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Nollij

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  • Cars are like horses: people will soon realise EVs are just better, claims VW boss

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  • Road trips are certainly a weak point for EVs. If you go on more than 3 or 4 per year, EVs are not (and probably won't be for a while) a good option.

    But I do at least see it getting better in the next future. All of the pieces are there, just not in one place. When taking a long trip, you're already supposed to stop every 2 hours to stand up and walk around for a bit. You or your passengers probably also need to use the restroom. Every 2-3 of these, you need to stop for food.

    Currently, it's a PITA to link these with fast charging. You should be able to pull into a truck stop (etc), easily and conveniently, and plug in while you do the rest. Except the fast chargers aren't usually at truck stops, and apps like ABRP don't have an option to set stops by time.

    If this all lined up, and you have a car with reasonably fast charging (like the Ioniq 5), I don't think you'd have to wait on charging very much at all.

  • Cars are like horses: people will soon realise EVs are just better, claims VW boss

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  • To own an EV, you basically have to be able to AC charge at home or at work. The good news is that all of the new 5-over-1 apartment buildings (at left around here) are being built with a handful of chargers right from the beginning. As they become more popular, it's pretty easy to add more.

    But you can also get creative. My local chain grocery store has level 2 chargers in the parking lot. These don't make much sense to use while shopping, but they're convenient enough for all of the older apartments nearby. Most universities have AC chargers, but it's probably not convenient and you'd have to move your car the next day.

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  • What state(s) would that be? I just checked PlugShare, and it shows plenty of fast charging stations even through rural states like Kansas and Montana.

    I guess Alaska would count, but even that's pretty well covered from Anchorage to Fairbanks

  • Cars are like horses: people will soon realise EVs are just better, claims VW boss

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  • If you're looking at fast charging (1 hour or less) on a regular basis, you're doing it wrong. The vast majority of charging should happen while the car is already parked, using level 2 AC charging. This means when you park at home, with, etc, you take just a few seconds to connect a charger, then walk away. When you come back ~8 hours later, you take a few seconds to unplug before leaving. This approach, believe it or not, means I spend less time dealing with fuel than if I had a gas car.

    Plus, AC charging is much cheaper, and more reliable. These chargers are very simple devices, that just do a bit of monitoring and negotiation. They deliver raw 240v to the car, which has its own AC-DC converter.

    DC fast charging is much more expensive - $14 for a full DC charge is very unlikely. That's because DCFC stations are very big, complex installations. As such, they also have parts fail on a regular basis. DCFC is often more expensive than gas, but again should only be used on rare occasions.

    As for batteries failing, it's about as often as a gas engine fails. IOW, it's extremely rare until the car is EOL anyway. Battery degradation is typically 85-90% health remaining at 100k miles.

  • Cars are like horses: people will soon realise EVs are just better, claims VW boss

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  • Reduced maintenance, yes. But I haven't (yet) found an independent mechanic that can work on my Bolt, so the little maintenance I need has to be done at the dealer.

    I still took that deal, but it has room for improvement.

  • Cancer jab can eradicate entire tumours in patients, trial shows

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  • I remember reading somewhere that (especially) Russian disinformation campaigns learned British English. They, pretending to be American anti-vaxxers, spread it to the dialect of the dumbest Americans.

    'Jab' is basically a case study in skipped localization.

  • 'I Don't F*ck With Trump': Artists Listed for US 250th Anniversary Celebration Drop Out

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  • Wow, you aren't kidding:

    which included the likes of Milli Vanilli, Vanilla Ice, and Poison vocalist Bret Michaels

    These all completely disappeared by the early 90s

  • Is it true that you can't drink alcohol in a commercial? Like Shane Gillis pointed out to Post Malone in their commercial?

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  • Countless movies/TV shows show people drinking/getting drunk. Typically, it's water with food coloring (or similar). When someone is shown eating, the scene cuts and they spit it out.

  • is it true that linux cannot run on a laptop without any SSD ?

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  • This depends a lot more on what you plan on doing once the OS boots. I accidentally loaded Win11 on an HDD (disk 0 was HDD, not SSD) for a few hours. It was noticeably slow, but it ran my diagnostics utilities well enough.

    If you're using it for light web browsing, basic office software, etc, then it might be fine.

    But something else caught my attention - you inquired about "restoring" it at shops, meaning you intend to pay money. SSD and RAM are obviously what anyone would upgrade, and you're balking at it. More to the point, you expect to run Linux, but didn't even install it as-is to test it out?

    There's some missing context here. Also, 2gb laptops haven't been a thing in a very long time. You might very well get a better deal by just buying a used newer model that already has what you're looking for.

  • Can't believe I have to RP with the computer whenever I want something smdh

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    With Trump's approval ratings so low, how does he keep ousting GOP rivals?

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  • Yes, non-Republicans will vote in Republican primaries if the strategy is there.

    My state is (now) firmly red. Whoever wins the Republican primary will almost certainly win the general. As such, voting for the least shitty Republican in the primary is far more useful than voting Democrat in the general. On top of that, at least my Democrat primaries have been very milquetoast. It doesn't make much difference who wins that.

    That all makes it a very simple decision to vote in the R primary.

  • Comprehensive Response to Bambu's AGPLv3 Violations

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  • Part of the challenge here is that Bambu is a Chinese company. Which means you would have to sue them in China, with predictable results.

    You could try to sue them in e.g. the US, then use that victory to secure things like import bans, but that's a very long, slow, and expensive process.

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    South Korea court orders Samsung union strike to not impact chip volume

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  • It also becomes a giant red flag to any potential applicants.

    "Why is this position open?"

    "We had the previous employee imprisoned for complaining too hard about how little we were paying him"

    Not that it can't happen, and similar things continue to happen, but most (and certainly the best) candidates will avoid that place for many years, and demand extremely high pay from the beginning.

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    Elon Musk Explains Why the SpaceX Board Must Be Powerless to Fire Him

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  • The CEO reports to the board, which reports to the shareholders. This is how it always is. His goal is basically pointless - even if the board did create a policy, or a charter or whatever, it could be revoked just as easily.

    If you want to be calling the shots in a way that you can't be fired, you have to become the majority shareholder. Like he did with Twitter. But then your customers can still leave. I'm sure that's why he's trying for those hefty govt contracts that can't be terminated so easily.

  • Do it for them [@themokumentary]

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  • You have to save up to afford that pack of hamburgers to grill on Memorial Day, or the turkey for Thanksgiving. If you scrimp and save all year, you might even be and to afford to put a present or two under the Christmas Tree.

  • A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking

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  • That's one of the things that actually makes sense for a (locally rendered) site to have. Not the screen itself per se, but the usable canvas. This allows things like a static navigation bar on the left, and the remainder of the screen for text.

    I see no reason for a site to have my battery status, ever. Gyroscope has limited need, and should ask permission.

  • Unappreciated in my own lifetime

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  • Interviews are also (if not primarily) a measure of cultural fit. Making tasteful jokes is absolutely appropriate, but depends on the culture. I wouldn't want to work at a place that is too uptight for some humor.

    The UDP joke isn't one that I'd probably use, but doesn't feel out of place in the context of detailing the protocol.

  • Those that sleep in bed with a significant other, how do you deal with snoring?

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  • I want to know how your sleeping conditions are connected to your state's DMV.

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    Democrats Over-Perform by Double Digits in Michigan Win

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  • It being a coin toss is the result of their fumbling. Long before his decline was obvious, and across many races, Democrats were underperforming.

    It's definitely due to their planning/messaging. Obama won with huge margins on both presidential campaigns, running on a message people believed in. No one since has come close, either in messaging or results.

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