At least in the Pacific Northwest most Electrify America installations are in Walmart parking lots. These have caused me to spend more time at Walmart the past two years, honestly its a pretty good experience - aside from EA reliability issues, which seem to have improved but still far short of Tesla.
> honestly its a pretty good experience - aside from EA reliability issues, which seem to have improved but still far short of Tesla.
Going from the Tesla Supercharger network I can't share this sentiment at all. Virtually every time I charge at an EA station (which is admittedly only a few times a year) there is either random power degradation with no notice or one or many totally dysfunctional stalls. This latest time a few days ago the only open stall was busted because the terminal said to unplug from the last session over an hour ago.
The flakiness is compounded by the lack of chargers per station. Superchargers often have 10 or even 20 chargers, EA chargers often have 2 to 4 chargers so a charger going out is much worse.
Every time I've used an EA charger there was an open one and all I had to do was just drive up and plug in. The car negotiated payment and it worked fine with reasonable charging rates.
I have a hard time just picking up and plugging that heavy fatass CCS connector. And then I have to try plugging it in 3 times because it waits for the car and the car waits for it and one gives up before the other succeeds.
Used an EVCE charger yesterday that my wife struggled to pick up. The cable its self was just enormous and heavy compared to more modern chargers. Hopefully they go back and retrofit older chargers with newer cables when swapping over to NACS.
I'm from a different major North American city but the only married men I know who live within city boundaries either bought their residences 20+ years ago or were born/married into wealth. Everyone else moves to the suburbs once they get married or have kids because real estate in the city is unaffordable if you want 2+ bedrooms.
To see other examples of this in history, look at Ireland and their 19th century famine. They had the lowest rate of marriage and the oldest age at marriage of any European country. This effect was so profound that Ireland still has this demographic quirk, which is not cultural but has a root economic cause.
At risk of harping on a tired topic, have you thought about embedding an AI query generator? For ad-hoc queries like I mostly use DuckDB for I’ve found it’s almost always fastest for me to paste the schema to ChatGPT, tell it what I’ll looking for, then paste the response back into the DuckD CLI, but the whole process isn’t very ergonomic.
I think I’m sort of after duckbook.ai, but with access to a local duckdb.
Thanks for sharing. We haven't cracked the code on doing this locally, but we are working on similar features and functionality in MotherDuck, like the prompt () and embedding () functions. More to come; we're definitely thinking about it!
It doesn’t sound to me like the boat actually sank. In the article it mentioned that they heard the rescue helicopter from within. Wouldn’t that imply that the pressure inside would be one atmosphere? Am I thinking about the physics of this wrong?
The pressure of any trapped gas will be equivalent to the depth of the lowest level containing air - so if the bottom of your air bubble is a meter below sea level, your pressure will be 1.1 atm.
The VC part isn't 100% negative but it generally comes with the strings attached that highly incentivizes fast growth. Fast growth kills any company culture you have and converts you into yet another company that views all employees as cost-centers. IE. it destroys companies as good places to work. If you could get VCs to fund companies to grow slowly into stable, small to mid-sized companies I would have no problem with them.
A side aspect of this is that they also destroy any motivation for developing free software other than as a marketing tool, a way to drive growth. While that is perfectly fine for companies to do this, it has long term consequences that lead to bad behavior that mean you should be extra wary of relying on them.
Despite the no added sugar, I always found it pretty sweet despite no added sugar. So I just looked it up and they use Valencia peanuts which apparently can taste sweeter.
That’s the back door for an organic products. Source varieties that are naturally sweeter, then you don’t have to list the sugar as a separate ingredient.
Saturated fat is very good at making you feel full. I view peanutS/PB as a snack-displacement food: if I'm roaming around for nibbles, some sat fat will kill my cravings and reduce the likelihood of eating sugar. But ymmv
This is one reason working in an office can be a disaster if you're someone who would "roam around for nibbles". In every place I've worked there has been a vending machine or otherwise easily accessible junk/sugar dispenser. In my eyes these are no different from having a cigarette machine or a gambling machine or something, but not everyone sees it that way.
In my house there is no ready-to-eat food at all. I'm not just going to go to the kitchen and cook a potato when I feel a bit peckish.
But this seems difficult for many people. Personally I find hunger to be a normal part of every single day. I don't fear it or feel the need to squash it the moment it arises. I also don't feel any discomfort when I'm not surrounded by ready-to-eat food at all times. But many people do seem to feel a constant need to have food available and find it deeply uncomfortable if the next meal doesn't seem readily available.
If you're good with handling hunger - that's great!
A lot of people get hypoglycemic (ie, irritable) when low on blood sugar, so for them, snacking is an acceptable evil (esp. if only healthier snacks are stocked).
For me, I find whipping up some dill/garlic/mayo dip + cut carrots, or celery + good PB a meaningful snack.
My guideline is to try to find a good carb/fiber ratio (pref: 5:1), and avoid added sugars.
People without diabetes don't get hypoglycaemia. I believe you can train yourself to expect food at certain times. I eat two meals a day and only get irritable (hangry) around those times.
But anyway, what you've written is basically my point. If you want/need to snack then unless you think ahead and make healthy snacks available then it's going to sugar/junk that you find in the socially acceptable junk machine.
I have a BMI of 20 so I'm not trying to avoid calories. However I do try to avoid sugar, UPFs, and so on, because what benefit would there be in putting that crap in your body.
Man, the evil that was done to diets by the sugar industry in the 80s is still paying dividends.
Saturated fats, like anything, are bad in excess. However, avoiding them completely is bonkers - and leads to people replacing (ok) fats with additional eating - mostly with sugary snacks.
Is it? The point is that the availability depends on the retailer, not just that they “can” be found. In some places there’s one brand and others there are many.
Any "shelf-stable" or "no-stir" peanut butter (aka Jif brand) will likely contain sweetener and also palm oil.
You don't have to make your own peanut butter but it tastes even better than a good peanut butter like Kirkland/Adams/etc. Some stores allow you to grind nuts on-site (almond/peanut) and charge you for the output.
And it's all upside (your body feels better afterward) no downside. (Ok, it's more expensive.) Especially when combined with other sweet ingredients, e.g. a banana – equally if not more delicious.
For people's image being used without their permission: strengthen U.S. right of publicity laws with private right of action, enabling people to sue for unauthorized use of their voice or likeness.
Digital signatures as part of audio/video that can't be easily modified or faked which can trace the origin of a piece of media. Some camera manufacturers are already working on it.
How do you propose to keep watermark-free models out of the hands of evildoers? I can't build my own digital camera or laser printer, but I can certainly write software.
I don't have a good solution, but maybe legislation helps. There may not be a foolproof solution but I think the more that such devices are widely used, the less likelihood there may be of e.g. a court case hinged on bad evidence.
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