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dragontamer

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  • Prius Prime 2024 Followup: More Tests

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  • The Prius PHEV manual states that there is a battery conditioner: both battery-cooling when its hot and and battery-heating when its cold.

    I assume that a significant amount of the electric charge from L1 charger is going towards battery-heating. Ex: I have a 1000W L1 charger (measured from the wall). If 100W is going to heating, then that's a 10% loss before other voltage-conversion losses. (The Prius is a 400V battery, so 110V to 400V will incur additional losses).

    The L2 charger likely has 100W of heating in these cold nights as well, but at 3,300W charging, that's only a 3% loss. Far more efficient. Furthermore, 220V is closer to 400V, so there will be less voltage-conversion losses associated with L2 charging.

    A lot of reasons to favor L2 charger installation. So that's going to be my recommendation to anyone doing Electric.

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  • I'll take what we can get.

    Remove Musk and Trump loses Twitter. Divide and conquer.

    Just as Republicans turned Muslim voters against Biden, we weaponize the subgroups of Republicans against each other. TechBros do not want Tariffs on their Chinese made computers but Magats want more Tariffs. Etc. etc.

    Break their coalition one by one, while rebuilding our coalition.

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  • We don't need to imagine what we need. We just need to take advantage of what we already have.

    We have a sieg heil in support of Trump on his inauguration. We work with that. Whatever the next mistake is, we work with that.

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  • Premature.

    Step one is to gather who is still on our side, who is demoralized, and who is against us within our local circles. There will be scabs, and the demoralized will return to work when their savings wind down.

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  • Oh I'm not saying this will convince people that Musk is a Nazi.

    But I think it will blow off some steam and more importantly rally the left. It will show that people are still out there supporting our side despite the heads of the country marching in the other direction.

    The left needs a pick me up, and using the Republican strategy of stickers on gas stations needs to be part of our arsenal. It'd at a minimum point out their hypocrisy

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  • Let's start with the basics.

    Let's make some stickers and put them on gas stations.

    We have literally a picture of Elon Musk Sieg Hailing Trump during the inauguration. Stick them on Tesla chargers or Gas Stations to spread the message.

    Yeah it's a crime to defiance public property but I don't think any of the Republicans who put up Biden stickers got arrested

  • What is your favorite anti-nazi media?

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  • Downfall.

    Anti-Nazi is not supposed to be funny, not in today's politics. Seeing Nazism for what it is and how Nazis saw themselves is best IMO.

  • TikTok says it is restoring service for U.S. users, thanking Trump

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  • Those NPCs are going to be part of American Politics for the next 20 years.

    This isnt a laughing matter. This is the new reality of politics for at least 4 years and with serious possibilities for decades or even a century.

  • TikTok says it's restoring service to US users based on Trump's promised executive order

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  • Uhhh, Trump is literally the executive.

    He just commands the FCC or other authorities to ignore TikTok. He can extend this ban evasion for all 4 years if he wants.

    Congress and Supreme Court do not control the executive powers. The President does.

  • What's something common that in 20 years from now people won't believe we used to live this way?

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  • Card Catalogs were these index-cards we kept in a cabinet that helped people look for a book. And don't say "word of mouth", because card catalogs didn't help with that. Card Catalogs helped you go from "Author or Subject" to "Book", so you were literally trying to figure out a book you already "had an idea" about.

    Tell me, how do you look for new books today? Do you use Amazon's search engine? Google's search engine?

    Internet Directories were these lists of webpages that we used to organize. It was before webrings. The gist is that an internet directory is a list of cool websites on a certain subject, and we can keep those lists organized. Alas, no one used them after good search engines were made.

    Curated TV Networks are losing out to Netflix, Youtube, and TikTok. All of which are search-engine based media consumption technologies. All hail the algorithm.

    Now tell me where "search" is actually losing in our society. Maybe Google isn't as dominant as it once was, but Netflix is still a damn search bar.

    Maybe TikTok is finally something different: you don't even search anymore. The algorithm assumes it knows what videos you like and shoves the next video into your face.

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  • As someone who has grown up watching Card Catalogs lose to electronic search, Internet Directories lose to electronic search, photo albums lose to electronic search, Curated Network Televisions lose out to ellectronic search, large-scale advertising lose out to electronic search...

    I don't know. But whatever it is, 20 years from now, we'd say "Why didn't you have a search engine that could do that for you?"

  • Mike Johnson holdouts persist after Trump endorsement

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  • It means the ones on the fence can make big asks / get concessions from Mike Johnson.

  • Steve Bannon Joins War Against Elon Musk as MAGA Implodes

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  • I mean, supervillains often turn into anti-heroes. Even Lex Luthor has some 'good guy' arcs. Some like Dr. Doom are the mythical benevolent dictators.

  • Steve Bannon Joins War Against Elon Musk as MAGA Implodes

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  • Trump threatens to take back Panama Canal over ‘ridiculous’ fees

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  • Mexico is just as pissed at Guatemalan and Venezuelan migrants as the USA, is not more so.

    Remember that Mexico has had such a booming economy that net-migrants are emigrating (leaving US) and returning to Mexico for ~the last decade or so.

    That's what's so stupid about Trump's plan vs Biden plan. Biden was working on building Mexico's southern border to help stop migrants, helping both of our countries. Trump on the other hand is too stupid to figure out this simple solution.

  • Uber will need to fingerprint drivers in California to transport teens

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  • Hmm. Hear me out. Let's say we have a medallion system where government regulated drivers drive tracked cars so that there were some assurances that the drivers are trustworthy.

  • Netflix struggles to understand its cloud costs

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  • Netflix has a substantial number of caching boxes owned by Netflix on the edge.

    This means that a neighborhood has a cache server with 20TB of video serving everyone in the neighborhood (and maybe also the next 3 or 4 neighborhoods). So if everyone watches the same episode they only pay for one cloud download / bandwidth cost.

    Netflix outsources cloud for their core infra but then runs very very heavy edges around the world. It's backwards but if you think about Netflix and the watching pattern of neighborhoods (ex: neighbor likely tells friends a new show is good, then everyone watches it) it's to the benefit of Netflix to run their infra like this.

    I wouldn't be surprised if these caching servers help each other out like BitTorrent either to avoid central cloud bandwidth costs.