It’s not a sign of AI, but when every second post manages to slip the “not x, not y, just z” phrase into their wording, you get pretty over it, pretty quickly.

Ditto for posts that worm in the phrase “just physics”. No, it’s not “just physics”. Physics is complicated, and I wish AI slop would stop handwaving away a decent explanation with that phrase.

I grew up in a mining town where there were just 5 or 6 different core designs for three and four bedroom houses, and a street was made up of those designs with minor variations like rotating it 90 degrees on the lot or mirroring the design.

If you weren’t looking for it, that lack of variety was completely unnoticeable as you drove down the street.

Title case capitalization.

Perhaps they’re talking about junction temperatures, but even then specialist components can only do 175 degrees C briefly.

Pretty much like that everywhere at the moment mate.

~2.25 for unleaded and ~3.20 for diesel in Brisbane.

Friends:

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“That’s good, buddy, good for you!”

Why

Monoculture isn’t great.

Having and maintaining other options is good for if/when things go bad.

Yes, the problem with all new material is it is not offensive enough. You got it.

No, the problem is that they - as in , three camera sitcoms - are not willing to explore boundaries. Good comedy explores boundaries and that space where the brain goes “oh no they did not just say that” is often where the best stuff is.

IF they manage to pull it off correctly. If they don’t, all the actors get booed and their show gets cancelled, so of course they’re going to go for bland over edgy.

Try Mint Mate, the desktop environment is lighter than Cinnamon. When I was running systems from that era, Mate was much speedier than KDE / Gnome 3.

After that it’s just looking at what’s running after boot up and deciding whether you need it or not. As long as it’s not hogging precious RAM/CPU don’t worry about disabling it.

Yeah , 10 amp outlets aren’t really good for 10 amps for 10 hours. Especially as they age.

I charged my EV for a few months with its trickle charger and it drew 10 amps. I just made sure to plug/unplug the charger from the outlet every day to ensure the contacts were wiped clean, and I checked the plug a few times after 4 hours or so to make sure it wasn’t getting hot (it wasn’t).

But yeah, home charging overnight is fine for city use. Most EVs use about 170Wh per kilometer driven, so 2400 watts per hour from your charger gives you about 12-15km of range every hour. If your daily commute is under 100km it’s fine.

I’ve got a 7kW single phase charger now, it charges my EV from dead flat to 100 percent in less than 10 hours.

The other parts are fixing up our rail networks for long distance freight transport, and general electricification of heavy industry.

Biggest downside is we’d have to go change out all those “without trucks Australia stops” slogans with something new.

“The Most Powerful Subaru Ever Is This Electric Family SUV, Yes”, says Yoda.

Bet it isn’t more than 15 minutes before pieces of metal come out.

That’s just a materials engineering problem at that point.

And does it really matter if your mach 6 hypersonic missile only has a 1500km range before its engine blows up? Still rather handy to have a few around.

I would put a temperature sensor on the line feeding to your shower to trigger on a temperature rise, but it all depends whether it’s accessible somewhere. Setting your trigger to something like 33 degrees would mean it only triggers on warm showers, cold showers you’re on your own.

Well seeing it’s been 9 years since then, and BYD has become one of the world’s leading EV manufacturers in the meantime, one can hope that they’ve learnt a few things along the way.

This was done 20 years ago with magnetic loop antennas for mining, there is nothing particularly revolutionary here.

What in the futhark is that ugly ass OS.

It was the first step up from Windows 3.11 which was basically a DOS GUI. It was rough, but definitely an improvement. Compare that to the latest “updated OS” from Microsoft now.

And 30 years ago it was quite easy to do dumb shit that completely ruined your system, be it in DOS, Win95, or OS/2.

Example from OS/2 - deleting the image file used for the desktop background in presentation manager (OS/2’s core GUI) meant your system could no longer boot, and when you can’t just google shit to sort things out, you were essentially up for a reinstall at that point.

and then the Chinese cars actually turned up, and they were well made and got 5 star safety ratings.

That’s because they’re on the fifth or sixth generation of EVs. They’ve worked out the kinks. They’ve figured out what’s necessary to get good safety ratings in world markets, and how to make it all relatively cheaply.

Meanwhile the rest of the world are on about their 2nd or 3rd generation, and it shows.

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I took the antenna down and testing it again on the ground, it’s more like 0.8 ohms center to outside. That is a dead short and likely my problems. Thanks!

Some antenna designs can be a dead short at DC and present a correct RF load. But the one you have is very likely a collinear design with “stacked” elements, which should be open circuit.

Everything else you described sounds normal. So hopefully this is it!