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by wffurr 5y ago
Less range and more weight. Same reason we have glued in batteries in phones and laptops now.
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by wffurr 5y ago
"As you listen to that gentle creaking, or that low-tone burbling, what you feel at that moment is the deep satisfaction that comes from witnessing Being, in all its irreducible and incomputable eddies and swirls. Your eyes are satiate
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by wffurr 5y ago
My Bolt is a great car, just shorter range and slower charging than I would like.
934.
by wffurr 5y ago
Every time I think I ought to test drive a Tesla in order to do my due diligence for an electric car, I read another thing like this. Or it's autopilot crashing again. Or more reliability issues. I think I will hold out for a more tr
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by wffurr 5y ago
Thanks for the phrase that describes exactly what I was imagining. Looking that up led to an interesting and concerning article on the economic impact of the transition to BEVs: https://cleantechnica.com/2019/02/25
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by wffurr 5y ago
Good thing these batteries will show up in all kinds of vehicle once the tech is proven, then. Smaller urban runabouts, ebikes, scooters, etc.
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by wffurr 5y ago
Having magic names show up in my code without an explicit import somewhere can be really frustrating, especially in unfamiliar code bases where I'm trying to contribute a small change. I think your suggestions do a good job addressing
938.
by wffurr 5y ago
What does news like this do to current year EV sales? We needed to start transitioning the vehicle fleet around the world to EVs and alternate transportation modes years and years ago to make a dent on climate change. But now if EVs are go
939.
by wffurr 5y ago
These same type of batteries will make their way into a whole range of vehicles, from shorter-range runabouts to e-bikes and scooters.
940.
by wffurr 5y ago
Isn't this addressed pretty early on in this essay? "But here too, we have to be careful in defining what that governance meant, because the Roman Empire of August, 378 AD was not the Roman Empire of August, 14 AD." "are
941.
by wffurr 5y ago
Tidal is owned by Square these days.
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by wffurr 5y ago
Meanwhile I'm switching my family's subscription over to Tidal instead of Spotify. Don't need to be contributing to that kind of thing.
943.
by wffurr 5y ago
Depends on whether the candidate claims to know Python on their resume. If they do so, I'd certainly expect some basic ability to read such code.
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by wffurr 5y ago
If you're walking for transportation and hiking, then you're likely getting well above the level of physical activity the CDC is discussing.
945.
by wffurr 5y ago
Freeciv is about 85% C: https://github.com/freeciv/freeciv
946.
by wffurr 5y ago
You gotta heat the bottle; the most efficient method of which is an electric kettle.
947.
by wffurr 5y ago
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30023681
948.
by wffurr 5y ago
I don't even think you have to do that. Your Play account is tied to the email address itself, which you can migrate to another provider with DNS, not the workspace / gsuite stuff.
949.
by wffurr 5y ago
Why would you lose purchases? Can't you continue to log in with the same email@domain just with a different provider for mail / calendar / etc.?
950.
by wffurr 5y ago
I doubt it. This was on ChromeOS and I'm about 97% certain the GPU drivers were enabled.
951.
by wffurr 5y ago
Wow, RK3399 is the performance option. I recall the GPU in that device being extremely slow to the point where it was quite difficult to get the inking performance in Google Keep to be acceptable instead of terrible. That was in 2016.
952.
by wffurr 5y ago
The author mentions that <script type="module"> enforces CORS restrictions which would break with their current server settings and CDN, otherwise I think they agree with you.
953.
by wffurr 5y ago
Best programming class I ever took did exactly that. We built a board game and continuously iterated on it throughout the semester.
954.
by wffurr 5y ago
Published 2011 - date tag? https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/development-and-psyc...
955.
by wffurr 5y ago
This is the author’s manuscript. The published, edited version does not have that particular error: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/development-and-psyc...
956.
by wffurr 5y ago
They really ought to ditch the unsigned boot warning on EOL hardware, so that it can be repurposed with Ubuntu or Cloudready or what-have-you.
957.
by wffurr 5y ago
Oil used to be 40:1.
958.
by wffurr 5y ago
What? All 30% of smartphone users with Android in the US are scammers? I use a Google Voice number as my primary number and have for over ten years.
959.
by wffurr 5y ago
What does "SRI" mean in this context?
960.
by wffurr 5y ago
The child-size masks I have for my three year old are all KF94s from Korea. https://bonafidemasks.com/childrens-face-masks/ lists small-size KN95s from China and an uncertified mask from an N95 manufacturer.

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