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by ricw 8y ago
The EU model 3 has officially been announced with a CCS2 port. Other than the US, it’s likely that this will be THE port that everyone will support. Hopefully we won’t have any bigger charging port wars going forward...
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by ricw 8y ago
The main reason semiconductors scaled the way the did, was due to economies of scale. The more refined the process, the more R&D money had to be put behind the next node to make it work, the more production you needed to justify the inv
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by ricw 8y ago
I'll call it Rick's law: Roughly every 4-5 years, Li-ion battery prices will halve
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by ricw 8y ago
This is going to become more and more common. Li-ion battery costs are falling at a constant ~15% per year and there is no real reason why this shouldn't continue. Similar to what Moore's law did to semiconductors, this will mean
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by ricw 8y ago
Think of it as the equivalent to high frequency trading vs long term investment. There is a need for both, and battery tech is the best at high frequency trading.
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by ricw 8y ago
or stop Qualcomm from coercing money out of companies that they shouldn't. see Qualcomm's convictions and massive fines in china, europe and korea for precedent.
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by ricw 8y ago
This is often what happens anyways. I just had my entire MacBook Pro 2017 replaced, all but the bottom plate. Same happened to me 5 years ago..
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by ricw 8y ago
The EU has successfully tested this and removed any subsidies to the sugar agricultural sector. The sugar industry in Europe has not imploded. In fact, it’s just adjusted to the new reality of not being subsidised. Other than that, it’s pre
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by ricw 8y ago
Not a fan of this. You save a couple of chars and massively decrease legibility. Anyone new to the project will find it way harder to understand. Instead of abbreviation hell, just spell it out and move on. Not worth saving a couple of char
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by ricw 8y ago
Google has the way better interface and configurability. They’re also cheaper. Reasons for moving: 1) Google had a mean bug that dropped long standing connections within their own network, and they blamed us despite following all the guides
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by ricw 8y ago
A couple of reasons, in this case for a Postgres instance that has 2TB of data. 1) price: you’ll easily spend $$$$$$ on RDS. If you host it on something equivalent with native SSD you’re looking at $800 a month with better performance 2) pe
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by ricw 8y ago
The problem is that any non-fossil fuel derived hydrogen made from solar/wind loses more than 60% during conversion. Compare that to lithium with around 10% loss that includes outputting the energy (hydrogen would lose even more). Hydr
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by ricw 8y ago
I don't get the USA's obsession with banning dogs from anywhere that serves food. In Europe, this is typically standard practise as long as the dog is well behaved. It's not as if food safety is more of an issue anywhere in
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FCC sides with Google Fiber over Comcast with new pro-competition rule(arstechnica.com)
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by ricw 8y ago
That is until it rains and LIDAR falls flat on its face. LIDAR Is Great for training in perfect rainless conditions. For everything else we’ll have to use other tech, very likely camera based. Which is what tesla is doing. Whether this will
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by ricw 8y ago
It’s actually not that speculative. Model x and a have 25% profit margins, unheard of in an industry that typically has mid single digit margins. It’s something only Porsche is able to achieve. They’ve announced that they Yer aiming for sim
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by ricw 8y ago
I'm doubtful this will happen, based on what we've seen in the car industry in the past. Foreign car companies have had to build cars via Chinese joint ventures for decades, and as yet, not a single Chinese car company has seen an
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by ricw 8y ago
The writing is on the wall. Apple will use an in-house developed solution to cut out and integrate another chip into their A-series processors. Just like they did with their GPU from imagination technology last year...
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by ricw 8y ago
Or just don’t use class based views. Simple function views do the job just as well while not obscuring code “behind a magic wall”.
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by ricw 8y ago
Google does control what equates to an effective monopoly of all smartphone software in the EU. You don't need to sell to have a monopoly that you can abuse.
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by ricw 8y ago
I’m unsure about the cameras in the Tesla’s, but modern cameras (Sony A7M3 being the current leader) have a way better view than the average human. So much so that it can take sharp and accurate pictures in the dark while a normal human eye
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by ricw 9y ago
Same. Ever since I’ve found the “hold slidebar<volume|brightness>”+slide shortcut this has gotten even better. You press <volume>, slide left or right in one go and You’ve adjusted it better than you could have previously. Prior
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by ricw 9y ago
That’s looking at it the wrong way around. It did it to maximise screen space.
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Galaxy S9 Exynos 9810 Hands-On – Awkward First Results(anandtech.com)
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Boeing’s biggest trade fight could spark a U.S. confrontation with Europe(chicagotribune.com)
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San Francisco seeks universal fiber broadband with net neutrality and privacy(arstechnica.com)
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AMD’s 2018 Roadmap: Desktop APUs in February, Second-Generation Ryzen in April(arstechnica.com)
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by ricw 9y ago
One thing to add to this is that the a380 as well as 747-8 burn significantly more fuel per seat than their modern equivalent twin jets (a350 / 787). Last I checked the a380 burnt around 25-30% more fuel than a 787/a350. Putting m
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Qualcomm announces the Snapdragon 845 processor(theverge.com)
57 points by ricw 9y ago|29 comments
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by ricw 9y ago
This is unlikely. Apple's CPU budget for it's devices is likely much higher than anything Qualcomm's customers are willing to pay (vs the current snapdragon pricing). Apple's CPUs are very very large and consequently rel

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