The irony being that you're replying to someone comparing the 210 mile range of someone's American car to the usual standard of 400+ mile ranges in European cars.
>He unplugged the car because Tesla told him that the car would reach his destination. No, it is the opposite of that. You see, ~30 mi is *less* than ~60 mi, not more than.
I didn't say the car would reach its destination, I said that Tesla told him that it would. See half the comments to this article on why Tesla might give that counter-intuitive advice.
In the meantime, feel free to explain why the car wouldn't reach its destination, given that its battery hadn't been used since it reported a 90 mile range while only 60 miles from the destination.
Yep, CRT. It's a tad old, but it's still working. I could replace it, and get better resolution at a very workable resolution, but it's no longer my primary PC and it's cheaper to suck up the extra electricity cost for the times I do use it.
Financial services organisations in the UK don't record every call. The guys on the phones have a button to record their current call, other calls are recorded for training purposes, and the guys trading on financial markets are recorded 100%.
The automated 'may record' messages are to cover the companies for those training calls, and for the intentionally recorded "customer is being abusive and/or acting in a criminal manner and/or may lead to regulatory interest" calls.
And yet, of all the people driving their cars around every day today, how many would give up ever using an FCE vehicle for a horse? In 50 years, people will look back on this time the same way we look at the transition from horse to FCE vehicle and wonder why anyone hung onto the old way of doing things.
Without knowing what the fuck FCE stands for (First Certificate in English vehicles?), I'll just say that I really look forward to being able to do 110 mile journeys in a quiet clean electric car without waiting more than five minutes to charge or restricting myself to 50mph.
I drive fast. I'm aggressive when I'm alone on country lanes. I accelerate hard to overtake, because it's safer. I drive to work when fuel stations are closed. I can not find a reliable electric car that can even get me to work, let alone support a broader range of use.
So no, I'm not going to give up my small efficient car for an EV. Not until they're fucking usable.
See also: the slow transition from horses to cars, as prices, convenience and capability improved.
My car reports 105 miles of fuel remaining at the start of my journey, drops to 70 miles after I've done 14 miles and still says 28 miles when I've got to my destination. 110 miles from home.
I don't set my satnav to the petrol station I want to visit. I set it to my destination and turn off the road as I pass the petrol station.
This feels reasonable to me. Maybe you feel you need satellite navigation support for every yard of your drive, but most of us use it more as a 'distance still to go' measurement on routes we know well.
t said on the display the range was thirty something miles. He still needed 60 miles of more road. He unplugged the car knowing what would happen.
He unplugged the car because Tesla told him that the car would reach his destination. If they don't know the behaviour of their own fucking vehicle, how is he meant to?
He also increased the heat when the battery was low in order to try to fully discharge it
Or possibly because he was fucking cold.
Tesla continue to get upset when people struggle to make practical use of their very expensive cars. Maybe they should focus on making their cars practical.
Agreed regarding dpi. I have 1920x1080 on a 17" laptop and don't see the point in going up to even 22" on a desktop. To compensate for the slight increase in view distance maybe a 19", but no more.
On a 22" monitor I want 2560 - and then I just don't need a second screen. If I'm using a two screen setup then I'd rather have 2x 15-17" 1920x1200 screens. Vertical height enough to read portrait format documents, lots of horizontal space for additional windows and/or complex IDEs.
Why the fuck does everybody insist on reading these things full-screen?
A sheet of A4 paper is far smaller than my screen. I can show two sheets of A4 side by side on my monitor without scaling down. Or more usefully I can view one, with another window alongside doing something else.
Hint: Just because you have a big monitor, you don't have to fill it.
..and yet: A legitimate and proven in practice approach for bringing a car driven dangerously by criminals to a halt is to box them in with police vehicles (also done with unsuspecting civilian cars on one side) forcing them to halt.
Getting a car alongside on either side and gradually reducing speed in front could well be a sufficiently controlled way of taking speed down - the vehicles to the side would keep the runaway car pointed straight ahead.
Admittedly I'd rather try this at 60 with heavy lorries on either side, as standard police cars are likely to be light enough to be dangerously unstable when tapped on the side by another vehicle at 125mph. Which is probably why they didn't try it.
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Well, on a 110 mile driver, do I know exactly how far Uttoxeter is from Salford? No.
Probably more to the point, do I know whether the M6 is closed? Yes, my satnav tells me.
The irony being that you're replying to someone comparing the 210 mile range of someone's American car to the usual standard of 400+ mile ranges in European cars.
>He unplugged the car because Tesla told him that the car would reach his destination.
No, it is the opposite of that. You see, ~30 mi is *less* than ~60 mi, not more than.
I didn't say the car would reach its destination, I said that Tesla told him that it would. See half the comments to this article on why Tesla might give that counter-intuitive advice.
In the meantime, feel free to explain why the car wouldn't reach its destination, given that its battery hadn't been used since it reported a 90 mile range while only 60 miles from the destination.
Yep, CRT. It's a tad old, but it's still working. I could replace it, and get better resolution at a very workable resolution, but it's no longer my primary PC and it's cheaper to suck up the extra electricity cost for the times I do use it.
If Broder had done a review of the first Daimler, we'd have been using horse drawn wagons until the Model-T was available.
This feels pretty reasonable to me.
Financial services organisations in the UK don't record every call. The guys on the phones have a button to record their current call, other calls are recorded for training purposes, and the guys trading on financial markets are recorded 100%.
The automated 'may record' messages are to cover the companies for those training calls, and for the intentionally recorded "customer is being abusive and/or acting in a criminal manner and/or may lead to regulatory interest" calls.
Fair point. I must be accepting a greater amount of downscaling than I realised.
And yet, of all the people driving their cars around every day today, how many would give up ever using an FCE vehicle for a horse? In 50 years, people will look back on this time the same way we look at the transition from horse to FCE vehicle and wonder why anyone hung onto the old way of doing things.
Without knowing what the fuck FCE stands for (First Certificate in English vehicles?), I'll just say that I really look forward to being able to do 110 mile journeys in a quiet clean electric car without waiting more than five minutes to charge or restricting myself to 50mph.
I drive fast. I'm aggressive when I'm alone on country lanes. I accelerate hard to overtake, because it's safer. I drive to work when fuel stations are closed. I can not find a reliable electric car that can even get me to work, let alone support a broader range of use.
So no, I'm not going to give up my small efficient car for an EV. Not until they're fucking usable.
See also: the slow transition from horses to cars, as prices, convenience and capability improved.
My car reports 105 miles of fuel remaining at the start of my journey, drops to 70 miles after I've done 14 miles and still says 28 miles when I've got to my destination. 110 miles from home.
Mileage estimates can go up as well as down.
I don't set my satnav to the petrol station I want to visit. I set it to my destination and turn off the road as I pass the petrol station.
This feels reasonable to me. Maybe you feel you need satellite navigation support for every yard of your drive, but most of us use it more as a 'distance still to go' measurement on routes we know well.
t said on the display the range was thirty something miles. He still needed 60 miles of more road. He unplugged the car knowing what would happen.
He unplugged the car because Tesla told him that the car would reach his destination. If they don't know the behaviour of their own fucking vehicle, how is he meant to?
He also increased the heat when the battery was low in order to try to fully discharge it
Or possibly because he was fucking cold.
Tesla continue to get upset when people struggle to make practical use of their very expensive cars. Maybe they should focus on making their cars practical.
Bad choice of printer. For proper code output, there's nothing to match the reassuring sound of a busy daisy wheel in the background.
I have 1920x1440 in a 19" screen. I'd rather it was widescreen, but at least I have the height without having to turn my head.
I'm a bit of a quality whore when it comes to monitors. I'd rather spend 2-3 times as much and getting something GOOD.
Case in point: My Iiyama Vision Master 451 is still pixel perfect after twelve years.
If you bring the debugger to the front you can't see what's being rendered.
Bah. See the code. Visualise, understand, be the application.
You know what's happening because.. you have a fucking debugger open.
Amateurs. I'm surrounded by amateurs.
How the fuck is a 1920x1080 TV better for programming than a 1920x1080 monitor?
Seriously, I'm very confused.
That's about 4-7" higher for most people than the included stand on a normal height desk.
Not if you sit leaning back at the recommended 45 degree angle on your chair, bringing your point of view far lower relative to your desk.
Some people call it slouching. I call it a sustainable position for long term computer use.
Agreed regarding dpi. I have 1920x1080 on a 17" laptop and don't see the point in going up to even 22" on a desktop. To compensate for the slight increase in view distance maybe a 19", but no more.
On a 22" monitor I want 2560 - and then I just don't need a second screen. If I'm using a two screen setup then I'd rather have 2x 15-17" 1920x1200 screens. Vertical height enough to read portrait format documents, lots of horizontal space for additional windows and/or complex IDEs.
Why the fuck does everybody insist on reading these things full-screen?
A sheet of A4 paper is far smaller than my screen. I can show two sheets of A4 side by side on my monitor without scaling down. Or more usefully I can view one, with another window alongside doing something else.
Hint: Just because you have a big monitor, you don't have to fill it.
You have tow trucks that can do around 135mph? Even 125 wouldn't be enough, to allow for fine-tuned positioning.
Not to mention the additional free space required on the road - keeping even a single lane clear was good going.
My automatic has both.
I can put the car into 'park', and it stops moving. I can then apply the handbrake.
Possibly the steel plate he mentions is the other half of the frictional mechanism your brake pads are a part of.
Yeah, my car warns me that I've moved off with the handbrake still engaged.
I think this is an excellent feature, it lets me know why the car is so sluggish.
The car still moves nonetheless.
Getting a car alongside on either side and gradually reducing speed in front could well be a sufficiently controlled way of taking speed down - the vehicles to the side would keep the runaway car pointed straight ahead.
Admittedly I'd rather try this at 60 with heavy lorries on either side, as standard police cars are likely to be light enough to be dangerously unstable when tapped on the side by another vehicle at 125mph. Which is probably why they didn't try it.
I suspect the Renault engineer that was on the three-way conference call with him suggested that one.