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extra88 commented on The first sodium-ion battery EV is a winter range monster insideevs.com/news/786509... · Posted by u/andrewjneumann

loeg · 6 days ago

I don't think 2x slower is plural "orders of magnitude" no matter how you count it. It's at best a single power of two.

extra88 · 5 days ago

Filling the gas tank of of a sedan takes like 2 minutes, doing the equivalent charging is going to take a lot more than 4 minutes.

"Orders" may be an exaggeration but one order of magnitude isn't.

extra88 commented on The first sodium-ion battery EV is a winter range monster insideevs.com/news/786509... · Posted by u/andrewjneumann

toomuchtodo · 6 days ago

Fast chargers colocated at grocery stores people shop at at least weekly are a solution, Tesla did this (Meijer partnership), as did Electrify America. Walmart is rolling out charging at most of their US stores. Home charging is a solution, but so is workplace level 2 charging.

Can you charge at home? Do so. Can you charge at work? Do so. Can you charge at a grocery store or other location your task will take longer than the charging? Do so. This works for most Americans, while charging infrastructure continues to be rapidly deployed. The gaps will be filled, how fast is a function of will and investment.

US Gains 11,300 Ultra-Fast Chargers in Bet to Lure More EV Drivers - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46815932 - January 2026 (11 comments)

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=walmart+ev

https://supercharge.info/map

https://www.plugshare.com/

extra88 · 6 days ago

Chargers at grocery stores and other places of public accommodation that have lots of parking and customers who stay a while are good options. I don't know how many are enough; even fast chargers take orders of magnitude longer to use than a gas pump.

extra88 commented on The first sodium-ion battery EV is a winter range monster insideevs.com/news/786509... · Posted by u/andrewjneumann

toomuchtodo · 6 days ago

More than 60 million Americans own a home with a garage (where a charger can be installed) and most are within 100 miles of a fast DC charger. Edge cases continue to shrink and be solved for, electricity is ubiquitous and batteries keep improving rapidly.

extra88 · 6 days ago

I think proportion is more useful that quantity. 66% of housing units (that's all forms of housing, not just single-family homes) have a garage or carport. Also, given that there are ~145 million housing units, 60 million would be a bad situation.

> most are within 100 miles of a fast DC charger

That's not good enough. No one can spend 3-4 hours to drive 200 miles round trip, or even 100 miles, to charge quickly.

There needs to be a good solution for the 33% of households that don't have access to EV charging as part of their home. Until it becomes really plentiful, part of the solution may involve fast charging that only the 33% can use or that favors the 33%; people who can charge overnight at home should charge overnight at home.

https://www.energy.gov/eere/vehicles/articles/fotw-1268-dece...

extra88 commented on A Crisis comes to Wordle: Reusing old words forkingmad.blog/wordle-cr... · Posted by u/cyanbane

jeffgreco · 13 days ago

Isn't the point of homophones that they sound like the equivalent word, thus gory, grim, grisly, scary?

extra88 · 13 days ago

I think the confusion is about what "Gorey, Grimm, Scarry" mean. They, along with "Silverstein" in that game, are last names of children's authors.

extra88 commented on When will CSS Grid Lanes arrive? webkit.org/blog/17758/whe... · Posted by u/feross

TheAceOfHearts · 14 days ago

I think the plan going forward is to allow people to implement their own CSS layout primitives using Houdini, but I haven't kept track of how it has evolved or progressed.

extra88 · 14 days ago

It hasn't.

extra88 commented on Web Browsers have stopped blocking pop-ups smokingonabike.com/2025/1... · Posted by u/coldpie

DetectDefect · a month ago

Dufus = Rufus, the obnoxious AI "helper" that takes up 20% of the screen when I search for something on Amazon, which no one asked for.

extra88 · a month ago

I don't get any of that in Safari or any other browser. "Rufus" is just a button in the main navigation, between "All" and "Same-day delivery" that I ignore. On individual product pages, there's "Ask Rufus" stuff in a couple of pages but it's no worse than other content I scroll past and seems just like previous features that didn't have a named AI identity.

extra88 commented on I'm a developer for a major food delivery app old.reddit.com/r/confessi... · Posted by u/apayan

Izkata · a month ago

With my mortgage, interest is monthly on the remaining principal and paying extra in a month is entirely on the principal - it reduces the total interest paid, so the bank gets less.

extra88 · a month ago

Yes, I think that's standard in the U.S.

extra88 commented on Web Browsers have stopped blocking pop-ups smokingonabike.com/2025/1... · Posted by u/coldpie

DetectDefect · a month ago

Try using Amazon in Safari sometime (in Lockdown Mode, no less): non-stop ads (some which flash), sponsored results dominating the first page of search, random Dufus pop-ups forcing AI. You can hide "distracting" elements but they just appear again later. Safari is not a user-friendly browser.

extra88 · a month ago

Safari is my default browser. I don't know what "Dufus" means, I don't recall any A.I. references. On Amazon, it's all first-party stuff, what browser blocks that natively? It seems like you're comparing using Safari without an ad blocker to a different browser with an ad blocker.

I know the most popular ad blocking extensions don't make a Safari version but there are ad blockers for Safari.

extra88 commented on Web Browsers have stopped blocking pop-ups smokingonabike.com/2025/1... · Posted by u/coldpie

ycombinatrix · a month ago

Firefox does already have some tracker blocking built in, though it would be fantastic to import arbitrary filter lists.

Chrome & Safari are operated by advertising/surveillance companies, so no dice there.

extra88 · a month ago

Safari (desktop and mobile) also has tracker blocking built in. "Prevent cross-site tracking" and "Hide IP address from trackers" are two settings it has; I think the first is checked by default, I don't remember about the other.

In the DevTools network pane, it shows requests to known trackers, like Google Tag Manager, being blocked.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/102602

extra88 commented on Replacing JavaScript with Just HTML htmhell.dev/adventcalenda... · Posted by u/soheilpro

iammrpayments · 2 months ago

It won’t have the necessary keyboard shortcuts.

extra88 · 2 months ago

Yes, the tabs in a tabs pattern should be keyboard navigated using arrow keys (ironically not the Tab key).

Also, the summary for the currently open details element will have the wrong state, 'expanded' instead of 'selected'. And while a set of details can now have a maximum of one open at a time, you can't ensure exactly one is always open (without JavaScript) as the tabs pattern requires.