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I'm a technical kinda guy, doing technical kinda stuff.

  • Lithium ion batteries have a sweet spot of around 60 to 80 percent charge where very little wear takes place to charge or discharge. If you could keep it to just that 20-30 percent usage in that range it would pretty much last ten thousand cycles.

    Charging to 100 or discharging below 50-60 percent accelerates the wear on the battery, but it is still much better than the wear rate on lead acid batteries that are cycled in a similar manner.

  • The picture you offer for comparison is literally a truck load of batteries though. Seeing that an EV's battery typically fits under the floor pan of the car, are we talking like, the equivalent of 10 cars worth of batteries in that pic?

    But once the interior of a car catches fire from whatever starting source the pictures all look pretty much the same as they're all filled with lovely hydrocarbon-based plastics that all burn in the same manner.

  • Kyle and Jackie O’s controversial breakfast radio show taken off air after hosts fall out

    And nothing of value was lost.

  • I'm sure we did a cycle of network booting thin clients and windows terminal services about 10 or 15 years ago. 🤔

  • There's slack time in people's daily work hours. You work an 8 hour day, possibly you're only actually productive for 4 to 6 hours.

    Take that into account and suddenly that thing that claims it can cut an hour or two here and there gets a lot more interesting.

  • Lamborghini? The tractor company? Of course it was always about the feel.

    It's just being heavily reinforced now that even the Volvo in my garage can quietly beat them to the next set of lights.

    An electric/hybrid powertrain would have made them relevant again, and they could likely get by on style even if performance is a bit lacking.Sad that they're not choosing to do that.

  • Pretty sure Lamborghini took one look at BYD's three thousand horsepower supercar eating up the test track at 300 miles an hour and just quietly decided to pivot reinforce "the feel".

    Edit: "reinforce" is probably a better word than "pivot" , so I'll use that, just so all those lambo apologists out there don't have to post "iTS aLwAyS bEeN aBoUT tHe fEeL."

  • "Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... MASS HYSTERIA!"

  • Oh come on now, that's a defeatist attitude!

    There's always scope to further extract value for shareholders!

  • Well they're not a charity, so my bet is on enshittification of some sort under the guise of "improving the experience for makers and users".

  • Ha, If you're alluding to my post being similar to generated output, you obviously haven't experienced the pure blandness of LLMs trying to write engaging content.

  • It's statistical blandness writ large.

    The stack of single-sentence paragraphs after the introduction paragraph trying so hard to have an impact.

    The tendency to put "not X, not Y, just Z" everywhere.

    The perfect conclusion written at the end of each piece , summarising three bland paragraphs with yet another bland paragraph.

    Statistically regurgitated bullshit, all of it

  • If you can't control yourself, you can always get the state to control everybody

    "I can handle crack just fine! I don't know why it's outlawed!"

    State control applies to a lot of addictive substances that cause material harm to society in general.

    Stares hard at social media

  • because it is far from a secure number.

    It is only the American obsession with using it as a unique identifier for everything in their lives that has caused this issue.

  • It was fault tolerant but I wouldn't say it was perfect. There were plenty of "known issues", and the fix in production was basically, "don't do that".

  • You mean "shuffle" like when you shuffle a deck of cards and have exactly the same cards still but in a different order with no single card repeating because you started out with a deck of cards and why would there suddenly be an extra card or 5 of the same face value in the deck because that's just crazy talk? That kind of shuffle?

    Yeah sorry, Spotify doesn't do that.

  • You get oxygen free copper because you install it permanently and don’t want it to rust and fail and have to rip out your ceiling and walls

    Copper wiring is protected from the elements (that is: oxygen) by its insulation. The gauge of the copper wiring is a far greater factor in audio quality than the voodoo science behind OFC.

    You don't have to worry about corrosion in your speaker wiring unless your speaker installation is literally in the ocean.

  • All I want to know is just how many veils has that soundstage got‽ Here I am, just having a soundstage like a sucker, and they've got veils they can lift!

  • But what's the point of having your newly-purchased $3000 wooden volume knob and polyatomic copper ring bus lift yet another veil from the soundstage if you're blindfolded?