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The resemblance is more than a little frightening.

You're an outlier. 95% of trips are under 40 miles. Something like 99% are under 100 miles. Recharging on the fly can solve the range issue permanently, even for people like you. You'll probably still get some people coming up with reasons why EVs supposedly can't work for them even when they...

I have two of them-one color and one B&W. Both great printers. And I bought both about a decade ago, before quality went downhill.

For what it's worth EPA mpg estimates rarely reflect real-world gas mileage either. Take both numbers with a huge grain of salt. Interestingly, if you do a lot of slow, urban driving you can probably exceed the somewhat optimistic range estimates in an EV.

Looks like about a 10% to 15% range reduction. You'll likely still break 200 miles on a full charge.

It could probably go twice as far if we made it more aerodynamic (seriously, why a grill on an EV?) but props to GM for putting out an electric with enough range so most users won't get range anxiety. Why name it the Bolt though? When I first heard a mention of it, I thought some reporter was...

Looks like the batteries are in parallel. Going by the output and guestimates of LED efficiency, it looks like maybe the light pulls 100 watts maximum from the batteries. If we assume a voltage of ~3.3V under load, then it's pulling 30 amps from the cells, or about 7.5 amps from each cell. Quite...

So basically it's a situation where you're an employee of the consulting company which "rents" you out as needed. That makes more sense. I work as an independent contractor. The only time that's been slightly different is my present consulting gig. I bill a consulting firm for my hours which in...

I've been consulting for years and I've never come across any situation where they give bonuses. I get whatever hourly rate or fee we agreed on, bill them for it, and that's it.

The only time I could afford to buy lunch was on days I had overtime. I'd treat myself to a BLT from the local deli. The rest of the time I made packs of Ramen soup which I bought from home. Every single day. I also walked 2.5 miles to/from the subway station to avoid double carfare. $8 a day...

I agree with everyone else about avoiding Walmart or other cheap, mass produced bikes. Craigslist, ads on local grocery store bulletin boards, word of mouth, and so forth are all good places to start. I don't know what exists there, but NYC has places like Recycle-A-Bicycle which fix up old...

I did it wrong, too. I put the eggs in cold water and then let it boil. I'm trying the boiled in boiling water method.

Interesting. I'd personally like to see more detailed specs from Seagate. I know the HHHL drives have much higher IOPS and STR than consumer SSDs. That probably accounts for the much larger power consumption. The Seagate's case design is just totally incompatible with even a 15W continuous power...

Those numbers don't make sense to me. For example, here's Anandtech's review of the 4TB EVO 850. Active idle power consumption is 290mW. That's really the number which matters. Scale that to 60GB and you arrive at a reasonable 4.35 watts. That's probably the real-world continuous power...

As much as I'm loathe to admit it, if NYC ever gets the games in the future it'll make the Rio games look like they were done by experts. NYC has fucking things up down to a fine art. Some headlines I might anticipate in a NYC Olympics: "Cyclists Crash in Road Race Due to Third World Street...

Call it what you will but he may well have prevented a bunch of people from being scammed out of their money.

Sometimes the cosmos align and karma has its way.

Never happened to me but it did happen to my mother and my brother. In both cases, someone charged airline tickets to their credit cards. We didn't have to pay of course and they sent us a new card. My understanding is there are two kinds of identity theft. One is where someone gets your...

I get numbness in my toes and pain on the ball of my foot while biking after about an hour or so. Not clutch foot in the strict sense, but it sounds like the same parts of the foot are affected.

My brother is mulling doing the same thing with his 1993 Mark VIII once the engine goes. I think it would make a great EV conversion.

It would be great to hit that price point for a 4TB SSD but only if they don't sacrifice reliability in the process.

Isn't this the problem with ALL religions, namely that they can be turned around without much effort into a crusade, jihad, etc? I don't really have any good answers to it, either. If you were to ban organized religion, then that's no different than radical Islam or fundamentalist Christianity...

Divorce rates and generally unhappy marriages are why I'm tempted to send a sympathy card when people I know are getting married.

Gang members generally only bother you if go in their neighborhood. Last I checked they didn't fly planes into skyscrapers. The police can easily deal with gangs if they want to. Many police forces don't want to because they extort money from the gangs in return for letting them do their thing...

Exactly. I'm not advocating carpet bombing the Middle East with nuclear weapons as a first step. That would be more like a last step if all else failed. Try selective nuclear strikes designed to kill as few innocents as possible. There's something about nuclear weapons, even small ones, which...

Let's tick off the boxes. We've tried diplomacy. We've tried securing high-value targets, to the point places like NYC are virtual police states. We've tried cutting off funding. We've tried to bring down their communication network. We've tried conventional attacks against terrorists, which...

Perhaps because they were focusing on superficial traits like blond hair and blue eyes? The Germans basically scapegoated an entire group for their problems, then invented pseudoscientific reasons to justify the mass extermination of this group. In the process they also happened to eliminate the...

So then you're basically OK with continued terror attacks because that's what's going to happen if we don't wipe out the threat? I don't know why you're comparing the Muslims elsewhere to those in the Middle East, either. The conditions in the Middle East have bred radicalism for centuries...

You need to measure the air temperature inside the case before doing anything. If you have enough airflow into the case so that the air temperature inside is close to ambient then you won't get much improvement from more case fans. Assuming the air temperature inside the case is close to...

I lost a friend on 9/11 and saw the effects first hand less than two weeks afterwards, including the smell of burnt flesh lingering in the air. I also explored the site a bit after (illegally) going inside the perimeter but didn't get too far inside for fear of falling into a hole. This was...

Unless I'm missing something you can't sample a 20kHz sine wave at 44ksps and then use that digitized version to get something resembling a sine wave when you play it back. A good rule of thumb is the sampling rate needs to be at least ten times the maximum frequency if you're dealing with...

Fissionables in the back of a truck can do quite a bit of damage in a place like Times Square. Try hundreds of thousands, perhaps low millions, dead from a blast of a few tens of kilotons. Not to mention upwards of $1 trillion in property damage, and who knows how much in long term economic...

First nuclear terror attack by Iran will likely cause a rain of ICBMs on their entire country. That's true whether the attack is on Russia, or on a US run by Trump. Problem solved. It'll also keep the remaining Muslim ME nations in line. I did and still do think an appropriate response to 9/11...

We will soon have the ability to improve ourselves via genetics. We already can do so via selective breeding and/or selective sterilization. Whether or not we choose to use these tools could well determine the survival of the human race. We can't afford to have a large percentage of the...

You're right to concerned. If Trump screws up the US bad enough, you might have a flood of American refugees at your border, including me. I guess at that point Trump might emigrate to Canada, run for Prime Minister, and offer to build a wall, all while uttering the lines "When the US sends its...

Today no but look at the percentage of the population killed in WWI and WWII in the countries where the war was fought.

I didn't read the entire article. It was way too long and rambling, plus the author was making me violently ill talking about guys who had over 100 sex partners (seriously, unless you're willing to sleep with anything with a vagina, I'm not seeing how you can get laid with that many people)...

Yep. It's bad enough if you do this with a credit card or maybe a utility bill but I knew someone who did this with a student loan of all things. Student loans are managed by companies who apparently feel it's OK to sell the loan off to someone else, but when they do this they add a collection...

Given his penchant for putting his foot in his mouth, I'm not surprised.

Hey, I'm seeing a pattern here. My sister's ex moved out too, and she kept the house. Your predicament makes me glad I have no business with Citibank, not that Chase is anything to write home about, either.

Why? That strikes me as pretty vindictive. My sister wasn't exactly on great terms when she split (i.e. she was seriously considering my offer to put her ex in a dumpster), but she still forwarded him his mail.

Don't they already do that on The Biggest Loser? :D

Backblaze has some interesting data on that. 5 years sounds like a reasonable number here. It would be interesting to know a similar ballpark figure for the archival life of SSDs. I know the data in 3D NAND decays more slowly because they're using larger cells. How long out can one expect...

Not too many really poor can afford cars. If being regressive concerns you, you could always have a refundable gas tax credit which gradually phases out as income increases. I was figuring we got through $4+ per gallon gas once, so we're not jacking the price to levels which never existed...

No such limitation. A heavier vehicle actually has more room and weight capacity for batteries than a lighter one. It has to do with basic physics. A good amount of a vehicle's energy is expended pushing air out of the way. A larger vehicle may have more frontal area, but a 40,000 pound bus...

The reason for choosing a lighter vehicle is often to save money. Gas may be temporarily cheap, but it's still expensive enough that a small vehicle will save someone a significant amount of money if they drive 10K or 20K miles per year compared to a hulking SUV. And some people, like my sister...

Agreed. Now especially with gas prices low this would be a great time to have a sane gas tax. Have a variable tax which keeps the price of gas at, say, $4 or $5 per gallon regardless of the actual price of oil. Increase this in 50 cent increments each year until you hit maybe $10 per gallon...

Exactly. I recall reading something a number of years ago where a woman was so thrilled her SUV saved her in a collision (at the expense of everyone in the car she hit) that she vowed to buy an even larger SUV next time. This borders on sociopathic.

Neither device is really suitable for archiving. The magnetic bits on an HDD decay also due to superparamagnetism. This wasn't an issue when drives were less dense. Indeed, a 20MB drive from the 1980s would probably still be readable in a century. I wouldn't bet on one of today's drives being...

Safer for the occupants doesn't translate into safer overall. Suppose hypothetically you have a collision between two vehicles of the same mass and 1 person dies in each vehicle. That's 2 deaths. Now let's say you do the same collision but one vehicle is much more massive. Nobody dies in vehicle...