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721.
by stetrain 3y ago
There's a web version, and if they do follow through on their Activity Pub integration (which they have already demonstrated in a very limited capacity) then you'll be able to use whatever client you want to follow Threads users.
722.
by stetrain 3y ago
It can run 2D apps, but it isn't limited to 2D. You can build 3D experiences that interact with the space you are in or fully enclosed 3D VR experiences.
723.
by stetrain 3y ago
Wouldn't that hurt margins but also increase market power for these companies? Also how would it work if the product is already "free" to the consumer, ie Facebook or Google?
724.
by stetrain 3y ago
> I specifically said drugs, like the kind you see when you pass any alley near Civic Center or downtown SF with dozens of people just laying there and drug dealers with backpacks walking around. There is a very wide variety of things re
725.
by stetrain 3y ago
You know… like I get people “want” to drink and all. (Not me) But the older I get the more I’m on the side of this stuff isn’t necessary. It is detrimental to society and if someone wants to drink they should honestly reconsider their life
726.
by stetrain 3y ago
Ah good, I'm sure that will age as well as the Cortana button.
727.
by stetrain 3y ago
Depends on how long you can wait to charge. 10kW seems like a capacity that could be carried in the truck bed and then set up on flat ground while camping out. A realistic daily average output would be 30-40kWh in a day, or about 1/4 o
728.
by stetrain 3y ago
Goals and targets don't have to also be claims made to your customers. > Tesla and Space X have accomplished more than any other company in the last 70 years within their respective industries. That's absolutely not in contradi
729.
by stetrain 3y ago
Why does it have to be perfectly equivalent? Do we only need to reduce emissions if doing so is not just feasible or workable but perfectly convenient for everyone in all situations? For reference my road tripping charges on interstate hi
730.
by stetrain 3y ago
If I say I want to go to X destination the car says I will arrive with Y battery percent left. This is accurate to me within about 5% of the battery, even driving at fast highways speeds and in cold weather. If it was "cheating" I
731.
by stetrain 3y ago
Agreed, but I don't get the point in complaining about the thing that's mostly fixed now.
732.
by stetrain 3y ago
Cell phones are pretty much all USB-C at this point. EVs are either SAE J1772 or SAE J3400 which are adapter-compatible.
733.
by stetrain 3y ago
> And yet, they overdeliver compared to everyone else. Which means they could publicly promise to do better than everyone else and still meet those promises. So promising things that are unrealistic (ie Level 5 FSD 5 years ago) is an unf
734.
by stetrain 3y ago
Where will you find refined unexpired gasoline in your MadMax apocalypse? A pack of solar panels you can set out in your bug-out camping zone seems more feasible to me. No dependency on ongoing supply chains. Just look at how quickly gas sh
735.
by stetrain 3y ago
My understanding is that WLPT is more consistent across manufacturers but as you say provides higher range numbers that won't match 70mph+ highway driving. ICE cars are rated in City MPG and Highway MPG, and both are displayed on the w
736.
by stetrain 3y ago
If you extrapolate this to the whole pack you get Nio's swappable battery system. I don't see this scaling out well especially with trying to get multiple manufacturers onboard with standard packs. Every EV can accept 120V or 240V
737.
by stetrain 3y ago
> In fact, nothing changed on the vehicles themselves, except the way range is now calculated. Specifically, the EPA now mandates that all EV manufacturers test acceleration and ride height modes in both best and worst-case scenarios. Th
738.
by stetrain 3y ago
If you mean the 12V battery, same as any other car. If you mean using one Tesla to charge another when its main battery is empty, currently only the Cybertruck supports such power output. https://www.tesla.com/powershare So
739.
by stetrain 3y ago
Optimistic concurrency and a ledger lets you do those checks without locking any rows and you don’t have multiple processes fighting to update a single row. Instead of leaving an AccountBalance row locked for the entirety of the Withdrawal
740.
by stetrain 3y ago
You can use some sort of concurrency index on the ledger. For example you read the ledger entries for Account Id X Those ledger entries are numbered sequentially up to the current index Y You calculate the current balance, approve the withd
741.
by stetrain 3y ago
EVs would still have a carbon tax greater than public transit. People who can't afford a carbon tax on a new vehicle purchase probably aren't buying new vehicles anyway. Most people don't buy new vehicles at all.
742.
by stetrain 3y ago
I think it’s more that the EV battery adds $10k to the cost of the car. So they add lots of cheap bells and whistles (ie touchscreens) to justify that additional price.
743.
by stetrain 3y ago
Add a lifetime carbon tax to car purchases and EVs would make a lot more sense. Even without that they will make sense soon. Expecting new tech to start out at the same place on the mass-production supply chain curve as the internal combust
744.
by stetrain 3y ago
Article does not support the title, and I assume the source title has been changed since it no longer matches the HN title. > Sure, sales of EVs keep going up — a record 300,000 cars sold in the US in the third quarter of 2023 were elect
745.
by stetrain 3y ago
Driving and parking my car in a place that was designed in a world where not every household had 2+ cars to drive and park is annoying! To fix this we should bulldoze things and build more room for my car! I have to be able to park my car!
746.
by stetrain 3y ago
The ratio that's the problem here is cars per person, not directly parking spaces per car. Now reducing parking spaces per car might put pressure to reduce cars per person, or implement alternatives to allow fewer cars per person, whic
747.
by stetrain 3y ago
If everyone needs to have a car to get around that's 3 parking spaces per person. Or 6-12 parking spaces per household. This is nearing the square footage of an apartment to house the same number of people. So for any given unit of hou
748.
by stetrain 3y ago
How do costs compare? What's the site approval process like in China vs the US?
749.
by stetrain 3y ago
Nuclear does not seem to be on the mass production curve that solar and batteries are. Even if you could design a reactor that itself can be mass produced at that scale, you still need to do the same with selecting and getting environmental
750.
by stetrain 3y ago
The article is dated Dec 26, 2023 but the linked announcement from Georgia Power is dated July 31, 2023.

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