Nit: as others have pointed out, the stat as defined would be a delta, not a ratio. Ratios require division between one number and another number. Deltas are the difference between two numbers. This stat is closer to, say, plus/minus than it is to field goal percentage, to use basketball stats.

Yeah the Battlefield games have always done interesting things to try and make the stats more representative of player performance.

Fractional kills are certainly meaningful, but:

Correct, the only way this is possible is if the car’s brakes cannot lock up the wheels, or overheat before brining the car to a stop even at instance one panic stop. Both implications are _horrifying_.

Sure, in the limit. But mathematically there’s zero difference between applying the brakes and applying EMF to a motor in the opposite direction of the current shaft rotation. Both will exert a force opposing the motion along the spinning axle. Both will lock the tires if that force exceeds the traction ability of the…

Yes, but this is just doing the electronic version of what your brakes are already doing (like literally, resistors and friction pads are direct analogs). Any weight budget you spend on doing that you could pretty reasonably just spend on making the brakes better.

The problem with cooking the motor is it might actually light on fire, and that might cause cascading failures worse than the crash. The braking system is in a place where it igniting is relatively harmless. The electric motor (on a Tesla) is not.

Sure. But no matter what, your energy storage is finite. At some point you have to start converting kinetic energy in form one (inertia) into kinetic energy in form two (heat) instead of storing it as potential energy.

Right. The limiting factor in all cases is the same: heat dissipation

Yeah, I mean, “If it bleeds it leads” was a mantra well before the social media era. This cycle isn’t new, Facebook just does it at a massive scale.

It’s a weird GIF compression issue. If you look at the thumbnail from the video (or watch the video), the effect is gone.

It is pretty wild though.

Amazed I’m the first to post a Fargo gif....

The Joycon still talk over bluetooth when they’re attached in handheld mode. The rails are purely for power. A pro-controller attached via USB is the only non-bluetooth controller connection.

Yeah, I mean bluetooth the protocol really wasn’t meant for this application. The host device can only talk to a single component device at a time bidirectionally (the host can broadcast to all optionally, but cannot receive from all). This works great for a network of devices where the information is not a continuous…

It’s interesting to think about _why_ Nintendo didn’t launch with BlueTooth audio, and why now that they’ve added it, it comes with so many limitations. People might blame the hardware, but this is must less a Switch specific hardware limitation, and more a bluetooth-the-protocol limitation. Bluetooth really wasn’t…

This is less a Switch specific hardware limitation, and more a bluetooth-the-protocol limitation. Bluetooth really wasn’t designed for a high bandwidth multi-device network. That’s what WiFi is for. Instead it was designed to be a low power serial cable replacement. Bluetooth operations in a master/slave topology (god…

You’re forgetting the standard deduction. You have to make an extra $12,500, or $25,000 if married and filing jointly past what the raw tax liability number is.

I mean, but that opportunity cost to you tying up your money in a future sale for no interest can simply be modeled into the price. Generously, let’s assume you could make a 10% return on that money in a year’s time on average. If you feel like product you’re getting is worth the price + 10%, then you didn’t really…

Er, there’s no contract to actually deliver a pre-order either. Companies have canceled projects and gone bust and the people that pre order get hosed. Usually a company that’s fairly large will refund pre-orders if the project got canceled but they’re still healthy, because not doing so would be PR suicide, but…

Well technically the consumer is giving a zero interest loan to a large cooperation to fund production. But that opportunity cost just becomes a pricing model. If the delivery date’s a year out, assume the thing is functionally costing you 10% more than you’re paying, and if that still sounds good to you, then I…