Jrockwar

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

It's funny. BMW took an opposite approach to everyone else when it comes to EVs. I (mistakenly) thought they would fail.

Ford, VW, Mercedes, etc. were developing specific platforms for electric vehicles, given that they are different enough architecturally that using the manufacturing processes meant for internal combustion engines wouldn't be cost efficient. However, after the experiment that the i3 was, BMW decided it was more sensible to just reuse platforms from internal combustion engine vehicles for their new EVs.

I thought this would be inefficient, besides not taking proper advantage of the packaging wins that an EV architecture allows.

A few years in, and thanks to their strategy they've developed a big range of EVs at a comparatively lower cost. Nobody cares that the i4 doesn't have a frunk, or that their platform wasn't purposely designed for EVs. Even if the manufacturing cost is higher, having a smaller upfront cost has allowed them to move faster.

Kudos to them for their success, even if it comes from playing it safe.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

So to make development faster and make sure they didn't waste time, they spent their time reinventing slack/teams/SharePoint/etc.

It sounds like if Nintendo were a person, they'd have ADHD. This also explains how for every generation, their flagship console looks like a completely new thing. They're just getting understimulated and bored.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 days ago

Uhhh what? They might as well turn to reporting on finance news, that's even less contentious! Ridiculous.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

My partner and I got invited to a wedding with a funky, everything-goes sort of dress code. For £50 we bought enough clothes for two blade-runner-esque outfits (we added some bits of our own so the ensemble wouldn't look too cheap) and a big goose plushie (bigger than an individual pillow). The goose was £14 and not cheaply made at all! That one was genuinely a nice suprise.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Usadas, no gastadas. El artículo omite que eran de modelos de pre-producción que Porsche no podía vender, así que prácticamente nuevas.

El Taycan como modelo tiene apenas 5 años. Si hay Taycan con baterías "gastadas" es alguna unidad puntual que ha salido defectuosa.

Xataka ya podía molestarse en leer bien el artículo del que copiapegan la información antes de soltar cosas así en el titular.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

My partner and I are super happy with the recipe website mob.co.uk for it's functionality. It has no BS life stories, lets you tick the ingredients off and use the ingredients page as a shopping list, it's concise and to the point...

Anyway, searching by "chickpea" it's showing me 3 pages worth of recipes with chickpeas which look pretty good, such as "Roast Sweet Potato with Chickpea & Coconut Curry Recipe". For some reason linking to the search results directly doesn't work but here's a link to the search page in case you want to take a look: https://www.mob.co.uk/search

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Logseq is also open source but it does have plugins, it's extensible, and was launched in the last 5 years, not 20.

The caveat is that it's more of a Roam alternative, so it works for the many people who use Obsidian/Notion as a powerful outliner, but it might fall a bit short as a wiki. I'd still favour it over TW though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

This sounds exclusively like the insurers' problem.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (3 children)

The reason is better is because a number on its own doesn't provide any representation whatsoever of the passing of time. It represents the current observed time, but it does nothing to represent graphically how much of the day is left.

The arguably best representation of the passing of time is a 24h analogue watch/clock, even if that has its own set of issues which make it a terrible way of displaying the current time.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (6 children)

Absolutely not comparable to floppy disks. The hands are a representation, not a technology. Technology-wise, most modern "analog" wristwatches are quartz, and therefore digital, not actually analog. Yet we choose to make them with hands because that provides a better representation of the passing of time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

We have the old one as a backup!

Yeah the UK is funny with that. Some modern houses have shaver plugs, but most of them have nothing. Coming from another country myself, it feels quite awkward not having a plug socket for a hair dryer, shaver, hair straighteners (not that I use them but as an example), etc.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 week ago (8 children)

Re: security: I imagine many women being more comfortable getting a waymo than an Uber/Taxi. It's anecdotal and from a different country, but most of my female family/friends have had an uncomfortable interaction in a taxi, like unrequested sexual advances or things like that.

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