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Comment Re: Rust is NOT memory safe (Score 1) 52

The reason people will roll their eyes at you over that is that its an incredibly boring debate that ended 30 years ago.

And yet, you jumped into the argument as if it were fresh dung and you were a dung beetle.

Python has plenty of serious problems. But if what you get hung up on is whitespace,

And there it is, you're a dung beetle white space Python fan who can't resist defending your bad decisions.

Comment Re: Rust is NOT memory safe (Score 1) 52

I don't understand the Rust culture, I really don't. You never see this kind of hardline, ultra-orthodox alignment with other languages, at this scale

Swift programmers were worse. It's a crappy language (has all the warts of Objective-C and adds some of its own), but as soon as you say "the enum system makes it easy to write confusing code" you will have all kinds of Swift programmers coming out to insult you and your dog.

Comment Re: Meanwhile in China... (Score 0) 122

The best numbers I've been able to find put that number at about 25% of car owners

In the US, I thought I'd seen the number being closer to fully 1/3 of the population that did not have offstreet private parking where they could recharge every day....

I'm not in favor of the govt intervening....I'm ok with them maybe helping to get charging infrastructure going a bit more, but I don't want taxes or incentives on EV or ICE....let the market work that out. When the EVs are truly beating out the ICE vehicles.....the public will switch....if they don't, then they don't...but the govt shouldn't be choosing winners and losers here.

Comment Re:Called it - Politicians backing off (Score 0) 122

Before leaving the charger, you can see your next charging stop and the expected arrival SoC (state of charge). Only an idiot would leave a charger without having enough battery. You can also choose to charge more and skip the next charger - for example, if youÃ(TM)re stopping for lunch.

Sounds like a pain in the ass to me.

With my normal car (ICE), I don't have to 'plan' my trip based on where I have to fuel up....with the few exceptions of extremity, like crossing a few desert areas in the US, but for the majority of the US....there's a gas station on every corner in a city and all long the highways....you don't have to know where...they're just there whenever you need them.

And...gas is getting so cheap again too.....

Comment Re: Meanwhile in China... (Score 0) 122

Last time I used one of those apps to find chargers in my area....I found precious few for the whole city area that were public.....

I've only seen a few in a Whole Foods parking lot, and I think there were some in a Winn-Dixie parking lot.

But the few the apps showed were mostly private chargers.

so, living here if you can't charge at home, you're pretty screwed.....EV is just not the way to go around here in the New Orleans area.

Comment Re: Meanwhile in China... (Score 0) 122

With TCO it is cheaper to put there bigger battery and remove the ICE. But most of the new car buyers cannot calculate TCO and they care only about purchase price.

Well, you also have to consider the large number of people that do not have the capability to charge at home.

If you cannot charge at home, then an EV just doesn't not make much sense in most of the US.

Comment Re:This is wrong (Score 3, Insightful) 164

Yes but have you considered that without this system poor people won't be able to get mcdonalds delivered to their door?

So it's a plan with no drawbacks?

I do recognize that this is an issue for the disabled, but it's unsustainable for them as well, and I reject temporary solutions that aren't backed up by permanent ones. If the plan is only to kick the can and wish for a miracle, it's a bad plan.

Comment Re:Called it - Politicians backing off (Score 1) 122

For which we pay with much lower take home pay, hilarious queues for doctor in most places

Most of my coworkers have to go out of county for even fairly basic medical care because there isn't anything available here and wait times can be into the months. I had referrals for over a year that I never even got a call back on. It's not clear why you think that the USA has functional medical care, but in many cases and places it very much does not.

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