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by srb- 8y ago
Me too, I'm really hoping that electrics get rid of a lot of annoying and completely unnecessary vehicle noise. I know they won't kill the tire/wind sounds, but if they break the mental association of loud == fast == cool for
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by srb- 9y ago
Nothing here yet, but saw a couple invites celebrated on Twitter.
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by srb- 9y ago
For a while he was saying "on there" all the time too. But I think that has been reduced in his recent talks. Public speaking well is hard . Most are not good at it, myself included. That said, I'll take a poor speaker (Musk
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by srb- 9y ago
As a CoffeeScript fan things were looking pretty bleak a year or two ago. In particular there was zero momentum for new features. How things have changed! Major kudos to Geoffrey Booth and all involved. Coffee's beautiful syntax combin
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by srb- 9y ago
My guess is frequent, automated, battery swaps.
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by srb- 10y ago
I'd be glad to be wrong! But according to [1] LG's factory might get to 3 GWh output in a few years. At 60 KWh per Bolt that is 50,000 cars, in a few years. Tesla is planning 150GWh eventually, but starting at least in the 10&#x27
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by srb- 10y ago
As a fan of all electric cars, I really hope the Bolt does well. However, my understanding is that GM/LG only have enough battery manufacturing capacity for 50,000 units a year. So that puts a major cap on how much success it can have,
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by srb- 10y ago
Big fan of the old Podcast and looking forward to the new ones! As for a suggestion: I wouldn't want this to be every episode, but a themed episode on a specific 'hot' industry could be neat, i.e. interviewing founders of thr
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by srb- 10y ago
I agree, the quick-charge is astonishing sometimes. And I love how with Thinkpads you can limit the max battery charge to 80%, to maximize the lifetime of your battery. I've been saved by the on-site service a couple of times, it'
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by srb- 10y ago
I'm running a 2016 Lenovo X1 Carbon with Mint 18 Linux on a Samsung 950 NVME SSD. I've never had such a flawless Linux desktop experience. Almost everything just worked out of the box, it's super-zippy, and the laptop is so l
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by srb- 10y ago
the plank (an exercise to help lose excess fat round the stomach) Cringe. Hard to take the writer seriously after this statement. The rest of the article seemed fine so I googled around to see if there was some stunning new research showi
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by srb- 11y ago
Yep, me too. More productive, and as a bonus I no longer have 'mouse hand' RSI wrist pain. People are missing out.
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by srb- 11y ago
You must not be a programmer. Being able to move the mouse and scroll without your hands leaving the home row is genius.
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by srb- 11y ago
Ah, thanks for putting some numbers out there everyone. Very interesting. That's why I love HN. Musk has said several times that if he wasn't working on space and EVs, he'd be working on hyperloop or electric planes. Wonder w
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by srb- 11y ago
Like most, I originally assumed that because batteries have poor specific energy compared to fossil fuels, there was no point in considering them for aircraft. But Musk's assertion has made me reconsider. Has anyone here done the math?
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by srb- 11y ago
I agree. Another crazy thing is that there is a shortage of Tesla-level batteries in the market right NOW. Yet aside from Tesla/Panasonic, no one else is ramping battery production to be able to produce millions of cars a year! So when
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by srb- 11y ago
Musk has addressed this a few times. If I recall correctly Cobalt production will be more of a constraint than lithium... for example, from the Q1 2014 earnings call: the lithium, although lithium is sometimes thought of as a bigger thing
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by srb- 11y ago
TrackPoint user of 10 years here. I used to get repetitive strain in my right hand/wrist, mostly from reaching for the mouse. I switched both my laptop and desktop to TrackPoint keyboards and have been pain-free ever since. Less-crowde