Seriously, why is this idea being thrown around? It’s not based in reality, and just fuels into pessimism. I’m American, so I’ll mostly focus on what I’m seeing here....
You’re right. We absolutely could build transit solutions, but people become dejected because we don’t. At least not in many places.
I’m in the SF Bay Area. It’s been dense here for a long time and there’s plenty of tax money sloshing around, but transit improvements move glacially slowly. I want to ride my bike to work. I want to take the bus to my kids pool. But I can’t. The infrastructure isn’t there, and there is no concerted regional effort to build it. Sure, we might have high speed rail in California decades from now, but meanwhile I have to keep driving literally everywhere. Unfortunately.
No they’re not going to finish in a decade. That’s only the section between Merced and Bakersfield. Currently planned to finish between 2030-2033 but that’s assuming no more delays and they stay within budget, which is somewhat doubtful. A lot of work has happened, true, but not a single mile of track has actually been laid.
There is no money appropriated so far for the entire line, and so nobody has an idea when, if ever, high speed rail between SF and LA will happen.
Tesla is a giant shell-game masquerading as a car company. The important thing about Tesla isn’t its cars, it’s Tesla’s business arrangement, the Tesla-Financial Complex:
I never fully understood this Reuters range investigation. I have had a Tesla Model 3 for many years now, and it tells me I can go, say, 290 miles on a full charge. When I plan a long road trip, it figures out I need to stop at a charger after about 275 miles so I have a few percent left. So I drive the 275 miles, get to the charger with roughly that amount of % charge left, charge my car and keep on going. If I really only had 150 miles of range, there’s no way I would’ve ever reached that charger. I’ve done trips like this many times now. In my experience the advertised range is more or less realistic, and this is easily provable with any car.
Is it a quality control issue? Are people being confused by the massive effect temperatures have on EV range? It doesn’t seem like the major conspiracy it’s made out to be. Mishandled though, probably.
According to the article they had to derate their ranges by 3-5% or so. Cory is talking about the range being less than half of the estimated one. I think we would’ve seen thousands of stranded Teslas around here if that were really the case. So I remain doubtful.
FWIW I suspect most of these “omg why is my range suddenly gone!” complaints with Tesla to be exactly the same as with all other EVs: Very low temperatures, or towing. You’ll find plenty of people complaining about every model and make of EV because consumers expected to have the advertised range even though they’re towing a trailer or are driving through a freezing mountain pass. Unfortunately EVs just don’t handle this very well.
I’m not sure if this is a bug or user error, but seemingly every time I install some software, for example the flatpak version of Steam, the Pop! Shop shows an Update available, which then installs the deb version of the same application....
I agree it shouldn’t, but it appears to do so. I’ll see if I can reproduce it again, and if so I’ll file a bug. It’s just so strange I’m still not 100% sure if it isn’t user error somehow…
Well I can’t repro it. I’m reasonably sure it installed the deb version of a package through an “Update”, even though I just installed the same app as a Flatpak moments before. But now it doesn’t seem to happen anymore with other apps. I tried Audacity and a few others. Anyway, strange…
The military has huge amounts of money. Perhaps this company is betting on them just overpaying for the land instead of going the (presumably more annoying and slow) eminent domain route. Seems like a risky bet though.
I’ve been spending the summer learning how to play the guitar. Last month, I bought a lovely Sire S7 and I’ve been having a blast playing it and learning guitar chords and playing with the modes on the couple of portable guitar amps I bought (The Fender Magnum Micro and a Positive Grid Spark Go). I know those amps might not...
String thickness will get you the same notes on the same frets, when tuned the same, but it will give you a slightly different tone.
However where thicker strings really come in play is drop tunings, such as D standard, C standard or even lower. If you take a set of regular slinky strings and tune them down to C standard they lose all tension and become seriously floppy. This impedes playability and makes the guitar very difficult to tune this low.
But slap some thick strings on, I use 12-56 for C standard, and the guitar tunes just fine and it retains a somewhat comparable string tension to regular strings tuned to E.
I saw the spoiler post title at the top of the front page of my instance. So I’ll have to unsubscribe or even filter the community. Sure. But that’s pretty annoying when we could easily just not post race results in post titles. I don’t understand why y’all get so bitter about a reasonable ask.
What a brilliant first lap from Piastri. Aggressive, precise, clean. I hadn’t paid too much attention to him this year, but it’s starting to look like he has the promise of a successful F1 career.
Yeah probably not a future WDC. Sainz and Bottas are successful drivers in my book though. And we’ve had a fair amount of underperforming rookies these past years so seeing Piastri fighting near the front and keeping out of trouble is pretty cool.
Old Man's Child - In Defiance of Existence (Symphonic Black Metal) (www.youtube.com)
Featuring the legendary Nick Barker on drums, who is going through some major health issues. Hang in there.
Wacken Open Air Halts All Admissions Due To Excessive Rain and Muddy Grounds (metalinjection.net)
35000 disappointed metalheads
Sunn Amplifiers – the brand used by Jimi Hendrix, Pete Townshend and countless doom metal heroes – has been revived with the help of Fender (www.guitarworld.com)
North America is not a lost cause
Seriously, why is this idea being thrown around? It’s not based in reality, and just fuels into pessimism. I’m American, so I’ll mostly focus on what I’m seeing here....
Bloodbath - Eaten (youtu.be)
Tempest: The Arcade Game that Crashes Itself for Anti-Piracy Reasons (www.youtube.com)
Tempest, the 1981 arcade game, has some clever anti-piracy checks in its code
PopOS with PCIe WiFi/Bluetooth Card
I’d like to dual boot my windows 10 pc with PopOS. I’m worried about how I can get wireless working after installing the second OS (Pop)....
Kimi Raikkonen Animated, Narrated By Kimi Raikkonen (www.youtube.com)
Just stumbled across this video. I do miss seeing Kimi on the grid.
Tesla’s Dieselgate (pluralistic.net)
Tesla is a giant shell-game masquerading as a car company. The important thing about Tesla isn’t its cars, it’s Tesla’s business arrangement, the Tesla-Financial Complex:
Why does the Pop! Shop keep installing a deb copy of all software?
I’m not sure if this is a bug or user error, but seemingly every time I install some software, for example the flatpak version of Steam, the Pop! Shop shows an Update available, which then installs the deb version of the same application....
Elon Musk takes over @x Twitter account without paying owner (www.telegraph.co.uk)
Officials worry as mystery company buys land encircling Bay Area military base (www.sfgate.com)
Katie Dowd, SFGATE...
Belphegor - Impaled Upon The Tongue Of Sathan (Death/Black) (www.youtube.com)
San Francisco: Car Flies Over Sanchez Street Stairs, Lands On Roof, Occupants Flee (sfist.com)
How much does string thickness matter?
I’ve been spending the summer learning how to play the guitar. Last month, I bought a lovely Sire S7 and I’ve been having a blast playing it and learning guitar chords and playing with the modes on the couple of portable guitar amps I bought (The Fender Magnum Micro and a Positive Grid Spark Go). I know those amps might not...
PLEASE - No result spoilers
By all means post “RACE RESULTS!” With the results in the comments....
2023 Hungarian Grand Prix | Post Race Discussion
What are your thoughts on today’s race?