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Well... Tesla have said they are planning to triple the size of the supercharger network over the next two years. Cf. https://electrek.co/2021/10/21/tesla-plans-triple-supercharg...

And they did have a 79% market share of all EVs sold in the US last year (though, that is expected to be lower this year, and the EV market segment is growing very fast). Cf. https://www.thedetroitbureau.com/2021/08/as-ev-sales-double-....

In Canada, Tesla is deploying supercharger stations with separate, dedicated chargers for all other brands to take advantage of government subsidies.

I wouldn't put it past them to prioritize their own cars in some way when they finally open up to other makes.

> It might be fun to release a Port of Los Angeles savegame that challenges folks to unhork the port.

That would be awesome!

> For people who are not from the region but are criticizing poaching...maybe you should make sure your own house is clean before throwing stones at others. How many people critiquing this have industrial animal farms in their country, for example?

While I somewhat understand the sentiment, this is obviously a completely impractical attitude.

If you follow this logic nothing is ever going to change, because let's face it, nobody is perfect. We're all human.

I'm not a meat eater, but I am very happy that meat-eaters critique poaching. This is a win, as it can only lead to more awareness of how we treat animals. Maybe it will make some more people give up meat.

I'll give you the html character thing, that's a bit sloppy.

But "far more interested in threatening / filing lawsuits" couldn't be further from the truth. Check out how short the list of past lawsuits is at https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/past-lawsuits.....

If you read up a bit on software freedom conservancy, you'll notice that threatening / filing lawsuits is something they do as a very last resort.

You'll also notice that when they do file a suit, there are no monetary damages requested, only license compliance (cf. https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/vizio.html).

Competence does not seem to be a core value of these people, we've seen that over and over and over again.

From TFA:

  To comply with this important FOSS license, Trump's Group needs to immediately make that Corresponding Source available to all who used the site today while it was live. If they fail to do this within 30 days, their rights and permissions in the software are automatically and permanently terminated. That's how AGPLv3's cure provision works — no exceptions — even if you're a real estate mogul, reality television star, or even a former POTUS.

The subject is misleading; the touchscreen is shown in a Buick Reatta.

I could totally fix it for $49 million. /s

This. That map explains why so many people people are afraid of nuclear.

In 1986 one plant had a major accident, and look at all that contamination across western and northern Europe, thousands of kilometers away. Hundreds of millions of people were affected, and the consequences are still quite real, 35 years later.

It may be pragmatic - but politically tough - to keep the nuclear plants open longer, if that can be done safely, and invest heavily in renewables + storage to take all that awful lignite/coal power generation offline. And phase out the nuclear plants once enough (storage) capacity has been built.

I wonder if people have modeled for how fast that could be done, and how expensive it would be. We have the technology (cf. grid scale storage, there is a fascination array of options, several of which are tried and tested), it's "just" a matter of scaling it up.

The current plan only phases out coal by 2038 which seems... way way way too late. Cf. https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/spelling-out-coal...

Presumably the CRS112-8G-4S-IN, though I'm not sure that those SFP cages can do 10 Gigabit...

Azure is a typical Microsoft product: it doesn't work all that well, but you can get the job done if you just buy more of it (to work around the deficiencies).

From a business perspective, this is brilliant. From a technical perspective it's not awesome, obviously.

> So it seems that Big Tech is actually taking concrete steps to become carbon zero, and even carbon negative. The article is complaining that they are not spending enough money lobbying for climate legislation.

Yes. It is good that they are cleaning up their own house, but to avoid the worst of the climate crisis we need all the leverage we can get.

We are out of time, we need to act now. In other words, big tech also needs to step up their lobbying, because federal legislation is the biggest lever we have.

The "Chery QQ Ice Cream" has a curb weight of only 743 kg. The lightest Prius seems to be 1,390 kg.

Yeah the APU2 handles gigabit no problem and the CPU is plenty fast. They have really nice intel NICs, see https://pcengines.ch/apu2.htm. As you say, ships with coreboot.

I've been using APU2's for years (and before that APU and ALIX). The ALIX couldn't really saturate gigabit, but iirc even the APU could. Highly recommended.

> Or nuclear. Sad that this isn’t seen as an option any longer.

Maybe this statement is just a reflection of what can be done in a reasonable amount of time (a few years)? Planning and building nuclear plants takes an order of magnitude longer, it seems.

From TFA:

> By 2025, she foresees demand for around 185 million square feet of advanced substrate manufacturing space against about 145 million square feet built.

It's curious that the production capacity for substrate is expressed in terms of manufacturing space. Is that an industry-specific quirk?

According to that link, "only" 64.1% for BEV (July 2021).

Now, it seems they are at 72% for BEV (August 2021).

I have bought a few System76 laptops, though not this variant - I like to buy the ones that ship with coreboot.

As for the price difference: you can buy the base model of the System76 and upgrade ram/disk yourself. This is harder to do on the Lenovo ones; it seems the T14 has (some of) the ram soldered on (ugh).

But, it is nice to see that you can actually buy a T14 with Ubuntu preinstalled (if you are willing to wait 4+ months...), and they list it next to the (more expensive!) Windows version:

https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/p/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpadt/th...

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." -Albert Einstein.

Unfortunately, this is nothing new.

That's cool, it's good that there is some convergence on a standard.

The only unfortunate thing, then, is that Tesla had 79% of the EV market share in the US in 2020 (cf. https://electrek.co/2021/07/14/tesla-tsla-leads-95-increase-...).

And they are not using CCS.

(edit: CCS... not CSS)

> that’s the number #1 job of the CEO.

Actually, no, the #1 job of the CEO is "do not run out of money".

But, I agree that this CEO sounds like a complete cowboy. Not preparing properly for an investor meeting is ridiculous, and with that attitude, this CEO will probably run out of money sooner or later...

I suspect the author of this article will be much happier in her new job. Hopefully she knew what kind of work environments to avoid after this experience.

> There could easily be a formula of like 10% of annual dues

I was on the board of a 10 unit condo building. The annual budget for the association was ~$60k. We had a reserve provision of 10% of dues, plus whatever was leftover in the budget at the end of the year.

Even with that budgeting provision we had several additional assessments over the course of a decade. Those assessments were used to address roof issues and interior renovations.

If something more structural had come up, that would have led to another (large) assessment, for sure.

Ugh, that's horrible, sorry to hear that.

Note that ground ambulances are excluded from the legislation that Congress passed last year, cf. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/22/upshot/ground-ambulances-....

> The unsub link is worthless. I have to log in with the nonexistent account, in order to unsub.

Ah, hey, that's the same level of incompetence as British Airways. I'm in the same boat there, but that's why /dev/null exists, of course :)

> "two times the total annual world cobalt production, nearly the entire world production of neodymium, three quarters the world’s lithium production and at least half of the world’s copper" [1]. And this is just UK.

That report seems dubious. The math simply doesn't add up.

For instance, the report claims that to replace all the cars on the road in the UK, it would take "... 2,362,500 tonnes of copper... [which is ] at least half of the world’s copper production during 2018."

But the world produced 16,890,000 tonnes of copper in 2020 (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_copper_pr...). From that same page, it seems that the annual copper production has not changed much in the last 5 years.

So it's not half of annual production, it's more like an eight.

Secondly, to replace all the cars on the road in the UK (~33M units), at the current replacement rate of ~2.5M/year (https://www.goodcarbadcar.net/uk-total-auto-industry-sales-f...) would take about 13 years. So now we're talking about about one eight of annual copper production spread over 13 years, which would be about 1% of annual production per year.

Of course ICE vehicles also require quite a bit of copper...

It seems not unreasonable that replacing all vehicles in the 5th largest economy in the world would take ~1% of the copper output of the world (assuming zero recycling!) over a period of 13 years.

Afaik only in Arkansas have Republicans seen the light and are actually supporting municipal broadband (https://www.govtech.com/policy/arkansas-opens-the-door-for-m...). I wonder what made them come to that conclusion, it would be interesting to see if that can be replicated elsewhere.

Everywhere else, Republicans are trying to shut muni broadband out. They are colluding with the legacy ISP monopolies to keep speeds low and costs high.

I find this surprising because they don't seem to consider the long term economic damage this will do to their states. Who is going to want to move there to work remotely if the internet is expensive and slow?

None. But it would benefit the big ISPs, so...

Indeed - the LG NEON-R 365 panels I got two years ago have these specs:

* First 5 years : 95% * After 5th year : 0.4% annual degradation * 25 years : 88.4%

The NEON-2 380W from this year looks roughly equivalent, and they have these specs:

* 1st year 98.5% * from 2-24th year: 0.33%/year down * 90.6% at year 25

Well, you can look at it that way, or you can say that the degradation appears to be 100% worse than expected. They modeled 0.5% and it seems real world numbers are more like 1% , at least for the installations they observed.