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This is literally a huge pile of batteries that can charge at any rate at any time. It can soak the noon peak of solar, it can sip late night wind.

This is how security works in the C programming language.

Someone at the end of those trades has to do the replacement, which will dictate second-hand car value.

BTW, batteries wear gradually, and a battery with 70% of capacity may be annoying for a car, but is still valuable for stationary energy storage (for solar). To me that’s another optimistic factor that can reduce actual replacement cost.

I buy everything I can on GoG due to lack of DRM. If something is not on GoG, I buy from Epic simply because they pay a bigger share to developers than Steam. When I buy a game I want that money go to the devs, not middlemen.

GoG also integrates well with Epic, so I can have all my games there.

eGMP cars (Hyundai/Kia) need 20 minutes of charging per 2-3 hours of driving. It really works — I've driven across Europe twice now, and often my coffee breaks take more time than the car needs to recharge.

The battery tech has advanced significantly in the last 10 years. Leaf used to be 24kWh, now it's 40kWh for the same price. If the trend continues (and likely will thanks to economies of scale ramping up), by the time you need to replace the battery in today's EVs, the replacements will be cheaper and better.

It's a great game. Very good story. The game is mostly serious noir detective story, except that roaring Zootopia setting.

Severe performance issue on day one is most likely a bug, some incompatibility, or debug code accidentally left in.

I don’t know why people interpret it as if the game will never be playable and behave as if it was some master plan to make 4090 look slow.

CS1 never fully integrated expansion packs, so there were three different ways to zone the industry, and a long disorganized list of ad-hoc zoning policies. CS2 had a chance to start with more of this more coherently designed.

Plus CS2 made road editing much more precise and flexible. You can add and remove lanes instead of having separate road types for 150 different lane configurations.

It’s more likely that they’ve hit a driver bug, or accidentally pushed a build with some debug junk. They wouldn’t intentionally release game that runs 15fps on 4090.

I like to say I don’t have a pile of unfinished projects and half-abandoned hobbies. I’m just working in the style of the great Leonardo.

They were saying in 2009 they'll have them by 2015.

They've said they're "around the corner" in 2017. Now they're eyeballing 2027.

In the meantime batteries in their actual car are prone to overheating and have to slow down recharging during road trips. Their car has lower range than most BEVs in its (inflated) price range.

Toyota can't make a good BEV. The best can do is to manufacture endless news that will make people delay purchases of competitor's cars that are actually shipping with good batteries.

We've heard the same about Nokia — they were the best, the biggest, the most experienced.

Toyota is just making these vaporware releases to cast an Osborne Effect on manufacturers that can actually produce BEVs with good batteries. Toyota can't.