One good place to put chargers would be apartment complex parking lots. My commute is <10 miles, I could easily drive an electric car... except I have nowhere to charge it. I’ve even talked to the leasing company about paying to have one installed, they won’t try to bring it up with corporate unless I actually commit…

I suspect the tracks being LN2-cooled is a mistranslation or miscommunication. The typical setup is for the train to have superconducting electromagnets, and for the track to have either permanent magnets or induced-current electromagnets. There’s other stuff that makes me think there was a lot of information messed…

The rover isn’t built to get from point A to point B, it was built to do a lot of science. It’ll go a few hundred feet and ooh look at this interesting rock, let me take some pictures and zap it with x-rays and hit it with a hammer so we can see what kind of cleavage patterns it has and woah don’t you think this whole…

Very well, if you’re going to dismiss my criticism for use of a casual register, I will reply in a scholarly register to forestall any further tone-policing.

Bruh are you seriously arguing that something is going to come along and replace electricity for charging electric vehicles? Are you expecting some sort of on-site generation, like one of those mini nuclear reactors at every charging site, or are you expecting BEVs to be swiftly replaced by something like hydrogen…

Much of the cost of an EV fast-charge station, AIUI, is the actual grid hookup and maybe the AC->DC converter. Eight DC fast chargers (~120kW apiece) are going to pull a megawatt of power when all in use, no matter what the actual charging standard used is or what fancy battery tech is involved, and that’s not a…

One good piece of advice: feel free to give up on even playing some games, and make a distinction between “yeah I guess I’ll play that if there’s nothing else left” and “oh shit I gotta play this one” games. I’ve sorted my Steam library into six categories:

I’m kind of surprised they’re using solar power for this, instead of an RTG. It seems risky to explore permanently-shadowed craters on battery power, unable to recharge if it gets stuck. I know solar power is cheaper and lighter, and that RTG fuel is pretty limited, but it still seems like a strange decision. I guess…

I doubt it was a change to the compression method - that would require re-compressing all of the assets, which would result in a multi-gigabyte patch. And decompressors are usually optimized to hell and back already, it’s highly unlikely that they managed to get that much of a performance boost by improving the…

I think the argument is that regulatory credits are not a sustainable source of income - that within the near future, the competition will have caught up and no longer need to buy environmental credits from Tesla. Which is not incorrect! If Elon isn’t planning on a future where Tesla sells zero credits, he’s an idiot.

It’s probably just oddities in the code. Consoles, especially modern ones, are incredibly complex - there are thousands of little details that even the creators might not have realized, which some games may have come to rely on.

My suspicion is that everyone collectively knew that Tesla stock was overvalued, but it needed some “spark” to start the sell-off. Literally any event could have fired it off, this one just happened to happen first. Even though (IMO) everything announced was a pretty good financial move, except maybe Plaid Mode, it…

idTech would be absolutely awful for an Elder Scrolls type game. Honestly I’m not sure any off-the-shelf engine would work for it - maybe Unreal can handle it, but it would be pushing limits farther than any other UE4 game. A lot of people underestimate just how big a difference the scale of world affects engine…

The Xbox soft reset was a common trick, IIRC Oddworld did it too. The system could reboot quickly, and wouldn’t touch the framebuffer while it was doing so. Games (any software, really) that do a lot of memory allocation/deallocation need to deal with fragmentation at some point, and the easiest way was to wait for…

I (and many others) question the usefulness of the Gateway. It seems less like an actual, useful component of the system, and more of a hack to make the system work despite Orion being a) way heavier than it ought to be, and b) having far too little dV of its own, due to an undersized service module.

Yeah, I expected there to be some way the scalpers would work around it. It’s still a small win, though - denies them the profit-maximization of a bid war, and it slowed them down by a few days.

Yeah, I think PS1 would be possible but it would take a lot more than a week to get it playable. The advantage of porting it to later consoles is that you basically don’t have to optimize any, to get it playable. And probably not even much to get it solid 60fps - there were only a few places I saw serious framerate…

I have seen claims that eBay auctions are being manipulated by “vigilantes”, to make it harder for scalpers to actually sell. Using bots of their own to flood them with bids, pricing out the people who would have been willing to pay a small premium but couldn’t pay $80,000, and making it hard for the scalpers to…

This is hardly a new idea - I think it’s inevitable in some shape, just electric cars are too uncommon yet for this to be in much demand. Easier for now to just rent a fossil-fuel truck than a trailer. I’m not sure about the modular, quick-swap concept, though - too much infrastructure, too many safety risks, too…

Regardless of everything else, Advent Children has an amazing soundtrack. I’d rank it as Uematsu’s best work. I can’t pick a favorite track - the excellent covers of the older themes, in both piano and power-metal form? Battle in the Forgotten City? One-Winged Angel rewritten with lyrics that actually make sense for…