Notices by clacke (clacke@libranet.de)

On the US market, the Nissan Leaf starts at just below 30 kUSD before subsidies. Is that the cheapest there is?

There are still diesels for 10 kUSD, right? When will EVs come down to those prices?

@mpjgregoire I don't drive cars or ride cars much, but when we visited folks in Guangzhou last time, they insisted on driving us to the train station, so I've been riding a BYD once, for half an hour.

It feels like riding a Volkswagen or a Saab, just a normal car, nice seats, good road comfort. Nothing to remark on.

The difference between the *price* of a Tesla, 42 000 USD, and the *price difference* between a Tesla and a Tata, 39 700 USD, is pretty much a rounding error.

No, wait, they call them "2 lakh EVs" because they cost under 2 lakh. You can get a Tata for 1 lakh = 100 000 INR ≈ 1 100 USD.

It's amazing how many people out there pretend that they believe that Tesla is the only EV, or the best one, or the best value for money, or the best EV for the environment, and that boycotting Tesla would be some kind of hypocrisy if you believe in humanity's objective not to destroy our habitat.

In the US market, two Tesla models are the most popular EV models and Tesla is the most popular EV brand, but that is true pretty much only in the US.

The most popular EV brand in the world is BYD. Here in HK they start from 209 000 HKD, that's about 27 000 USD, but it's a middle-class executive car, it's not the cheapest or most cost-efficient EV.

If you're in India, you can buy a Tata EV for 2 lakh. That's 200 000 INR ≈ 2 300 USD. Yes, two thousand. Now, I don't know what it would take to bring a Tata up to US code, but of those 40 000 USD in difference between the Tata and the starting price (before federal subsidies) for a Tesla, I doubt all of it is safety features.

@mc Oh that looks exactly how I hoped it would.

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I am *in*. I'm having a few days off, in which I'll be finishing Season 2 of "Severance", and then I'll pick this one up.

@pjsliney

@clusterfcku @ErikJonker It means that the executive branch is breaking laws left and right, which regulate what the executive is allowed to do. When the courts order them to follow the law, they ignore court orders.

They make social media posts engaging in legal fiction about how the judicial branch is not allowed to interpret law and is not allowed to "interfere" with the executive. It's a completely unique event in this century and the century before it. It's a constitutional crisis and a breakdown of the rule of law.

@charlag I can't figure out from that page what ESM means; As far as I can tell, it's not mentioned.

@technomancy

@hypolite Yes, I really appreciate it.

The money people are very eager to put it in everything and hoping it cuts cost, but the technical people are a control rod voice, and they actually get listened to, because they're well-versed in cost and risk speech, so they can reach the money people.

Nobody considers the ethical aspects of how the models were trained, that's a long-lost battle. But at least we're making sure we're finding actual use cases. And the people put on governance are clued in on the reliability and bias issues, its part of our internal messaging on the topic.

@gemlog Canada has bilberries? Same species and cultivar as Scandinavian ones?

If you've had them and are not on the barricades defending their bilberry honor against their bloated and watered-down blueberry cousins, I doubt that could be true.

@pjsliney @mc I have heard of the RPG, but not the series! And it's good?!

Watching the movie first, then the show will be a step up.

Oh cool! There's a movie that takes place in the Simon Stålenhag universe, I had no idea that was coming.

It has Giancarlo Esposito and Colman Domingo (minor role). And Alan Tudyk is a cute robot!

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It's a Netflix movie with a 320 MUSD budget, what the heck. There's no way they'll make that back, right?

HK doctors will just randomly prescribe you an antibiotic for a skin rash, and they won't even tell you it's an antibiotic.

We pretty much deserve the resistant strains we're getting, we're making zero efforts to handle antibiotics responsibly.