[-] nxdefiant@startrek.website 11 points 6 months ago

I wonder when hydrogen filled thermite balloon is going to make a comeback as a mode of transportation.

[-] nxdefiant@startrek.website 11 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

> Pay the fine

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[-] nxdefiant@startrek.website 11 points 7 months ago

Oops! All legs!

[-] nxdefiant@startrek.website 11 points 8 months ago

The only thing esoteric about python is the bolted-on typing and anything behind a double underscore.

So yeah, it's there, but in front of the curtain it's practically pseudo code.

[-] nxdefiant@startrek.website 11 points 9 months ago

Something like 60%+ of China is urban. The majority definitely live in urban areas.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/278566/urban-and-rural-population-of-china/

[-] nxdefiant@startrek.website 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Well, who do y'all think can beat trump, because that's who's running in 4 years regardless of this election's outcome.

[-] nxdefiant@startrek.website 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

This is the best analogy I've ever read in the subject, bravo.

[-] nxdefiant@startrek.website 11 points 10 months ago

Noctua fans!

[-] nxdefiant@startrek.website 11 points 10 months ago

You can have a little extinction, as a treat.

[-] nxdefiant@startrek.website 11 points 11 months ago

They were first because no one else tried. It's that simple. Companies have been dicking around for decades with the hybrids, electric assist, alternate fuels, etc., and no one went whole hog before Tesla. Then* every auto maker on the planet started rushing to catch up.

Even if you discount Tesla's early lead and fast forward to 2017 when the Model 3 went on sale and GM was offering what appeared to be real competition in the Bolt, by 2021 Tesla has sold over a million 3's to GM's 100,000. And then GM had to recall all the bolts it had ever sold because they kept catching fire.

2019 is the same story with the Ford Mustang EV. Pretty decent, no real problems (other than their glass roof flying off sometimes...) but the model Y out sells it by hundreds of thousands, even beating Toyota one year for most sold globally. It's the second best selling EV SUV behind the model Y. Ford sold something like 10K of them in Q3 2023. Tesla sold over 400,000 Model Y's and 3's that same quarter.

The other car companies in the US at least just aren't putting in the effort to match those numbers. They don't want to put their money on the line.

[-] nxdefiant@startrek.website 11 points 11 months ago

I already know people who would marry their cell phone if it had a wet hole.

[-] nxdefiant@startrek.website 11 points 11 months ago

That's download.

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