he other thing about dense urban environments is you typically don't have that far of a commute

And...not everyone lives (or wants to live) in "dense urban environments".

I certainly don't....

lots of chargers here in NY. my biggest problem is the cost at public chargers roughly 2-3 times that of at home and per mile higher/same than gas.

Thank you....I'd made comments earlier, that unless you lived on the east or west coast extremes, for the most part you are SOL for EV charging across the greater United States.

I guess in some major urban places maybe....or huge mega cites like Houston or NYC Los Angeles.....but aside from that, public charing infrastructure isn't that readily available in the US.

Public chargers, as in not in the apartment building. It's just LA. Electric cars are fairly ideal here.

Where I live I see precious few "Public" chargers....

It has been a little while since I last looked at those websites that show public chargers, but last time I saw very few chargers at all in the New Orleans area and even with ones there, most of those were private that were listed.

US federal minimum wage is at 7-odd dollars unchanged since 1990s, and an average factory worker's net wage is aboht the same as a month's rent - no retiremennt, sick time, holiday or maternity mandated (and typically not available). At will employment, medical insurance tied to it.

Err...you've never heard of the hold the auto workers unions have on the US?

I defy you to show me the workers on the lines in US auto plants that make "minimum wage"....these folks have great bill rates and benefits...in fact, SO good it's what keeps the US auto makers from being competitive and keeping car manufacture IN the US...

The problem is not the means it is the will. Norway made it expensive to own an ICE vehicle and incentivized EV adoption.

Why in the world would I want to vote in a Govt that would force me to do something I"m not really ready, wanting or able to do?

My government is NOT there to tell me what the fuck to do...it is there to represent my interests, keep legal things legal, keep us safe, city serices,etc.....but it is not there to tell me what to buy or how I should form my lifestyle.

The US governments (federal, state and local) are not there to incentive or push any scheme for lifestyle, or force me into one type of transportation or anything in my life.

Growing up in the 70s I remember needing to know if it was an even or odd day

So aside from that blip in history that lated maybe a year....an ICE vehicle owner has not had a problem finding a gas station to quickly fill (5 min tops) in almost 60+ years?

Nobody with an EV does this. Chargers are everywhere. You charge at home or at your destination.

Where do you live in the US where there is this plethora of chargers everywhere?

I mean, if you don't own a home with off street parking, you are dependent upon public chargers....I've never seen a charger at a worksite, and there are not many public ones available around, at least not last time I liked around New Orleans for instance.

And older cities like this....quite often don't have off street parking even for houses people can own....

I live in a tall apartment block in the US and there's plenty of public chargers nearby.

Might I ask what part of the US are you living where apartments have plenty of EV charging for all their tenets?

I've certainly not seen any offerings of chargers in any of the homes or apartments I've ever rented....

I had the same feeling. Maybe this guy was stuck in a coma for the last 10 years, and woke up convinced that everybone in the US and Australia lived in tall apartnemnt blocks?

Well, I believe I saw at least one number saying that fully 1/3 of people in the US do not own their homes, don't have offstreet parking, live in apartments....the ones that really aren't set up for EV life.

That's not an insignificant number....and yes this is in 2026.

Are you not hearing about people complaining they can't afford private homes anymore?

I have yet to see an apartment complex anywhere having its parking lot torn up to install EV chargers for every/any parking spaces....have you see this? If so, in what part of the country?

Most people that want(ed) them have them....I read a good number of them got out of the EV when they could...and lost money on the resell....

Unless you have offstreet parking and a garage in the US in a home you own, you're like SOL for home charging which I feel is absolutely necessary to really conveniently use an EV....especially due to charging infrastructure not being a thing unless you are on the far east or west coast....?

WAT?

It takes more than couple days to test and push software patches. You do want things tested right, you'd hate get a TZ file where someone fat fingered something and systems set to a given zone all default to GMT or something right because they can't parse the row needed?

Also it isn't just computers timezone change impact. Contracts may involve hourly payments etc, and people might need to negotiate changes; not many people maybe but not nobody.

Honestly I don't see any universe where responsible governance would change time standards with less than years notice. Not that it does not happen but there is no reason that is should. What possibly makes it so urgent to change right now if you want to stop doing DST -> STD vs pass the law now have it take effect before the next would be time change after this one?

yeah I have done a bit of that on my little personal projects, that I have "vibe coded".

It is fun because you get to look at code, like it is the 90s again, and everything there is relevant and important. As much as people fear AI is going to generate a lot of incomprehensible mud-ball programs, it is actually pretty good and generating concise things, that are easy to read.

HOWEVER...

Those personal projects don't resemble the requirements of contemporary software. Even internal enterprise software these days often needs support for stuff like internationalization, accessibility support, adaptive UI that is useful and efficent for the comptroller with the 43" monitor and for the CEO who insists he only needs a 6" mobile phone for all the things.

The libraries are big because they do all that stuff, and if skip them you don't get that stuff. 80% of the time you don't need that stuff. That said, for your little S-corp, or even smaller LLC you might not need that stuff right now but very suddenly you might find that you do. When you do you'll be rewriting or at least rebasing a lot of code back onto those big library stacks; where as if you'd used them in the fist place it would probably be just add some start up parameters to flip on 'high contrast mode' in the display tool kit for the color blind person you just hired. Alternative you could try to just add the functionality you now need, but of course then you are just putting the complexity right back and getting to run a new untested system, with lot of fun corner cases and gotchas for you to discover all by yourself because you did not know enough about the subject to tell the AI Agent what it all it really needed to do.

It is fashionable to hate on all the complexity, but to often people forget about the simplicity it affords. You can today get an incredible amount of functionality out of handful of lines of "application" code. If I use a browser as my UI, a single gives me an edit control where a user can write click and get spelling suggestions, the get ranged selection support, I can style it with a few more lines of re-usable css, screen readers know what to do with it, and more; try that with your win32 CreateWindowEx() edit control....

Complexity means bugs, because bugs are ultimately a function of interactions that were not considered fully, the more stuff interacting either the more buggy it will be or the more effort will be need to control for it. The complexity though exists because people demanded it, society decided software had to be usable even if you don't speak English, and we decided things like it should portable even if you change computer architecture, and .... achieving all that without the library ecosystem really would be impractical.

LOL it was the last crash that created the "you're the product" tech industry. Everyone woke in 2000 and realized nobody had a real business plan, and started sell; tech's answer was monitize the users.

Holly crap dude you think with regulating big tech is going to give you more freedom. I have 20% share in the Brooklyn Bride if you are interested, I am willing to sell for pennies on the dollar!

Seriously all regulating AI will do is make it harder or impossible for open source and open models. Regulation is what Anthropic and OpenAI want, they are littleral asking for it. Why? Because they only have a realistic revenue stream and by extension business if either; the history of computers getting faster and cheaper suddenly stops.. or they can someone legally keep people from publishing stuff and others from selling hardware. That is 100% what that is all about no matter what they say, and Democrats will play right into it. We all better hope they don't get both Houses.

Someone has already pointed this out, but it bears repeating. For that to actually be true, they would need to cost more from the budget than they add to it through both direct taxation, and the tax revenue generated through the effects of their labor and other economic activity on the GDP. Virtually all studies show that they're actually a net benefit there.

Perhaps for the LEGAL migrants...but not for the ILLEGAL migrants...they are a burden on the US taxpayer.....they're usually paid under the table, off the books and are the ones clogging up our ERs and classrooms.

Not like IPv6 solves anything with lots of ISP blocking inbound IPv6 connections.