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- Comment on Tesla Robotaxi Drops Off Passengers in Middle of Intersection… Handpicked Riders Say the “Performance Was Great” 5 hours ago:
They’re starting with existing vehicles and safety drivers. I don’t believe the robotics are coming off the lines yet
- Comment on Good boy 10 hours ago:
Wait til you read that second-last sentence about taking it off at seminary
- Comment on Tesla In 'Self-Drive Mode' Hit By Train After Turning Onto Train Tracks 10 hours ago:
At my local commuter rail station the entrance to the parking lot is immediately next to the track. It’s easily within margin of error for GPS and if you’re only focusing immediately in front of you the pavement at the entrance probably look similar.
There are plenty of cues so don’t rolled shouldn’t be fooled but perhaps FSD wouldn’t pay attention to them since it’s a bit of an outlier.
That being said, I almost got my Subaru stuck once because an ATV trail looked like the dirt road to a campsite from the GPS, and I missed any cues there may have been
- Comment on Tesla In 'Self-Drive Mode' Hit By Train After Turning Onto Train Tracks 11 hours ago:
They supposedly also have a threshold, like ten seconds - if FSD cuts out less than that threshold before the accident, it’s still FSD’s fault
- Comment on Tesla In 'Self-Drive Mode' Hit By Train After Turning Onto Train Tracks 11 hours ago:
They promote it in ways that people sometimes trust it too much …. But in particular when releasing telemetry I do t remember tha ever being an accusation
- Comment on Tesla In 'Self-Drive Mode' Hit By Train After Turning Onto Train Tracks 11 hours ago:
I mean …… Tesla self driving allegedly did this three times in three years but we don’t yet have public data to verify that’s what happened nor do we in any way compare it to what human drivers do.
Although one of the many ways I think I’m an above average driver (just like everyone else) is that people do a lot of stupid things at railroad crossings and I never would
- Comment on Are dating apps really as bad as people say? 12 hours ago:
Also investigate what the apps do with your data…. Make sure they take good care of it.
That’s certainly the biggest reason I never succeeded with online dating. I’ve never been able to get past creating a profile, with all the personal data you’d have to give, and no way to trust any of them with it.
Maybe I’m biased, I knew someone a couple decades ago planning to build an online dating app and he spent most of his time figuring out how to monetize the data
- Comment on Are dating apps really as bad as people say? 12 hours ago:
That’s the problem for those of us less outgoing, those of us whose hobbies are solitary
- Comment on Your TV Is Spying On You 1 day ago:
Jokes on them: I watch videos on my tablet. There’s no way that’s spying on me, right? Right?
- Comment on To thy own self be true 2 days ago:
Sort of like hot dogs. I’ll eat them, but try not to know, how they’re made
- Comment on To thy own self be true 2 days ago:
Imitation crab tastes great, and isn’t really all that similar to crab. It’s a fish reduction good enough to stand up for tself, does not need to hide
- Comment on Why is the progress pride flag so poorly designed (especially the intersex progress pride flag)? Will it be redesigned? 2 days ago:
The solution is inheritance. If you want a more specific flag, inherit from the rainbow, but add an insignia. Now you have a unifying flag that is more meaningful. Also you can skip the complexity of trying to make everyone stand out because the rainbow is all inclusive.
For example, I also like the pink triangle pirate flag. If you want a gay flag, take the rainbow and add that pirate insignia. Think like the US flag which is also a bunch of stripes but with some star insignia. Now you have one clear insignia on a field of inclusiveness
- Comment on Why is the progress pride flag so poorly designed (especially the intersex progress pride flag)? Will it be redesigned? 2 days ago:
But if you include alphas , you need to be inclusive of betas and sigmas, and other Greek letters still undefined
- Comment on Millions of Americans Who Have Waited Decades for Fast Internet Connections Will Keep Waiting After the Trump Administration Threw a $42 Billion High-Speed Internet Program Into Disarray. 3 days ago:
Even in more urban areas …. My ex asked for help getting internet service in her new condo, and I found out the entire town has fiber, except her condo development. They have an exclusive contract with ComCast and she can’t do anything about it
- Comment on Millions of Americans Who Have Waited Decades for Fast Internet Connections Will Keep Waiting After the Trump Administration Threw a $42 Billion High-Speed Internet Program Into Disarray. 3 days ago:
That article has a pretty extreme example: guy on 21 acres atop a steep ridge who doesn’t have phone service or running water or probably any infrastructure. There’s going to be people you can’t reach with fiber and this may be one of them. We can argue about that when the other 99% has fast internet service
- Comment on The "standard" car charger is usually overkill—but your electrician might not know that [32:26] 5 days ago:
As a European those power draws listed sound absolutely absurd to me
Let me clarify - those are standard sized circuits, not actual draw. However the service has to be sized to handle it, and over-provisioning to account for it.a customer might install a stove that draws the full load and might use all the burners at once, and you have to account for typical usage patterns.
For sure it’s a well earned stereotype that Americans use more electricity than many other places. We tend to have bigger houses, more and bigger appliances. We not only don’t have that base charge per size of service but too some extent are charged less to use more: essentially we subsidize people electric resistive heat, who can pay a lower usage rate. We also don’t usually have time of use metering, although some do: my rate is the same whether I charge my car at night or at peak time. And of course our current leadership is intent on rolling back the efficiency standards we have.
Taking your heat pump dryer example, those are finally available here but tend to cost a lot more than a traditional dryer: savings on efficiency will never make back the extra purchase cost More importantly they’ve only been available in small sizes, not typical for houses, especially with families
- Comment on The "standard" car charger is usually overkill—but your electrician might not know that [32:26] 5 days ago:
That may be the entire difference, we don’t have that base cost. Our monthly bill is mainly the actual useage, itemized into generating cost, transfer cost, fees and taxes. There is usually an administrative fee but that’s fixed cost.
- Comment on The "standard" car charger is usually overkill—but your electrician might not know that [32:26] 6 days ago:
- Sometimes breakers don’t trip, so there’s a small risk of fire
- Restarting the whole house may have large initial loads as everything starts at once: more chance of it happening again or potentially damaging some appliances
- Risk of heat damage to wiring with repeated trips, risk of broken connections from more frequent expansion from heat/cool cycles
- Inconvenience, especially in the old days when you’d have to go through to set clocks. If while asleep you might not be awoken in time. If you weren’t home, maybe food gone bad
- Occasional home health appliances are critical to keep going
Realistically it comes down to how conservative you are with over-provisioning. In the US we have the expectation of rarely to never tripping the main and when that happens it’s more likely an electrician call
- Comment on The "standard" car charger is usually overkill—but your electrician might not know that [32:26] 6 days ago:
There’s a standard
- Comment on The "standard" car charger is usually overkill—but your electrician might not know that [32:26] 6 days ago:
In my experience people get by with a 3x25A (17 kW available, matches approximately a 70A service in the US)
Wow, how do you do that?
Of course over-provisioning is a thing but that’s crazy. Maybe you have much smaller appliances or assume much lower usage, but 70a basically assumes 2 major appliances at a time, using close to max load, and with nothing else turned on.
Typical 240v major appliances
- level 2 EV charger: 50a
- stove: 50a
- central ac: 40a
- dryer: 40a
- heat pump: 50a+
- water heater: 50a
Of course you won’t use them all at once and they won’t usually be drawing their full rated load but I would not want to deal with being limited to one at a time so I can also turn on the lights or use the microwave
- Comment on The "standard" car charger is usually overkill—but your electrician might not know that [32:26] 1 week ago:
I believe dryer outlets are typically 30a@240v. That’s a nice step up than a standard outlet and simple math shows 4x the power of 15a@120v
If you have one in your garage, then you already have an outlet that can do faster charging than a standard outlet.
- Comment on The "standard" car charger is usually overkill—but your electrician might not know that [32:26] 1 week ago:
For me the smart charger was a key feature, and I never understood why that is never talked about. I have 200a service which was plenty for one fully powered charging service, but with the likelihood of electrification in upcoming years I was hesitant to have two. It was pretty clear I needed to prioritize smart charging so I’d have that possibility.
So far my family only has the one EV, so we only need the one charger. But I like that if we needed a second charger it could be on the same circuit and they could dynamically share the power to maximize charging
- Comment on The "standard" car charger is usually overkill—but your electrician might not know that [32:26] 1 week ago:
The way I explained it to my brother:
- technically just plug in to an existing outlet will work. Even if you didn’t keep up every day, you would get tot the weekend and make it up then
- but your garage already has a dryer outlet. Adapters are cheap and it will charge 4-5 times as fast
- but 50a level 2 charger is the same size as a stove outlet. Maybe a little longer wire run, and the “outlet” is more expensive, but it’s well worth the cost for the freedom, the flexibility, the convenience … and may even add to your house value
- Comment on The "standard" car charger is usually overkill—but your electrician might not know that [32:26] 1 week ago:
Agreed, and that headline is needlessly inflammatory . Looking at my mileage , I could almost certainly get away with just plugging into a standard outlet. However the level 2 charger means that even if I screw it up, I can be mostly charged in a couple of hours. It’s been really effective at helping me get over what range anxiety I had. It’s really helped keep car usage as a somewhat impulse thing, rather than a process: I’m ready to go anywhere anytime
- Comment on I Convinced HP's Board to Buy Palm for $1.2B. Then I Watched Them Kill It in 49 Days 1 week ago:
Up until that point hp had a stellar engineering reputation. They could have milked that for many more years, but it takes real talent to destroy that so quickly and completely
- Comment on I Convinced HP's Board to Buy Palm for $1.2B. Then I Watched Them Kill It in 49 Days 1 week ago:
Counterintuitively, ms phones good reviews were also a good reason for ms to kill it. By the time ms got moving with phones, they were way behind and the market was already consolidating. They had a lot of inertia to overcome. They dumped tons of money into phones, exercised the famous ms marketing arm twisted, pulled out all of their usual tricks … and no one bought them. They ended up with phones that people liked, that got excellent reviews … and no one bought them. Even worse, phones were being sold on the strength of their app stores, and despite sinking tons more money persuading developers to port apps to windows phones, they could never get the critical mass of a sustaining ecosystem. It was pretty clear that even ms would not be able to overcome the consolidation of the market into only two
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
While I don’t know your situation, this is fairly common in new drivers. For most of us, experience gets us past the issue. Experience to make driving habits automatic rather than something we need to be anxious about. I watched both of my teens get much better at this over time, but I’m still very anxious about them.
- Comment on Amazon Doubles Prime Video Ads Per Hour 1 week ago:
The first episode was definitely questionable but once the season got the family out of the way, the fan service out of the way, and discussed on Wednesday, it was much better.
- Comment on How Do I Prepare My Phone for a Protest? 1 week ago:
Yes, very cringey slang for going without protection. Originally from pregnancy or STDs, but now also from boredom. In my case, without the protection of a mask or leaving my wallet and phone at home. I even drove and parked in a local public garage, so would be traceable in several different ways
- Comment on Amazon Doubles Prime Video Ads Per Hour 1 week ago:
The worst are reality show “result” episodes. Seriously, you’re doing a two hour special with extra ads, all about recaps, when the only goal is to announce who won last week?