@c64_gio What kind of person drives more than 250 miles every day? That is more than 4 hours of driving! Heck of a commute you have there..

@chx @morfj Before we jump all the way to wireless road charging, give me solar on the roof of my car for daily trickle charging!

@paulgp @DinaPomeranz Will not be until a major top 40 world city is lost to climate change

@cristianvidmar Yes, but I think even a regular wall plug in front of many businesses and restaurant parking spots will go a looong way versus “only at gas stations”

@nelsonmenezes @joonas_fi that said I have NO idea what things look like in 20 years, except, I bet you a million dollars that batteries will be significantly cheaper than they are now 🤑

@nelsonmenezes @joonas_fi 10 year warranty on the battery is very common

@PolarBearFarm @MCKrempel @dj_ir0ngruve sounds like you can also replace worn out (or underperforming) individual "nodes" of the battery as well? 🤔 makes sense if the battery is a collection of parts rather than one big monolithic thing

@Frang this does not seem workable based on the weight, size, and handling risk of batteries that size.. plus the whole design of the car would need to accommodate rapid "cartridge" changeout. We can't even do this on freakin' PHONES so.. uh..

@markjnet https://t.co/xWysSQK9VH looks like a range of 9.81 cents / kWh to 33.43 cents / kWh so yeah.. almost 3x range, though Hawaii is a big outlier. It's "only" about 2x if you account for that.

@ohmz I'm skeptical of this hot-swap idea based on the volume, weight, and handling danger of said batteries. Changing that out would NOT be easy, plus the design of the car would need to offer easy access etc. We can't even do this on PHONES!

@c64_gio total range for this particular EV is 250 miles or 402km, to run the battery from 100% to 0%

@c64_gio Per my earlier tweets, if your range is 200 miles (aka 322 kilometers) every day, you are totally safe with a level 2 charger, assuming 10 hours of home charging per day while you are sleeping. You DO sleep, yes? 😴

@grevenitisk none of this matters until we get rid of the canker sore that is Trump

@frje Yeah this was a big reason I didn't want to mess with hybrids. All-electric is sooo much simpler than a mish-mash of both worlds.. Go all in and get the full benefit!

@b11c it helps to live in a smaller country, that's for sure ;)

@c64_gio it isn't, considering mostly you will charge at home, while sleeping. Level 2 charger is basically akin to saying "I want a washer/dryer at my house". It's not exotic at all.

$2.80 seems like a reasonable US national average per gallon of gas, currently https://t.co/zpunw8xN8R

@staticsan Even if they just ran a bunch of boring generic electrical outlets to parking lots, 2% per hour might break you even on "around town" stuff.

@JamesMcWS yeah that's what I am getting at. On a long enough horizon (50+ years) gas stations will be like phone booths -- nobody will remember what they were for

@Frang yeah it doesn't seem like you can really push beyond level 3 in a sane way?

@Xowap yeah I think that's why they usually don't quote going to 100% they stop at "time to 80%"?

@hybridZer0 yeah it is feeling like the model has to be starbucks, not the current way we think of gas stations where nobody (in their right mind anyway) "hangs out" there

or starbucks I guess is a good model for this? get a coffee, chill out for ~20+ mins?

I guess the model has to be "put them places where people already park and spend time eating / shopping / etc" in practice?

This makes me wonder what electric "gas stations" are going to be like in practice, Because even at level 3 that's 1.3% battery per minute.. you'd need at least 10 minutes hanging around at the er.. electricity station.. to "fill up" to 13%.

So let's see, time from 0 to 80% battery level 1 (120v) - 40 hours level 2 (240v) - 10 hours level 3 (100kw) - 1 hour

the good news is level 2 chargers aren't complicated, they're basically "washer / dryer" electrical hookups, 240v, and they charge 4x faster. So instead of 2% charge per hour, you'll get 8% per hour. Now you can safely drive 200 miles per day, if that's your jam.

assuming 10 hours of charge time while you're home from work and sleeping etc, the crappy basic charge solution stops working the minute you need to drive more than 50 miles round trip each day.

@gilini https://t.co/yMnwQjKJCE "When Apex Legends first came out, one of the biggest questions players were asking was whether or not we'd be getting Titans"

@lobrien well, actually, it's spelled tacti-cool

kinda hard to decide now that I've seen this one though https://t.co/GwJJStwjFb

@migueldeicaza @paulg https://t.co/RnJoG2Bk89

@Michael_MXP I actually prefer it, not even joking

@johnolilly @bijan also the resale value of apple products is sooo crazily high (unlike virtually all other tech) that it seems a shame to sacrifice that without a case

@bijan it is nice but soooo risky

it works! before (Chrome 75) and after (Chrome 76). https://t.co/Jbi1Tfc8vU

@realkpfleming @MCKrempel @mroach Yeah it totally breaks down on so many levels. Just completely inferior in every way.

@cwinterb Why, when Waze runs through CarPlay just fine?

@Pinboard It is opioids, stuff white people like https://t.co/NHkKSNbf3f

@Pinboard @MikeIsaac I feel like there is a lesson here for David Simon as well

@mikehadlow Isn’t that what Android Auto and Apple CarPlay are?

@Pinboard https://t.co/bWdlsDYc1k

@nberardi Price mainly, but also we have 5 humans in our family

@NateTheFinch @caarlos0 It is free, the software is free. Servers tend to cost money but that has naught to do with us.

@therealfitz @tqbf @waldojaquith also I think about that guy who silenced his motion detecting car alarm three times a lot. An awful lot.

@wmchristie it's a good choice, there are a bunch of good choices now. No longer bleeding edge, just leading edge. https://t.co/7FLksn8CEj

@therealfitz @tqbf @waldojaquith yes I wrote a whole article about this https://t.co/7wNGuUpkDs

@Pinboard Scott Adams continues to impress

@deadprogrammer https://t.co/HYGDG61Io9

@rossrubin The canon cat was a great example of ideas far ahead of their time, wrapped in dogma guaranteed to kill itself — “no mouse, no menus”

@jessfraz https://t.co/6HteR7mNx3

@mattblaze @susanthesquark it's also inevitable if you mix enough people from wildly different cultural backgrounds and languages

@Pinboard give this a listen https://t.co/E4bqmkj5Jr -- sadly, "Baltimore, you're home to me" is album only

@textfiles I have some tweets about that somewhere, but I can't find them since I didn't use "The Bridge" in the text.

"This relatively good long-term survival rate is consistent with the observation that suicidal crises are often short-lived, even if there may be underylying, more chronic risk factors present that give rise to these crises." https://t.co/85zaqMYkuH

@msjgriffiths @Carnage4Life oh my bad I didn't realize they killed their online stuff so abruptly, but old guard companies tend to do that. They can't adapt to the new reality.

@Carnage4Life I mean, maybe. Blockbuster was doomed no matter what since they could not adapt to digital/streaming. Sometimes you're a boat on a rising tide, so simply executing at a decent level is all it takes.

@elliotblackburn I tweeted about it a while back, you'll need to search, not my picture though

@Pinboard never postpone joy

@GavinBrown @jonobacon @github actually turns out you're right, even doing business in the US at all means you're subject to US laws so .. 🤷‍♂️

@GavinBrown @jonobacon @github I can switch banks as well. Whatever it takes.

@jonobacon @github depending on how things go in 2020, I am seriously considering re-incorporating Discourse outside the USA

@thadk it's a technical issue that affects all anonymous browsing, not just "paywalls". Not fixing it would be irresponsible on several levels.

@kita_no_tori @evacide spoiler: it isn't. https://t.co/CCaMP9Xcux

@robertpack84 @jessfraz shouldn't be, the casing is aluminum, platters are thin metal

my only complaint is the costume design is.. really.. not good. This is like .. 2006 San Diego comic-con cosplay level superhero outfit work. A-Train in particular looks like something from Rubie's Premium line they ordered off Amazon

@jessfraz do a spinny rust hard drive, those are fun, my daughter loved drilling through the hard drive

@mykola @artlung @Pinboard uh.. it is? Just disable voice comm. That's a setting in every game I've ever played.

@jwz On the whole I liked Altered Carbon except the random weird two episode interlude in the middle

@jwz I haven't actually watched Preacher, but I'd say The Boys adaptation is about as solid as it could reasonably be, and I just re-read the first 6-10 issues to jog my memory as well

Six episodes in, this show is pretty solid? Maybe the best adaptation I've seen since Altered Carbon? It also drops some of the more bizarre and, uh.. dated.. aspects of the comic, which is a plus.

@splattne overloaded :(

@tobermatt explore the catalog, I think it'll be up your alley if you like dark, cynical songs

@tobermatt Oh my you are in for a treat https://t.co/1hEyIclecD .. enjoy

@tobermatt ain't no party like a Gilead party 'cause a Gilead party don't stop

@tobermatt surely.. surely.. you meant to say Warren Zevon there for the latter

"the hero moving recklessly at super-speed, runs literally through Robin's body, leaving her boyfriend holding her disembodied hands as the rest of her body liquifies. Knowing that this scene transpires in lovingly shot slow motion may help you understand if this show is for you"

@zammpaul @envinyon I know it's just funny that they're doing a literal physical
casino in the game

@deadprogrammer I need Lambada machines, they are the forbidden code

@deadprogrammer where was that promised?

@joshmillard feels good https://t.co/QGCCVCQq63

@integerpoet in that case the native apps are throwing themselves on a proverbial hand grenade and saving the rest of us..

@KennyStoltz @dsandler apparently yes? https://t.co/6hpNU0DJqd

@waxpancake I do AND I use SHIFT+SPACE to scroll up 😤

@tqbf I went to high school in that county

@Pinboard this is hideous

Alternate take https://t.co/Ez8bwf2UUh

@mathowie to the kickstarters!

@susanthesquark competition is good though. Clouds still way too expensive for what you get. Costs need to go down more.

@jarin I was testing the data block, obviously

@NoahShachtman @kpoulsen @OANN LOL the daily BUTT he said, gosh

@SFBART @deadprogrammer rats with wings

@BobbyAnguelov @billassault @PopCatalin yeah this might have started changing around 2014 but not in 2007-2013

@billassault @PopCatalin on top of *that*, even a dual core CPU was kinda rare in 2008 so complaining about it now is really .. weird? https://t.co/2GGqKGlIbi

@billassault @PopCatalin this is a specious complaint because most *current* games barely utilize two cores, much less four or eight.

@Sam_152 @Pinboard also looks like they close it off on older replies (the referenced one was 22 days ago), you can only upvote. OI guess "current" discussions allow downvoting, based on what I'm seeing

@Sam_152 @Pinboard Oh my bad, it says here "never on direct replies" though https://t.co/mpPR3DvTmw

@billassault @PopCatalin https://t.co/6NuRQAl0Jo

@Pinboard well, actually, you can't downvote comments on HN 😏

@Carnage4Life Google acknowledges this is a problem https://t.co/tKXAX85lOj but the solution in the form of the web already exists and is super-mature.