I'm certainly not a bot! As I've posted here before, my car is so old it has a cassette player, so I'm certainly in the market for an EV or a hybrid. I think if 1% of F150s were liable to stop suddenly and need a tow then we would be hearing about that too. It is possible that I may be overly worried about that particular kind of failure. My only experience of being towed was when I had two flat tires. That was at about 4pm and I only got home (about 25 miles away) seven hours later.

The things that don't look good are the unconvincing corpspeak about solving the problem, the supply chain delays (they are turning out new cars so they should have these components to fix the vehicles they have already sold), and knowing that some people have had the failure more than once.

(1) Informative video about home charging (link), (2) Great video about charging infrastructure (link), (3) Beginner's guide to electric vehicles (link).

There's actually a whole playlist of EV stuff from Technology Connections, but I'm not sure how to share it.

I was thinking about buying an Ioniq 5 myself, but Technology Connections and some other YouTube videos have made that look a bit risky. Short story: you can get stranded and need a tow because of a failure in a very important part of the car's charging system. Hyundai does not seem to have a very good story on fixing the underlying problem. Videos: My Ioniq 5's ICCU failed and Hyundai's doing a terrible job fixing this problem and Hyundai’s ICCU Nightmare: What Every EV Owner Needs to Know?

He really needs two numbers: (1) how much more people are willing to pay, and (2) how big a tariff barrier there will be for the imported laptops.

For (1) we have bids of 0% and 20% in the comments so far. Finding out what people would do isn't easy, but it's a lot easier than...

(2) Who knows what the tariff barriers will be? They depend on trade imbalances, border security, fentanyl precursors, prosecution of Jair Bolsonaro, perceived trade retaliation, and a whole lot of other ad hoc factors. Even though China, Taiwan, and South Korea don't border the US, and they aren't prosecuting any former Brazilian presidents, you'd still have to have amazing foresight to know what the tariffs will be six weeks from now, let alone six years.

Wikipedia:

1999: "Perl Cookbook" and "The Education of Hyman Kaplan"

Wow - 26 years! It's been 16 years since my last badly-written Perl (or any Perl!).

90-ish of the current 832 members are hereditary peers, and they will not pass membership on to their heirs. From wikipedia:

There's a lot to be said for the GP's "Get out of my cubicle for a couple of days. See what other people at the company do." If you get opportunities for a temporary change of scenery, it can help your personal development. There's an interesting article on the new chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in The Atlantic, where some of the moves he made happen - flying F-16s in the National Guard, working with a venture capital investment firm, temporary placement in the Department of Agriculture - justify the claim that "his climb through the ranks was always unorthodox." Obviously a few hours packing boxes doesn't amount to much alongside that, but it's the same principle.

Calling for stronger Chinese and Japanese currencies is essentially calling for a weaker dollar. Unless we want all currencies to be "stronger than average".

Valid points, but "alot" may not be a good hill to die on in defending the evolution of language. It seems to make things more complicated. I've seen "alittle" and "abit": where do we end up? There are perfectly good words like "atop" and "afar", and if the "drop spaces" crowd takes control then confusion may ensue.

PBS has some great science content. Fascinating Fails is a really good series about a range of discoveries. As well as an episode on penicillin (Fleming may have jazzed up the origin story) there is an interesting episode on ergot and LSD.

There was a fun video from xckd last week: What if you used a flamethrower as a snowblower?. Spoiler: it's better to move it than melt it. But the flame thrower would win on entertainment value.

FTFY with massive air quotes. Many of them get a one-way trip from retailers to homes.

That's what I thought, given that protons are ten a penny (actually 10^24 a penny) and hardly worth transporting around. But the summary in Ars has the answer:

That's not great, but a Thirties-style depression would have been a lot worse.