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Comment Re:Seems like common sense. (Score 1) 244

I know a couple of road warrior who do these east coast/west coast in 4 days. And yeah, I guess anything that doesn't perfectly line up in that use-case becomes a problem.

Charging adds around 7 hours to a Seatle to Miami (3,300 miles, 48 hours driving, 7 hours charging) or San Diego to Rhode Island (3000 miles, 44 hours driving, 7.5 hours charging) in a Tesla Model 3, or about 10 and 12 hours charging for the same trips in an MG4.

That's not nothing, but it's also not adding an unreasonable amount for someone doing that trip in 4 days. It's a forced 30-40 minute break every 2-3 hours, and turns a each 12 hour driving day into a 14 hour driving + charging day.

Comment Re:Chicken vs. Egg (Score 1) 275

I think it comes down to how much is "don't drive enough"?

As someone with an EV who lives in a small regional town, 100km from the nearest city, 100km in the other direction to work, who drives 250-350km (150-200mi) per day on normal days, with 600+km (370+mi) days every month or two when visiting folk, I get by with overnight home charging each night, with the need for fast chargers limited to the longer trips. We've owned this car for over 3 years, and it currently has 133,000km on the clock, so we use our car significantly more than most people.

Every morning I leave the house with a full battery, and return home with between 40% and 5% battery each night depending on how far we went that day, and what the weather is like. It takes a maximum of 6-7 hours to charge overnight, if the battery is at its lowest, so every morning is a "full tank". The cost of charging, even paying the premium for "green" energy sources, and without having solar, is still ~1/3rd of the petrol cost we were paying previously.

In three years of having this car, we've never had to cut a trip short or make any serious deviations due to battery levels, except on the first road trip after owning it for less than 2 weeks and still learning how to drive electric. On the longer trips (500km-1000km), we have been able to synchronise our charging stops as food stops, toilet stops, or quick leg stretches, typically under 20 minutes. On the rare occasion, only slow chargers were available in the town we stopped in, but not often enough to be remarkable. Granted, we haven't yet done the 2000km+ road trips that we were planning (for unrelated reasons), so we don't have real-world experience of that, but when planning that, it wasn't going to inconvenience us in any way.

I agree that if your daily usage cycle is more than 300km, and you're at home for less than 7 hours a day, then an EV is currently not for you. Anyone who has a usage cycle like that will have to wait for future options which might better suit them, and will have to remain using an ICE car for now. Also, if you're regularly (more often than once in 3 months) doing time-sensitive trips in excess of 1000km, an EV may not be suitable depending on your local charging infrastructure.

However, anyone with a dedicated parking spot which can have a charger installed, who drives less than 300km per day most days, and is home for over 7 hours per day most days, should be able to use the current technology to improve their lifestyle rather than inconvenience it.

When we bought the EV, we held onto our ICE car as we didn't know how well it would work out. In practice, we don't use the ICE car any more, and we're selling it.

Comment Re:Time for an Open Hardware Printer (Score 1) 119

Framework is probably a decent counterexample - laptops are similar to printers in most ways that you describe, apart from consumables, and Framework seems to manage building and selling a range of field-repairable, open-standards hardware for laptops, including the spare parts and upgrades..

Comment Re:Managed decline (Score 1) 94

And there are a few EU countries which have a REALLY STRONG vested interest in making it a truly terrible idea to break away from the country you're currently part of.

Surely Czechia, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Croatia would all count as fairly recently having broken away from the country they were part of?

Comment Re:is this even street legal? under the laws about (Score 1) 192

I've never had a company say "we won't take your money", but this was their answer.

Likely, the real answer is either "we made a deal with Mazda which says that only Mazda is allowed to sell this feature to you", or "we're in a commercial/legal battle with Mazda, and withholding this feature from their customers is a negotiation tactic for us".

Comment Re:No fucking shit? (Score 1) 148

Let's try a car analogy. I purchase a car for $10,000, and tell you that it cost me $400 in gas to drive from LA to New York. Therefore I spent $10,400 to get to New York. You claim that you can drive to New York for only $400, except you don't own a car.

The relevant car analogy for their claim is: you bought a car for $10k, and used 4 days and $400 in gas to drive from LA to New York. You've spent $10,400, however, you've can now claim that assuming $50/day for a rental car, you could have spent $600 to get from LA to New York.

(The claimed training cost is based on multiplying the number of GPU hours used in the last training run by the approx cost to rent a GPU for an hour.)

Comment Re:There is a good general remedy (Score 1) 39

A run on a stock can push its market cap over $100 billion for no reason and then suddenly the company needs to be broken up?

There are scenarios in which this can happen, but almost any company which is large enough to eventually cross that threshold is probably a net benefit for society if it was broken up into smaller companies...

The word "worth" is doing a lot of heavy lifting. What is "worth"?

My suggestion would be - average revenue over the last 5 years.

Comment Re:Left the important parts out... (Score 1) 87

If the average salary of the type of tech who would be doing this is around $125k (from a quick google), then $300-$3000 is a rough translation of "between half a day and one week of person-time" per VM. And while spending a week on a single machine for the migration seems like a lot, if you have to do testing, shutting down interacting machines during an outage, pre-move backups for rollback, etc, I can see how it can easily take over half a day per machine...

A team I know recently took over a year to move a bunch of VMs from a datacentre which was being shut down to a new one, without changing the infrastructure in any significant way.

Submission + - TikTok is censoring anti-Trump content (newsweek.com)

smooth wombat writes: After going dark for 12 hours in response to a U.S. law saying it must divest from Chinese ownership, TikTok came back on line when the new administration took office. However, once up and running, users found one unexpected change. Anti-Trump content is now being censored. Words, phrases, and videos which were readily accessible pre-blackout were now unavailable or being removed entirely.

A post on X, formerly Twitter, which has received 4.5 million views at the time of reporting, claims that "TikTok is now region locking Americans from looking up things like "fascism" and "Donald Trump rigged election"."

The post includes two screenshots of the TikTok app. The screenshot is of the search page, and in both the search term is "Donald Trump rigged election." The post states that: "On the left are results from a device in America, and on the right are results from one in the UK."

The post on the left shows a results page stating "No results found," while on the left it shows two videos of the President.

Another post from the account Dustin Genereux said that, "Censorship on TikTok is at an all time high with accounts being deleted, posts going back years being flagged, people losing access to the creator fund for saying anything Anti-Trump, MAGA, Elon, etc. But free speech and all that right?"

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