Actually I dream, but the other way - making the power higher. Who knows what kind of devices we could have if 480v was common.

Why doesn't the US just keep to a single 240V for all power outlets, rather than complicate things unnecessarily?

Amazing to think that we're finally catching on to the 60fps standard that we had decades ago.

It's only a matter of time before 120fps+ (which can look a lot better than 60fps) itself becomes the norm. Having a black screen inserted between every 1/120th frame (to make a pseudo 240fps) would help blurriness etc. even more.

That's a problem with those keyboards then. If had my own way, I'd have a single press key for the curly braces, or perhaps move to square brackets instead.

A future programming language would simply assume UTF-8 from the start, and not worry about trying to support the other encodings. Such a language would have a lot less bloat attached to it.

Having not yet touched Haskell, I love the terseness of the Haskell example. To me it feels like a high level function, like as if it could be rewritten:

items = [1, 15, 27, 3, 54]
result = items.filter(<, 10)

Perhaps all Haskell functionality can be converted like this?

I've often thought about a programming language where you only need to write the smallest possible amount of code to achieve what you're trying to do. And have it clear too (so not Perl style).

No bloat, no header files, no semicolons at the end of lines, swap functionality of && with & and || with | (colour coding them too), power-of symbol (^), terse Haskell-style functionality, and even no forced declarations (the IDE can colour code variables according to whether they're int, double, string etc. automatically, and the scope is automatically defined as the outermost appearance of the variable). The compiler would do ALL the hard work to optimize the program.

The former is obviously much better. It's not just better to read but also to write without the mind veering off from solving the problem at hand.

Those who harp on about verbosity being a good thing don't realize how good things can be.

3.3kW is absolutely pathetic. Consider that Tesla's supercharger is 120kW, almost 40x more powerful. Even their home chargers can be 3-4x more powerful than that.

This keeps being repeated, but why then is the Tesla Model S so good looking (and its aerodynamic efficiency is one of the highest)?

Well it's a very interesting topic. Did someone else also talk about this topic?

Even though I don't block ads personally, I think I understand where he's coming from. Basically, he thinks he's not affected by advertising, so showing him ads is a waste of the publisher's/advertiser's money. Indeed, logically if that's true, then it is a waste of resources showing that advert to him, and obviously it's bad for him too, so lose-lose.

Indeed it could be argued that only 'less techie' people respond to ads, and that 'intelligent' people aren't vulnerable to them. I don't 100% agree with that notion, though I can sympathize with those who think that way.

Any idea why they can't scale these things up to produce nuclear-power plant levels of energy? Imagine a giant helix, 100x-1000x bigger than the ones in that link.

There's your first mistake.

That looks too good for commerical airlines to adopt. Too futuristic, and not 'practical' enough, only good aesthetics which don't matter, yeah.