notes give you a pretty reasonable approximation of most of the small whole-number frequency ratios
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by elihu 4y ago
Maybe... depends where weight is added and removed, and how much. Most cars aren't particularly prone to flip in the first place, and a few hundred pounds probably won't make a huge difference. (ICE cars vary in weight depending
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by elihu 4y ago
An LFP version sounds awesome, especially if it has pretty good energy density.
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by elihu 4y ago
Batteries are often the hardest part of a conversion, because you need to find a place to put them. The motor can be relatively straightforward, especially if you can just pull out the engine and replace it with a motor using the appropria
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by elihu 4y ago
It would. Liquid fuels would still have an enormous energy storage to weight ratio advantage, but electric aircraft might become good enough to be practically useful. I'd imagine there could be military applications too, once the ener
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by elihu 4y ago
> By weight, it offers between 380-500 Wh/kg, as compared to 260 Wh/kg in packages currently used by Tesla. That's pretty huge if the company's claims hold up. That's in the ballpark where doing an EV conversion
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by elihu 4y ago
We'll just need a lot more grid capacity and power generation. We probably won't be seeing those superchargers installed very often in regular houses, so it's not like the last mile has to support ridiculously high peak load
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by elihu 4y ago
That sounds a little like this famous skit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5qxZm_JqM "What do you do to protect the environment in this case?" "The planes fly outside the environment." "Into anot
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by elihu 4y ago
One method if you have enough electricity is to capture some amount of air from the room, compress and/or refrigerate it until the various gasses liquefy (they each liquefy at a different temperature/pressure), and drain off each
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by elihu 4y ago
My understanding of the GameStop situation is that the stock's value had already diverged from the underlying value of the company, and the meme stock crowd noticed that and took advantage of it. Specifically, they saw that there were
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by elihu 4y ago
To quote from Paul Graham's essay Beating the Averages: > "As long as our hypothetical Blub programmer is looking down the power continuum, he knows he's looking down. Languages less powerful than Blub are obviously less p
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by elihu 4y ago
I think it could possibly work in a financially neutral way if the school contracted the students (as either skilled or unskilled labor) out to local businesses. There'd be a lot of ethical considerations around how to establish a rel
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by elihu 4y ago
I think for that to work you'd either need some sort of "perpetual students" who hang around a long time, or a reasonable percentage of people enrolling later in life than is typical (and possibly even enrolling as a student
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by elihu 4y ago
I haven't gotten into Dwarf Fortress either, but I do enjoy the Dwarf Fortress bugs twitter from time to time: https://twitter.com/DwarfFortBugs
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by elihu 4y ago
I think the last couple years have been especially bad. We've had a pandemic that isn't 100% over that removed a lot of the non-Internet interactions from most people's lives, we have a major land war in Europe now that coul
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by elihu 4y ago
> That hasn’t stopped some of these people from trying to blame corporations for inflation. Senator Elizabeth Warren has insisted that big businesses—ranging from grocery chains to private equity firms—have made inflation worse by “jacki
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by elihu 4y ago
I think more than that, the good stuff ends up on shopgoodwill.com, so it's increasingly difficult to find interesting or valuable things in the physical stores. It makes some amount of sense; there's a bigger market online so the
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by elihu 4y ago
I wouldn't mind living in the alternate universe where browsers adopted Ocaml as the built-in scripting language instead of JavaScript.
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by elihu 4y ago
It's there. (Maybe it wasn't earlier today, or the server was too bogged down?)
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by elihu 4y ago
I think so. It seems to be running a lot smoother now than it was earlier today.
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by elihu 4y ago
I think the more complete formulation is that the government has a monopoly on the legal use of violence. (Which I suppose isn't really true in all contexts: violence by private citizens can be legal when defending private property, f
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by elihu 4y ago
Interesting. 15 test and 15 control subjects for 3 months seems like a pretty small-scale study to definitively declare something safe, but maybe that's normal procedure for them? I assume the FDA is the final arbiter of what's s
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by elihu 4y ago
GHC, the Haskell compiler. Rustc. Pov-RAY (for creative interpretations of "elegant"). Diff and patch. The original Starcraft and BroodWar. Battle for Wesnoth. Bittorrent. Probably one not many people have used or heard of: CoCrea

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