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Comment · 2 years ago
He is also the cofounder of Fastmail .. a popular email provider with others here..
Comment · 4 years ago
Try MeshCentral .. free and open-source but you can use the "Public Server" to give you a quick and easy remote desktop access to another device you setup the agent on.
Comment · 5 years ago
See https://www.tesla.com/support/update-3g-services
They're going to upgrade the modems to LTE for $200 each.
Comment · 5 years ago
One of the most important parts of the Voyager is apparently a little motor that rotates every 192 seconds to take 360 degree readings of the sky. Each rotation is called a "step" in their lingo .. they built it to run a few thousand steps (or about 4-5 years). And that little motor has now run over 5 _million_ steps over 48 years... and is still running.
More at https://www.nature.com/news/2008/080702/full/454024a.html
Comment · 5 years ago
There is an "overarching" standard now .. CCS and a couple of older standards .. J1772 and ChaDeMo .. but when Tesla was getting started making chargers, there was no critical mass around any standards so they ended up creating their own.
Comment · 5 years ago
NAPS2 (https://www.naps2.com/) is also a similar open-source app with OCR built in.
Comment · 6 years ago
There's a free tool called Windows Update MiniTool that works very well for disabling auto-updates and then allowing you to update manually every so often. That is what we install on our CNC machinery that have a Windows 10 backend.
https://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/windows_update_mini...
Comment · 6 years ago
Dash Robot is a fairly popular robot used in schools for kids.
They have flow-chart style programming but also support various SDK's..
They have support for Python and Swift: https://www.makewonder.com/blog/dash-dot-and-cue-arent-just-...
Comment · 6 years ago
So .. a used Nissan Leaf is good for you. 70-100 mile range. Probably < $12k
Comment · 6 years ago
Yes ... the older Teslas have the MobilEye chipsets which use this technology. Many other cars use the same MobilEye chipsets today .. so potentially could be an issue in other cars as well.
Its likely now that this error was pointed out that Tesla may add some speed limit validation code to ensure a car doesn't speed up much when a speed limit jumps by more than 25% or something like that..
Comment · 6 years ago
The Chryler Pacifica PHEV is basically a half EV van .. plugin hybrid with 30+ miles of electric-only range (with another 300-400 miles of hybrid/gas range)
An all EV van would be great but this is closest you can come today.
Comment · 6 years ago
Ionity just came out with a _500%_ increase in cost of charging starting in February.
https://electrek.co/2020/01/17/ionity-increases-electric-veh...
Tesla charges about €0.33/kWh at most in Europe whereas Ionity will be charging €0.79/kWh .. which will make EV charging even more expensive than gas at that point.
This type of crazy price structures are why none of the EV charging networks can get enough traction / users to actually be profitable and build even more stations.
Comment · 6 years ago
We bought a Chrysler Pacifica PHEV (plugin hybrid) minivan back in March 2018 and its been running fairly well. It has about 30-35 mile electric-only range and with my wife mostly doing just local in-city driving, we usually can get about 80-90% of the miles as electric-only.
It seats 7 comfortably and while not fully electric, it scratches our electric-car itch fairly well. Even in hybrid-only mode, we can get 28-30 mpg .. and in "electric" mode, it registers as about 65-75 mpg.
Comment · 7 years ago
Isn't this basically same service as GetHuman which has been around for years?
Comment · 7 years ago
Imagine these being swapped out for the normal cables at an airport or mall "charging" station .. hundreds of people using those cables every day for charging .. all easily compromised..