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by stetrain 3y ago
Smoking, lottery tickets, and drugs cause negative effects in people's lives. Using gmail has caused me no negative effects. It may not be ideal, but it works and has a reasonable set of tradeoffs. I think it's more like renting v
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by stetrain 3y ago
What value is sane in this case?
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by stetrain 3y ago
Saying that finder should sum file sizes in a way that accounts for this makes sense. I'm not sure adding a separate "Sanity check" would help though. If the sanity check is that the reported file sizes shouldn't exceed
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by stetrain 3y ago
We all benefit from the existence of good public education, even if our own children do not use it. Cutting funding to government programs that are important to society because those programs clearly need help and reform also isn't the
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by stetrain 3y ago
That’s great. But there are a lot of political pushes for things like voucher programs trying to pull money away from public education in favor of private options. If people want to homeschool or private school while still supporting the pu
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by stetrain 3y ago
Of course we do. But I don't think pulling kids out of public schools and then demanding that your tax money be diverted away from public schools because you aren't using them is going to fix them. It does sound like a good plan t
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by stetrain 3y ago
I hate when I lose my house key and just have to leave it and go buy a new house somewhere else.
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by stetrain 3y ago
The article claims to be based on reports and documents from within Tesla and interviews with multiple Tesla employees. Just the Model 3 control arm issue covers over 100,000 repairs.
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by stetrain 3y ago
Up to around $0.70 now at peak times: https://www.reddit.com/r/TeslaModelY/comments/17bls7u/woke_u...
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by stetrain 3y ago
It's a standard published by SAE: https://www.sae.org/news/2023/12/sae-j3400-tir-released Access to Tesla's charging network is a separate issue, but the connector itself is a published standard.
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by stetrain 3y ago
I think the difference is that over time Tesla has streamlined mass production, installation, and reliable operation of their chargers. They are averaging 1.5 charging stations installed per day over the last year in North America. Each of
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by stetrain 3y ago
NACS / J3400 still uses CCS communications, just over Tesla's connector.
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by stetrain 3y ago
Probably. The only point at which the US really tried to standardize was with the NEVI charger funding from the 2021 infrastructure bill. At the time most automakers in the US market supported CCS, so the NEVI rules were written by the NHWA
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by stetrain 3y ago
Tesla did not actually provide real specs to use their plug or interoperate with their vehicles and chargers until Nov 2022. The CEO made statements about anyone being able to use it, but that's not the same as actually offering it up
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by stetrain 3y ago
The real mistake was the standards group that looked at Tesla's connector in the US and CCS Combo 2 in Europe and decided the best connector for North America was CCS Combo 1 with an external latching mechanism to be backwards compatib
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by stetrain 3y ago
There were already two connector standards for NA and EU, CCS Combo 1 vs CCS Combo 2. NACS / J3400 is a different connector but still uses CCS communication protocols. So there isn't a huge market differentiation border in swappin
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by stetrain 3y ago
CCS1 is worse than CCS2 in a couple of ways. The latching mechanism is external which is bulkier and more fragile, and it doesn't support 3-phase AC charging. NACS does everything CCS1 does in a more compact package with an internal ve
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by stetrain 3y ago
Agreed. There's still a difference between saying that planting more trees is good for the climate, and policymakers running with that and planting trees with disregard to all other science and research on ecology and ecosystems. It&#x
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by stetrain 3y ago
I think part of this is that a lot of “scientists say” advice that makes it to the mainstream is mostly a media creation. Somewhere down the trail of sources is a scientific paper measuring the affect of a difference in X in Y specific popu
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by stetrain 3y ago
A client that can interop with multiple services isn't adding a new standard.
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by stetrain 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Driver_monitoring_system
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by stetrain 3y ago
I feel like this has gotten worse with Windows 11. Now even with the headset microphone disabled in the new Windows Settings screens (I use a separate USB mic) some apps (mostly games) still insist on activating the "headset" prof
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by stetrain 3y ago
I think it's pretty hard to say that that cultural shift happened in isolation from the reduction in commercial advertising of tobacco products (due to legal bans in the 70s and 80s) and the associated increase in advertising of their
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by stetrain 3y ago
App stores could offer free trials for paid-up-front apps, or generous refund windows. As far as I know the major ones don't offer this, Apple for sure doesn't. I think the store runners would much rather see developers use subscr
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by stetrain 3y ago
Yeah I sure do hate how my electric car just coasts to a stop and leaves me stranded the moment there is a grid failure. I just had to sit there and watch all those happy people in their combustion cars easily pumping gas at the gas station
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by stetrain 3y ago
Pricing seems to be $10/mo or $100/yr. Personally I find that a bit steep when I'm already paying $100/yr for the Rider IDE (multi year concurrent discounted rate). Commercial pricing is $250/yr+ for just the IDE. I
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by stetrain 3y ago
It's fairly common in the US to have central AC plus a gas furnace. Retrofitting the AC with a heat pump lets you move away from the gas system.
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by stetrain 3y ago
All of the spam calls that are an annoyance to me are clearly spoofed numbers from my home area code. That’s impersonation. I know they are spoofing numbers because my own numbers gets spoofed as well. Real people call me back and leave voi
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by stetrain 3y ago
On iOS at least you can block calls from outside your contact list. Which is what I do. Anyone outside my contact list can leave a voicemail.
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by stetrain 3y ago
Ads are not the same thing as impersonation, lying about who you are and where you are calling from. Cable is not full of ads that say they are from AT&T and you need to contact them about your bill at <number> but the ad isn&#x27

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