theFletch (u/theFletch)

theFletch commented on Most cars still cost more to charge than to fill up with gas businessinsider.com/ev-ch... · Posted by u/metadat

mcgingras · 3 years ago

Where I'm located I'm billed $.07 per kwh. My model 3 LR has a 75 kw battery, so to charge it from totally empty to totally full would cost $5.25. Tesla's claims are a bit inflated, but I can get 300 miles on a full charge, putting the cost to drive 100 miles at $1.75. Even if we took an extremely generous approximate of 50mpg, it would take 2 gallons for an ICE vehicle to travel 100 miles. Where I'm located, gas is going for $4 a gallon, so it would cost $8.00 to travel the same 100 miles in an ICE vehicle.

If you're charging at home, the EV easily wins.

However, charging away from home can get expensive. During peak hours, it's possible to find charging for $.50 per kwh. Now it would cost $37.50 or $12.50 to drive 100 miles. Compared to the $8.00 in the ICE car, the EV is more expensive.

I think it's a bit disingenuous to claim that most cars cost more to charge than to fill up with gas. If you are able to charge at home, EVs are cheaper to drive per mile.

theFletch · 3 years ago

That's roughly around what I'm seeing as well as my electric is about the same rate. I'm in the midwest and gas is a little cheaper where I'm at, but it's still significantly cheaper to charge. Supercharging isn't too bad around me but I rarely ever use it. I did get to experience supercharging in California recently and it was probably as much or more than gas there which is probably why you see articles like this.

No one mentions oil either. I probably pay $100-150 a year to change the oil in my other ICE vehicle.

theFletch commented on Tesla created secret team to suppress thousands of driving range complaints reuters.com/investigates/... · Posted by u/mfiguiere

stetrain · 3 years ago

I leave the battery meter set to percentage, the “miles” option is really just percentage dumbly mapped to miles.

The golden number in a Tesla Is absolutely the navigation route estimate. While navigating you can open the Energy app as well to see more detail, how you are doing compared to the estimate, and specific factors affecting consumption.

theFletch · 3 years ago

Percentage seems to be the general consensus amongst Tesla owners. The real numbers are in the navigation. We've been looking at percentage based range on gas cars forever. I would argue that gas cars with "mile" range estimates are not that accurate either. At least, that's my experience.

theFletch commented on Rivian embraces Tesla's charging standard for EVs ev-edition.com/2023/06/ri... · Posted by u/belltaco

traceroute66 · 3 years ago

> The long term future of Tesla is a battery manufacturer and a charging network. Those are the two things they are good at.

Agree 100%.

At present, Tesla really feels like a bit of a "Jack of all trades, master of none" job.

I'm certainly no Elon fanboi, but I will happily state that there are clearly a number of things they do well (certain core components and the charging network).

But the cars themselves as a whole. They feel like what they are. Cheaply built, but sold at a premium price.

Tesla would do well if they became the OEM's OEM.

You know, a bit like how Dell, HP and everyone else ship servers with Seagate drives. Tesla should become the Seagate and leave the outer shell bit to others.

theFletch · 3 years ago

> Cheaply built, but sold at a premium price.

How many successful brands have been built off that one sentence alone?

theFletch commented on Intel Announces Layoffs After Paying $1.5B in Q1 Dividends wccftech.com/intel-announ... · Posted by u/ksec

theFletch · 3 years ago

Seems high, but 20% is around pre 2020 levels of employment.

theFletch commented on People who use Notion to plan their whole lives technologyreview.com/2023... · Posted by u/FinnKuhn

Eddy_Viscosity2 · 3 years ago

This just seems like so much work. The obsessive tracking of ever little thing. Does anyone really use this data in any meaningful way other that just admire its detail? What happens if you miss period, does this cause anxiety?

theFletch · 3 years ago

I somewhat envy people who can meticulously plan like this. When I try to do something like this I love talking about the planning and researching, but putting it all together into a detailed plan stresses me because I don't even know where to start. It starts to make it feel like work. Then there's another side of me that loves spontaneous adventure and just going with the flow. If anyone has any tips to find a happy medium, I'm all ears.

theFletch commented on One man’s quest to revive the great American vacuum tube wired.com/story/one-mans-... · Posted by u/rbc

iainctduncan · 3 years ago

What a lot of people miss when wondering why musicians still love tubes when emulations are so good now is: Tubes amps are repairable. Something goes wrong, you can fix it with soldering irons and spare parts. Many of us are sick to death of throwing out cheap microcontroller based crap. It's a hell of a lot easier to bring some spare parts on the gig than a whole damn spare amp, and tube amps don't depreciate to garbage in five years. (Good micro-controller based stuff is a different story, but amp emulators are not built like top of the line digital equipment.)

theFletch · 3 years ago

As a musician, guitar tube amplifiers sound better and my ear (mind) will never be changed.

theFletch commented on Binance sees $2B in outflows as troubles compound wsj.com/articles/binance-... · Posted by u/danso

boringg · 3 years ago

Heres the real question in this game of whack a mole. Where did all the money move too?

theFletch · 3 years ago

That's what I'm wondering. Is there any idea of how much of say, Bitcoin, is held in cold storage? I saw some estimate a while back that said as high as 70% and that seems high to me for some reason. If true, it definitely speaks volumes about paranoia around exchanges.

theFletch commented on Meta slams telco fee proposal, says ISPs should pay their own network costs arstechnica.com/tech-poli... · Posted by u/mfiguiere

Bob2077 · 3 years ago

This is an intriguing debate on the allocation of network costs between ISPs and Big Tech companies. It's important to consider the investments made by both parties in infrastructure and content delivery networks. Meta's point about their investments driving demand for Internet access is valid, as they create the content that attracts users in the first place. On the other hand, ISPs are responsible for providing the physical infrastructure that enables access to these platforms. It would be interesting to explore a more collaborative approach between ISPs and Big Tech companies to share network-building costs while taking into account their respective contributions to the digital ecosystem. Perhaps a balanced and transparent model could be developed that considers the symbiotic relationship between these entities.

theFletch · 3 years ago

It's a bit of a chicken and egg argument. Although, personally, I think big tech needs the network much more than the network needs big tech. The telecom industry of old proves that.

theFletch commented on Adobe Firefly: AI Art Generator adobe.com/sensei/generati... · Posted by u/adrian_mrd

tonmoy · 3 years ago

From Adobe's reddit post[1]: > We are developing a compensation model for Stock contributors. More info on that when we release

If they can properly compensate the stock contributors based on usage then I think this is a very fair approach.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/photoshop/comments/11xgft4/discussi...

theFletch · 3 years ago

I didn't see this before I posted, but I'm glad that's the case. In fact, it might be great for contributors that don't have a large library or aren't ranked as well.

theFletch commented on Adobe Firefly: AI Art Generator adobe.com/sensei/generati... · Posted by u/adrian_mrd

lelandfe · 3 years ago

From that page's FAQs:

> trained on a dataset of Adobe Stock, along with openly licensed work and public domain content where copyright has expired

> We do not train on any Creative Cloud subscribers’ personal content. For Adobe Stock contributors, the content is part of the Firefly training dataset, in accordance with Stock Contributor license agreements. The first model did not train on Behance.

Not sure what "first model" means there.

Also interesting: https://helpx.adobe.com/stock/contributor/help/firefly-faq-f...

> During the beta phase of Adobe Firefly, any Adobe Firefly generated assets cannot be used for commercial purposes.

> Can I opt [my Adobe Stock content] of the dataset training?

> No, there is no option to opt-out of data set training for content submitted to Stock. However, Adobe is continuing to explore the possibility of an opt-out.

theFletch · 3 years ago

> trained on a dataset of Adobe Stock, along with openly licensed work and public domain content where copyright has expired

As someone who has contributed stock to Adobe Stock I'm not sure how I feel about this. I'm sure they have language in their TOS that covers this, but I'm guessing all contributors will see nothing out of this. Fine if this is free forever, but this is Adobe.