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I think of it more like a demo and also a way to gather data while allocating the costs to the tourist.

There is a proprietary agent in my system collecting the data and sending it to the monitoring tool in a proprietary format. It's still quite simple and easy to parse though.

However getting the data in Datadog is not a problem. The problem is losing ready to use monitoring tools and apps designed to work for my specific software and having to configure a much more flexible tool as Datadog to do things I already have available.

I think green hydrogen generation and other types of long term storage are required for the seasonal problem but they are quite expensive and/or inefficient currently. However, the UK has a lot of wind during the winter, this can mitigate the problem significantly.

I just did a code review today where I didn’t find any bug but I forced the “developer” to rewrite the whole thing. He didn’t write a single line of code with a minimum of maintainability in mind…

Tests find bugs, code reviews look for quality. Sometimes I can spot a bug but it’s not my primary goal.

Even if today’s situation would still favor fossil fuels, in the long term I have zero doubts about battery win.

They are improving significantly every year: density increase which allows weight and volume reduction or longer range; cheaper and less contaminant materials are used for still evolving LFP and sodium batteries; Electric engines without rare earths are also appearing; loading charge from only renewable sources will be the norm; production escalation will reduce pollution per manufactured unit; recycling processes will appear

My wife who is more than 2 years sick with Long/Post Covid, lost almost everything because of it, her body and her brain. She had almost perfect memory and spoke 5 languages fluently by the age of 30 while learning Chinese as a 6th. She had a promising career in the medicine field and was also quite a good painter and other crafts (not famous though). We were hiking regularly to very high mountains and doing a lot of activities.

Now she spends most of the day in bed and the rest on the sofa and she can’t barely do anything, only crochet… maybe some cooking. Not even watch movies that have too much action, so she is watching black and white series now to have something to do without getting cognitively burnout. She lost her memory, her capacity to think, she has chronic fatigue and many other weird symptoms like easily getting senses overwhelmed by simple noises or smells.

We went to a lot of doctors, tried a few “remedies” from small scientific studies and internet: metformin, nicotine, lidocaine, multiple supplements and vitamins, some antivirals and many other things. Nobody is able to help her and most of doctors don’t even try to help or know anything about this new and growing condition.

Of course always the “psychosomatic” smart ass appears, but there are enough proofs already to tell them to shut up. Even the NIH director mentioned viral persistence found body tissues in a recent talk [1].

At least the awareness is growing and there are s lot of studies going on. So still some hope, but it won’t come fast.

[1] https://x.com/californiacodes/status/1780099073468764415

As a very small investor, I prefer to not listen to what Goldman and others have to say about the market. For an individual there is no way to know if they are right, they are wrong or they are lying for their own interests.

I’m sorry but you are forgetting a lot of people that has a public job with a predefined salary not adjusted to the island reality.

Nurses, teachers, doctors, firemen… especially those who are there just temporarily can’t afford housing and it’s a big problem for the correct functioning of the island.

Obviously the dormitory was not the target. First of all I guess they get limited precision with this drone, especially if it was not real-time controlled. Secondly maybe they didn’t know the building distribution, most likely their goal was hoping to hit the factory or start a fire

The first wave of BYD cars in Europe are not competitive yet. The price difference is small, they are less efficient and they have other issues (space optimization, driving comfort, etc)

But in only one year they already started to fix all this. They are getting cheaper, correcting mistakes and opening factories in the EU.

Old makers announce a car and need 2-3 years or more to have it in the market. The Chinese brands seem to need less than a year. There will be blood.

My next car will be electric but I don’t feel like ICE is any nightmare if you choose a reliable car. The same that will happen with EVs.

The cars I owned were a VW Golf TDI IV, a Mercedes C220 (2003) and a Hyundai Ioniq non-plugin hybrid. Very happy with all 3 with only serious issue with the Golf in 15 years (turbo) and gearbox with the Mercedes at 250.000 kms. Zero problems with the Ioniq in 6 years and 110.000 kms. Definitely not a nightmare

Maybe or maybe not. Don’t blame the victims please.

I’m not from a puritan environment at all but when I was a teenager I had low self esteem. I believe I could have been an easy victim back then.

Around 8 years ago I was working remotely for an Eurozone country while living in a non-euro country. I used Wise + Revolut to convert all my income and buy an apartment (or part of it). The exchange rate + transfer costs were unbeatable. Revolut was even better but had a yearly cap on 10.000€ or something like this.

The question is still what’s more efficient and cheaper. If storing a huge amount of liquid hydrogen in a tank and using a % of it to keep it liquid is cheaper than the methanol infrastructure and its multiple conversions, then it will succeed.

Are Brita and similar filtering systems getting rid of the microplastics? I use it at home for the tap water bleach taste but I’m not sure if it has other benefits (or issues!)

One hypothesis is that long covid is caused by reactivated Epstein Barr virus or other herpes family virus.

It hasn’t been confirmed but it seems clear that the initial Covid infection has great impact to the immune system and triggers all sort of collateral effects.

My wife is on the same boat for 2 years already… she is barely a body just waiting for a treatment. She is not as bad as other we know who can’t even leave the bed, but she has to stay home and had to stop working, studying, exercising, learning languages, reading books…

Only some very limited home activities, and short slow walks are possible.

She improved compared to the first 6 months but since then the average is stable. With very bad and a bit better days sometimes. Tried a lot of medicines and supplements with some effect but little.

Not if the municipality is installing enough low speed but cheap charging spots in the street parking. That’s working in some European countries at least

I was in Paris this year and my nails were getting black just from the smog. My wife has long covid and even though she was moving around with wheelchair, we had to leave the city the 2nd day because she couldn’t breathe anymore and started to cough blood.

Of course she is very sensitive now, she can’t be even close to a person smoking or a bbq. But it’s also a good indicator of how bad is for your lungs to live in Paris ir any polluted city.

Doesn’t work for me. There are chances that I will be trying multiple ways to finish it in my head while attempting to fall asleep. Causing insomnia some days and therefore very tired the next day.

If I can, I avoid this situation.

I agree but at least Tesla is making us all a favor by pushing innovation and lower prices to the rest of carmakers. If it was for the old players we would still be with hybrids like Prius or electrics with short range and highly decaying battery like the Nissan Leaf.

In the other hand it’s not that simple to catch up. Tesla has a huge advantage in costs at the moment and the non-chinese don’t seem to be able to compete. Supply chain contracts of batteries and new raw materials, software, efficient electric engines, aerodynamics, battery management, software, charging stations, vehicle platform design, cheaper manufacturing, trained workers, experienced engineers…

There are a lot of elements and some will fall because they waited too much. VW for example is having huge delays due to software and also prices (even though in China they have no problem selling the IDs for half price than in Europe…)

I never understood people living like this. I’ve never lived paycheck to paycheck even though with my first job as SWE 1 month after my graduation I was earning 900€ a month. I went to live on my own because it was in another city and of course I had to share apartment with more people during 5 with years. I did that until I had a salary where the rent for living alone in a place I liked was below 30% of my netto salary.

The only debt I ever had is my mortgage and I have savings to cover for at least 3 years without working. Without counting that I would get unemployment plus some other investments that would protect me more.

All this lifestyle didn’t stop me from traveling a lot (sometimes for months) and having nice things. But except for the home down payment, I never spent more in a year than I earned.

But I also admit that I missed a lot of good investment opportunities due to my risk aversion

100-150 kms range is fine with you? I’m certainly not going to spend 20k for such range. I might accept lower build quality, less acceleration, slow charging, ugly design… but for 20k I expect at least 250-300 kms of real range in 2023.

Nice, but why this website trues to download a file automatically to my phone?

So are you saying that my wife got depressed 2 weeks after having Covid? That she just all of the sudden started to be breathless with oximeter showing levels below 80% due to a depression? She was in her best moment in life, earning a 6 figures salary, reading 50 books a year, learning a 5th language and studying a 2nd master degree.

After 2 years, she is now unable to leave home and read a single book of course this makes her depressed. But long covid is very real and it starts always a few weeks after the recovery. It impacting mostly women than men has probably something to do with the immune system differences and your comment is offensive to all the people suffering this terrible disease and all the scientist investigating it.

My wife has long covid for 2 years with dozens of symptoms but not IBS.

I think most of the limitations are almost covered or will soon be covered.

Batteries are getting cheaper, denser, faster to charge and more durable every year. It's not a miracle improvement as sometimes is announced but the evolution is constant and CATL for example is already starting the mass production of 500Wh/Kg which would be impossible to imagine not long ago.

I got my iPhone 6s life extended 2 more years with a non official battery. It degraded faster than the original one but also the OS updates probably caused more consumption after using the same model for 6 years

https://ev-database.org allows sorting but not filtering by efficiency. For me the range + efficiency are the 2 most important EV technical specs, it should always be there. I don’t care about the battery’s capacity if I know the range and efficiency