what if i don't own my home and my landlord won't install one? what if i only have on street parking? What if i can't afford to install a charger in my home? What if those trips outside of the normal range are into places where infrastructure is basically non existent? (off grid, 2+ hour drive to "town")

the power/energy part isn't FUD. the current charging time isn't really either if you are talking about a 120V single phase AC charger. a long range model S has a 100kW/Hr battery pack. If you want to charge that in 5 minutes you need 100kW/hr / (5/60) = around 1200kW available at the charger, no way to get around this. It doesn't need to come from the grid at that rate if there is on site storage, but it does need to flow between the charge and the car. This is all assuming that everything is 100% efficient. Assuming the charger is 90% efficient you are looking at needing 1333kW from the wall, and the charger is going to need a beefy heatsink to get rid of 133kW during it's 5 minutes of charging. This all goes up again if we assume that the batteries are also 90% efficient, in that they need 1333kW/5min to recharge the 100kW/hr battery pack. assuming 90% for the charger and 90% for the batteries means we need to get ~1500kW from the wall and dissipate ~260kW from the car.

regardless, his 1500A number is reasonably close for filling a 100kW/hr battery pack in a short window. Even if we assume the use of 3 conductors to supply 480+VDC we are looking at *checks NEC ampacity table* 500MCM per conductor. Each of these conductors has an outside diameter of about 1", and that isn't with outdoor "cord" jackets/insulation on them. They also weight about 1.5lbs per foot. This makes our charger cord around 3-4" in diameter, and weight at least 4.5lbs per foot of cord. Assuming a very short 8 foot cord, that makes our cord weigh 36lbs plus the plug head. This is below many retail 2 person lift guidelines, but I'm also 100% sure my grandma will not be able to lift that let alone shove it around to get it plugged in securely. We'll ignore that the contacts of the car and charger need to be very clean and corrosion free or there will be a significant resistance there. Yes higher voltages can be used to reduce the currents, and the wire sizes, but, that come with risks, like arcing, contact welding, and increases the thickness and robustness of the cables needed, and the need for better interlocking between the charger and the car to prevent the cable being energized unless plugged in properly. Mind you "the youths" will find it funny to try and fuck with teh plug ends, especially if they figure out you can get an arc or start a fire. Or what happens with someone drives off with the charger still connected, or for that mater, just tosses the cable on the ground and then runs it over. Admittedly if you came to me with the design of a modern gas station i'd have basically the same concerns, though a gas spill is not an immediate danger, quite like a 480V+ arc or live component is. TL;DR, rapid charging of cars is limited by the batteries right now, but with likely never be practical due to infrastructure and safety concerns.

from the reports linked two layers deep: On June 2, 2020, the U.S. Trade Representative initiated an investigation of India’s 2020 Equalisation Levy (the DST) under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended (the Trade Act). India’s DST imposes a 2% tax on revenue generated from a broad range of digital services offered in India, including digital platform services, digital content sales, digital sales of a company’s own goods, data-related services, software-as-a-service, and several other categories of digital services. India’s DST explicitly exempts Indian companies—only “non-residents” must pay the tax. So what I see here is a tax on a company that earns revenue based on interactions with Indians, that wouldn't already be subject to taxes in India. I can understand how from India's perspective this is basically being able to sell a product without needing to pay taxes on it. They could have just demanded that everyone that wants to do business in India open up an india based office, and that all transactions need to go through that office, and that office would be subject to all normal business taxes like any other local company. Think of it this way, what happens if a US citizen suddenly started paying the BBC internationally for a video streaming service that was also delivered internationally? what happens if 30% of the US population did that? you don't think the USA would look at that and go, "hey, we're not getting tax revenue from the BBC, what can we do to fix that?" If these US companies don't like it they should take their ball and go home.

There sure did claim that cell phone screens didn't need to be rectangles some time ago, showing up with napkin sketches for phones that were triangles... You sure could use a hex or pentagon type shape if it were the correct diameter. The charging case could open from the front instead of the top. there are hundreds of colors other than white that could have been used.

I mean i really do hate apple, but those 1P buds are pretty much on or over the line. If they had made them black or red, i'd be on board, but i'm not 100% sure i'd be able to tell if you left the cases on a desk.

Same here. I'm slowly eating into my tungsten carbide wedding band.

vim: set expandtab
vim: set tabstop=4

Is what i have on every computer i use with vim. That way when i hit the tab key I get 4 spaces and never need to turn on highlighting. I'm normally doing something in python, where that's the convention anyways.

life rafts have charts, sextants, and nautical almanacs in them? Good to know.

I wonder how well a modern large ship (air craft carrier, or battle ship, or the like) runs without it's main and backup generators? how about after a nuclear blast fires most/all of the electronics on board? If you can still run the main engine, and control the ships direction, you could at the very least then limp to with-in sight of a port, and hopefully within tug distance of the port, and get repaired.

Is it likely that a smaller class of ships could have a similar issue? Can run the main engine, all steering is hydraulic, but the electronics are fried or don't have power? Paper charts and hand calcs generally still work then and again we are talking about getting the boat within visual sight of the nearest port so you can towed in for repairs, not actually trying to hold some sort of precise fixed position for some sort of mission objective.

Anyways, you are correct, the lifeboat situation is a strawman at best.

A bit late here, but personally the reason I'm against systemD isn't that i don't like/want a consistent interface, it's that there seems to be no documentation for that interface, or support for swapping out just a single part of it for another. Take logging as an example. Why can't they say we will verify that your logging daemon responds in a certain way, and then just run it? Right now i have to run systemD's logging, but i can forward it to something else as well. Same goes for dhcp for network interfaces. Why can't i be allowed to pick my own dhcp provider? this would allow for specialized dhcp clients if there is a niche where it is needed. Say one that works on AMD64 with uclibc and a static /dev/ because I'm trying to get a full rescue disk or bootstrapping image into something that will fit into an initramfs (because i can and want to).

Can I use systemD on a network rootfs? what about one with a separate /usr/ fs? or in the case of an old laptop I had, allow me to set the network card into 10MB-FD mode before trying to send any traffic as that particular network card would drop 99% of packets in 100MB-FD mode?

what media doesn't work on a fully optioned mplayer or gstreamer install? Well go2meeting's proprietary format they use for screen captures, and DRMed audio/videa, but that is about it

IS there one for windows 7? (sorry autocad and excel/outlook are windows only).

The ancient Romans had concrete, or at least something very similar to it.

because you wouldn't need to transfer it between the CPU and GPU? you could just pooint the GPU at main system ram and let it have at it.

to be honest, I'd pay extra to watch the machine make my food. I'd love to be able to see all the moving parts and interesting devices made to dispense things like onion slices, lettuce leaves and other such delicate items.

I think a computer/machine would be able to make fies better than the humans do, and with more consistancancy as well.

but the end game is that almost nothing would cost anything (unless it was heavily custom or actually made by a human.) Want a new car, go ask the car robot for a new one, and give it your old one to recycle/referb. Want dinner, ask the robot resturanut to make it for you.