People who believe zoom calls are any substitute for important in person meetings in a complex negotiation have never done anything either important or complex.

If we ever reboot the entire planet you'd have a point. But as far as anyone is concerned yes the lower level system is in fact eliminated. Once the kernel starts the BIOS is completely irrelevant in a running system.

But let's face it, we're going to burn this planet down so let's hope we do have the option to reboot at some point.

All of the Netherlands (230miles by 160miles) takes up 1.3GB with today's dataset (which contains far more than OSM did in 2012). It's a very densely populated country.

You would have been able to do this in 2012. By the way Google introduced offline maps back in 2015 only a couple of years later.

Now? No. At launch? Absolutely. Fuck you for excusing a company launching a broken product. You are the problem.

Way to go outing yourself as someone who lives locally to Cupertino. For anyone else who actually used it was fucking terrible. Me I live in a major city in a country the other side of the world. At least I thought I did, according to Apple Maps I lived literally 200km off the coast in the fucking Pacific Ocean.

Once they fixed that it suggested that rather than drive 10min down the highway to get to work I detour through a national park offroad trail for 2 hours (there was nothing wrong with the highway).

Once they fixed that they suggested their own logo. What do I mean by their own logo? The Apple Maps launch logo literally shows a navigation path that suggested driving off the edge of an overpass to fall onto the I280 below (except the navigation instruction I got was to drive off the highway overpassing a local road and taking the 10m plunge.

They absolutely have a say in literally everything that does not apply to all employees equally. They do not have a say if you offer unified global voluntary termination to the entire workforce, this is not what anyone is talking about doing. MS is getting rid of aging (reads: expensive) staff.

Laws. This kind of specific application has very big legal limitations in different countries, and different tax implications both for the company and the person buying out their employment. I've seen a company do this globally before. It took them YEARS. Germany especially resulted in a 2 year hold up due to works council negotiations.

Not really. The undocumented part of excel is how the file format is handled. The functions of excel effectively have already been duplicated. LibreOffice Calc implements basically all of Excel's functions + more, so that alone isn't holding companies to Excel. A lot of it is legacy cruft. E.g. Excel loaded up with VB script, and no one *wants* to duplicated that bag of shit.

That's not how these work. Every charger above 100kW is pretty much universally a battery to battery charger. They trickle charge their battery and then fast charge the vehicle when needed. Charging stations are rated not only in power they provide, but also in the number of vehicles they can charge per hour given the service.

We installed a 4x 300kW charging station at our office without any change to the service feeding the building. Most truck stops do the same. Next time you're at a charger note the physical size of it. There's a reason it's a honking big case (full of batteries). If it's not massive look around, you'll find cabinets with batteries somewhere around the lot.

These ultra fast charging packs don't generate any more heat than before. The difference here is that the internal resistance of the battery is lower, that is precisely what enables the faster charging. They generate less heat while charging and discharging as a result. Also several of these super fast charging technologies have all sorts of additional cooling features, e.g. BYD's blade charger is combined with liquid cooling of the battery pack. It literally gets less warm when charging than a Porsche Taycan on a 300kW charger despite putting in 4x the amount of power.

The burn issue is real. That said a fire on a normal car is also no joke. The big problem is not just the fire but the state of the road afterwards. A stock standard ICE car with no fancy hybrid pack or anything was on fire on the highway on the way home from work for me 3 weeks ago. The highway was literally completely closed for 5 hours. Not only are normal car fires actually quite hard to put out as well (especially with modern PFAS free suffocates assuming they are even available), they need to clean the slippery oil off the road afterwards.

Do you typically drive home to refuel while you're on a trip? Or do you as usual have no fucking idea what anyone is talking about and are really poor at making a point?

Plug into a fast charger on those couple of trip you quarterwitted buffoon.

Only because your attention span is smaller then the gestation period of cancer.

Presumably today using today's technology with no alternative available. It's almost like this conference is precisely what that restriction is about. Weird huh!

None public. It was internal in the company I worked for. The analysis was part of a larger project looking at where best to place DC fast chargers. Time spent on the forecourt was only one metric, we also analysed traffic volume, change in traffic over time, and related it to spend in the shop to try and determine where it is most profitable to put a charger.

The fact that people spent so long at a service station on average was just a surprising side note in the study.

You may not, statistically though most people will. Again we've studied this specifically. Just do me a favour and try not to get anyone else killed as you drive impaired from fatigue down the highway. You may not value your own life, but that doesn't mean someone else should suffer.