Citation needed. My first search showed that in C++ some 70% of bugs are related to memory safety, which is also why it's so significant that Rust reduced (but not eliminated) it.

It doesn't write bug free code, but it makes a whole lot of bugs a bit more difficult. A careless dev is not expected to be perfect with Rust, just to be unable to cause as much damage.

Shhhh managers and tech bros as talking. Don't disturb them with your "physics".

What country is that which has zero chargers? Actually how did you post your message with no electricity?

Well a lot depends on what country you live in. If you live in the USA with its abnormally cheap gas prices and stuffed up electrical grid you have a somewhat valid point. In countries that have to import gas a long distance and have decent electrical grids because they are classed as an essential service then cost of running a BEV is a fraction of that of running an ICEV. For those of us lucky enough to have off street parking and a decent size roof facing the sun then solar panels are a great way to charge a BEV. When it comes to comparing gas costs to electricity it is hard to beat free.

I call bullshit on your $15K and counter with facts. A $15K battery would be correct for many years ago and true today if you believe in paying 'genuine' manufacture mark up. However as popular models finally go out of warranty you will see aftermarket offerings. The reason you don't see any for the Tesla model 3 or Y is none are old enough to be out of warranty yet. However the Nissan Leaf was sold in big numbers and you can now see decent options for them.

My mum will soon stop driving and I am going to buy her old 2011 Leaf. Local market value is around $2K due to poor range from its defective battery. As an 80 year old the short range has never been a problem for her and she has had many years of trouble free usage from it. As it is mint condition and only has 40K on the clock I was looking at battery replacement options. If I want to go for a new battery, not a swap from a wreak, then VIVNE are a good option with costs from $6,300 to $7,600. They have a ready to go 62kWh pack which can be swapped in a few hours if you have the correct lifting gear. That is 2.5 times the original 24kWh pack. There was a video guy in the UK who did the swap and drove away with over twice new range. These packs have high quality CATL cells and a warranty on them. Here is the link for the pack I have been looking at https://vivnevs.com/products/a...

Batteries continue to drop in cost every year, these price reflect the change in battery cost since 2011 and they are only going to get cheaper in future.

Countless popular titles have had that criticism. But I caution you against just looking at videos and comments. We're in the world of bandwagons. When it's cool enough to hate something to make a reaction video about it, then everyone makes the same reaction video. Welcome to algorithmic content creation.

It probably makes more sense given their scale for them to have their own power generation -- solar, wind, and battery storage, maybe gas turbines for extended periods of low renewable availability.

In fact, you could take it further. You could designate town-sized areas for multiple companies' data centers, served by an electricity source (possibly nuclear) and water reclamation and recycling centers providing zero carbon emissions and minimal environmental impact. It would be served by a compact, robust, and completely sepate electrical grid of its own, reducing costs for the data centers and isolating residential customers from the impact of their elecrical use. It would also economically concentrate data centers for businesses providing services they need,reducing costs and increasing profits all around.

We have seen how this plays out in a few countries now. In the last few months ahead of subsidies ending there is a surge in sales and after a significant drop. It then recovers over the next year or so. The good thing now is in many countries BEVs have reached price parity with similar ICEVs in the most popular market segment, even without subsidies. That really drives sales, pay less up front, pay less to run and pay less to service, which appeals to many people.

The USA on the other hand, don't worry, one day you may catch up with the rest of the world.

That's interesting. I bought a Mac pro in 2016 and it only had 4 fairly plain visualizers to choose from in iTunes. Maybe that was before 'the day'.

Ok well I think that's a tad simplistic. Most people buy vehicles that will do what they need them to. I think buying things to be fashionable is more of an American thing. Not many people can be doing it though, because I see a lot of old and dented vehicles when I'm down there.

Yeah but it didn't whip a lamas arse so no one remembers it.

The reason it was cancelled is irrelevant. The point is a sanctioned project under construction was halted by a different government. That is a demonstration of investment instability and risk.

The USA is now considered a far higher risk for investment than it has ever been in the past, it doesn't matter who is in charge of it now or in in 2029. It'll take a demonstration of stability to reduce that risk, and that will take multiple election cycles to happen. Trump has done some serious lasting damage.

No sarcasm isn't lost. Communication skills are. There's no reason for anyone to think your post was sarcastic. Not in 2025 where there's so much stupid shit posted on the internet. Sarcasm isn't dead, it's just statistically not likely to be so when it isn't obviously marked as such.

By the way I'm Gen X. So you can't even communicate with your own generation properly, let alone "kids these days" (yeah I shake my stick too just thinking that phrase).

Also a Gen X person popularised the emoji (which was invented by a boomer). Presumably he got sick of people not being able to understand his sarcastic posts on the internet, maybe look that up ;-)

And now you realise why communication is a skill that is dying. There's no reason not to take it seriously other than the belief that we don't have religious nutjobs on this site (we do, no I don't keep track of their UIDs). You want to be sarcastic make it obvious, we invited emojis 45 years ago for this very reason. ;-)

And there's also stupidity. It's 2025, I have stopped attributing sarcasm to anything I read online that isn't obvious so because of the sheer number of stupid people on the internet (including on Slashdot). We have a fuckton of religious nutjobs on this site.

Also the internet loses some 90% of communication cues thanks to it being solely text. It's one of the reasons fucking emojis were invented. If I don't see a wink emoji or a /s, I will default to the post being stupid rather than sarcastic. Statistically I will be correct far more of the time.