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About half as expensive where I live and the way I drive.

Funnily enough, I’m a city dweller with street parking.

I used to like hybrids, and obviously series hybrids are the coolest kind of hybrids, but now that I’m driving a budget EV, I honestly don’t see the point anymore. Just get the EV and skip the awkward half-way step that inherits the most expensive and complicated parts from both designs.

Seeing a sleek modern car pull away whisper quiet and then start the ICE 3 seconds later with a stutter and a puff of water vapor from underneath is the most schizophrenic sight, it somehow feels more dated than actual ICE cars.

Unless you live in bumfuck nowhere with expensive electricity, zero solar power and a daily 5 hour commute, an EV will likely work just fine for you.

I see the comment is getting downvoted and I’d like to know why. AFAIK many languages had really very vague spelling rules and often several being used at once.

If most of the audience is actually illiterate, why not draw a beer and a chicken leg instead? I believe that’s what most signage actually was.

> LLMs can produce any algorithm, any tech stack, any concept in seconds, minutes, or hours.

Except when they can’t, that is.

> keeping your capability for hand coding is not going to help as much as you imply

> The skill we need today is to compensate for coding agent blindspots and limitations, know their problems, have ways to approach those problems and still get code you can trust to be reliable and aligned with your intent.

So you’re saying that you can stop being able to understand code, but you need to be able to coerce a weird flawed black box into writing good code, without understanding how good code (and good decisions about code) should look like.

That seems contradictory.

I’m not sure it’s really a nit. The article says that explicitly at the very beginning, and implies that again at the very end.

I’m not sure what to think about an analysis written by someone who didn’t catch THAT.

Hey, the Python thing is interesting! I’ve noticed that Fable, too, likes to write tons of Python, even for just replacing a few lines of code. Before that used to be either some kind of internal thing or regular awk sed, now it’s full python scripts.

I’ve had them for 3,5 years now and off the top of my head I can’t remember where the “charging leads” are. So it’s safe to say that mine definitely don’t get gunked up.

That might make sense, but to clarify, my dad has disabled his ad blocker a few months ago by accident, so he’s fair game. An older guy too, I guess that’s why there were so many scams.

I like how the least optimistic scenario is simply LLMs not making a difference, instead of the very real possibility of them damaging education, destroying people’s attention spans and their ability to learn, eroding trust within societies, increasing the wealth inequality and leading to class wars.

I believe the net effect of LLMs is, at this point, firmly negative, and it’s going to take years until they start making up for the mess they’ve created.

This is so perfect and depressing that I might cry. It’s like a Kafka novel about programming.

Note that your reply has exactly 0 value for anyone who doesn’t already know where and how the parent poster is wrong.

That’s surprising, because in my opinion Google doesn’t care about malicious anything. The other day I had to look for something on YouTube on my dad’s computer with a disabled ad-blocker. I saw like 30 ads in 15 minutes, every single one of them was a scam, literally not a single non-fraudulent ad. Google is full cartoon villain evil at this point.

It’s true that my first thought, as someone with actual diagnosed ADHD, was “how the hell is this related to ADHD?”.

Are people that much larger in the US? I’d happily raise three European-sized kids in the 130 sqm bachelor pad.

> the original LAN house was not very big: 1400 sqft. This made for a pretty awesome bachelor pad, but would have been a bit cramped for raising a family.

That’s 130 m^2. A fucking bachelor pad.

Infuriating, yes, but apparently getting shot for no reason is also quite popular. This sounds like the better deal.

Sadly, I don’t keep older conversations. Also now that you’ve asked, I expect Claude to be absolutely stellar for the next few weeks :D

The electric plane isn’t a 737, the fuselage looks quite slender.

> You are saying that they took off with a normal amount of power for a plane that size, then cruised around using an amount of power (45kw) that wouldn’t keep a two person plane 1/20th the weight airborne.

No, I’m not saying anything about 45 kW, you’re, again mistaking kW for kWh.

> Citing drag from a Tesla is kind of irrelevant because the whole way an airplane works is by creating lift via drag.

That’s already included in the drag coefficient that I quoted, and I know what induced drag is. Airliners are incredibly slippery because of their shape, a Skyhawk (or any other small GA plane) is a brick compared to that.

I’m not arguing about the $5 figure, it might as well be $20, I don’t know where they buy their electricity, but it’s still a very low number compared to anything burning Jet-A or avgas, and it’s absolutely a “low hundreds of kilowatt hours” number.

I have no idea what point you’re trying to make or how is my vacation “the key here”. I’m visiting a regular Czech town that just happens to be almost exactly 125 miles from another regular Czech town (the one where my parents live), and I used those two particular towns as an example of how 125 miles can be a pretty big deal in Europe (or really anywhere in the world that’s not the US).

I live in Czechia, in Europe, a first-world country with dense population and a very normal road network. I am now on vacation, and I’m exactly 205 km as the crow flies from where my parents live. If I wanted to drive to them right now, it would be a 309 km trip estimated to take 3.5 hours or, avoiding highways, a 252 km trip, over 4 hours.

I don’t care about the rest of your post, I just want you to understand that a completely straight highway through some corn fields isn’t how the rest of the planet drives.

Sorry, but you’re still weirdly switching from power (kilowatts) to energy (kilowatt hours). The electric plane could easily pull 1.5 megawatts for two minutes (on takeoff) and consume 50 kWh of energy, then spend the next 45 kWh cruising around and descend on the rest. (Or similar numbers, of course.)

That’s why I approximated the fuselage as two EVS (the frontal area) and I only looked up the drag coefficient of a 737 because it’s a well-known narrow-body airliner.

I don’t know what speeds they flew, but AFAIK most maiden flights are very tame. My point stands, low hundreds of kilowatthours of energy seems like the right ballpark.

I am, but it doesn’t take a genius to know that 125 miles as the crow flies is “less than 2 hours of driving” between like 6 specific pairs of destinations in the whole world.

I still don’t see what the problem is. The entire flight was likely just a few patterns and your earlier figure of 100 kWh (let’s assume they get their electricity for cheap) is already a serious amount of energy. It takes 100 kWh of energy to lift a 10.4ton object by about 3.2 km, so we’re obviously in the same ballpark for the maiden flight, and the rest is just drag. For drag, I’ll approximate the plane fuselage as two EVs that I drive. A 737 has a lower drag coefficient than my car, but a plane also has wings, so let’s say that evens out. Out of that 100 kWh, we probably only needed like a half for pure altitude, so we have 50 kWh for drag. An EV can sustain 200 km/h with about 60 kW of power, so let’s say 120 kW for the plane, and the flight was less than half an hour. Also, the plane got to convert all the potential energy back to kinetic energy on descent, so that was “free”.

Again, I believe that the napkin math checks out.

Even Ryanair turnarounds take like 30 minutes. A bit more than that and you can charge the plane comfortably. Fueling bigger planes is quite the ceremony.

Somewhat quieter, but not by much. We’re talking about prop planes here, where the prop is the noisy part.