pedrocr

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by pedrocr 6y ago
You have it backwards. Almost none of the telecom infrastructure in Europe is state owned. As the comment you are replying to explained it's in the US where huge government incentives were paid out to telecom companies for broadband de
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by pedrocr 6y ago
This argument shows up in all these discussions and is way way overused. The EU only has ~2-3x the population density of the USA. It's not even a single order of magnitude and people have already given examples of how very remote place
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by pedrocr 6y ago
Isn't the PCIe card you're looking for this: https://www.startech.com/Cards-Adapters/USB-3.0/Cards/PCI-Ex... Seems to have 4 USB ports each served by it's own controller with dedicated PCIe lan
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by pedrocr 6y ago
The efficiency is still great in your example. You're just paying outrageous prices for electricity. That's not an efficiency problem, it's a price problem. EPA/WLTP also doesn't help you measure if your electricity
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by pedrocr 6y ago
Hence the need for a test cycle with a standard set of hills/wind/cold to get you a good estimate of what range to count on from adverse to optimal conditions.
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by pedrocr 6y ago
And yet the Zoe (the electric Clio) has gained battery size instead of going lower in price over the years. I wish they'd actually go all in on the ~150km range city focused EVs. Cheaper lower-range cars would fit well a lot of second
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by pedrocr 6y ago
I wish we had a standardized test for range at continuous 70/80/90 mph instead of the EPA and WLTP tests. Those are designed for overall efficiency testing when what people really want to know about EV range is how long they can g
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by pedrocr 6y ago
It's one of my pet peeves to see "b" used for bytes and "m" used for mega. Makes you have to fish out the units from context. Most of the time it's obvious, your file is not really "16 mb" or 16 thous
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by pedrocr 6y ago
So first you wrote the argument of "look at this trend, it must be herd immunity because I can't think of any other reason for it". And when someone points that out your response is "of course that's the extent of t
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by pedrocr 6y ago
Advertised speed usually means it's technically possible, even if it doesn't happen in practice. It seems there is indeed 1Gb/s VSDL technology but at least Wikipedia doesn't list any such deployment in Italy. But even 1
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by pedrocr 6y ago
Sure, but VSDL will still top out at 300/100 Mb/s even over short distances: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VDSL But apparently there is indeed a new standard for Gbit DSL up to 100m: https://en.wik
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by pedrocr 6y ago
How would you ever get 1Gb/s over a copper last mile?
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by pedrocr 6y ago
In this case it included only one of two vehicles and only part of the heat as we use wood as well. The impact of vehicles depends on where they are during the day. If they're at home you can put in more solar without more batteries as
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by pedrocr 6y ago
Yes, and I replied to that. The used materials are changing. The hard ones for lithium chemistries are being replaced and there are more storage technologies than lithium. Given all the ways to improve/grow both mining and the chemistr
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by pedrocr 6y ago
From what I've seen there's enough known advancements coming to make the cost of the type of lithium battery I'd need to at least half of what it is right now. There's also the growing market for second-lives of EV batte
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by pedrocr 6y ago
All you said is true, but I wouldn't still bet against the renewables because we're probably very early in the cost-curve of storage still. In the last 10 years lithium batteries have become 10x cheaper for example. Nuclear was by
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by pedrocr 6y ago
We're finally getting back to this point where you can choose whatever language you want to program for the web. It only took us 15 years of being flamed every time you pointed out you didn't like Javascript but were forced to use
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by pedrocr 6y ago
> The difficulty here is that elections in many places are organized so that it is very inconvenient for less desirable citizens to cast their vote. The parts about running it efficiently, on Sundays, with voting places everywhere with n
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by pedrocr 6y ago
The fact that it's not secret and thus easy to buy/coerce is by far the biggest problem with it. It's a risky bet to hang your democracy on mail-in voting. Just run your elections with paper ballots cast into metal boxes. Run
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by pedrocr 6y ago
And the very place where that happened now has a database again but without any of that information in it. The lesson that no database at all can exist seems like the wrong one. Pretty much every EU country has a database of citizens that i
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by pedrocr 6y ago
That's one thing that's annoying in the current crop of EVs. Almost none of them support drawing power from the cars even though they have those huge batteries just standing there. I understand not wanting to add the cost of the i
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by pedrocr 6y ago
You may be able to get back some of the difference by requiring less total power from your utility and thus lowering the power availability part of the electric bill that applies all day and all year. It's also possible to time shift e
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by pedrocr 6y ago
If you're going to the trouble of doing solar it might be better to just do a small system with batteries to power other things as well like this: https://fridge0.branchable.com/ Or go a bit higher end and put a large
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by pedrocr 6y ago
I wouldn't say that problem exists, there's a single UI that gets brought up from either the physical button that also runs the wipers once or the on screen button. The UI is very obvious it just forces you to look at it. Having t
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by pedrocr 6y ago
The automatic wipers are famously bad because Tesla decided to save money on the sensor and try and detect rain with image processing instead. Even after many updates they're still not great. So it's perfectly possible to need to
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by pedrocr 6y ago
He didn't have to do that, that's another way to reach the same place. If you press the physical button that turns on the wipers the software menu is displayed as well and it only takes one touch to do anything else.
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by pedrocr 6y ago
There's a physical button to wipe once. It's definitely possible to operate this car safely with nothing but mechanical controls. The only thing I'd like to be able to assign to the wheel controls are fog lights. It's on
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by pedrocr 6y ago
There's a physical button to turn on the wiper. It just doesn't have the full range of controls for speeds and on/off as physical controls as the automatic wipers are supposed to be used instead. The automatic wipers aren&#x2
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by pedrocr 6y ago
Yesterday's discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24055823
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by pedrocr 6y ago
Now you're over-charging massively. If you have no liability and are guaranteed pay, charging for just double hourly rate is more than enough as a "stupid and non-standard requirements" kind of thing.

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