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I'm surprised that the maximum charge rate of 105kW is so "low". I've an EV with a ~50kWh battery and it charges at at least 134kW (what I've seen; probably a bit more if I had lower SOC) and it's SEVEN YEARS OLD. I consider that a long time in the to-date development of EVs - when you look at...

Installing 16.7.15 update now. No no I realise that this update isn't (probably) about this particular malware, but it's still nice of Apple to provide some security updates for those of us who, for whatever reason, don't have expensive new phones.

(Context was curtailment of solar and wind). I know the US is pretty far behind in terms of renewable generation (except California and Texas right?) ;-) but here in Australia, in particular in southern Australia, we have solar and wind curtailment almost daily because we've built quite a lot...

I'm looking at new Raspberry Pis at the moment and ... am sad that I didn't buy last year.

As an occupant of planet Earth, I find the US and its inhabitants ever more revolting.

AI video monitoring of schools, kids doing a play involving guns, blaming a kid for the AI's stuff-up, I really am glad I don't live in the US.

Yep I'm using a DSL-AC52U because I've been told that FTTP is coming late this year at which point I'll no longer need this DSL modem. Has worked flawlessly until now. I'm using a RT-AC68U for WiFi (disabled on the 52U); also has worked flawlessly.

What struck me about this system is the tiny size of the 1.9kWh battery in relation to the 40kW electric motor. That's quite a hard-working battery. Perhaps the intended audience won't mind swapping these things out relatively frequently, or perhaps most people won't notice that the battery is...

I use Copilot as well as ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude. Somehow, even though (as I understand) Copilot is just a front on ChatGPT, Copilot is significantly crapper. Fails (“try again later”!) completely sometimes and generally less useful results. Somehow MS has made it suck. What a surprise?!

While my experience might not be typical, my Model 3's long-term average consumption is 137 Wh per km, which is just about the rated value. I do live in a relatively mild climate (no snow), but on the other hand my car has a resistive heater rather than heat pump. I find it interesting then...

The lack of perspective given the above-front view bugs me. But then I never understood the move away from skeuomorphism either. I renamed my primary drive "Macintosh SSD" when I installed the SSD in place of the "HD".

I do hope version numbers will replace the names when talking about requirements. I have Sierra Nerada, required is Santa Rusa, well, will it run? How the hell should I know whether Santa Rusa is newer than Sierra Nerada? There being no natural ordering to arbitrarily-assigned place names, I...

The Going / Not going / Maybe slider... weird. But then, I think System 7 / MacOS 8 was the easiest to use and most logical interface and we've gone downhill since then. These days, we have buttons that act like menus, text that can be clicked with no indication it's an active element...

I use LLMs a lot for my coding, but I also almost always start with a clear scope such as "I have a Xarray DataArray with dimensions ..." and limit 'please write me code to ...' requests to specific clearly-defined tasks. In these cases, LLMs will (in my experience) use only the standard...

Oh, you had to include a picture of physical air/heat controls!? Really? Just to taunt us Tesla (me specifically Model 3) drivers, reminding us how awful some modern vehicles are in this regard? How I long for an AC button which stays off when I turn it off, rather than resetting to "Auto" every...

I think 1600 km is a little pessimistic unless perhaps you're riding in sand all the time. Back when I was commuting I could easily get 10,000 km from a drivetrain. Running four chains in sequence, switching every ~600 km, I could push the drivetrain to around 18,000 km before the front...

Sometimes it's claimed that one of the factors influencing the cessation of automobile manufacturing in Australia was our lack of efficiency standards. The argument is roughly that in not being forced to improve engines the local manufacturers didn't, and gradually became less and less relevant...

When I hear that the unique wheels are somehow involved in charging the battery, I suspect that someone in the marketing department who'd never before heard of regen, heard about how the battery got charged by the wheels when braking, or going down hills. And it got through review...

I'm becoming more and more interested in the pricing of the new Macs (or maybe 2nd hand M2 or 3), because more and more software is no longer available for my current iMac (which I will use as a screen) and Windows just annoys me too much to tolerate for extended periods of time. This 2010 model...

Was so excited for this initially but in every way besides safety and propulsion I think my original '74 exceeds the abilities of this thing. Seats 8, has removable seats, has more interior space (incl. when seats are in), more ground clearance, better visibility, and still a smaller footprint...