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Also likely hitting above their weight as people who drive more have a much larger incentive to switch to EVs. Not just fuel costs, but time spent going to the gas station a few times a week if you've got a long commute.

There are a handful of them at businesses and it's wonderful if your car can support it. We get about 60mph on those chargers, so even a quick food stop gets you 20-30 miles of range. 50% charge in about 2 hours!

Most public AC chargers around me are 6.6kw and it's truly a useless amount of power. It's about 20mph, so a 20 minute food stop is giving you ~7 miles of range. To get a 50% charge takes about 6 hours. Even in a 9-5 full work day you're not able to get a full charge.

Anyone involved in RC aircraft will gladly tell you that getting a stable radio link for video and control past 4km is anything but simple.

Even a basic analog video signal is orders of magnitude more data than what you'd be transmitting in a phone call.

They contain huge AC/DC inverters. The car has a small, usually 10 or 20kw inverter built in that handles level 1 and 2 charging. Usually about the size of two textbooks per 10kw.

When you're at a DC fast charger they still only have access to AC power from the grid, but you want 250kw, 350kw of DC power to charge the car. Not only do you need 20x the inverters, but because they don't have to fit in a car and move around, they're fitted with larger, more efficient cooling.

Scott Manley did a good break down of their landing profile. They maintain a ballistic trajectory set to miss the landing pad / barge and it's only on successful re-ignition of the engine that they align with the landing pad.

In the US there are quite a few landings just outside of NYC and LA. I'd guess London is too far inland, and it's cheaper to run fiber over land.

There is probably also an incentive to keep the cables away from major shipping lanes where they'd disrupt the ability for ships dropping anchor. Notice around Seattle some cables snake up and through the sound, but it's also extremely deep water. That landing is also far north of the city proper, so any ships waiting near port are a ways from the landing site.

Serious question: Is the fall foliage visible at all to the colorblind? Is it less vivid, or just downright invisible until the leaves start to die?

Yep, we have them in our office and I used them a ton for phone calls pre-pandemic. I always jokingly called them "screaming shacks" but never saw anyone realize their stress reducing potential.

QR codes are much less resilient to interference. Barcodes can be easily read on flexible material and handle glare and obstructions quite well. QR codes need to remain flat and are very error prone if even a small bit of the pattern is blocked.

Really disappointing considering they now support up to a 6k external display. Yet you can't do 2x 1080p, or 2x 4k.

I think Apple knows a lot of customers care about this and want it to be a barrier getting them into a pro machine. The cheapest laptop they sell with multi-external-monitor support is $1k more than their cheapest laptop overall ($2k vs $1k).

That just about lines up with our experience. Our 2014 S 85 has about 200k miles and we're sitting at 13.5% degradation. 230 miles vs. the 265 it was rated new.

Yeah, it's been very surprising as a Tesla owner to learn that there's no way to opt-out of this tracking in the car. Your location is always relayed to the app, and your only option is to log out of your account in the car, which still relays the data to Tesla for the super paranoid.

Around the time of the snowden leaks we learned that the NSA was installing backdoors on Cisco firewalls bound for foreign countries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisco_Systems#Firewall_backdoo...

"A document included in the trove of National Security Agency files released with Glenn Greenwald's book No Place to Hide details how the agency's Tailored Access Operations (TAO) unit and other NSA employees intercept servers, routers and other network gear being shipped to organizations targeted for surveillance and install covert firmware onto them before they are delivered. These Trojan horse systems were described by an NSA manager as being "some of the most productive operations in TAO because they pre-position access points into hard target networks around the world."

My biggest gripe with Tesla is their lack of carplay and android auto.

They offer their own navigation software to automatically plan charging stops on long trips, but for most trips I just want Waze and their excellent traffic aware routing and speed trap notices.

Any reason you're not using an @lyft.com email for this?