Readit Newsgnicholas commented on I've Been Driving an EV for a Year. I Have Only One Regret wsj.com/tech/personal-tec... · Posted by u/gnicholas
> Leasing my Mach-E was the right thing, and more are doing it. Leasing made up over 35% of new EV financing in the first quarter of 2024, up significantly from 12% in 2023, according to global data company Experian. It makes sense for such fast-moving tech. When my lease expires in two years, I expect better batteries, chips and more.
Part of the reason leasing is popular is that the current batch of incentives offers some rebates only if you lease. Some vehicles qualify either way, but a decent chunk of them it's only if you lease. I would have liked to have seen numbers here that show it's actually better to lease. If you only have a vehicle for two years, the bit about low-maintenance is mooted, since most vehicles have little maintenance in the first couple years anyway.
gnicholas commented on Apple releases first preview of its long-awaited iPhone AI cnbc.com/2024/07/29/apple... · Posted by u/geox
It’s become a liability.
Hey siri, turn on the AC!
Proceeds to call someone I’ve been texting whose name sounds nothing like anything in that phrase.
I've had Siri call people randomly when I didn't even say hey Siri. It called someone I hadn't talked to in years.
gnicholas commented on Apple releases first preview of its long-awaited iPhone AI cnbc.com/2024/07/29/apple... · Posted by u/geox
This can't come soon enough. Apple has made Siri dumber over the years. I used to be able to say "Hey Siri, play Overcast" and it would play my podcasts. Now it says "I don't see any music by Overcast in Apple Music". When I say "Hey Siri, tell the Overcast app to play" it replies "the Overcast app doesn't have any unplayed content" — even when I'm in the middle of an episode, and I have many unplayed episodes. It is dumb as rocks.
gnicholas commented on The Dirty Secret of Olympic Swimming: Everyone Pees in the Pool wsj.com/sports/olympics/s... · Posted by u/gnicholas
If a pool smells like chlorine. It means that chemical is doing its job.
But how can you tell that the chlorine has been depleted by doing its job?
gnicholas commented on The Dirty Secret of Olympic Swimming: Everyone Pees in the Pool wsj.com/sports/olympics/s... · Posted by u/gnicholas
> According to Brian Spear, whose company handled the chemical filtration of the pools used for U.S. Olympic Swim Trials, the potent smell associated with swimming pools is the byproduct of odorless chlorine reacting with organic compounds in the water, like hair or dead skin. Or urine.
Interesting...so if a pool "smells like chlorine," that means it's very dirty?
gnicholas commented on Mapping Hacker News to find who knows what in the HN community blog.wilsonl.in/hackerver... · Posted by u/robg
Interesting. I have noticed that my most-upvoted comments relate to legal questions, which I have relatively more expertise than most HNers (I used to be a lawyer). Although I'm not among the top commenters for law/legal/lawyer according to this tool, I definitely recognize some of the top names and can recall seeing their comments in legal threads. Pretty cool tool!
I just purchased a ten year old EV for literally 10% of what its listed price when new.
Stupid move, if you must rely upon it. But for us, it can be an in-town utility grocery getter, even local job commute, all-weather vehicle that is safe at highway speeds... A BMW the price of a golf cart.
We've looked at doing this as well. Our commutes are so short that a vehicle with only 50 miles of range would work for 90% of our trips. Such a vehicle is nigh-useless to many people, but for us it's a great complement to an ICE or PHEV. It helps that we live in temperate climate, so we never really have to deal with the freezing temperatures that would knock off 20 or 30% of the range.