breytex
Joined 8 years ago
Joined 8 years ago
Working on the data structure feels like an intermediate solution on the way to that ai which is not really necessary. Or am I missing something?
Heard it the first time when an American from California said it to their kids
I would optimize the car choice for the 90% use of daily commute instead of optimizing for the 3-times-a-year vacation trips.
- We were able to make 300km with 90% to 10% battery (to not hurt the battery longevity too much)
- Outside temp was -4 to +2 °C
- Inside temp set to 20°C, seat heating 2/3 for two passengers
- So a we made a charging break every 300km, so approx every 2-3 hours
- Recharging those 80% at a supercharger takes about 30-50min depending on the Supercharger-version.
- We had 0 traffic/wait times at the super chargers (we drove both directions on a sunday)
- We would do a 10-15min break anyway every 2-3 hours to grab a coffee or do magic pee, so the extension of the charging breaks over our normal breaks aren't event that long
- All superchargers had a <5min detour from the Autobahn
Overall we spent approx. 2hrs more on breaks as we would have with a conventional car. I think thats a fair trade-off for 2-3 vacation trips a year, figuring in the time saved for normal refilling stops with a non-EV cars during commutes (when you are able to charge your EV at home).
To me, the future of "driving into holiday fully electric" is already possible with a Tesla LR model. With other EVs without Supercharger-Access/smaller battery/slower charging speeds probably not so much.
You can even save more time by using tools like ABRP[0]. This even gives you better charge-planning with shorter, time-optimized stops also figuring in detour times.
I am from germany, and the avg. salary for a decent senior dev here would be between 60 and 80k€ depending on the town you are living in.
Babel is a very complicated piece of software. Even as a senior dev I wouln't feel comfortable to lead-maintain it. You wouldn't find more than a couple of ppl. in Germany who have the skillset and mental strength to maintain a project like that. And those few people would easily be making 150-250k€ as freelance consultants.
I think that 11k$ for maintaining one of the most important OSS projects in the webdev world is more than fair.
If you are already good in react, learn more libraries / frameworks in that ecosystem and increase your day rate. You are a frontend architect now.
I'd start with things like nextjs, Gatsby or Redux saga.
You could also go into the devops side of Frontend. Learn the different approaches of deploying / scaling a Frontend with server-side rendering (vercel, digital Ocean, docker...)
The 16" runs at 67°C with 2500rpm when doing the same task. So its neither quite nor cool doing basic tasks. You can turn of turbo boost to get around it, but I was expecting something in the same ballpark in terms of coolness and fan noise for basic tasks without tweaking stuff like this myself.