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Are you Scandinavian by chance? My Scandinavian colleagues were always completely mortified at the massive gaps we have in American stalls. The rooms Scandinavians get are complete utopias in comparison
Nevertheless, e-fuel cars are still a step back compared to electric cars: electric cars don't pollute while they're running, but may still generate pollution depending on how the electricity they are charged with was produced, e-fuel cars produce both tailpipe pollution and potentially also electricity generation pollution. But I guess that due to how horrendously expensive e-fuels will be, these vehicles will be so rare that tailpipe pollution won't matter much...
> That makes it sound less horrible, except that such production doesn't exist yet at a sensible/interesting scale as far as I understand.

To me it sounds less horrible, because it sounds like fantasy technology that will not be economically feasible in the end so the end result is that this exception doesn't actually matter. Suffers the same problem as the whole carbon capture thought experiment.
in its e2e cycle, does it not pollute the environment in any way?
Flats doesn't mean there's no parking, the cars still have to park somewhere, either parking garages or lots. From what I've seen most Eastern European countries have parking lots on old buildings, and often underground parking garages on new ones. In both cases adding chargers is possible with the right incentives and subsidies.
Are there any new petroleum cars that are really simple and have little electronics - perhaps the ultra cheap, mostly Chinese city cars - but car manufacturers have been putting more and more electronics into vehicles long before electric cars
The analysis of phone lifetimes based on software support is dubious. Apple generally supports groups of devices together that are similar hardware. Given iPhones 12-14 are virtually identical I’d expect these will all lose support around the same time.

Generally, this article is apple hate on steroids!! Apple is still releasing security updates for a 7-year-old device; name a mainstream android phone that’s doing that.

The author should get a refurbished 12 mini. $350 right now and will probably get 5+ years of updates.
It's not the automakers. Those have long since started to transition to BEVs and do offer some attractive options which are produced at scale and can often be seen on the streets where I am (not near any of the OEM headquarters). They have also mostly stopped R&D on ICE technology

The issue is with the suppliers and suppliers of suppliers which are a backbone of German industry and some of which cannot transition away ICE technology.

Of course e-fuels are not going to safe them anyway but their lobbying caused this.
But we didn't.

We're pushing down on average working class of people while the rich can do whatever they want. Average joe can't get a plastic bag anymore and has to pay more for even worse alternatives (thick plasic bags need MANY reuses compared to thin plastic bags, plus joe now needs to buy plastic bin liners [0])... but coca cola (company) can still sell sugary water in ten layers of plastic, because reusable glass bottles would cut into their profits.

People are getting more and more fed up with this already.. luckily for some, there are bigger things happening, and people protest for those, but it's a mark of a wider trend happening all over the western world, where there are a set of rules for rich and influential and another for 'normal people'.

[0] https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/03/220329142327.h...
Which honestly is going to bite them. The on-ramp from CentOS when small and RHEL once you’re big enough to need support is gone. It’s Ubuntu/Debian all the way down now.
> To actually solve and evolve that you need to actually rethink things from scratch. That's why UI is slowly but surely escaping into Canvas and WebGL.

idk how you experience the last 20 years in the web without seeing a proof that we solved and evolved. the dom is in fact so successful and popular for ui that not only is it used for _more_ of what's on the web than it was 20 years ago, but that web ui's only "escape" has been onto the desktop, phones, tvs, embedded, etc
Increased education requirements to not live in poverty is the #1 reason in my opinion.

When parents expected young children to perform unpaid manual labor the net cost of upbringing was negligible or even profitable.

Now many people only start earning at 21 or later, and aren't even able to support their parents at the point due to the huge size of mortgage and college loans.
Big Tech is purging all teams that don't own user-facing products/features although SRE and AI teams will most likely be spared.
The use cases don't overlap for a lot of car's usage. And the only people pushing public transports are people who never use them daily, because if they did they would know how bad it is to have train delay or cancelation twice a week, strikes at least 3 times a year, issue with tramway hitting cars or people fighting inside it, not to mention the permanent insecurity and piss odour in the subway.
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"Debt creation also gives value to the dollar"

Only because enough people believe that's true, and then only because there are aircraft carriers that convince people in other countries that it's in their best interest to use them.

Dollars are not worth anything.
I switched to off-grid solar last year, and one thing that became instantly clear is that I'll never have enough panels for an electric car, crikey, even running the oven can be a challenge.

I really wonder how Europe is gonna manage the extra grid demand given decades of under investment in energy production. More cables to countries still investing in nuclear?
Aljamia existed at Al-Andalus times.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aljamia
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We have been working on this for a few weeks - would love to get your feedback.

Information is generally spread across various apps and sites, and we wanted an easy way to organize and manage them. We also built sharing and comment features because we realized how crucial they are when collaborating with people on some project. The app is in active development and the idea is to make it super-easy to store, manage and collaborate on information.

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> None of them include the "from someone you never have had any sort of (business) relationship with" clause.

Spam is illegal, but I'm pretty sure none of the mentioned sources make the law about what is and isn't allowed to be sent. Maybe you can find the actual definition in the laws that apply in your jurisdiction.
> Apps increasingly don't bother testing for the 4" screen dimensions

Yes that is actually an issue. Websites also seem to think people with small screens don't exist.

I don't recognise the other problems. But you might be right that banking apps at some point will stop working.
When I was traveling about once a month for a company, I would just book an extra stop wherever I wanted to visit for the weekend before going home (usually a friend somewhere). I got a free visit to a friend, and the company got a cheaper flight expense because of the Saturday stay. Everybody was happy. I'm even happier now not traveling so much though.
Anything else individual to be replaced by communal? Like, maybe, everything? Or just the cars? There are countries already implementing what you believe is right. Please emigrate over there and enjoy.
You should try googling, all those questions have been answered. There are YouTube videos summarizing the academic research in an approachable way.

Or, catching onto the zeitgeist, try asking ChatGPT, it's almost certainly absorbed answers to all of these.

edit: Your question about average Joes returns:

> The cost of electric vehicles (EVs) has been decreasing steadily in recent years due to advancements in technology and economies of scale in production. As a result, the price of EVs is now comparable to many traditional gasoline-powered vehicles, and in some cases, they can even be less expensive over the life of the vehicle due to lower operating costs.

> However, at present, the upfront cost of EVs is still generally higher than gasoline-powered vehicles, and this may make them more difficult for some people to afford. This is especially true for lower-income individuals who may have limited access to financing or tax incentives that can help reduce the cost of EVs.

> Nevertheless, governments and automakers are implementing policies and incentives to encourage the adoption of EVs and make them more accessible to the average consumer. For example, many countries offer tax credits or rebates for purchasing an EV, and some cities are providing free charging stations and preferential parking for EV owners. Additionally, as the production of EVs continues to scale up, it is likely that the price of EVs will continue to decline, making them more affordable for a wider range of consumers.

> Overall, while the cost of EVs may still be a barrier for some people, it is expected that the transition to electric vehicles will become increasingly accessible and affordable as the technology continues to improve and become more widespread.
Cheers; you're right. 'En masse' wasn't sufficient in communicating what I wanted, which was to say "in large, repeated and undiluted amounts".

> The problem is on the how and not on the what

If we could realistically supply the entire demand for beef with cows grazing on fields on the same amount of land, without raising the price directly or by subsidizing the cost, I'd be all in. This is literally impossible as industrialized cattle production is that much more efficient, no matter how revoltingly disgusting it is.
I use public transport usually several times a day and am a heavy proponent, exactly because I use it.
I noticed that when i put in the following text from the BBC as a test and it pronounces 2008 as "two thousand eight" but I believe most people would pronounce it as "two thousand and eight"

Great work

A billionaire's son, who fled to Yemen within hours of the death of a student in London 15 years ago, has admitted his involvement to the BBC.

The body of Martine Vik Magnussen, 23, was discovered under rubble in a Great Portland Street basement in 2008.

Farouk Abdulhak, who is on the Met Police's most wanted list and is the subject of an international arrest warrant, has never spoken about the case before.
Apple doesn’t do a wide spectrum of ends, but SE is a low end, both price and hw-wise. It just doesn’t suck as much as 10%-priced devices android industry can offer, and most downgrades go to cameras, borders, etc. Which is nice, since not everyone is a selfie type.
It does block Youtube ads but very poorly. Sometimes the ad plays but a refresh immediately removes it, other times it can take multiple refreshes. It's not perfect like it is when i use Firefox or Opera so I stick to Yputube on those and Safari for general browsing.

Sidenote: Also Gmail is insaaaaaaaaaanely slow on Safari and a lot of sites just don't format well or ad blockers completely break the site. Safari is by far the worst browser on Mac for site compatibility and also extension selection but I use it for better battery life when not plugged in.
There's a lot of things that you can turn off, but nobody actually does - which is the very reason they ship turned on in the first place.
Volkswagen just announced their next generation electric car that will be similar to the normal Golf/Polo and cost under 25k€ (which would be quite normal for an ICE car like this). I would be positive that the cost will go down significantly (and yes even taking into account that batteries might be exchanged to provide a functioning market for used-cars).
EVs are still vehicles that are owned.

Regarding Dacia, they have an EV, the Spring, which starts at 20k euros (without counting in a 5k "eco bonus", so around 15k), meanwhile their cheapest other car is the smaller Sandero at 12k. 12k/15k isn't a massive difference over the lifetime of a vehicle.
Wind, water, solar, geothermal energy…
Wether or not you consider it a sacrifice is really a question of frame of reference. I don't think there's any objective truth in it being a sacrifice or not.

However, given that the person I responded to want to have kids, I assumed that having kids was important to them.

And given that getting kids is basically something that you devote the rest of your life to it comes in the ball park of "as important to you as your life" if you choose to have them.

So to them, it ought to be an ultimate sacrifice.
> It's not possible to cover with public transport all the places where cars can go.

OP said "most" not "all". Rental cars for the occasional exceptions, ownership for whoever has to use them regularly, that's still basically fine.

> because for most modal income people in europe, electric cars are simply not feasible

Purchase price, or price per km? Because that's a very important difference.

Electric is already better on the latter, even if battery costs fail to get cheaper with more scale.
how much time dk you soend actively listening to new music? not having music on while youre doing something else but actively listening as your primary activity?

most streaming music use is background noise. having somr music on, classical or otherwise, while im something else, doesnt lead to anu sort of content fatigue.
I don’t think you read the article fully. The gripe is more about what mobile app developers do with respect to long-term support for older hardware/OS versions and much less about what Apple does.
Hell, tons of software-driven things don't allow you to downgrade, it's not just phones. And often for good reason, a software upgrade on a modern "thing" often contains firmware or patches for various chipsets in the device, not just some OS or app-level features and fixes. Orchestrating a downgrade, and ensuring it doesn't accidentally brick something, would be a major testing headache across the matrix of all potential FROM and TO versions of software that could be involved. All so that some super edge case user can be accommodated.
> Do you produce electricity without CO2 emissions?

Not yet, but just because switching to EVs is not a sufficient step towards CO2 neutrality doesn't mean it's not a necessary step.
I remember reading some Bangalore-based users in r/DevOps being surprised that they were earning almost the same as devops engineers in Germany.
Greek and Buddhism had lot of interaction and exchange. Though, independently also Buddhism was a disruptive religion in India. It gained lot of prominence because of these differences and Hinduism required a major refactoring to gain back its position.
at least apple ships security updates for older devices. last i looked, they go back at least 7 years.

before the pixel 6, qualcomm pixels capped out at 3 years.

it should be a legal requirement to unlock bootloaders and possibly even open source the software when a company chooses to stop providing security updates for embedded computers. either that or there should be a fine for every device for every year it is unsupported in the first ten years after manufacture.
Those 12-14 minis are amazing phones. My girlfriend has one and the form factor is perfect for her and it was affordable. Feels high quality in your hand, reminded me of a modern iPhone 4.
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Nobody trying to exploit others is "there to help", I only pointed out that the British were not particularly worse than any other colonial power, and it would've only been by some miracle that a superior alternative could've occurred. Morality is only a thin veneer over power, I was only asking if all the Indians today who work and communicate on these computers would rather be living in underdeveloped agrarian societies, like what you see in much of Africa.
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Absolutely! First step: ban cars from cities.
A lot of the economic activity needed to sustain cities happen elsewhere. Like farming, for example. But you also need wood, all kinds of rocks, sands, etc.

It's simply not feasible.
There's really not as much of a logical connection between the two as you think. Replace "fly on a private jet" with any other rich person activity and your sentence still works.
So it's not really about flying on a jet.
>I suspect focused, attentive listening only makes up a small minority of the total streams

The inverse is likely true with the classical audience. Just like with jazz, although there will be a portion of users seeking “vibey jazz” sort of playlists to use in the background while working, the majority of jazz fans consume jazz as albums and are still concerned with things like personnel and liner notes, perhaps even who mastered this recording. Classical fans are similar except I would say even more picky IME (worked in a jazz and classical CD store/venue for a number of years)
You're quite right. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAN-SPAM_Act_of_2003#Unsubscri...

I think in the Netherlands (or EU?) it has to also be one-click. It can't first give you a survey or ask you to enter your data again or other hurdles. It's quite strict in that way, but then quite loose in the way that businesses are allowed to send you unsolicited commercial (e)mail if you previously purchased something and they want to market a related product to you. Win some, lose some. I can see the point, though, that you might be genuinely interested in their new fancy better improved heat camera if you previously bought a heat camera of theirs, and the message still has to have that one-click unsubscribe link. I'm willing to accept this compromise even if I am usually not interested in those offers.

What has to die is the type of spam where you have no idea who the sender is or how they got your data. That's what spam filters are designed to filter out, since you cannot filter that by normal/legal means. It's much harder to try and make a spam filter read your mind on whether email from a legitimate business is something you're interested in reading (you may or may not care for that order confirmation, newsletter that you may or may not have signed up for, etc.).

But I've learned today (from the subthread above) that having the general public make this distinction and correctly train spam filters (such as email, but presumably also on reddit and such) together is a lost cause. We'll have spam forever, yay.
>I don’t think that EV implies software overkill. I hope that some brands will carve out a niche for simple EVs with real buttons and low “smartness”.

Look to the TV sector, you can't buy a non 'smart' TV any more. I highly doubt it will be profitable for a non 'smart' electric car.

I guess the closest we have right now is the Citroen Ami?
All the issues you mention could be solved by more investment in public transport. I'm assuming you're from the states — try taking public transport in a country where it functions well, and see if you change your mind.
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It's more efficient to charge a battery and drive with an electric motor than use electricity to create hydrogen and use that to drive a car.
Hydrogen might become useful for things like planes, where electric isn't good enough yet.
> That's all these AI tools are, better stack overflow searches. They have no ability to know what is correct or what is wrong, it lacks judgement, which is one of the most important skills to have as a software engineer.

I keep seeing this idea, but have you actually used it? It clearly has the ability to problem solve. It's not just copying and pasting solutions.

Ok granted it's not especially good at it yet and the bullshitting problem is a real issue, but how long do you think that will remain unsolved?

I think where it will continue to struggle is niche domains that aren't on the internet a lot, e.g. hardware design. But if you're writing CRUD apps all day you should be worried!

Or at least brace for your job description to change from "Software Developer" to "Prompt Developer and AI Output Verification".
You reduce your travel, presumably for the purpose of reducing jet fuel usage. A few things can happen.
1) Someone else buys the plane ticket anyway, due to availability or reduced ticket price, jet fuel usage remains the same.
2) The plane ride got cancelled due to low number of passengers, replaced with another plane ride, total fuel used by airline remains the same.
3) Jet fuel gets cheaper or more available, so the fuel you thought you saved gets bought for another use, total fuel use remains the same.
Out of curiosity, why did you need to upgrade for iOS 16? 15 will likely be receiving security updates for a while longer.
Oh yeah.

Now try to do the same little trick for a cellular automaton.

Good luck.
Genuinely curious: does having no speed limit cause more deaths on the road?
I hope so but i'm not optimistic. I can't think of any electric car that doesn't have a horrific UI full of "smart" features i don't want and would pay to not have. Even a car that doesn't require subscriptions to turn on basic features seems like a very optimistic ask.
Linux is your only shot, apple removed support for i386 binaries and opengl, so 99% of games no longer works.
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You say "of course" when something is a matter of course. It is similar to begging the question.

1. Compared to what?

2. Animal consumption or current patterns of animal consumption?

Note too that I do not claim that meat and dairy are proven more healthy, or better at any scale. Just that we must be careful not to let greenwashing make us think they're evil and gross as a kneejerk reaction.
If you want to know what the powers that be want, just look at what Pelosi and McConnell agree on.

If you want to see what they’ve specifically adopted as a wedge issue to divide people, look at what they disagree on.

It’s not the businesses that are the powers that be but their board members. They’ll tank one company if it will help the others
So many people commenting on the app but no-one posting an invite link to a HN group?

https://wavelength.app/invite/BHRaKD7Lffh#rjZY5RlPZmg_l7UhDP...

Edit: Oops, there is an earlier invite to a HN group. Should have used the find command before posting...
The charging issue and grid use is a massively overblown problem. You only need to charge your car for a few hours every 300 miles. Nowhere near everyone is always charging all the time.

Renewables and stored heat batteries will cover night/low wind loads. Geothermal in the north.

Public transit options will continue to improve, electrified bikes make them an even more viable alternative.

We’re a clever group of people. The oil drilling to gas available on every fourth corner in the country system is vastly more complex than installing chargers on light poles.
Dacia already has a 20k EUR electric model - Spring. Sure, the equivalent ICE Stepway is 14k, but it's not all Tesla pricing levels.
It's funny how in some threads you've got people panicking that there will be no work left to do because of AI and in others people panicking that twelve years is far too short a time to make a change like getting rid of cars.
People are different and react different. We used to forget that.
As a fellow crypto non-enthusiast, I agree with all of this. I thought that the best way to look at cryptocurrency and the crypto ecosystem is as a satire of the world of finance, etc. This is still accurate, I believe, but it can be easy to overlook how subtle a satire it is.
Some people bemoan cars as a 20th-century anachronism. They forget that trains/trams/buses are from the 19th century and were superseded by cars. The e-scooter for hire is truly a 21st-century innovation, though. That, and the self-driving car.