One of them will be pretty good in a year. The other one is unlikely to ever really be a good driver, to be perfectly honest. I'm hoping for cautious and safe, at best. That's the one who needs a reasonable self driving option the most.
I am in the process of teaching my kids how to drive, and they are probably a lot worse than these self driving cars. They speed up and slow down erratically, including braking mid block when I tell them they are going to be making a turn ahead. They drift over to the other lane without checking their blind spot. In one case, we crossed the double yellow on a rural winding road, leading to (rightly) angered oncoming drivers. Despite our "Student Driver" sticker, people get pissed off when they are behind us.
I expect that they will end up as decent or better drivers eventually, but it takes a while and meanwhile, they are legally on the streets with everyone else. I expect that these self driving cars will also get better, and meanwhile they are just another learner driver.
I remember reading about this or a similar study a little while ago, and that was my takeaway - that yields would rise, but nutrient density decline, leading to people on the edge getting less nutrition per calorie intake. So like you said, if you keep eating the same quantity you get malnourished, if you eat more you get the ill effects of over consumption.
In terms of climate change, would restricting passenger vehicles in NYC to EVs really do that much? I don't think people in NYC are doing the miles that people in lots of other places are. I'm in favor of EVs overall, but I'm not sure that making everyone in New York sell their functioning ICE cars and buying new EVs which are not going to be used all that much is the best way to do that. Especially since a lot of EVs are currently supply constrained.
The summary says the money was supposed to be "to protect against hacking and other cyberattacks". So changing out machines which could have their results tampered with for ones which, for example, have a clear paper trail. My county did that this year - the old touch screens are gone, replaced by scannable paper which can be stored and audited if needed. My county is relatively affluent, so can afford to do this; it would be good to have it happen all over.
Lots of studies have found that there are vanishingly small amounts of in person voter fraud happening. The problem with some of the touch screen machines is, if there is fraud happening, it's very very hard to tell. And the fraud could be perpetrated by foreign adversaries. It's safer just to have a paper trail.
As a member of a former Sony buying family, I can say with confidence - the problem is lack of bug fixes to the software. Massive show-stopping feature omissions which are never fixed is what drove us away.
I have an Xperia X, and in general I like it. Sony has even been pretty good about pushing out updates. But I agree with you, there seem to be more bugs than I'd like, and one reason I find myself loading the update as soon as they land is I hope that it'll fix my laggy camera app or stop Waze from crashing or fix the bluetooth connection or whatever the issue de jour is.
I'll be getting a new phone soon, and it probably won't be a Sony.
I'm keeping my eye on the Workhorse pickup; 80 miles EV + generator, 5000 lbs towing capacity. If the reliability is good (which it should be since they are geared towards fleet sales) it might get me to buy a pickup.
I haven't followed this stuff too closely for a while. My impression was that the sensor in a DSLR could be made more sensitve/less noisy since it was not designed to be powered on continually, but only when actually capturing the image. Is that still (or was it ever) a concern?
I have been (mostly) vegetarian for 30 years, and I've never had this problem. I could absolutely eat a burger or pulled pork right now, and I'm confident it wouldn't make me feel queasy. I know a lot of people feel that way, but it's certainly not universal.
I see the Bolt is Motor Trend's car of the year. I also notice it's currently outselling Tesla. I think this article is about autonomous vehicles, though.
I like the Bolt, but it's not even close to outselling Tesla. They are selling around 1000-1500 a month since January - Tesla sold 1800 Model 3s alone in January, and they'd ramped up to over 6000 in both May and June. Plus in June they also sold ~5000 Model S & Xs. In June Volt and Bolt sales combined were under 2500.
When I first heard the youth were using this, it just sounded like an easy to use paypal for the things that paypal was initially made for - paying your pals at dinner etc. Then I learned about this "social" aspect and all I could think was "why the hell would anyone do this"? That's still my feeling.
I've seen 6 so far, about 2 a month; it has never asked me for a picture of my ticket either. It's been pretty smooth for me, and I figure I have broken even on my annual subscription at this point so anything more I go to is PROFIT!
I agree that there's nothing wrong with a key. However I can see that this phone based system could be better than the "key fob, not really a key" that new cars seem to come with. The problem I've found is that since you just have to have the fob somewhere in the car, it's pretty easy for that fob to end up with the wrong person. So for example, my wife and I drove somewhere in two cars, then drove around for a while in the newer car. She ended up with the fob even though I was driving, and then almost took off with it; I wouldn't have noticed for hours, which would have been a real pain. It's very unlikely that she'd wander off with my phone.
OP is probably referring to 0-60 times for the "quickest" claim - Tesla is just behind the Porsche 918 on that metric, and that was a sub-1000 "production" car. Considering the other cars on the list, it's pretty impressive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I imagine that they would have a water tank on the surface; once the well is full they start pumping in water from the tank up to whatever pressure the system can handle. Then they release the pressure, sending the water back into the tank through a turbine. In theory there would be no reason to dump the water anywhere, it would essentially act like a closed system.
Like I keep trying to explain to people: Electric vehicles aren't cheap to operate because they're more energy efficient. They use nearly as much energy as ICE vehicles. They're just cheaper to operate because the coal and natural gas used to generate electricity are roughly an order of magnitude cheaper per MJ than gasoline.
EVs are more efficient, though; the numbers I've seen indicate ~25% loss in charging/inversion losses for EVs vs a best case ICE thermal efficiency of ~40%.
If you want to reduce CO2 emissions, buying an EV presently doesn't help. When you replace an ICE vehicleswith an EV without changing the makeup of your electricity sources, all you've done is shift your CO2 emissions from the car's tailpipe to a fossil fuel power plant's smokestack. That's why the claim that EVs are "zero emissions" is BS at present. You need to replace fossil fuel power plants with nuclear and renewable plants to cause a reduction in CO2 emissions.
That's highly dependent on your local mix, though. While coal and gas may be 60% on average in the US, in reality it's much higher in the midwest and less on the coasts. So in many areas an EV will have the same emissions as an ICE getting 85mpg or greater; in the midwest the current emissions of an EV are about the same as a Prius. See this link for a breakdown of your area:
And since they started doing that calculator, the efficiency of the grid has gone up, so the EVs purchased a few years ago are now producing fewer emissions per mile than they did when new. The Prius won't do that.
Fortunately this is going to be a transition over the next decade +, so in the areas where upgrades are need they can happen. I certainly don't end up drawing 25kwh every night, more like 10 every few nights. I already have my timer set to start at off peak times and could easily push to 1 am if it were cheaper.
The fact that my power company is actively involved in pilot programs means they are not likely to get caught too off guard by any of this.
I'd take issue with F. My mom was recently clearing out some stuff and came across some of my old tapes - they fill a good sized plastic storage tub, which was too heavy for her to get out of her trunk by herself. There are a couple I want to listen to, but most are going to be headed straight for the landfill.
The fact that I have so many, though, indicates that the rest of your point are pretty valid!
Yes! I mostly maintain CentOS but last year we needed AD so I added a few Server 2016 machines. They aren't all that bad, especially since by default you don't need to install the GUI, but the primitive update process is baffling. You have no idea how long it's going to take for the machine to come back once you start the reboot. Luckily I only have a few to deal with. It really makes you appreciate yum or apt.
To be fair, most vehicles can't handle 2 feet of unplowed snow. EVs actually have very responsive traction control, so overall they should be better in snow and slippery conditions. The loss of range in low temperatures is real, but the fact that so many drivers in Norway are using them means that it's a pretty well understood situation. The problem really comes back to the cost of batteries to give you a good amount of range even in the cold, how far you regularly travel, and the availability of charging on the routes you use.
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One of them will be pretty good in a year. The other one is unlikely to ever really be a good driver, to be perfectly honest. I'm hoping for cautious and safe, at best. That's the one who needs a reasonable self driving option the most.
I am in the process of teaching my kids how to drive, and they are probably a lot worse than these self driving cars. They speed up and slow down erratically, including braking mid block when I tell them they are going to be making a turn ahead. They drift over to the other lane without checking their blind spot. In one case, we crossed the double yellow on a rural winding road, leading to (rightly) angered oncoming drivers. Despite our "Student Driver" sticker, people get pissed off when they are behind us.
I expect that they will end up as decent or better drivers eventually, but it takes a while and meanwhile, they are legally on the streets with everyone else. I expect that these self driving cars will also get better, and meanwhile they are just another learner driver.
I remember reading about this or a similar study a little while ago, and that was my takeaway - that yields would rise, but nutrient density decline, leading to people on the edge getting less nutrition per calorie intake. So like you said, if you keep eating the same quantity you get malnourished, if you eat more you get the ill effects of over consumption.
Do you know if NextCloud works for sharing Keeppass files between Linux, Android and Windows? If so, I may want to install it too!
Yeah, but it's a pretty cool system! 105 miles of pipe feeding ~2000 buildings.
In terms of climate change, would restricting passenger vehicles in NYC to EVs really do that much? I don't think people in NYC are doing the miles that people in lots of other places are. I'm in favor of EVs overall, but I'm not sure that making everyone in New York sell their functioning ICE cars and buying new EVs which are not going to be used all that much is the best way to do that. Especially since a lot of EVs are currently supply constrained.
A lot of buildings in Manhattan use steam from central plants, again generating CO2 although not actually at the building.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The summary says the money was supposed to be "to protect against hacking and other cyberattacks". So changing out machines which could have their results tampered with for ones which, for example, have a clear paper trail. My county did that this year - the old touch screens are gone, replaced by scannable paper which can be stored and audited if needed. My county is relatively affluent, so can afford to do this; it would be good to have it happen all over.
Lots of studies have found that there are vanishingly small amounts of in person voter fraud happening. The problem with some of the touch screen machines is, if there is fraud happening, it's very very hard to tell. And the fraud could be perpetrated by foreign adversaries. It's safer just to have a paper trail.
As a member of a former Sony buying family, I can say with confidence - the problem is lack of bug fixes to the software. Massive show-stopping feature omissions which are never fixed is what drove us away.
I have an Xperia X, and in general I like it. Sony has even been pretty good about pushing out updates. But I agree with you, there seem to be more bugs than I'd like, and one reason I find myself loading the update as soon as they land is I hope that it'll fix my laggy camera app or stop Waze from crashing or fix the bluetooth connection or whatever the issue de jour is.
I'll be getting a new phone soon, and it probably won't be a Sony.
I'm keeping my eye on the Workhorse pickup; 80 miles EV + generator, 5000 lbs towing capacity. If the reliability is good (which it should be since they are geared towards fleet sales) it might get me to buy a pickup.
I haven't followed this stuff too closely for a while. My impression was that the sensor in a DSLR could be made more sensitve/less noisy since it was not designed to be powered on continually, but only when actually capturing the image. Is that still (or was it ever) a concern?
I have been (mostly) vegetarian for 30 years, and I've never had this problem. I could absolutely eat a burger or pulled pork right now, and I'm confident it wouldn't make me feel queasy. I know a lot of people feel that way, but it's certainly not universal.
I see the Bolt is Motor Trend's car of the year. I also notice it's currently outselling Tesla. I think this article is about autonomous vehicles, though.
I like the Bolt, but it's not even close to outselling Tesla. They are selling around 1000-1500 a month since January - Tesla sold 1800 Model 3s alone in January, and they'd ramped up to over 6000 in both May and June. Plus in June they also sold ~5000 Model S & Xs. In June Volt and Bolt sales combined were under 2500.
https://insideevs.com/june-201...
When I first heard the youth were using this, it just sounded like an easy to use paypal for the things that paypal was initially made for - paying your pals at dinner etc.
Then I learned about this "social" aspect and all I could think was "why the hell would anyone do this"? That's still my feeling.
Yeah, most of the movies I have seen aren't that popular - for example, the Mr Rogers documentary. I'm lucky to have some good theaters nearby.
I've seen 6 so far, about 2 a month; it has never asked me for a picture of my ticket either. It's been pretty smooth for me, and I figure I have broken even on my annual subscription at this point so anything more I go to is PROFIT!
I agree that there's nothing wrong with a key. However I can see that this phone based system could be better than the "key fob, not really a key" that new cars seem to come with. The problem I've found is that since you just have to have the fob somewhere in the car, it's pretty easy for that fob to end up with the wrong person. So for example, my wife and I drove somewhere in two cars, then drove around for a while in the newer car. She ended up with the fob even though I was driving, and then almost took off with it; I wouldn't have noticed for hours, which would have been a real pain. It's very unlikely that she'd wander off with my phone.
OP is probably referring to 0-60 times for the "quickest" claim - Tesla is just behind the Porsche 918 on that metric, and that was a sub-1000 "production" car. Considering the other cars on the list, it's pretty impressive:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I imagine that they would have a water tank on the surface; once the well is full they start pumping in water from the tank up to whatever pressure the system can handle. Then they release the pressure, sending the water back into the tank through a turbine. In theory there would be no reason to dump the water anywhere, it would essentially act like a closed system.
Like I keep trying to explain to people: Electric vehicles aren't cheap to operate because they're more energy efficient. They use nearly as much energy as ICE vehicles. They're just cheaper to operate because the coal and natural gas used to generate electricity are roughly an order of magnitude cheaper per MJ than gasoline.
EVs are more efficient, though; the numbers I've seen indicate ~25% loss in charging/inversion losses for EVs vs a best case ICE thermal efficiency of ~40%.
If you want to reduce CO2 emissions, buying an EV presently doesn't help. When you replace an ICE vehicleswith an EV without changing the makeup of your electricity sources, all you've done is shift your CO2 emissions from the car's tailpipe to a fossil fuel power plant's smokestack. That's why the claim that EVs are "zero emissions" is BS at present. You need to replace fossil fuel power plants with nuclear and renewable plants to cause a reduction in CO2 emissions.
That's highly dependent on your local mix, though. While coal and gas may be 60% on average in the US, in reality it's much higher in the midwest and less on the coasts. So in many areas an EV will have the same emissions as an ICE getting 85mpg or greater; in the midwest the current emissions of an EV are about the same as a Prius. See this link for a breakdown of your area:
https://www.ucsusa.org/clean-v...
And since they started doing that calculator, the efficiency of the grid has gone up, so the EVs purchased a few years ago are now producing fewer emissions per mile than they did when new. The Prius won't do that.
In my server closet I am using "always-on" UPSes, so am I essentially doing this in that room?
Fortunately this is going to be a transition over the next decade +, so in the areas where upgrades are need they can happen. I certainly don't end up drawing 25kwh every night, more like 10 every few nights. I already have my timer set to start at off peak times and could easily push to 1 am if it were cheaper.
The fact that my power company is actively involved in pilot programs means they are not likely to get caught too off guard by any of this.
I'd take issue with F. My mom was recently clearing out some stuff and came across some of my old tapes - they fill a good sized plastic storage tub, which was too heavy for her to get out of her trunk by herself. There are a couple I want to listen to, but most are going to be headed straight for the landfill.
The fact that I have so many, though, indicates that the rest of your point are pretty valid!
Yes! I mostly maintain CentOS but last year we needed AD so I added a few Server 2016 machines. They aren't all that bad, especially since by default you don't need to install the GUI, but the primitive update process is baffling. You have no idea how long it's going to take for the machine to come back once you start the reboot. Luckily I only have a few to deal with. It really makes you appreciate yum or apt.
To be fair, most vehicles can't handle 2 feet of unplowed snow. EVs actually have very responsive traction control, so overall they should be better in snow and slippery conditions. The loss of range in low temperatures is real, but the fact that so many drivers in Norway are using them means that it's a pretty well understood situation. The problem really comes back to the cost of batteries to give you a good amount of range even in the cold, how far you regularly travel, and the availability of charging on the routes you use.