For as interesting electric vehicles are and how useful they can be for certain use cases, hybrids still make a ton of sense.
Where I take my vehicle, there often is NO infrastructure nor would I want power lines criss-crossing the landscape to put charging stations there nor the large footprint required to handle charging a significant number of vehicles at the same time.
Liquid hydrocarbons are still vastly superior to any current battery technology in terms of energy density, speed of refueling and general flexibility.
If I need more range, I can toss a Jerry can in the back of my Subaru. I can fill the tank in 5 minutes and be on my way. If a new filling station is needed, minimal infrastructure is required to support it - gasoline and diesel can be hauled in; electricity cannot.
The main problem with historical internal combustion engines is their inefficiency. Hybrid technology goes a long way towards improving the system's efficiency. Until battery technology *vastly improves*, the ICE still has clear advantages in quite a few use cases.
This model was trained by asking people to rate internet comments on a scale from "Very toxic" to "Very healthy" contribution. Toxic is defined as... "a rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable comment that is likely to make you leave a discussion.""
That definition literally states toxicity is according one's emotional sensibilities and reactions thereof. This is exactly how echo chambers are built.
NTP has no concept of time zone or DST. It uses UTC time; it's up to the operating system to manage the conversion.
The only decent ways for mobile devices to handle TZ, DST and sync is to either listen to WWVB (coverage is only good at night) or a cell network (costs money).
Beyond this, why are you complaining that the clock in your car doesn't auto-update twice a year? How lazy are you?
You can't make a rope longer by cutting a foot off one end and attaching it to the other. "Permanent DST" is identical to getting up 1 hour earlier. Just leave how we indicate time alone so the sun is (roughly) at its greatest height on the ecliptic at noon in any given time zone instead of playing a stupid shell game that doesn't do anything but mess up astronomical time.
So they're suing somebody who used APIs they created that specifically enable snarfing up this kind of data? If FB had a problem with this, why the hell did they enable it in the first place?
Of course you know that as a licensed amateur radio operator in the United States, one has frequency privileges near and inside the 2.4 GHz ISM band. You can quite legally modify a home router for Amateur Radio use.
As long as you aren't in a country where that wasn't suddenly rendered illegal, that is.
You're a citizen of the EU? How is that possible? There's no country called, "European Union". No, you are a citizen (or subject) of your own country. Your country has a representative who is on the council.
If the EU passes rules that you object to or blatantly supersede your country's laws and social mores, what is your recourse? Tell me what safeguards are built into the EU to prevent tyranny of the masses - the "masses" being the council.
Receiving devices generate no interference. As a licensed amateur radio operator, why shouldn't I be able to modify equipment to work on the frequencies I'm allocated?
Or as a "tech enthusiast", why should I be able to put a better firmware on my router/access point if I so desire?
In the United States, I am. In the EU, not so much, apparently...
Pilots bear SOLE responsibility for the operation of their aircraft, even under autopilot, etc. Up to and including failures that should have been caught by pre-flight inspection or following ATC instructions that are dangerous. The Pilot In Command responsible for the safety of the flight and is authorized, expected to verify the condition of their aircraft and deviate from instructions that are potentially dangerous.
The PIC is essentially GOD of that aircraft and bears all the responsibility.
Using the printer noise, keyboard click-clack, sneezing, coughing, chip bag rustling and incessant jibber-jabber in open plan offices....which ironically drives people to wear headphones.
Even if his device never achieved fusion, 50 kV is more than enough potential to produce copious X-Rays. A steel chamber is likely thick enough to stop most emissions at energy level, especially since you get a broad spectra *up to* 50 KeV. However, failure to get this right such as by using plain glass for windows can be nasty. Lower energy X-Rays can be worse since they tend to be absorbed by rather than sailing through tissue
If we knew how many μA or mA his Fusor draws in operation along with chamber material and thickness, it'd be pretty easy to calculate a ball-park of the intensity.
On a related note, Slashdot seems to have changed over the years. There are still high quality posts, but the ratio of quality vs. ignorant statements has become disappointing
Do you think the average person's search activity costs Google even remotely close to what they make by gathering and monetizing data about you? Every interaction you have with them increases the value of the dataset they have about you.
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"Will your tesla 3 make it to 400k?"
No, it absolutely will not w/o 3 or more battery pack replacements. Current cost, $6000-$8000
...new techs are making the ICE more efficient, too. That would apply to hybrids
For as interesting electric vehicles are and how useful they can be for certain use cases, hybrids still make a ton of sense.
Where I take my vehicle, there often is NO infrastructure nor would I want power lines criss-crossing the landscape to put charging stations there nor the large footprint required to handle charging a significant number of vehicles at the same time.
Liquid hydrocarbons are still vastly superior to any current battery technology in terms of energy density, speed of refueling and general flexibility.
If I need more range, I can toss a Jerry can in the back of my Subaru. I can fill the tank in 5 minutes and be on my way. If a new filling station is needed, minimal infrastructure is required to support it - gasoline and diesel can be hauled in; electricity cannot.
The main problem with historical internal combustion engines is their inefficiency. Hybrid technology goes a long way towards improving the system's efficiency. Until battery technology *vastly improves*, the ICE still has clear advantages in quite a few use cases.
Per the perspectivesapi.com website, "toxic" is:
"What's toxic?
This model was trained by asking people to rate internet comments on a scale from "Very toxic" to "Very healthy" contribution. Toxic is defined as... "a rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable comment that is likely to make you leave a discussion.""
That definition literally states toxicity is according one's emotional sensibilities and reactions thereof. This is exactly how echo chambers are built.
There couldn't possibly be negative effects...
"I think I'd prefer that to finding out the earth got hit while I was half way to/from Mars."
You wouldn't. It's doubtful anyone on Earth would be able to tell those en-route with most technology fried.
City councils make cell phone transmissions nuts...
This is why you NEVER override the pilot. Warn them, fight them, irritate them, but *never* override.
NTP has no concept of time zone or DST. It uses UTC time; it's up to the operating system to manage the conversion.
The only decent ways for mobile devices to handle TZ, DST and sync is to either listen to WWVB (coverage is only good at night) or a cell network (costs money).
Beyond this, why are you complaining that the clock in your car doesn't auto-update twice a year? How lazy are you?
There's an easy solution to this. It's called, "getting up an hour earlier".
You can't make a rope longer by cutting a foot off one end and attaching it to the other. "Permanent DST" is identical to getting up 1 hour earlier. Just leave how we indicate time alone so the sun is (roughly) at its greatest height on the ecliptic at noon in any given time zone instead of playing a stupid shell game that doesn't do anything but mess up astronomical time.
So they're suing somebody who used APIs they created that specifically enable snarfing up this kind of data? If FB had a problem with this, why the hell did they enable it in the first place?
Of course you know that as a licensed amateur radio operator in the United States, one has frequency privileges near and inside the 2.4 GHz ISM band. You can quite legally modify a home router for Amateur Radio use.
As long as you aren't in a country where that wasn't suddenly rendered illegal, that is.
You're a citizen of the EU? How is that possible? There's no country called, "European Union". No, you are a citizen (or subject) of your own country. Your country has a representative who is on the council.
If the EU passes rules that you object to or blatantly supersede your country's laws and social mores, what is your recourse? Tell me what safeguards are built into the EU to prevent tyranny of the masses - the "masses" being the council.
Receiving devices generate no interference. As a licensed amateur radio operator, why shouldn't I be able to modify equipment to work on the frequencies I'm allocated?
Or as a "tech enthusiast", why should I be able to put a better firmware on my router/access point if I so desire?
In the United States, I am. In the EU, not so much, apparently...
Being asked for your phone number is "harassment"? Uncouth to do it on the job? Yes. "Harassment" worthy of "victimhood" though?
First world problems
Pilots bear SOLE responsibility for the operation of their aircraft, even under autopilot, etc. Up to and including failures that should have been caught by pre-flight inspection or following ATC instructions that are dangerous. The Pilot In Command responsible for the safety of the flight and is authorized, expected to verify the condition of their aircraft and deviate from instructions that are potentially dangerous.
The PIC is essentially GOD of that aircraft and bears all the responsibility.
What an incredibly horrible precedent this sets. Corporations can *literally* get away with murder so long as machines do it.
Using the printer noise, keyboard click-clack, sneezing, coughing, chip bag rustling and incessant jibber-jabber in open plan offices. ...which ironically drives people to wear headphones.
That was supposed to be uA. Apparently Slashdot mangles Unicode.
Even if his device never achieved fusion, 50 kV is more than enough potential to produce copious X-Rays. A steel chamber is likely thick enough to stop most emissions at energy level, especially since you get a broad spectra *up to* 50 KeV. However, failure to get this right such as by using plain glass for windows can be nasty. Lower energy X-Rays can be worse since they tend to be absorbed by rather than sailing through tissue
If we knew how many μA or mA his Fusor draws in operation along with chamber material and thickness, it'd be pretty easy to calculate a ball-park of the intensity.
On a related note, Slashdot seems to have changed over the years. There are still high quality posts, but the ratio of quality vs. ignorant statements has become disappointing
...when you have parents that can throw huge amounts of money and help at a project.
Do you think the average person's search activity costs Google even remotely close to what they make by gathering and monetizing data about you? Every interaction you have with them increases the value of the dataset they have about you.
They might be the platform, but make no mistake, YOU are the product they're monetizing. As such, people should have a say in how they're used.
...because the more massive communications companies behave this way, the more ammunition there is to claim they should be treated as common carriers.