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Rivian will start under expected $69,000 price(electrek.co)
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by gibolt 7y ago
I'm pretty sure they are mainly developing in (and converted) a significant portion of the codebase to Kotlin (developed in-house to make it less painful). It is still Java underneath, though
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by gibolt 7y ago
R&D isn't the only place you can invest profits. Building some of the world's largest factories, filling them with equipment, and hiring employees to fill them, is not cheap upfront. It is an investment which should pay divide
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by gibolt 7y ago
I'd love to read an article on how Frisbees are the biggest threat to observing the universe :D
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by gibolt 7y ago
The other problem is ballooning administration and the associated costs. The administration can run it into the ground and be unwilling to trim their unnecessary colleagues/selves, preferring to no longer exist or allow their hired pro
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by gibolt 7y ago
Thus why upgrading is complicated. Requires writing the upgrade yourself
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by gibolt 7y ago
Joke was a bit too fast for my taste :D
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by gibolt 7y ago
Those cycles enable much higher level operations. Still tons of wasted effort, but hopefully development time for the same complexity is significantly reduced.
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by gibolt 7y ago
Electric cars (mostly via Tesla) is a middleground to scaling battery (and eventually solar) production. All those cars displace the use of fossil fuels before EOL, and then go on to become grid storage, reducing reliance on peaker plants a
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by gibolt 7y ago
Do they have a web browser? Since they run Android,I assume there is hope to get it open.
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by gibolt 7y ago
They do wake-word processing on device. Not sure how dedicated the hardware is to make that possible, and the requirements for this seem too high for that. Would love to have great hardware for custom tinkering though. With more development
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by gibolt 7y ago
I use these all the time and wish more cities would do it. One downside is that the cross streets usually have cars just rolling through the stop signs with no attention paid to the possiblity of an oncoming cyclist. Maybe adding a bike ind
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by gibolt 7y ago
The Mavic Mini that was released last month is a fully-capable drone. It is one gram less than the 250g classification requiring registration. I assume that will be the limit here as well
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by gibolt 7y ago
Maybe there was some reliability guarantee or it is just a tiny government office will little technical background.
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by gibolt 7y ago
It certainly helps when there is a small number of suppliers, one giant manufacturing center, and one nearby consumer. Removing all of the supply chain middlemen in search of buyers, repeatedly producing the same manufacturing machinery, an
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by gibolt 7y ago
Most batteries beyond laptop size have significant value once they are 'used'. Most retain 20-90% of their original capacity, meaning they can live on in grid storage which has relatively insignificant size limitations. Most of th
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by gibolt 7y ago
Wouldn't be hard to hook them all up to the government's backend, if it one day became mandated. For safety.
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by gibolt 7y ago
You have to be in very close physical proximity for a recording to occur. Most recordings that close will be benign. It is worth considering the privacy implications, but it isn't equivalent to a fixed security camera recording and sto
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The European Union will stop fossil-fuel funding by the end of 2021(electrek.co)
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Ford opens its order books for Mustang Mach-E electric crossover(arstechnica.com)
2 points by gibolt 7y ago|0 comments
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by gibolt 7y ago
It should be that way, in a perfect world. I believe there was a study/survey in the UK. Business owners take the extra subsidies to get a cheaper fleet. They found that only a tiny portion had even unwrapped the charging cables, treat
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by gibolt 7y ago
The German auto industry is 5% of their economy, employing nearly a million people. Imagine the fire (no pun intended) Tesla is setting under them, as the premium (most profitable) sales plummet across the industry. They decided to subsidiz
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by gibolt 7y ago
Tesla's lower-end Model 3s fall in that range. Tesla will be announcing their European Gigafactory soon (most likely in Germany), so it is in Germany's best interest to make Teslas more attainable as well. It will increase local j
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by gibolt 7y ago
It is pretty blatant that they are increasing it by 50% to support Volkswagen's conversion to electric. Most of the other comments seem quite negative. It is protectionism, but it applies to most electric cars and is a step in the righ
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by gibolt 7y ago
They are only producing vehicles at scale in one factory.
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by gibolt 7y ago
Alternate option for high-quality VHS digitization, with a few Amazon purchases: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZC5Zr3NC2PY
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by gibolt 7y ago
Tesla has one operational factory. After copy pasta like they've already done in Shanghai, they will start closing in on the largest car manufacturers. Not only will they catch up, but each new factory will have increased efficienc
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by gibolt 7y ago
We already have satellite internet. It is 100x further from earth and using ooooold technology, compared to the Starlink fleet. The scale of satellites planned for Starlink is nearly 2 orders of magnitude more than all satellites ever launc
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by gibolt 7y ago
You should send him exactly what you wrote here. He probably needs someone he cares about to challenge the comfort he has accepted. Depending on his personality, it could increase the time you have left to spend with him
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Elon Musk Donated $1M to YouTuber TeamTrees Effort(teamtrees.org)
5 points by gibolt 7y ago|0 comments

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