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2311.
by rsynnott 1y ago
These are mostly being sold in Europe, so with mandatory break times, the range is likely Good Enough.
2312.
by rsynnott 1y ago
~All trucks, except for electric ones, are diesel, and have been for a long time.
2313.
by rsynnott 1y ago
AIUI AO3 has an “anything not literally illegal goes, as long as it’s fanfic” policy, so does get a certain amount of this sort of thing.
2314.
by rsynnott 1y ago
The internet’s big. I’m aware of it due to a moderate tvtropes addiction (there’s a enough crossover that it’s hard to miss) but probably otherwise wouldn’t be familiar.
2315.
by rsynnott 1y ago
The website appears to date from 2008. This was a _very_ common latent bug at that point, particularly because Rails would basically force you to implement it. I assume this got fixed at some point, but for a long time all ActiveRecord mode
2316.
by rsynnott 1y ago
I mean I’d assume they went for a 64bit integer. In a few million years, people who are into weird porn about whatever the temporally local equivalent of Harry Styles is (probably some sort of robot) will once again be mildly inconvenienced
2317.
by rsynnott 1y ago
AO3 is nearly 20 years old, and I think it was mostly LiveJornal refugees anyway. This is one that you very much can’t pin on gen-z.
2318.
by rsynnott 1y ago
> when their senior leadership often manages their time between the affairs of many companies in their purview? This is extremely rare; generally a CxO is a full-time job. Elon Musk is a notable exception, and, ah, it doesn't seem t
2319.
by rsynnott 1y ago
Yeah, that's what they mean. Here's a euro-denominated S&P500 ETF: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/CSPX.AS/ and a USD denominated one: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/SPY/
2320.
by rsynnott 1y ago
> Here's the BYD Dolphin Surf. Costs US$11,000 in Europe.[2] It costs the equivalent of $11k in China. It costs 19k EUR in Europe (some of this is tariffs, but they're likely also just taking advantage of how limited the sub-20
2321.
by rsynnott 1y ago
You probably shouldn't over-focus on the US, which, at least for now, isn't a huge marketplace for electric cars (10% of new car sales in the US are electric, vs 20% in the EU and almost 50% in China). The reported Tesla decline i
2322.
by rsynnott 1y ago
> An automaker so valuable, it's worth more than Toyota, BYD, GM, VW, BMW, Mercedes, Ford and Honda COMBINED. ... I mean, that's exactly why one might short it, surely? Clearly, this cannot be the case; the valuation makes no s
2323.
by rsynnott 1y ago
The fantasy was that Tesla would somehow become the only electric car maker, or indeed the only car maker. This was obviously stupid, but it was the only way that the valuation would make any sort of sense.
2324.
by rsynnott 1y ago
Not sure if you're just being obtuse, but, er, I mean, yeah, climate science is in a lot of trouble under ol' minihands.
2325.
by rsynnott 1y ago
I wouldn't read all that much into polling two years out, especially given that traditionally they don't do great in the second round. The French presidency also has a somewhat lesser scope to fuck everything up than the US presid
2326.
by rsynnott 1y ago
> made me internalise that we need to be working on something valuable instead of useful. ... Eh?
2327.
by rsynnott 1y ago
If it works, it works. It's a crude example, but pattern analysis to figure out who wrote a thing is an old, old technique; people have been doing it with Shakespeare stuff for centuries, in particular.
2328.
by rsynnott 1y ago
Yeah, that'll go well.
2329.
by rsynnott 1y ago
You are far from the first person to have this very, very bad idea. No, LLMs are not good at refactoring.
2330.
by rsynnott 1y ago
_Actual_ centre parties can work, in multi-party democracies, and are kinda seen as the _default_ in some countries. Both the CDU and SPD in Germany are fairly centre-y, say (normally categorised as centre-right and centre-left respectively
2331.
by rsynnott 1y ago
CEO: "AI will replace all human endeavour by next Thursday" Employee: "Perhaps we'll have something in the mid-2030s." That company really lacks message discipline.
2332.
by rsynnott 1y ago
I mean unless you think there’s something super-magical about Teslas that makes them extra-hard to buy relative to other cars… VW ev sales are well up; they’re in broadly the same price category as Teslas, for now (their 20k car is delayed
2333.
by rsynnott 1y ago
Huh. I had kind of assumed that this was a vestigial company attached to a crazy CEO, but it appears to have been, at least at one time, quite big.
2334.
by rsynnott 1y ago
I realise it is most improper to read the article on this here orange website, but: > Overall, battery electric vehicle sales rose 25% in Europe compared to a year earlier Come on, now.
2335.
by rsynnott 1y ago
"The stock market overvalues it, so it must be fine" is a hell of a take.
2336.
by rsynnott 1y ago
It didn't, in any meaningful way. Certainly the legal entity didn't; I suppose a trademark and some IP did.
2337.
by rsynnott 1y ago
Cars in particular tend to get bound up in peoples' self-image (to a rather unhealthy degree IMO, but anyway...) Few people would want the association.
2338.
by rsynnott 1y ago
There is effectively none, besides Tesla. With the exception of Ford the US brands' Europe strategy essentially died in the financial crisis, and even Ford (which historically was a big player in Europe and designed cars specifically f
2339.
by rsynnott 1y ago
Virtually everywhere in Europe, broadly defined, was either directly involved in WW2 or was severely impacted by it while not technically being a combatant.
2340.
by rsynnott 1y ago
I mean frankly the vast majority of drug addicts don't come across as _remotely_ this deranged.

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