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by jansan 1y ago
Weight reductions on an electric car are self-reinforcing. If you reduce the weight of a component, the battery can become (slightly) smaller, which again reduces weight. At a certain amount of reduction this will allow you to make the whol
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by jansan 1y ago
I will never stop to amaze me how far to the south the USA is compared to Europe on average. I live near Berlin and even most Canadians live further to the south than me.
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by jansan 1y ago
A quick reminder that South Korea is closer to the equator than Spain or Greece.
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by jansan 1y ago
On the bright side, i am still using Paintshop Pro v7.04 from 2001, so we may be able to use Affinity for another 20 years, too.
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by jansan 1y ago
Only slightly related, but I often try to find ways to fall asleep faster. One thing that seems to work in some situations is trying to imagine a void (like a white or gray plane) for a while. However, often enough this does not work and I
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by jansan 1y ago
Is Anyone here educated enough to tell if quantum entanglement could (hypothetically) be used to transmit information faster than light?
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by jansan 1y ago
What is it? It says it is a cat clone, but what is cat?
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by jansan 1y ago
The data seems flawed. Also the number at the left chart for homicide with <1% is technically correct, but with the actual number at roughly 0,007% it seems like a bit of an exaggeration.
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by jansan 1y ago
Do you know that German car manufacturers have factories worldwide (except Porsche)? And they are still quite profitable.
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by jansan 1y ago
What metrics are you using to label it as non-competitive?
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by jansan 1y ago
Also, she did not initiate a single structural reform in her 16 years of being chancellor. The public sector has become a huge burden for our country. It is just too expensive and just like AI is currently propping up the US economy, the gr
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by jansan 1y ago
Keep in mind that the ICE market is still huge. Even in China 50% of new cars are still ICEs, 30% are Plugin Hybrids and only 20% are BEVs. On the EV market, especially in China, there is a brutal price war going on, with falling profits ev
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by jansan 1y ago
My wife, wo is just an average user, likes liquid glass a lot. She said it just looks nice and she did not have any usability issues. It seems us tech people are more critical towards the new UI changes
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by jansan 1y ago
Evan You wrote on Twitter that source code will be accessible to everyone, but not under a full permissible license. He also wrote that they have no plans to sell any code licenses.
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by jansan 1y ago
Unlike the other Nobel prizes, the peace prize does not seem to be given as a reward for past achievements, but as an encouragement to continue current political engagement.
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by jansan 1y ago
That is nonsense. Even if the Gaza deal was worthy a Nobel Peace Prize, nobody, including Trump, would expect to be honored two days after the deal.
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by jansan 1y ago
For an article describing a compression algorithm this was very digestible and entertaining.
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by jansan 1y ago
It's because they are not ready for real life applications (yet). Currently makers of humanoid robots have to ride the hype train, and this works better with addressing the desire of owning a bot that will make your life more luxurious
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by jansan 1y ago
I was hoping that LLMs being able to access strict tools, like Gemini using Python libraries, would finally give reliable results. So today I asked Gemini to simplify a mathematical expression with sympy. It did and explained to me how some
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by jansan 1y ago
Three nuclear reactors were still running in 2022, and shutting them down was not inevitable.
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by jansan 1y ago
The plan to shut down nuclear power plants was done under the premise of a stable supply of Russian gas. This supply abruptly stopped, but instead of using the remaining nuclear power plants to mitigate the supply shock (at that time nuclea
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by jansan 1y ago
It is very negative amongst large parts of the population, but he also has a very vocal fanbase.
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by jansan 1y ago
It was agreed upon under completely different circumstances, namely a stable supply of Russian gas. I cannot believe that people do not get this into their head.
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by jansan 1y ago
On the one hand this is quite an achievement, but on the other hand it shows that EVs are not (yet) superior to ICEs in every aspect except range.
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by jansan 1y ago
I did not expect that anyone would take the first part of my comment seriously, but here we go. However, this year a Ford SuperVan 4.2 made the Nordschleife in 6:48.393, so even without Sabine Schmitz a van was faster than the BYD.
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by jansan 1y ago
And it is very difficult to fine a straight road that is long enough to reach the top speed. At the Volkswagen test track the Bugatti had to leave the oval with 200km/h to reach top speed on the connected 9km straight track.
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by jansan 1y ago
Seven minutes for the Nordschleife? Sabine Schmitz could have done that with a van. But honestly, ther are a Lot of production cars that went considerably faster. And the non-production Porsche 919 Hybrid EVO did it in 5:19, which is an ent
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by jansan 1y ago
How die that work? Did Gemini call sympy on your maschine, or is access to sympy built-in and available through normal chat?
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by jansan 1y ago
I stand corrected, the Leaf figure was wrong. Nevertheless, Toyota is very profitable despite (or because?) it does not sell a significant number of EVs. Margins on EVs are currently extremely low or even negative, and that is hurting EV ma
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by jansan 1y ago
> That's great, but the writing is still on the wall if Toyota doesn't get serious about electric cars. It seems they know what they are doing. Toyota is a very profitable car manufacturer, with profit in 2024 more than Tesla a

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