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Comment Re:Here come the edge cases! (Score 0) 260

I'm glad you looked up the real number as I usually see estimates of 65% of USians or something like that living in apartments (zero of which have chargers installed in the parking lot of course).

But what you are saying is that no progress can be made on the other 66% who can install a home charger until absolutely every possible case is covered, which is not out of touch but simply pro-Big Oil propaganda.

Comment Re:Legacy auto is clueless (Score 1) 260

Beg to differ a bit: while GM made some missteps, particularly in handing the VOLTEC technology over to their PRC subsidiary and dropping it in North America, they took their time to develop a well-engineered and manufacturable EV platform for the next 10-15 years. The problem is their executive team is now living in fear of what a fascist regime could do to them if they don't toe the line and that has given the anti-progress faction at GM operations HQ the chance to counterattack and put anchors on EV marketing and sales. Really a shame and it will cost them dearly over the next 20 years [1].

[1] the anti-progress faction at GM will be well-retired to their backwoods Michigan cabins with their 2,847hp offroad pickup trucks by then

Comment Waking up 10 years from now (Score 1) 260

There's only one question in my mind: when the United States wakes up 10 years from now and realizes we have fallen 20 years behind in basic and applied science, EVs, public transportation, and re-creating our built environment to center humans instead of machines (ok, we're already 30 years behind on that last) WHO ARE WE GOING TO BLAME?!? SOMEONE DID THIS TO US - THEY MUST BE PUNISHED!!!

Comment Re:Just speculating. (Score 0) 260

"Electric vehicles are one of those things that are a really good idea in theory but out in the real world they are just simply unworkable. "

EVs are like the apocryphal bumblebee: they don't work in theory, yet millions of people use them every day with no more serious inconvenience than ICE vehicles experience from time to time (e.g. the mythical 'range anxiety' = running out of gas on a back road).

I've had people give me long lectures about the un-usability of EVs while I have driven them across the city, errands, and back on purely electric power in my PHEV.

Comment Here come the edge cases! (Score 4, Interesting) 278

"But I HAVE to be able to hitch the travel trailer to the pickup and drive to Grandma's house in Maine with half my household goods aboard every summer!"

[Narrator: last time he made that drive was in 2018]

The ability of archaic ICE vehicle lovers to come up with absurd edge cases for everyday persons (note: not long distance trucks, farm equipment, or heavy machinery which will probably need diesel engines for a long time yet) never ceases to amuse me. Yeah, sure, you need to drive to Boise and back this afternoon; gotcha.

Comment Russian nesting dolls of scams (Score 2) 48

The current crop of large correlation models being marketed as "AI" appears to be nothing but a Russian nesting doll of scams, with the difference from a piece of Russian artwork being the doll is normally displayed on an equally solid end table whereas "AI" is floating on an aerogel of baloney that is simultaneously rotting, melting in the sun, and being eaten by rats.

Oh yes, let's not forget the massive theft if the work of others that forms the basis of "LLM" "AI".

Comment Re: Year Of Linux On The Desktop (Score 2) 183

Thatâ(TM)s not the only reason; the other two big ones are:

1. There is far greater parity between Windows and Linux in terms of stability and security over the past 15 years or so.
2. Linux has never had the software range MS
has had, and the best Linux software is also on MS plus a lot more.

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