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It's been extremely useful for getting groceries and hauling packages.
My experience has been similar to the author's, with people curious about it and often taking pictures of it as they drive past.
1200 kw is a lot of power. That's the average amount of power used by 600 homes, or half of the output of a large wind turbine here in the Midwest, to charge a single truck.
If they use a 440 V supply to charge it, that'd be over 2700 amps.
The governor may have to call the legislature back into special legislative session again next month because revenue is again coming in less than expected.
The three state universities will be increasing tuition 7% per year for each of the next five years because of budget cutbacks caused by these revenue shortfalls.
Part of the decline in revenue is due to the decline in the ag economy, but some have also attributed it to the increasing amount of tax breaks like these that Iowa has been giving out.
Furthermore, this is not just farmland. Waukee is a west Des Moines suburb, the fastest growing part of the state and supposedly one of the fastest growing parts of the US. If Apple hadn't purchased that land, it likely would have been purchased and developed by someone else soon.
If I'm editing a file and type several repeating j or l commands (e.g., 'jjjjj' in command mode), there is noticeable latency between the last movement command and the last cursor movement.
I get no latency, however, when performing the same commands using the right or down arrow keys.
The 'h' or 'k' commands have no latency, either, just 'j' and 'l'.
I've been using vim for years and still find it frustrating. I haven't noticed the same problem with other vi clones (e.g., nvi or elvis).
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While it's now __possible__ to layout complex designs easily using CSS Grid, it's usually not the best user experience on a phone. Why go to the trouble of making a beautiful layout with lots of white space that won't show on mobile without scrolling?
Yes, you can use media queries to give a better UX on mobile. But if the end result is going to be a single-column page that strips out whitespace for the majority of users, why not just use a collapsing columnar layout?
Looks like a nice machine for a low-end laptop. It's rare to find low-end laptops like this with a replaceable battery and 1080p screen. Running Linux is by default is of course a big plus.
I don`t necessarily agree with them choosing WPS Office over LibreOffice. Do they really think that users who choose this laptop over a Windows laptop would want software because it "looks more like Windows Office"?
To do an international wire transfer into the US, it must first be routed through one of the few large banks that have their own SWIFT code (e.g. Wells Fargo), then often through a second intermediary bank before the payment reaches the receiver's bank. All the routing in the US is done using ABA numbers, which is unique to the US.
Few European banks seem to be able to handle this convoluted process. More often then not, when we've attempted to receive an incoming wire transfer from from a European customer, the payment has gotten misrouted because the sending bank neglected to fill out the application form properly.
By contrast, we've had very few problems receiving international payments via PayPal.
It's this way already. Virtually every shared hosting provider (Hostgator, Bluehost, etc.) provides a Cpanel admin panel with Softaculous software installer. All kinds of apps (blogs, CMSs, project management apps, etc.) are a single-click install and removal.
But I don't like the idea of having to install both Ruby and node just to work with a simple scss file. :-(