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neogodlesson Feds Killed Polestar and Spared Volvo

My Polestar has the word "Volvo" on several parts. They share a software stack and get the same updates.

neogodlesson Slate EV truck starts at $24,950

That's my personal... to get the 260 mile advertised range on 75 kWh battery, it would have to average 3.47 mi / kWh. I sometimes get over 4... but I also often get under 3 (especially in winter, when 2.5 is common.) Highway at those speeds in the summer (with AC) is ~3 or so which gives you ~225 effective road trip range between fill-ups.

neogodlesson Slate EV truck starts at $24,950

I own a Polestar 2 with an effective 75 kWh battery and an average efficiency of 3.3 mi / kWh. So 248 mile range if you charge to 100% and run it down to 0%.

Real world, 99.9% of driving I do is well under 100 miles per day, and my charging between 6pm and 8am on a 120V outlet adds 50-60 miles. You could plug in every night, but in practice I wait until the battery is below 40%, and tend to plug in every 1-2 weeks depending on how much I use it.

It's been driven over 200 miles in a single day twice, and each time the car was charged for 15-20 minutes at a fast charger to top up. shrug

For many people, in real world usage, 205 mile range is great for how you'll actually use the truck.

neogodlesson Slate EV truck starts at $24,950

... in Teslas. Not in "production EVs."

neogodlesson Slate EV truck starts at $24,950

https://insideevs.com/features/711659/ev-charger-efficiency-...

Suggests up to 25% loss if your just plugging into an outlet, but a wallbox improves that considerably.

neogodlesson Slate EV truck starts at $24,950

Varies widely by state and other factors. I'm at around $0.18 for 1kWh when you look at the overall bill including generation, supply, and all other fees.

(My car averages 3.3 miles / kWh, so ~$0.055 / mile assuming 100% charge efficiency... I'm using a 120V outlet so it's probably 75-80% charge efficiency, pushing the cost to ~$0.068 / mile.)

neogodlesson Slate EV truck starts at $24,950

You're saying an engine makes a vehicle modular?

neogodlesson Slate EV truck starts at $24,950

Web search found the "small-block crate" engine as what GM's SBC is. You're saying an engine makes a vehicle modular?

https://kagi.com/search?q=gmc+sbc

neogodlesson Slate EV truck starts at $24,950

The Specs page has a list of safety features. Sadly it's an image and not text, so here's a direct link:

[PAGE] https://www.slate.auto/en/specs

[IMAGE] https://images.ctfassets.net/20dhmw20vttc/2wmiW5shOfgAKsd1nF...

neogodlesson Reid Hoffman says SpaceX 'not an AI company', xAI 'complete train wreck'

There are more than those two options, both of which are "take unnecessary risk on a hugely uncertain investment."

neogodlesson Steam Machine launches today

The comment I replied to... replied to the comment about GamerNexus. They estimated a comparable build (to the $1049 Steam Machine) based on their benchmarks would be about $979.

neogodlesson Job application asked for my SAT scores

While it does not come up in interviews, it does seem to come up during resume filtering. (Plenty of jobs I'm otherwise easily qualified for that I didn't get contacted for, even back when basically having a pulse and knowing code could get you any job you wanted.)

neogodlesson Steam Machine launches today

$1049 - $979 = $70 (7% savings)

neogodlesson Steam Machine launches today

We use that feature, and it's faster than our 300 Mbps internet even though both gaming laptops are on WiFi. shrug but yeah I don't know that it's a "killer feature" when we're talking about a device that omitted features and is still $1050. If this made it $1100 and lost 10% of sales to increase sales by 1%, it's a loss for the company ;)

neogodlesson Steam Machine launches today

Could you please help me by listing one or two prebuilt towers with sufficient gaming performance for $1100?

I see examples like this: https://www.bestbuy.com/product/cyberpowerpc-gaming-desktop-... ($1200)

The Steam Machine is $150 cheaper, less storage, and due to lower TDP going to perform more poorly. But... I want something I can hide behind my TV that is very quiet. Can you help me find towers like that?

neogodlesson SpaceX Drops 14% in One Day, Price Now Below IPO Launch

Looks like the holdings update at the end of each month. Check back in ~8 days and look for SPCX!

https://advisors.vanguard.com/investments/products/vti/vangu... (there's a search by ticker under Holdings)

neogodlesson Steam Machine launches today

I bet at least 90% of people buying this connect it to WiFi and never think about connection speed again!

Personally... my internet is only 300 Mbps. My WiFi connection is roughly on par with 1GbE. I have a very small pool of 2.5GbE capable devices, but overall I'm just not fussed about making the switch.

neogodlesson Steam Machine launches today

> In my opinion, it would've been worth the money to just buy a gaming PC, put it in a garage, hidden room, etc with the networking gear, then stream it over the network to a Steam Link or using Apollo/Artemis/Moonlight/Parsec; anything.

I'm someone who has built dozens of gaming PCs, and wired my house. I also have zero interest in doing the above... if I have to pay few hundred extra to get a Steam machine hooked up to a TV without all that hassle... I'll do that.

It's not the absolute best value for gaming. It's not horrible in current market conditions but it's also not targeting "best value for gaming" anywhere in the marketing materials. It's hardware that can play your Steam library on your TV. There are harder, less expensive ways to do that, as there have been for ages.

If you're a console gamer, there are less expensive, just as easy options to play console games, so it's definitely not suited for that market.

It's really only catering to people with disposable income that want a cute way to hook up a Steam-capable machine to a TV. It's not a huge market, nor is it a non-existent market.

It was probably a bigger market at $750 than $1050, but we can't have nice things.

neogodlesson Show HN: Got sick of ads, so I made my own logic puzzle site

All I've never done the diagonals before... oops.

https://imgur.com/a/Dfxf9CJ (before picking 2 / 6 / 7.)

neogodlesson Show HN: Got sick of ads, so I made my own logic puzzle site

I'm 99% sure this was an invalid Sudoku puzzle.

Just before putting the 2 in here (above the pencil 6), I put in 6 and it said Mistake, so I erased it and put 2. But... why wouldn't 6 be valid there?

https://imgur.com/a/aOnKbiT

EDIT: As per replies, "X" Sudoku is variant with a different rule. While I saw the diagonals "highlighted" in another color, I didn't know that rule. Perhaps it could be added to the page for those unfamiliar with this non-standard Sudoku variant?

neogodlesson Can you see three trees?

Are zoning laws in the United States at the federal level? Or by township and city?

Does every city in America have the rules you mention, or specific ones?

neogodlesson Ubiquiti: Enterprise NAS, Built on ZFS

I think using "poorly known" initialisms is almost always a "I'm in the in group" signaling.

Or just making assumptions about what "everyone" knows. Either way it tends to be a net negative for a large percentage of the audience.

Whether the individuals writing care about the ignorant among the audience determines if they put any effort into being educational or just signaling.

neogodlesson U.S. science is in chaos

You have to remember that many of us are worried about the effects on everyone but the people pulling the levers are only worried about effects on themselves, and (at least in the short term) they are absolutely benefiting (e.g. enriching) themselves, regardless of how much damage it does to everyone else.

neogodlesson Has AI already killed self-help nonfiction books?

Remember a few years back when many of us were shocked to learn that...

people use Facebook for news?

neogodlesson Calvin and Hobbes and the price of integrity

I watched a few episodes of it.

It wasn't so bad that I couldn't wait to stop watching it but... it wasn't good enough that I couldn't help but finish it. I still want to finish it...

neogodlesson Fable ban was never about a jailbreak

To expand on this:

Feds freaked over Fable 5 after simple 'fix this code' prompt, not jailbreak (theregister.com) 398 points | 6 hours ago | 223 comments

neogodlesson Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers

Let me know how fast the internet without working ad block feels...

(Personally I find Firefox is plenty fast! And the benefits vastly outweigh trying to deal with a Google-powered web browser.)

neogodlesson I Fired Google

This doesn't really track. Sibling comment pointed out that the average new car transaction price is massively higher than before knobs were replaced with screens.

But more importantly... screens were put in more expensive cars first, and slowly trickled down to budget cars. It's a very weak argument that it was done for cost reasons. Screens are flashy and impress people during their 5 minute test drive. "Wow! Think of all the things I can do in my car that I couldn't do with a knob for changing fan speed." Sure, living with those screens tends to be a bit less enjoyable than those first impressions lead you to believe, but bright colorful animated screens helped to sell cars. If they're actually less expensive than knobs and buttons, that's just a bonus for the manufacturers.

Also keep in mind, when screens first appeared in (expensive) cars, they weren't actually cheaper than the knobs and buttons they replaced. Technology is, sorry was getting cheaper per unit of performance over time. Screens became commonplace and inexpensive to put in cars, but I suspect they were ten times more expensive than all the knobs and levers they replaced when they started appearing in luxury cars.

neogodlesson Firewood Splitting Simulator

Yeah this needs pieces with knots, and having to swing at least 3 times before the initial split works. Very unrealistic, 3/10. Need some wedge + sledgehammer modes.

Also how do I simulate my shoulder and lower back hurting?

neogodlesson Hacker News actively blocking SpaceX IPO submissions

This seems... obviously false:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

Maybe there are just way too many submissions for any one to rise to Home Page fame?