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Not terrible unless you are lead footing both the accelerator and brake.

Also as far as Stop and go... its typically also lower speed; wind resistance is not linear based on speed, so 'crawling' is not that bad.

Im in the US and drive a hybrid rather than an EV, that said 'stop and go' is when I will often seem an MPG -increase-, so long as I gently accelerate (in severe stop and go, just letting my foot off brake and not touching gas).

That's also some of the justification for 'mild hybrids' that have an auto stop and maybe at best a 11kW/120Nm electric motor to kick things off. If you don't drive with a lead foot they can improve efficiency (but overcomplicate things compared to Toyota HSD)

I suppose main counter condition would be in low temperature conditions; AC is fairly efficient, Heating less so, and then in severe cases the batteries need to activate their own self heaters.


We had a whiplash effect in the US.

In late 2020 and early 2021, Used car prices plummeted due to so many people trading in 2nd vehicles. I remember tire kicking a 2008 vehicle that was 2000$ then...

Whiplash on used cars started later in 2021, as people were starting to go back out more and in some cases beginning to RTO.

The combination of rising new car prices and rising interest rates in 2022 only further hurt the market. On top of that the newer cars are in many cases less reliable so people are holding on longer.

Fwiw I just double checked and For reference that same 2008/make/mileage is now more like 5000$...


Just to be Mr pedantic here, the same mileage means you have a much better vehicle 5 years later. I would add 25-40k extra miles to account for typical mileage added per year


Sorry im not following; unless it is a 'special' car, a 2008 car with 120k miles, except accounting for inflation and market dynamics, would be worth less in 2025 with the same mileage. Except of course for the factors I mentioned (as well as inflation)


Op was comparing the same mileage 5 years later. Being pedantic about an apples to apples comparison would require adding additional miles.

Sorry that was difficult to grasp I will try to be clear in the future!


PS2 had export limitations put on it by Japan. There were also rumors that Saddam was using them for a supercomputer.

I do have the odd anecdote, way back in the day, I was in a CompUSA in Dearborn MI and overheard a middle eastern guy at the counter asking if they had any PS2s. When they said no (this was a point where availability was low) instead he bought bought at least 5 (might have been 10?) PS1s.


Many fond memories at that CompUSA. Sad all those retailers are gone now.


Honestly, might have also been just to resell back home to consumers - I doubt it would’ve been easy to import, too.


I mean FWIW they could probably make those folks happy by just spitting out a list of everything to short because of ai disruption on each new release lol


Once upon a time I took an afternoon off to give a coworker a ride home when they got laid off mid day; their ride was a coworker who was required to finish his shift due to circumstances.

It was honestly rough because it was immediately raw for them however it was a good thing.

Fwiw my manager was the one who had to do the layoff and they did not have any issue with me suddenly taking the afternoon off to do the deed. That shop really tried to be as good as they could about it.


Dotnet does both mark and sweep as well as compaction, depends on what type of GC happens.


In this case, we're discussing a case where mark-and-sweep is used to collect cyclic references, and it's implied that there are no generations. (Because otherwise, purely relying on reference counting means that cyclic references end up leaking unless things like weak references are used.)

IE, the critical difference is that reference counting frees memory immediately; albeit at a higher CPU cost and needing to still perform a mark-and-sweep to clear out cyclic references.


It looks like each of its two reactors are a good bit more powerful than what is in an Ohio Class Submarine, but far less than what's in a Gerald R Ford class Aircraft carrier. For whatever thats worth


There's also the Megasquirt for fuel timing, which is not quite open but not fully closed off either...


For full open source, there's Speeduino and FOME (newer). I've used both for my cars. https://speeduino.com/home/ https://wiki.fome.tech/


Just imagine how it might react to ROT26!


Kinda interesting to ask what would have gone different if the infrastructure was in place to make electric cars 'good enough' as far as charging infrastructure.


As I understand it, the core problem back then was the batteries would mass half the car and lose a third of their maximum capacity in just 500 charging cycles.

Back when cars were new, there was no infrastructure for petrol either, that was something you got in tiny quantities from a pharmacy. (The diesel engine can run on vegetable oil, but I don't think Mr Rudolf Diesel himself ever did that?)


Diesel did use peanut oil, though only after someone else showed that it was possible:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Diesel#Use_of_vegetable...


Nice find, I missed that.


The batteries of the time were far less energy-dense and charged slowly. Lead-acid was the norm for EVs.


Infrastructure requires demand, and energy density and convenience of a contemporary battery versus gas engine means that no one was going to demand batteries when ICE was an option. We only figured the downside much later.


We figured out the effects of carbon dioxide on the atmosphere not a decade after the first working car prototype was build: https://www.rsc.org/images/arrhenius1896_tcm18-173546.pdf


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