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People often say that their electric car is “just a better car”, or “a car from the future”. To explain what this means, here are some upsides and downsides I’ve observed during the last 15 months of owning a first gen Hyundai Ioniq:

+ Less noise. That’s one of the most important benefits to me. Long road trips become enjoyable, and are no longer scary.

+ Acceleration is smoother. My wife remarked it feels like a hovercraft or something.

+ Adjustable power - if I need to overtake, I enable sport mode and enjoy the acceleration. Other than that, I use economy mode which throttles the available power.

+ Less (or no) subtle vibrations from the engine that carry into the cabin.

+ Charge at home 80-90% of the time. No gasoline spills, no upselling in the gas station store.

+ Cheaper to operate. I save 60-65% in fuel compared to the old car. Teslas who accelerate strongly a lot, and non-ideally built cars (like a pickup) will not save as much in countries with expensive electricity, but might still save 30-50%.

+ Cheaper maintenance (-50%), and less appointments to take.

+ The heat pump heats up way faster in winter, like 2-3x faster than a normal ICE.

+ It looks like a small-ish car from the outside, but the trunk has proven big enough to go on vacation with 2 kids.

+ Destination charging at the grandparents’ is great.

- The 28kWh battery will last me 175km in winter, and 200km in summer. A small battery is great for the environment, but I’d be happy about more capacity. The sweet spot for me would be 60kWh in this car (it was/is the most efficient EV, so other EVs will need more capacity to match it). When I drive a lot, I have to be way more mindful about charging than with an ICE, but this improves with every charger being added to my area. They recently built a “hyper charger” very near my son’s school, which basically eliminated range anxiety in daily driving.

- Slow charging at home. Mostly not an issue, but if the battery is empty and I need to get somewhere, I need to drive to the next fast charger. Happens 1x a month or less.

- Fast chargers are sometimes broken or taken. Don’t empty the battery completely (that’s bad for lifetime anyway) so you can get to another charger. Happened once for me, so far.

- Tires might wear out early as it’s so easy to stress them with acceleration. So far, no signs of that though.

+/- Virtual engine sound simulation is annoying (I often turn it off, but it re-enables every restart), but it has probably saved my cat once because he hid under the car and was startled away by the sound.
You're still kinda waving that broad brush. For one, not every consumer is most concerned with primarily with convenience (lots of scams are convenient as hell), especially tech-savvy folks in 2021 who have begun to internalize the fact that conveniences always come at a cost. There are lots of super convenient services that I could use to move money around but which I don't use because I am not comfortable with the trade-offs (primarily financial surveillance and security concerns).

Second, adoption is way up and btc is only one cryptocurrency. It gets first-mover advantage in this market (unfairly, probably) and so continues to be a bellwether despite the fact that it is a relative dinosaur, technology wise. I'm fine with that, personally, despite the problems with the technology.

That you haven't adopted the tech doesn't mean that adoption is failing, you know. There are more users every year (this is difficult to pin down for obvious & good reasons, but the indicators are solid) and no technology with millions of users globally, including institutional adopters, can be said to be failing.

Further, to call any payments technology 'mildly popular' which safeguards USD 1.5-2.5 trillion (total cryptocurrency market cap, BTC accounting for over 760 billion alone, despite the recent corrections) in deflationary wealth undermines your argument to the point of bad faith. Is the cryptocurrency market overheated and full of nonsense? Of course. But let's do the analyses with level heads at least.
Cryptocurrency is just the latest hype. In my time I have seen technology shares, teakwood plantations, Dubai real estate, gold and now bitcoin.

There is a sucker born every minute as the saying goes.
Yeah exactly. We have a very large and robust electrical grid, with amazing geographical coverage.
“New” subscription plans, started almost eight years ago.

I assume Fireworks runs adequately in your setup but it’s not like that’s your only alternative to a subscription, there’s the Affinity products, Pixelmator, GIMP of course, and I’m sure others that run natively.
You read my post like a criticism of EU, which it isnt

> I don't agree, partly because I don't share your view that democratic control and structure is "poor".

Current democratic control is mostly sufficient for what the EU is today : a union of independent countries. But this control is not enough at all if we wanted the EU to become a government with executive power.

> That is by design, not a mistake.

I never implied it was a mistake, neither that it was a bad thing.
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> I like our HOA. They do a good job maintaining all of the common property, including the pool, the shuttle system, and the copious grassy areas and parks that are part of our neighborhood.

This is the part I dont understand. Is an HOA really the best way to handle this? Isnt there some company that could be hired to handle these maintenance tasks?
I want to replace my aging car (Mazda 3 from 2005), it’s served me great and it has no issues at all after 200k km (125k miles) but my gf is pregnant so I’m more concerned about space and especially safety. Even if my car has some important safety features like traction and stability control, lateral airbags etc. there’s been 15+ years of safety improvements.

And I feel like it’s a terrible moment to buy a car. I’d like my next car to last for many years like my previous one, but ICE ones feel obsolete right now, and regulations are going to make it increasingly difficult to keep owning one.

But EVs are just not practical for my use case (I don’t drive often but when I do it’s long distance) and in my country (very few charging stations). I feel they're just not quite there yet.

Also very concerned about battery degradation, seeing how it’s been with phones and other rechargable battery products I’ve owned.
Why is that funny? Our own (German) culture is full of usage of english words. Wouldn't it be natural to assume that other people would likewise adopt foreign words?
Exactly the same for me. I had the book for years and occasionally read a bit in it. At one point I finished it, tried to quit, failed, re-read it in one go and quit again. First day I failed and smoked a cigarette in the afternoon. The day after I quit again and it stuck. It's like a switch flipped in my head. I knew I'd never smoke again.

I tell people that quitting is simultaniously the easiest and the hardest thing I have ever done. I haven't had any urge to start smoking again. I've been drunk since, had very stressful times, etc. But I've never felt in danger of slipping back into the habit. 5 years now :-)
Wait until you become unwanted or fall through the cracks and your wallet is blocked.
> Something like 1% to 2% move each year to a different state [0], which means in 10 years more than 10% of people will have done that

Or it's always the same people who move a lot.
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> The promotion of her as an athlete could focus on videos, photos and live spectatorship of the thing she actually does well. She can remain super famous in the context of her sport and people can otherwise leave her alone.

And the OP's article is about her (not) doing interviews in relation to the exact context of where her fame is.

Perhaps there is a misunderstanding: I do not think she should be hassled walking down the street, except maybe a fan wanting a selfie with her (which she has the right to decline). But we're talking about participating in things in the context of her career in the tennis world.

If tennis fans wanted to watch some randos play, they could go to their local park and watch two unskilled yahoos (try to) bounce the ball back and forth. But people pay to watched skilled professionals perform at an elite level. These players get their living from being a public spectacle on the court.

If anyone wants to simply pay tennis in peace they can join a private club and smash the ball out of the public eye. But you won't be paid to do it. Every career has its pros and cons.
You actually get heavily fined when you move to Switzerland and use your foreign license for more than a year.

Exchanging it is a small formality in most cases, but you need to do it.
> huge corporation like Apple or Microsoft whose idea of documentation is some kind of rigid recipe stuck on their website that is out of date or missing some critical step that the writer assumes is common knowledge.

Microsoft at least is very “dynamic” in their documentation. In one scenario, we had a case open for a product that was implemented within the documented limits, but not working.

Then the ticket was closed — the documentation was changed to a threshold that happened to line up with our previous, working workload.
$1 but you have to buy them by 500 units at a time...:

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> Would be good if they published some stats around this i.e., y% or x million would use this on a daily/monthly basis or some such.

In 2019 1.4 million people migrated from one EU state to another [1], and 3.3% of EU working age citizens lived outside their country of citizenship (and that's rapidly rising - a 40% increase over the last 10 years) [2].

That's a baseline minimum of people who clearly need this. It doesn't count people who don't register because they only move temporarily (where it's not worth registering today because without such a system the paperwork can be a hassle!), it doesn't count migrants who now have citizenship in their destination country, it doesn't count the many non-working-age people who retire to southern europe, and it doesn't count people who interact with foreign EU governments for any reasons other than permanent residency. For example, you might want to securely access EU personal data while on holiday for health care (a digital EHIC), you might need to share your foreign driving license details with a car rental company, or your work may involve cross-EU business administration.

This wallet won't be useful for everybody, but if it works well it would be a very valuable tool for many millions of people today, and likely many more in future.

[1]: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php... (full article, first paragraph)
[2]: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...
Note that itsme is not a requirement for anything, so the smartphoneless still have alternatives available. To file your taxes in Belgium, you have the option to file on paper, or online by logging in through one of: eID reader, itsme, 2FA using an app (e.g. Google Auth, Authy), e-mail, text message, or a EU-wide ID system. Who exactly is being excluded here? Also, which other smartphone OSes do you expect them to support?
Currently hydrogen fuel cells have a slight range advantage and speed of refueling advantage. However the efficiency of creating and compressing / liquifying hydrogen and then turning back into electricity in the cell is around half that of just charging a battery.

Fuels cells currently also don't put out as much burst power nor can they store energy from regenerative braking so a fuel cell car needs a traction buffer battery like a hybrid.

Pretty skeptical for hydrogen fuel cells at this point, battery cost are dropping fast while energy density going up along with charge rate, fuel cells are being left behind pretty quick.
1. That’s still a net reduction in births, even if the reduction isn’t spread evenly among socioeconomic classes

2. You can means-adjust the fines to dissuade the rich. You can even redistribute revenue from these fines to the poor if your concern is inequality. I’m particularly curious about paying the poor not to have children since fining the poor seems likely to be unproductive.
Name a country where political leadership isn't intertwined tightly with banking and finance.

Somalia maybe? But i doubt it.
Crysis 2 simulating an entire ocean to render a puddle comes to mind. Also tessalating perfectly leveled floors IIRC.
It might be my personal opinion but I never really felt fully recovered after a 15/30 minute respite when I felt the need to get away from work.

> never mind actually clear the grounds, if you wanted to go to a park.

Now adding parks to these centers sounds like an idea. Of course most penny pincers would scream at the amount of money that would cost compared to a suicide booth.
Conan O'Brien said 'Fame is the most addictive thing, much more so than heroin, and you wouldn't give heroin to children, would you?' - when talking about kids in the business who grow up destroyed.

For whatever evolutionary reason, we are wired to love attention.

I loathe the notion of social media - but I do play music - and I can attest to the fact that time literally stands still when you have an audience's attention, there is nothing like that.

I think this kind of addiction will be up there with nicotene, barbituates, gambling, anorexia etc..

We probably should be having PSAs in school.

But the issue is more problematic because it's not just a 'habit' - some 'side thing' - it's an 'aspiration'.

Since when did everyone want to grow up just to be famous, and basically contribute nothing? We used to regard that attitude with some skepticism. It's as though Paris Hilton then the Kardashians completely just broke them mould. Kids are really open minded to day, and generally 'good' but the upside down value of 'me me me' vs. at least doing something instrumental for the community (aka anything: doctor, carpenter, teacher, soldier, police, social worker, professor etc.) should have us a little worried. Maybe it's just a phase, or a perspective ... but flipping from communitarian values to brazenly self-oriented values is spooky.
With free mobility, having a eID/wallet that covers all of the EU makes sense.

Being a Swede who now lives in Germany, I can tell you that the lack of system level integration or even compatibility is a real hassle.
You can collaborate on office docs in Office365, Teams and Sharepoint. Also, Google will convert Word. Quite a few people and organizations still prefer the richer feature set and combined suite in Office, or even iWork. Excel is still king of the spreadsheet and doesn't look to be going anywhere.
There are people in the travel community who oppose restrictions, sometimes hyperbolically so. For the last year, travel forums have been full of posts by people who intentionally chose destinations because not only would those country let them in, but mask-wearing and distancing wasn't really enforced there.

With regard to need to prove vaccination, note that the WHO yellow-fever certificate was originally good for 10 years, and recently the WHO announced that it should be good for life. COVID passports are rather different in that they are passed on a QR code, so your certificate could be deemed invalid by your country’s authorities at any time. If you are traveling when that happens, they you might suddenly have to search for whatever new booster vaccine is required for onward travel, which might be a challenge if you are in the developing world.
Noise and vibration are build issues as much as anything. They may be easier to manage with an electric drivetrain, but lots of ICE vehicles are quiet and smooth.
75+ tabs are only feasible if you have an extension like Tree Tabs for Firefox. Of course, no more than ten (at the most) are ever loaded into memory at any one time.

The true shame is that trees of tabs aren’t natively implemented by the browsers because all the extensions that enable tree functionality have glitches caused by the native tab ordering.
The problem with onboard wireless is that this adds a boatload of complexity regarding certification in various regulatory domains, trademark compliance, ...
I started smoking at 13 and quit at 22 cold turkey. 8 years later, I still sometimes dream at night about lighting a cigarette and it feels ecstatic when I do. Then I wake up and spend the entire day craving a smoke. The hook runs deep.
I guess they could have added the RPi WiFi chip for about USD 1.5 in BOM cost (assuming common industry prices based on distributor price/quantity matrix)
Emacs is also free :-)
Power usage, for one.
Well, people I've employed walked away whenever they felt like it.

> ignorant of the world

I only speak of the US. Before the pandemic upended things, unemployment rates were very, very low in the US. That doesn't auger for employees being beholden to employers at all.
SCSI still does have some tricks (eg VAAI) which I don't think have NVMe counterparts yet?

Still, even just being able to get rid of the huge complexity and historical baggage of SCSI is a good thing. One of my favourite examples is how the spec defines the LUN number to not be a number.
I know people who have died from Carbon Monoxide poisoning when they got snowbound in an ICE car.

In an electric car if you are snowbound, turn off the cabin heating and rely on seat heaters. They use about 50W each, so would last 1000 hours if you have 50kWh of life left in your battery.
> 1) The fact that we are far from a federal government doesn't mean we'll always be such.

Maybe, and I'm not even against the idea. But it would have nothing to do with European Union (the current entity)

> 2) [...]

I'm not an US expert, and I mostly have the same picture as you. I don't see what you are trying to prove ?

> 3) [...]

I never said that one system was better than the other, just that they are different with different strengths and different weakness but that migrating from one to the other is extremely difficult and probably require creating new entities. I totally can imagine an European Federation but I don't see it being the same entity as the European Union.
You really don't. That's a small reel, most resellers are making it available in cut tape (single unit, or 10 chip) quantities. 500 and 3,400 unit reels will be available later in the year (in the autumn). They aren't generally available now.
This is certainly part of the debate over at least the last 10 years that I've heard of, whether "calculus is the capstone” - a view that ”originates with a committee of 10 men in 1892” - or if other forms of math should be considered as important alternatives.

In general, many believe that statistics education suffers because of the focus on calculus. See for example this StackOverflow post from 7 years ago, https://matheducators.stackexchange.com/questions/2099/empha... .

It's not hard to find other links, like https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/calculus-is-the-pea... , with more information on the problems with emphasizing calculus:

> For a picture of how severe that inequity can get, one only has to look at calculus. ... Until about 1980, calculus was seen as a higher education course, primarily for those interested in mathematics, physics, or other hard sciences, and only about 30,000 high school students took the course. That began to change when school reformers glommed onto calculus as an early example of a rigorous, college-preparatory course, ... despite the rapid growth of calculus as a gold standard, university calculus experts argue it is a much weaker sign that a student is actually prepared for postsecondary math in the science fields than it appears

Indeed, the L.A. Times piece describe it as "in high school, when they can choose advanced subjects, including calculus, statistics and other forms of data science" (emphasis mine).

Note too how it classified statistics as part of data science. IMO, data science without statistics is even worse than data science without calculus.
I don't match the stereotype (I just moved from a culture that ruthlessly exploits the honest to one that at least lets them live a tranquil life), but I do agree that phenomena like that do exist.

Something like 40% of my high-school classmates have moved to another city or country, for one reason or another, and the ones who've remained seem to have become somewhat hyper-localistic, almost as a reflex or justification for not doing the same.

I don't know what the answer is, but I don't think forcing me or others to stick around would have made much of a difference beyond generating even more social resentment.
Very cool. I did something similar a while back too

https://github.com/mdotshell/wastebin
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Why though? Do you have people spamming you at random emails at your domain? I've never seen this with my domains so far

Very few email addresses I've given out so far caught the attention of spammers. Fastmail lets me set up aliases to block and reject traffic to them. While everything else still gets routed to my inbox. I think this is easier than setting up an alias for every occasion by hand - which needs a few clicks every time.

If some spammer would really start bruteforcing email addresses at my domain, I'd probably write some script to deal with it via imap/pop3 API.
> I think that's why incels attract such hate.

I'm pretty sure it's because they are largely unbe-LIEV-ably misogynistic and hateful towards women.
Not necessarily.

Bryan Cantrill talked extensively about how long it took for Sun Microsystems to open source Solaris, and a lot came from code that was often outsources because it was "boring" and basically non-core tech (the example was i18n/l10n)
More specifically, canvas based rendering.
Facebook is going to love this.
You merely parroted the term introduced earlier.
> But I doubt google ever cared about Usenet at all

Doubt? This is without doubt: For-profit companies cares about generating profits. If they own something that doesn't generate profits, the only reason they even own it is because they haven't figured out how to close it down yet, or how to earn profits on it, or they think it leads to profits in other areas.

Of course they don't care about making information more widely available for free, they care about making money. Hardly surprising that they prefer to spend the least amount of time on moderating, closing the entire group is way simpler and cost-effective (according to them, apparently).
This should be in Show HN right?
Pardon my French, but that's a completely ass-backwards approach from the council. If we later find that the vaccines need boosters, so be it, maybe that's justification for an additional restriction. There's an argument against this (of the "give them an inch and they'll take a mile" variety[1]), but what's proposed is taking a mile and promising to maybe sometime walk some of it back at some point. How far? In response to whose data? The ongoing debate around the "lab leak" hypothesis should have you asking questions about how information is collected and decisions made, _particularly_ at the science/public policy boundary.

[1]: https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2021/04/09/covid-4-9-another-va... - Scroll down to/Ctrl-F for: "Or, you could raise the more generalized version of this objection. Also from the comments:"
> I'd wager that the average American anti Covid fanatic (the sort: Masks are fascism! It's like what the nazis did with the jews!) is not really the kind of person travelling the world.

I think this may vary by destination. I have no data (not sure if such data exists) but, anecdotally, living in Ireland, I get the impression that many do travel here at least.

It may be that different destinations hold different draws (& I'm told the Irish-American community has diverged significantly in political leanings compared to Ireland/Europe)
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AVR is much simpler architecture-wise, and this has the more impact the more you actually need to read the processors datasheet.