I need a 300 mile range

This exists.

range and a 4 hour turn around

You can just about do that at home on AC if you have a good connection. It's only a 32A 3 phase connection.

I want to take the wife out to a movie in the evening after a long commute.

You want a 300 mile range, right? If you're commuting 250 miles round trip and then another, say, 50 to the cinema, frankly you need to evaluate your life choices. You're wasting your life on the road.

People not spending money is bad... how? This doesn't slow the economy any,

The economic activity is the movement of money, broadly speaking. Without spending of money there cannot be economic activity, so not spending is literally slowing the economy.

Speaking of UKCA...

in my line if work is don't think I've had a single UK customer ask about it. CE is still valid here mostly and everyone still asks for CE marking. It's all B2B by the way.

But also since we can get away with just CE, why would we go for just the local one and have to recertify anyway for a bigger market.

companies started planning their exit strategies.

The strategy was so crystal clear, "brexit means brexit" after all, that companies had no idea even what to plan for. The bad ones buried their heads in the sand, the good ones wasted avst amounts of time and money having to cover all reasonable contingencies.

Naturally, in keeping with the entire theme, it wasn't just planning for exit, it was an utter shitshow of trying to plan.

you get a very disorienting "why won't it slow down" feeling, and it's easy to panic.

You don't always even panic. It's weird: if you do something in muscle memory enough, you don't consciously think about doing it. This is why driving etc is smooth because you aren't thinking about every action. When something breaks [see what i did there!] you at best get a creeping feeling of wrongness that takes a while to percolate up to your conscious brain.

I can relate a few anecdotes.

One typically dismounts a bike by first lifting your foot up off the pedal before putting your foot down. After an accident where I slipped off a pedal climbing a hill, I switched to toe clips, which require you to tilt your foot down then slide it up and out. Lifting doesn't work. First time I came to a stop, I toppled over into a puddle while hauling my foot upwards, but not even thinking about it. I wasn't panicking because I hadn't even noticed until I was at about 45 degees at which point I had a brief flash of "oh shi..." before landing in the puddle. But it's funny: lower level part of my brain wanted to lift my foot and just kept applying increasing force to match the requirement, but didn't inform me.

Next (harmless) was on moving to the US. I was driving along and then my partner asked me what was wrong, which confused me. She then asked why I was batting at the door. I had *NO* idea I was doing that. I'd only ever driven a manual on the other side of the road. Based presumably on engine noise etc, my hand was searching continuously for the nonexistent gear stick on the wrong side of the car. The weird thing was it was going all of its own accord. And because nothing had gone really wrong, nothing jogged my low level brain out of that loop, so it was happily searching forever, and my conscious mind was completely unaware.

Third was in winter, wearing heavy boots driving an unfamiliar rental canyonero, and clipped the gas with the side of my boot while braking. The car wasn't slowing properly, and the low level feedback control part of my brain just kept commanding more force, so I kept kitting both pedals ever harder. I got a creeping feeling of wrongness as the car wasn't stopping, but it's basically of the form "why is my limb not working properly".

I then rear ended someone, and I can't remember how I realised what the fuck I was doing. Anyway the guy was really nice.

He used to win these market timing games because no one was paying attention to huge short positions. You could quietly bet against a company, or, better yet, you could quietly amass a short position and then release stunning negative news that you had uncovered and watch the stock price tank.

These days it is more likely that online investors will notice a large short, and drive the price of the stock up until the person holding the short gets margin called and loses all of their money. The shorters then provide the liquidity you need to get out of the position. There used to be good money in shorting terrible companies, but in an age where hordes of armchair investors can drive the price of GameStop to the moon that strategy is just too risky.

Even if it is, and it certainly isn't, the growth is predicated on more electricity generation infrastructure being installed than the world can build right now. And that's all heavy industry, you can't spin up new capacity overnight. It's nonsensical.

What on earth are you talking about?

This dude always posts strange screeds in fixed width font with unusual punctuation. For you own sanity, I recommend not trying to understand him.

If ffmpeg allows known and published vulnerabilities to languish, the risk here is that organizations that use their code will simply stop using it and will look for other solutions.

Orgs basically have a choice:

1. Suck it up and deal with the whims of people you are not paying a penny to
2. Cough up some cash and contribute
3. Develop their own completely in house/pay for a 3rd party one

2 is almost always way cheaper than 3. Option 4 of "whine incessantly that people you aren't paying aren't working for you fast enough" really needs to stop. I suspect a lot of companies would rather do 3 than 2, because they are not rational.

yeah - I just logged in here to write this - I am one of the Bixby Non Users.

For coming up with such an uther useless idea, I even logged back in Slashdot, after several months, just to be able to comment mocking you!

  I mean -- I like Samsung Phones, and I had been in the Galaxys for almost a decade now.
Not ONCE I found out the bundled 'bixby" to do anything useful!.

Wait - I lie - at one time, there was an easter egg that could toggle the mobile flashlight by saying "Lumus".
That is long gone.

Woke AI education is now a thing :o

Look, I am a firm believer that the UK's computer teaching has been crap and this is extra crap, but what the fuck. Woke? What the fuck are you even talking about.

Do you?

Why not buy a fair phone then which is thicker and has a removable battery.

Why do you guys suck so bad?

Same reason you suck so bad at logic.

Well, I said victim of violent crime, not murder ;)

Yes and I already addressed that and pointed out why it was a disingenuous point ;)

Speaking of which, you're almost twice as likely to be murdered in London than to be killed by a car. You people have funny priorities.

You really struggle with numbers, don't you?

Murders over the last year in London: 104--116 depending on where you draw the boundary
Road deaths per year in London in 2024 110.

Last I checked, 110 wasn't a factor of 2 larger than 110, but perhaps that's just "ethnocentric bullshit".

If we wanted that culture- we'd have it.

Ah you know that meme of the guy completely stacking it and then claiming "I meant to do that"...?

Would you please decide if you don't have murder roads or if it's the culture you want to have murder roads. It can't be both.

The most dangerous state in the US for pedestrians is fucking New Mexico. It's not because of stroads.

It's hard to stop when drunk, driving on two emergency spares (somehow) and have a ristra hanging from the rear view mirror blocking your view.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/t...

New Mexico the deadliest state for pedestrians. Reason: poor design of roads. And the main cited reason in the research this article is about is mixing high and low speed features on one road. Which means it's stroads.

Are stroads a good idea, or bad?

Bad.

Who knows- who's to say.

No one knows! Feelings are better than facts. You can't measure anything ever because it might upset people, so let's just throw our hands up and claim we don't know!

They are (a) dangerous, (b) expensive and (c) inefficient at moving traffic and (d) generate more traffic than other designs.

Here's a fun fact: in countries with safe roads (i.e. Western Europe), during covid the roads got even safer per km since there were fewer cars. In America, the easing congestion finally allowed people to actually make use of the high speed features of stroads which are normally out of use due to their inefficiency and so the roads got more dangerous per km driven.

There's arguments in either direction,

there are not.

but no strong evidence.

There is large amount of strong evidence.

But you've still got to decide: are your roads not a piece of shit or are you from a culture that prefers it? You kind of seem to want it to be both...

Probably the most likely answer is the roads are poorly designed and most people simply don't realise there are better alternatives.

I see- your arbitrary line is better than my arbitrary line.

Yeah? I mean if you're trying to see if your country is doing well or badly then you are best of comparing it to countries that are in some way comparable. Compared to much of western Europe, yeah the UK is doing decently well in this regard. Not the best, but pretty highly ranked.

That seems reasonable. Our infrastructure ought to be much better than an ex Soviet state with a fraction of the gdp per capita. The only point of making such a comparison is to know if you've fucked up really hard.

Let's just look at it this way- you're more likely to be a victim of a violent crime walking in London than you are be killed by a car in the US as a pedestrian.

A good part of that is because the US has made itself so astonishingly hostile to pedestrians that everyone drives if they can. And speaking of which:

London has 116 murders from a population of 15 million. The US has 41000 road deaths from a population of 340e6. So you're 15 times as likely to die on the roads in America as you are likely to be murdered in London. But if you insist on just pedestrians that was just 7500, meaning you're only 3x as likely to die as a pedestrian in America as you are to be murdered in London.

Yeah yeah I know you said violent crime not murder. But you're comparing pedestrian fatalities to non fatal injuries in order to make America look less like a poor ex Soviet state in this regard. It would be much more reasonably to compare pedestrian wounding and death to all violent crime including murder. But that way America would still look bad so...

Yeah so despite you trying to pain London as murder streets it's still 3-15x safer than simply being on the roads in America. I reckon I'll take my chances in London.