1000 charge cycles. If you charge twice a week, that’s 500 weeks or a little less than 10 years. There’s no mention of degradation over time.
But back-of-the-napkin, it means for this to be cost-effective, they may want to come up with some sort of replaceable or battery swap system. Not sure anyone will want to buy a vehicle that needs a massive battery retrofit every 8-10 years.
One of the prime rules of storytelling is that the hero has to have a flaw.
Superman is super. He can’t lose. That’s why the writers introduced Kryptonite. Captain America is a super-soldier, but is still mortal. Thor is a god, but can lose his hammer and his powers.
The problem with Superhero movies is that they all got so much power they became invincible, and boring.
Good, classic storytelling beats VFX 10/10.
Friend of mine used to volunteer for the local chapter of a well-known national non-profit. He tried to explain all the technical benefits of setting up a website, yada yada. The board didn’t care and were bored.
He finally set up a small demo on his own. Just a few screens. Ran a small test. Presented static screenshots, along with charts and stats on viewership and engagements. Had mockups of donation pages, volunteer signup screens, newsletters, etc. That was when people saw the value and got interested.
Nobody cares about decentralized social networks, the technology, or how terrible the other outlets are. For a municipality, you may want to focus on maintaining multiple channels of communications and ways to reach and engage the most users. You could then fold the fediverse into it as one more channel. Something they should keep an eye on. They’ll need a way to post the same content to all those channels with the least effort. Something easy that a trained intern or clerk can do.
Guarantee there will be questions of cost of setup, maintenance, and risks. May want to have some answers and slides ready.
“Congratulations everyone! We’ve proved without a doubt that the earth is flat. What should we do next?”
Firefly
Well, that is nightmare-inducing.
So… Hyundai Automotive signed a deal with Hyundai Electric to supply them with electricity.
🤔
We did the same the first couple of years and barely any kids came, even though we’re a block away from an elementary school. OTOH, we’re halfway up a hilly area and most of the neighbors are long time residents or retirees. No kids on the block. We just stopped trying.
There’s this one street 5min away where they get a city permit and block both ends of the block so it’s safe for kids to walk in the street. Most of the houses decorate and put out candies. It gets SWARMED! We started taking our own kids there.
Maybe there’s a street like that near you and the kids and their parents just go there.
Ask about ‘Independent Study’ from your faculty adviser. If you don’t have one, go to your Department head. If you don’t have that, ask the Registrar.
Independent Study means you get to propose your own coursework and, if approved, get to do it and get credit for it. You still have to deal with faculty supervision but the subject is specific to you. Think about what you would love to learn and propose a way to get there.
RPN: OR Trick Treat
Async multithreading: Treat Trick (loop closed) OR (stack trace)
This is pretty sad.
I have a number of elderly relatives. The one thing I keep telling them is if they ever get approached, to contact their kids, or check with another family member before responding. So far, there haven’t been any problems.
But I heard an in-law’s parents in a different state lost a big chunk of money to one of these scams and may now lose their home.
Totally agree.
Builders care about the nuts and bolts of a building. Most people just care about whether they can get a decent hot shower, how cold it gets inside at night, or whether the smoke alarm goes off every time they fry onions.
The killer feature of decentralization, I suspect, does not lie in a singular interaction with a user, but (as Mike notes) in harnessing the power of the distributed group to do something amazing.
For the first time, explaining a hard tech problem I was trying to solve to my mother. And she got it.
Had to use the making of sandwiches as an analogy. But it worked.
The Philosopher and Mathematician published some of his best work in his 90s: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand_Russell
You’re doing fine.
Not a WP dev. Just a (techie) user.
This whole thing seems so unnecessary. FOSS devs would love to get a fraction of the goodwill being squandered here.
Any work or study done during an all-nighter is a waste.
If you meet someone and all they do is talk about themselves, they won’t be a good friend.
Nobody really cares how you look or what you wear. And anyone who does has bigger issues they would rather not deal with.
He has a chance to reach the all-important under-25 demographic.
“Did I already shampoo? Can’t remember.”
(Apply a small dab of shampoo. Foams up instantly).
“Dammit, yes.”
Had stinky tofu with curdled pig’s blood in Taipei a while back. The people I was visiting had me try it at a night market. The smell was much worse than the texture or flavor. I could totally see someone who had grown up with it considering it comfort food.
Helped that we had all had a fair bit to drink already.