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I've owned several EVs over the past 10 years, and I've settled on a so-called "hybrid garage." That is, one EV and one PHEV. I've owned two luxury EV brands priced over $80k, and yet my favorite EV is still my first one, a 2013 LEAF now worth less than $5k.

The cheap and tiny EV is a no-fuss/no-worry car that zips me around town for my daily driving. It's small and nimble, and I don't really care about what happens to it. I park in spaces a lot of other people would pass up because they're too cramped and they're worried about door dings or whatever. By now it has about 50 miles of range, but I never get close to that on any given day. In fact I tend to go several days in a row between plugging it in.

The other car is a PHEV that only has about 20 miles of range. It dips into the gas tank here and there, but that's so infrequent that stops at the gas station happen only maybe once every month and a half. And when it's time to do a family vacation or other out-of-town trip, it's only using gas, which is super-easy to come by and only requires 5 minutes to replenish. Best of all I don't have to deal with any rapid charger drama.

My next car is going to be a midlife crisis purchase, and I'm taking a pretty hard look at a manual transmission ICE. The idea of buying something like a Taycan and then having to roll the dice with the substandard rapid charging infrastructure doesn't sound appealing to me at all.

I know Tesla superchargers are a thing and that they will be available more broadly in the years to come, but I'm also looking to reduce the tech in my car, in particular anything that reports my location all the time to some mother ship.
I remembered where I got the idea: https://www.consumerreports.org/cars/hybrids-evs/why-hybrid-...

> Hybrid technology has generally meant comparatively higher sticker prices, though fuel savings can defray costs over time. Today’s average hybrid costs about $1,700 more, but the Ford Maverick pickup and Lexus NX SUV hybrids actually have lower sticker prices than gas-only versions. The new Lexus RX Hybrid costs the same as a comparably equipped non-hybrid.

> In 2015 CR calculated that most hybrids took eight years to pay for themselves through fuel savings, with some, including the 2015 Volkswagen Jetta Hybrid and Lexus RX450h, taking more than a decade. Today, improved technology and higher gas prices mean the average payback is four years with gas at $3.35 a gallon and 12,000 miles driven a year. At $3 a gallon, the payback period increases to five years. The more miles driven, the quicker the payback.

> You may also save money on repairs and maintenance. Case in point: The Prius is often in the top spot in our reliability surveys. A hybrid’s regenerative brakes create less wear and tear, so braking components can last longer, too. It’s true that replacing a hybrid battery can be a big expense, costing on average around $7,400, according to RepairPal, but our surveys show such replacements are rare. “Hybrid technology has been very reliable in our studies,” Fisher says.

$1,700 more doesn't seem like that much, and 12,000 miles per year is not a high bar to clear.
How does a dedicated frame device save power over a generic TV display? Doesn't it boil down to the same underlying parts?
To point out that the intended effect of removing the minimums in Austin is highly unlikely to change actual behaviour in practice, other than perhaps in the units designated for low income people who likely will have to make do without parking.
Rewrite the compiler to use a LLM for complication. I'm only half joking! The biggest remaining technical problem is the context length, which is severely limiting the input size right now. Also, the required humongous model size.
> Sounds like many countries did such thing in the past.

Can you give a good, relevant example?
While I currently use SD.Next[1], I have tested ComfyUI locally with my AMD card. The UI can be daunting, but you learn quite a great deal about how a Stable Diffusion pipeline works. In addition some innovations and advances find their way into ComfyUI first.

[1] https://github.com/vladmandic/automatic
I think so. SqueakJS fills the space Amber used to occupy.
They sold over 50,000 of them in the first year (by May 2023). Maybe we'll get another sales update this year.
I think that's pretty common, as far as bespoke licenses go.

I remember reading the license of a game engine that forbade using it for military training. I thought it was Quake but it doesn't seem to be.
He may also be playing emulated EverQuest, such as Project1999 (which has separate forums).

Discourse for online games these days is mainly done via Discord, however. So there's a good chance you won't find them on the forums.
I'm building a macro keyboard (4 keys) and was looking for keypads with a display for ages. It seems they are doing it !
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Over the years, I've done everything from:

Full stack web development (Java, Rails, React)
Infrastructure as Code - Developed AWS tooling for an ASX100 company around 2010
Leading an innovation team working on VR/AR/ML (applying) circa 2014-2018

Most recently, I've balanced building my bootstrapped startup (https://twirrl.co) with contract work to sustain my financial needs.

Email: luke <at> farhorizons.io

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Current Stack: Typescript, SvelteKit, GraphQL, Flutter, Postgres, Redis, Vercel, Docker, Terraform, AWS

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Other (Misc): Lean/Agile, AR/VR, Unity3D/C#, Android - Kotlin/Java, ML - LLM/RAG/etc (standing on the shoulders of giants, not the giant)
Similar project, but open-source: https://github.com/copy/v86
Seems over for the foreseeable future.
Not even right wingers liked what was happening the last year.
We should aspire higher than moral relativism and "might is right".
From a programming perspective, "edge cases", are actually failure modes. A single failure can be extremely expensive and wipe out years of marginal benefit that was accrued by ignoring them.

I'm not sure I can think of a strong argument for consciously living your life in a way which ignores potential failure modes, unless you're pretty sure you've projected the hidden costs and are prepared at any moment to pay them.

The cost of finding and paying someone else twice a year to haul wood or supplies can easily justify the extra cost of a larger vehicle, for example.
> And I could definitely bet there is no law in US which says that employee can spam other employees about how their boss is bad.

That is exactly what this case is alleging is the law that was violated. What do you think this is all about?
Police Drone Footage Is Not Exempt from California Public Records Act
I got refused a rental in the middle of Manhattan once because I wouldn't show them a return flight ticket (I actually did have one, but it's none of their business).

I charged the company back via my credit card provider, and have never even considered doing business with that company again.
>"Used cars, sure, but you're often either paying for someone else's problem or losing out on modern safety features."

Even though I can afford it I've never bought new car. Call me lucky but I did not feel like I was paying for somebody else's problems either. All my cars worked fine for me. Some maintenance and repairs but nothing major / expensive. For example used Grand Caravan I paid $5K for on the auction cost me another $1K to put in proper order and then served me faithfully 10 years. Only got rid of it because the rust had taken the best of it.
It means that having that kind of background isn't necessarily a negative.
Potentially yes: Site owners could set a CAA record like…

nocerts.example.com CAA 0 issue ";"

… telling CAs that they shouldn't issue certs for `nocerts.example.com` at all.

That being said, it would make things difficult when it's time to do a cert renewal: You'd have to update the CAA record, wait for it to propagate, do the renewal, and then set it back. And that's a window that could be exploited.

What could work is CAA, along with RFC 8657: Certification Authority Authorization (CAA) Record Extensions for Account URI and Automatic Certificate Management Environment (ACME) Method Binding (https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8657). RFC 8657 extends the CAA record to say "Only this specific CA account may request certs for this domain" and/or "Only this specific validation method may be used when requesting certs for this domain".
These guys [1] took an iX3 to the Kruger Park in South Africa and back with careful planning. They managed to do 100km of self-driving game viewing thru the remote park per day for 4 days without issues.

They recharged out of their accomodation while they weren't out driving. We don't even have electricity 24 hours/day here due to our ongoing generation crisis, so I'm surprised you wouldn't be able to do something similar in the USA or are those two parks just really that remote? Or is it the 120V AC that's the issue?

[1] https://mybroadband.co.za/news/motoring/504858-i-drove-an-el...
This article makes me even more dismayed at the fact that the Chevy Volt never really took off. I really believe it would be the perfect car for most people:

1. As the article points out, most people drive less than 40 miles a day, and the Volt provided 40-50 miles of electric range.

2. Since the battery is relatively small for an EV, no expensive home charging system is needed - just plug it into a normal 120V outlet and it fully charged overnight.

3. Since it automatically switches to gas power when the battery discharges, there are basically none of the downsides of EVs. No range/charger anxiety, for occasional long trips I just use gas, and it's actually able to utilize a lot more of the battery because it doesn't need a "buffer" (i.e. for a fully electric car most folks are very wary to bring it below 20 miles of range or so). With my Volt a tank of gas would last me about 6 months unless I went on a road trip.

I wonder if, as pure EV sales slow down, that people and car manufacturers will start to see the benefits of plugin hybrids. I think if a plugin hybrid had better styling (as opposed to the Prius-derivative styling of most of them) that they would do a lot better.
If you could get into his Discord (a gaming-focused chat app), you could probably figure it out by looking though his DMs and finding someone close to him to notify.
Yes and no, while RIPE can help they can only up to a point. For example, the assets are transferred to someone , up to that point RIPE can help but if another transaction has followed then sorry but they can't do much
Disclosure: I've never done it. But I looked at some CUDA code from Leela Chess Zero and it made reasonable sense. It's just C++ with some slight changes. The GPU architecture is a little bit quirky but not that complicated either. Plus there are libraries like pytorch that handle most of the GPU stuff for you.

I would say ML concepts and algorithms are way more complicated than GPU programming per se. The fast.ai lectures were pretty understandable when I watched some of them a few years ago, but attention wasn't yet invented, and it was pretty obvious that it would take a fair amount of trial and error to become skilful at writing simple recognizers.
After taking an EV on a ~6500 mile road trip a couple months ago, I never want to road trip in a gas car ever again. Highlights:

- by the 2.5-3.5 hour mark between charges, I'm ready for a 25-35 min break and its somewhere nice and not a gas station

- stop anywhere and sleep with air conditioning for free

- never have to use gas station bathroom

- never have to calculate any routes or fuel stops

- also no gas cars drive themselves as well as EVs can yet so driving fatigue is so much better

There were times it felt like I was on my own private train where I got to set the route through national parks, scenic routes, etc and not deal with strangers.
From the very top, this is great analysis. I wonder if they are willing to strike a deal if you need relatively high egress, but very low storage. Also, I do expect that Backblaze's lifetime egress costs per drive far exceed the TCO for the drive (minus egress). Zero trolling: It would great to see some commentary directly from Backblaze on this matter -- for example, explain that egress is very expensive.

EDIT

Above, you wrote that egress is 10 USD / TB. What are egress costs for Amazon, Google, and Microsoft?
The term of the day for the GP is “negative externality”.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Externality
Since when is an internal letter public? Also what happened to the whole "I'm a free speech advocate" spiel? I guess free speech only applies to thinks Musk likes.

Seriously, under which definition is firing employees for their criticism considered good leadership?
So far in the future that you don't need to consider it?

We're already well into the EV adoption S-curve, globally. I think it's worth considering.

Also, I assume by year-round navigability you're referring to snow. I'd point out that Norway has 80% EV adoption, and is covered in snow 6 months out of the year.

[0] https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F4dwzC2WEAAvpxd?format=jpg&name=...
We're talking about renting a car for occasional needs. That means a local rental lot, not a trip to the airport (50 miles away, for me).

We're talking about occasional rentals for long trips when the EV isn't a good option, not a "frequent renter" club membership.

I maintain that for this kind of occasional rental, not at an airport, it's a PITA.
Well, it knew how fast it was going, so that's expected.
Not unique to electric vehicles
Biden got $7.5 billion for exactly that in the US, but construction has been slow to start.
It was proven definitively that sending children back to school during covid was putting theirs and others’ lives at risk, yet there wasn’t a big outcry about it, quite the opposite even. It’s easy to draw conclusions as to why - school provides free day care to most parents. Valuable day care. It’s not a remotely controversial statement. It’s why you’re never going to win this battle on the merit of the science or the kids well being. I guarantee you if they proved sending kids to school at 9am daily would prevent a majority of childhood illness there’d still be a big push against it. It’s come up many times over the last few decades.
This was a great perspective to add onto my own vague ideas as I enter the new year.

Late last year I quit my job and left my apartment, placed all my junk in storage and for the next few months will be travelling around Europe to dance tango until my budget runs out. The goal is to find out where in the world I want to move and work, to meet new friends, to make art, and to dance as much as I can.

At this stage, in the jargon of the blog post, you might say that I am rather explorative. I made this plan after my old job became unbearable, and at the same time a lot of my friends started to leave town, and also my apartment's contract was coming to an end. Seemed like an opportune moment to do something so crazy.

While packing my stuff I took the time to organize all the old papers I'd shoved away in a closet, including old notebooks and drawings all the way back to kindergarten. In the process, it became clear to me how far I had strayed from the strengths, passions, and hopes of that small boy I used to be.

Tango totally blindsided me a-year-and-a-half ago. I always dreaded dancing, feared it, but decided to join some friends attending a beginners class. The payout on that unlikely arm of the bandit has been absolutely staggaring. So, while quite exploratory, my journey will be exploitative as well.

I still have left room for more kinds of discoveries. I have vague plans of drawing, writing poetry, writing a blog and publishing videos, learning new programming languages, and more. I definitely will be bringing my guitar, but after reading this blog post I am asking myself whether the smart thing to do would be to narrow down my options at some early stage of the journey, and even throughout it, honing in on just a couple of the things I want to do, if not just one.

The idea of limiting myself is both unsettling and yet also relieving. I already feel like I know the order in which I will cut off the arms of the bandit. And if I'm lucky, it won't simply turn into a Hydra!
I really think that's the crux of the matter: these things are all personal preferences that stem from a deeply emotional place, and emotion rarely makes sense according to the laws of logic.

For example: my parents have a truck, a van, and an SUV. Do they need all of those vehicles? No. Do they get used all the time? Yes: my parents are both avid gardeners, they generously lend their vehicles to those who happen to need a truck or a van for the day, and I have several younger siblings who occupy them the rest of the time.

And even if they didn't, I could well see my dad still owning a truck purely for the convenience of being able to drive to the local garden center and pick up a load of mulch on a whim - even if in practice that happened twice a year.

Emotions are strange things.
Thank you, SantaMieser
The smart money expects a Moore’s Law kind of curve here for quite some time going forward, given the economies of scale and powerful incentives.

There will be more variability than with Moore’s Law because the raw materials are more expensive, it’s not just about building a fab and then amortizing over billions of parts.

Expect a rough annual decrease of 5-15% in $/kWh for some time. We continue to find new chemistries and electrod materials that bring prices down.

Will there eventually be a floor? Yes, for sure. But we’re not there yet.
Yes, but it often depends more on specific social dynamics, rather than a cost-benefit analysis.

"Hey, you have a car, let's go do XYZ" doesn't happen to people who don't have a car. Replace 'car' with whatever else as appropriate. These social factors drive human decision making to a large degree. People might care about what others think, they might care about spontaneity, they might be influenced by their own desires and the desires of people around them.

Or consider the dinner party example. Sure, I've had dinner parties in rented spaces. It can be done, but they're not the same as being in someone's private space.
SF Bay Area is an outlier for electricity pricing, average US rate is less than half that according to: https://www.bls.gov/regions/midwest/data/averageenergyprices...
and off-peak rates are typically less than average where time of use metering is in effect (my off-peak rate is less than 1/3 of your rate). My family's EV costs about 1/4 to 1/3 as much per mile to fuel as our ICE (and I typically drive the EV with more spirit). For me, over 100k miles, I expect to save about $10k in fuel costs. I agree that the savings isn't as substantial to you because of your extremely high electric rates, but for many, a standard model 3 or y will offer lower TCO than a camry.
Hijacking the IP would indeed allow you to respond to ACME HTTP-01 validations. That can be protected against by using RFC 8657: Certification Authority Authorization (CAA) Record Extensions for Account URI and Automatic Certificate Management Environment (ACME) Method Binding (https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8657). RFC 8657 extends the CAA record to say "Only this specific CA account may request certs for this domain" and/or "Only this specific validation method may be used when requesting certs for this domain".

Let's Encrypt has supported RFC 8657 for over a year now: https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/enabling-acme-caa-accoun...
It's turned into one of my favorite topics too.

It's weird how all the tools out there are all about the ELF sections. Apparently the sections are where all the fun stuff gets stored and the program headers are just some kernel wizardry nobody really cares about.

The section/segment dichotomy exists so that kernels need not load needless stuff onto memory. In practice it means things like ELF symbol tables are not available for introspection by the program. If pointers to those symbols are required, the easiest way is to get the ELF interpreter to give them to the program. If it's a static executable then there's no interpreter and things get annoying fast. Most solutions I've seen involve reading the program's own executable into memory and parsing the ELF structures, essentially duplicating the work of the kernel's ELF loader. Alternatively, one may engage in this incredibly fun activity called linker scripting.

I chose to hack together an ELF patching tool in order to get Linux to automatically load arbitrary ELF file segments onto memory. Along the way I requested some linker features and actually got them!

https://github.com/lone-lang/lone/blob/master/source/tools/l...

With these tools I made it possible for my language's interpreter to load programs embedded inside itself.

https://www.matheusmoreira.com/articles/self-contained-lone-...

I really want to see this feature get adopted by the mainstream languages. Apparently no one else ever thought of it.
Is there anything I can read about the sharp edges of these alternate representations? Lots of ink is spilled about the perils of floats, but in the past when I've been tempted to write a fixed point or ratio implementation (for mathy personal projects where they were especially useful), I've had a hard time finding much written about them at all.
Lithium batteries do have less usable capacity in extremely cold weather, but the real killer is heating. ICE cars have abundant waste heat to warm the cabin, but an EV has to use battery power. For a short journey on a very cold day, it's possible to use more energy for heating than propulsion. EVs are increasingly equipped with heat pumps, but you're still unavoidably going to see a reduction in range as soon as you turn on the climate control.
Woah. Do you have any concrete stats to share? I would be curious to heard about other people's experiences.
Its good that at least one can make it.
> so what's your point.

My point is that there is a cognitive bias towards overweighting the allocation of resources toward low-frequency events.
Long trips in an EV are not impossible, they are just a little more hassle and take a bit longer because you need to take a route that has chargers. If you don't do these trips weekly, imo, the benefits of an EV outweigh these negatives.
out of curiosity, which wifi microcontrollers are better for battery life?