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- Comment on Our Chevy Blazer EV Has 23 Problems After Only 2 Months 1 year ago:
Wyoming contains some of the longest stretches of US road without available services. IE: If you get stuck because your car broke down, you’re gonna have a bad time.
- Comment on Our Chevy Blazer EV Has 23 Problems After Only 2 Months 1 year ago:
Here’s to betting you wouldn’t hold this opinion stuck on the side of the highway in the middle of Wyoming or something similar.
- Comment on Our Chevy Blazer EV Has 23 Problems After Only 2 Months 1 year ago:
It should be noted that this car does not yet qualify for Lemon status and qualifying for lemon status is actually harder than the average person would casually think in most US states. So it’s actually entirely fair that they wrote the article, as they do with every car in their long term test fleet. Manufacturers use all sorts of tactics to hide real world reliability data, if you’re looking to them to source it you’re buying your rat poison from the rat company.
- Comment on Is it normal that I feel pretty bad for ignoring homeless people begging for money? 1 year ago:
They’ve not necessarily lost faculties of their mind, nor do I disparage those suffering from homelessness. They’re humans, people just like you and me, but they often suffer from addiction and mental illnesses that would make financing them directly a negative impact in their lives. So how about you think about problems and how to actually solve them instead of getting rage baited like an upset Karen? (upwards of 40% abuse alcohol statistically Source: www.addictionhelp.com/addiction/homelessness/ and 20-30% suffer from mental illness Source: psychologytoday.com/…/the-complex-link-between-ho…)
- Comment on Is it normal that I feel pretty bad for ignoring homeless people begging for money? 1 year ago:
It’s a normal human trait, which is why it’s so easily taken advantage of. If you wish to do something for your local population of people suffering homelessness there are plenty of charities to donate time or money to that will ensure it is spent more wisely than most any singular person suffering from homelessness would likely spend it themselves.
- Comment on Stealthy Linux rootkit found in the wild after going undetected for 2 years 1 year ago:
Keyword “Random”. The code for the packages that shipped for your os and for your user installed utilities are generally ‘trusted’ code since you sought out the install. It’s not bulletproof, but it’s a good start vs running any package that happens to land in your downloads folder.
- Comment on Tesla Cybertruck's stiff structure, sharp design raise safety concerns - experts 1 year ago:
A bit of a straw man argument, but also based. They should go after all production vehicles and require that they meet pedestrian safety standards or that ownership requires additional licensing/training.
- Comment on PlayStation keeps reminding us why digital ownership sucks 1 year ago:
Unfortunately this particular clause has been tested pretty throughly and court and current courts have decided that your average Joe has alternative options and can/has consented to the licensing clause of the Eula. The only thing that might change (and should change by the way) is Sony/others being able to use the term “purchase/buy” without specifying in clear detail that you’re purchasing a temporary license to the product and not a copy of the product. This is laid out in the Eula, but should also be either directly labeled near the purchase button or prompted and accepted during checkout. Wouldn’t change things but at least people can’t then bitch when the leopard eats their face.
- Comment on Study finds that Chat GPT will cheat when given the opportunity and lie to cover it up later. 1 year ago:
It’s a neural net designed in our image based using our pain and greed based logic/learning/universal context as a knowledge base. Can’t really be surprised it emulates this feature of humanity 😂
- Comment on Japan automakers play catch-up in EV race 1 year ago:
I disagree with you there. Most of the common affordable BEVs are perfectly capable of providing required transport as a drop in replacement for most people I’ve met. Charging infrastructure is also extremely cheap and easy to implement. Implenting mass scale ‘e-fuel’ is a pipe dream requiring significantly more infrastructure and funding than available and reasonable. A good place to look is at F-1 or Porsche who are both building renewable hydrocarbon fuel networks. Both demonstrate that the economics and environmental costs just do not work out unless there’s an engineering reason to do it (like producing high density light fuel). Meanwhile if we migrate a camery driver from their 4 banger to a mid-range BEV they’ll be hard pressed to notice except in the 0.1% of long range travel which could be handled by flight, rental, or mass ground transport depending on travel needs. Additionally their fuel costs will drop significantly as they charge at home with low cost outlet electricity (which can then be a centralized focus for a governmental body to regulate and transition to environmentally friendly renewables like wind/solar), eliminating the need for expensive and energy intensive fuel delivery supply chains, stations, and frameworks. BEVs are just better than ICE in most regards when you look at the overall picture and don’t discount the unseen costs.
- Comment on Japan automakers play catch-up in EV race 1 year ago:
Absolutely agree with you when it comes to all of that, but I’m just saying after spending a pretty significant amount of time reading up on current ‘renewable’ hydrocarbon production it’s not what it’s cracked up to be. We should almost assuredly be investing in transport networks that are vastly more efficient and environmentally friendly than our current networks (light rail, bus networks, electric bikes, etc, etc), but it’s a far easier argument to talk someone into an BEV vehicle vs a ICE one than it is to get them to take the bus or petition their local council for better community transit, and like it or not new vehicles will continue to be made. Not sure what that says for us as a species, headed high speed towards self and environmental destruction, but at least BEVs seem to help lift the metaphorical foot off the accelerator. I hope we eventually get to a point where current transport networks look as outdated as horse and carriage to our descendants.
- Comment on Japan automakers play catch-up in EV race 1 year ago:
I’m not obsessed with efficency, but it is a useful metric to consider when thinking about the overall picture. Additionally I’ve not made your point. Solar still requires implementation, land use, and is finite in access to humanity despite the source being infinite. Producing hydrogen fuel with this consideration would automatically increase the required solar capacity by 20-40% based on current hydrogen production processes. In addition there are byproducts and downsides from creating traditional hydrocarbon based fuels in a renewable manner.
- Comment on Japan automakers play catch-up in EV race 1 year ago:
Fuck off.
The 12 years you’re referring to is a assuming batteries without thermal management via nrel modeling, the ioniq 6 must face HEAFTY import taxes in your country (which is not the fault of the vehicle), and there are alternatives to running on gasoline like recycling the old cell (already a reality) and replacing it with another.
- Comment on Japan automakers play catch-up in EV race 1 year ago:
You’re confusing the efficency of solar panels with the efficiency of burning hydrocarbon based fuel (perhaps intentionally?). Yes, solar panels convert about 20-30% (they’re getting better with time) of the energy provided by mankind’s closest and most beloved fission reactor into energy we can use, the rest being reflected or turned into heat, but the source (that giant ball of fission) is infinite and non-detremental to the environment to keep running. Hydrocarbon production not only requires this original source but once calculated would provided you end delivery efficency levels that are dramatically lower (likely less than 1%), Natural hydrocarbons are limited in supply, and the whole chain is significantly more toxic for the planet when you calculate in byproducts produced during production or consumption. It’s legitimately not even close and if you truly believe hydrocarbons are even remotely viable you’ve misinterpreted one of the data points somewhere in your calculation.
- Comment on Japan automakers play catch-up in EV race 1 year ago:
In a completely technical sense the hydrocarbon fuel was at one time produced from light energy (dead plants) but that’s taking your point and being pedantic since the “efficiency” of the conversation is probably astronomically low when you account for the loses sustained by whatever lifeform died and became said hydrocarbons.
- Comment on Japan automakers play catch-up in EV race 1 year ago:
This is just the state of the auto industry at the moment. There’s just as many teslas and evs waiting on parts as there re traditional ICE models. The days of having everything in stock at the dealer for a quick swap are dead and gone.
- Comment on Japan automakers play catch-up in EV race 1 year ago:
Are you working out all the prices in Australian fun bucks?.. Because an ioniq 6 is not $82,000 usd for any of the trim levels and after running comparable TCOs vs fuel it will start paying for itself after the 15 year mark (well within the expected useful lifespan of a modern temperature controlled lithium pack (old EVs had significant degrading from temperature fluctuations, but level off at about 10-20% wear now for an expected lifespan of 25-40 years >80% SOC)). Biggest downside is tax, payments, and higher than usual insurance which I’m not including in the TOC Calc because it’s so varied based on location that it’s hard to estimate.
- Comment on Internet Vs Ocean: the essential wires we never think about 1 year ago:
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- Comment on Really shows where their priorities are, doesn't it? 1 year ago:
Isn’t the logic that it’s an easy thing to use as a sign of conformance? A check to see if you’re willing to compromise your personal choices for the groups mandate?
- Comment on Finding a Tech Job Is Still a Nightmare | WIRED 1 year ago:
This is probably more of a localized situational matter than most of us realize. The US (and the world for that matter) is a big place of extreme diversity.
- Comment on Nearly 500 Brands Exited Smartphone Market During 2017-2023 1 year ago:
…? My iPhone speaker blows my old m8 speaker out of the water by a long shot. This might just be nostalgia or your current pocket pal might just have a trash speaker.
- Comment on Amazon to introduce ads on Prime Video in 2024 1 year ago:
To be fair, Prime Video has always just been a free perk attached to prime (and with all the other ‘perks’ combined you could basically consider it free). For example I get an extra 3% back on all my Amazon orders by being a prime member. At the current cost of prime and just with the home supplies I order w/ subscribe and save, it pays for itself. That’s not to say I’m happy with this, but in actuality they’re fairly well positioned with the product to make this move and have most of the user base be merely disgruntled.
- Comment on Is there something like launchers for windows? 1 year ago:
Rain meter. www.rainmeter.net