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by hnav 3y ago
EVs are not exactly hot in the secondary market right now, partly because the technology is still evolving rapidly
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by hnav 3y ago
but incomes are generally much lower
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by hnav 3y ago
The Rivian's _curb_ weight is 7k. Not that the Escalade is light, but in its diesel, long wheel-base version it's 6.2k.
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by hnav 3y ago
If de-contented "race edition" cars are any indication some of those extras being stripped amounts to a 100lbs at most. Only cheap way to reel in the mass while keeping the safety is to make them smaller.
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by hnav 3y ago
There are relay attacks where you boost the signal from 50 feet away. Think someone pulls up outside your house with a giant antenna attached to a clandestinely made device, unlocks the car and drives it straight into a shipping container.
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by hnav 3y ago
Basically the reader writes data back to the fob and expects to see it the next time it reads it. This results in either the original or the copy getting de-synced. One interesting capability that this unlocks is that battery powered, offli
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by hnav 3y ago
depends on what your utilization looks like, serverless is usually +/- an order of magnitude more expensive. Ideally your workloads are stateless and containerized so you can shuffle them between serverless, container orchestration tha
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by hnav 3y ago
iDrive 5 forward (2015ish), map updates are OTA.
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by hnav 3y ago
Assuming that grids are going to be carbon free through a mix of nuclear and renewables, cars are going to be electrified and everything that can't be will be run on hydrogen, I would say the next thing to figure out is what to do with
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by hnav 3y ago
I just don't see a viable alternative once your market share has fallen low enough for devs not to care about testing on your browser.
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by hnav 3y ago
Mozilla should develop a rudimentary Blink or Webkit mode for FF that allows it to fallback to a better supported engine (with obvious limitations wrt extensions, privacy policy) for select websites. I think once the user has opened Chrome&
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by hnav 3y ago
Furthermore, Apple is doing this to access the Indian market. When the Chinese middle class grew they wanted iDevices, if Apple is banking on this repeating in India, it needs to have leverage.
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by hnav 3y ago
Corpo can’t sacrifice short term gain to protect itself from some nebulous future conflict, basically that would eat the profit margin and result in the sacking of the senior leadership.
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by hnav 3y ago
EVs can have very precise torque control and I think 4 motor EVs are inevitable so stickiness matters less than for an ICE car. The thing is the Lucid Gravity will probably in a recycling heap in 15 years time, while 911s will be wealthy pe
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by hnav 3y ago
I am probably not old enough to like this, but the aesthetic of a centerlock 20" wheel trying to look like Fuchs with a Fuchs' worth of brake disc behind it is pure kitsch.
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by hnav 3y ago
Probably the wrong transmission for driver involvement since it feels quite a bit worse than the 6 speeds in GT cars.
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by hnav 3y ago
Maybe they asked ChatGPT to come up with an unconventional marketing plan and it had a touch too much blogspam "that will SHOCK and PETRIFY you" in its training set so ChatGPT suggested that they feign a powerstruggle over keeping
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by hnav 3y ago
I think lidar is going to get cheaper much faster than tesla figures out vision-only FSD. Consider that solid state lidar capable of scanning a room is integrated in smartphones today.
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by hnav 3y ago
but in the US you have freedom of movement also most of the US is rural and driving is basically a right because if you don't you're a nobody and can't function. Ironically Japan is having an issue right now with lots of rura
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by hnav 3y ago
the concept can be scaled up to something smaller than a bus (let's say 6 pax) that you hail like uber pool. As the technology becomes commoditized it can be applied by metro transit authorities to run smaller buses with much shorter h
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by hnav 3y ago
timezones as in IANA tzdb[0], not offsets from UTC. The terminology is confusing. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones
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by hnav 3y ago
time handling is rough, but a rule of thumb is to use absolute time (e.g. UTC timestamps, datetime with tz offset) for things that represent a concrete point in time (especially if they've already happened) and use time in a timezone (
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by hnav 3y ago
Because it makes them look uncool. See how Mazda discontinued the 5 for a bunch of CUVs that fit less stuff in the same footprint. Somehow a lifted compact car with slats for windows is cooler to the average person.
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by hnav 3y ago
We need wagons/estates, but those only do well in select markets in the US, pretty much only blue intellectuals would buy one over a crossover.
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by hnav 3y ago
your redundancy is another player's opportunity (to paraphrase Bezos)
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by hnav 3y ago
cubic and bbr
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by hnav 3y ago
the lady doth protest too much
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by hnav 3y ago
it's not just fat, compare for example to an outside skirt steak, it is no more fatty but much more flavorful
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by hnav 3y ago
it's because filet has very little flavor of its own
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by hnav 3y ago
Depends where you are, if you live in one of the hubs where you have shopping etc nearby it can be workable but still not very convenient. LA is too sprawley so if you used to spend enough time in a car to aggravate you, expect to spend way

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