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by stetrain 1y ago
Let cities be cities, let rural be rural. If you want to live spread out, fine. There’s plenty of space for that. If you want to go into the city for the amenities it provides, take a reasonable form of transportation that doesn’t require m
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by stetrain 1y ago
Yes. But scaling up current battery tech is what the industry is doing, and that will bring down prices. Improved charging infrastructure also offsets range concerns.
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by stetrain 1y ago
Sure, but the battery types you list (lower capacity with very fast charging vs higher capacity with slower charging) don’t match what is actually in the market. The best way to get a vehicle that charges quickly in miles-per-hour is to get
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by stetrain 1y ago
I don’t think it’s the battery specs holding back most buyers. For one thing transitions take time even when new tech could cover most of the market’s needs. But the main thing currently is purchase cost and charging infrastructure availabi
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by stetrain 1y ago
The power of desire paths.
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by stetrain 1y ago
Yes, but potentially easier than adding 250kW per charger for a bank of DC fast chargers. The grid connection for one fast charger could serve 50+ L2 chargers, potentially even 100 with load-sharing chargers. There are good use cases for bo
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by stetrain 1y ago
I'm suggesting not limiting foot and bike traffic just because we choose to limit car traffic. There are lots of routes between places in my town that would be much more direct, and safe, on a bike if there were small connecting paths
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by stetrain 1y ago
I'd love to see cities put efforts into connecting those isolated cultures-de-sac neighborhoods with pedestrian and bike paths. I can understand the desire to reduce through-traffic which sometimes comes with speeding or aggressive dri
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by stetrain 1y ago
Battery tech is ready for general use. Over 20% of cars being sold in California are EVs now, and over 90% in Norway. Slow chargers are pretty low-tech devices, just a 208V-277V circuit with a device that handles switching, ground fault che
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by stetrain 1y ago
Also the early Nissan Leafs, pioneers in the mass-market EV space, had batteries with only air cooling and which experienced significant degradation. More modern EVs with full liquid thermal management and newer cell revisions and chemistri
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by stetrain 1y ago
Some things will still add up. Someone who might be shopping in the price range for a used car with 100,000 miles might also see a car with 200,000 miles that needs brakes (probably for the first time in an EV's life), shocks, bushings
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by stetrain 1y ago
Home charging in shared parking scenarios is difficult. Municipalities can add curbside chargers and in some places this is fairly common. In a private condo or apartment scenario you'd need the owner or association to agree to install
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by stetrain 1y ago
I think there is also a PR factor beyond the market economics of the $3 discount. Announcing the free transit alongside the pollution spike will get more people to read about it and consider whether they should make the choice to help with
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by stetrain 1y ago
Early XP had a pretty rough time with security especially before the service packs. Many of my Windows memories from those days were of running Spybot Search and Destroy for friends and family. Vista was much better in that regard but had i
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by stetrain 1y ago
If calculators had a camera on the back that let you take a photo of a word problem on your homework or exam and then provided a complete answer including steps and "work shown" I expect that would have a detrimental effect on stu
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by stetrain 1y ago
https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/data/en/chatgpt-extensio...
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by stetrain 1y ago
It's one of the few Apple Intelligence features announced last year that actually shipped in iOS 18. https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/use-chatgpt-with-appl...
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by stetrain 1y ago
There are still a lot of people without access to broadband, or with only one provider which may be expensive. https://www.benton.org/blog/more-third-americans-have-access... Starlink is definitely increasing availabil
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by stetrain 1y ago
Not everyone who owns a vacant or condemned lot is a developer or has the capital to develop it. Those people are potentially treating it like an investment. If the cost to hold onto it for longer is very low, why not sit and wait until the
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by stetrain 1y ago
If the taxes on a vacant or condemned lot increase, but stay the same on a livable residential structure, how does that increase the cost of living?
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by stetrain 1y ago
> Maybe Helsinki isn’t special: just fewer cars That is special for a modern western city, and is likely the result of intentional policy and urban planning. Many cities base most of their development around fitting in more cars, not red
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by stetrain 1y ago
SpaceX is pretty efficient at space launches, and has gotten there using a lot of NASA guidance and funding. NASA does a lot more than space launches, and they do use private sector (including SpaceX) for most of their launches.
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by stetrain 1y ago
In this thread the person does literally assign blame, accuses the AI of lying, and makes it write an apology letter to the team as though it's a child that needs to be chastised.
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by stetrain 1y ago
That is an incentive for some shippers for sure, and it gets pushed down onto the (often overworked) delivery drivers. They have metrics on how many things they should deliver or attempt delivery each day and are sometimes judged harshly on
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by stetrain 1y ago
They were moved back to the run position 10 seconds after being switched off, and the engines were in the very early stages of restarting by the time of the crash. It was too late.
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by stetrain 1y ago
A flip of two switches, in sequence, with a locking mechanism on each switch.
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by stetrain 1y ago
It did glide briefly, the glide path took it directly into a school building. Right after takeoff at low altitude is basically the worst place for this to happen. Speed and altitude are low so gliding is going to be a short distance and hap
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by stetrain 1y ago
There’s no good reason to do that. There may be a good reason to cut fuel to one engine shortly after takeoff. You could have a system that prevents both switches being thrown, and only in the specific window after takeoff, but you’ve also
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by stetrain 1y ago
The plane crashed shortly after takeoff in a populated area. Dropping 100 tons of fuel or tanks on buildings is not good. Large jets can usually dump fuel but this is something that takes time. It's sometimes used in less urgent situat
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by stetrain 1y ago
> In practice, this is always what so-called anti-vaxxers believe. None of them actually oppose the concept of vaccines out of some kind of ideological principle. It's always specific concerns about actual, specific vaccines that ex

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