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partial_accumen , to videos in What *Really* happens to used Electric Car Batteries? - (you might be surprised)

If you’re talking about replacing the battery in the car because its worn out and no longer usable as a car battery, you’ve likely got 15 or 25 years before you’d need to do that.

Modern liquid cooled EV batteries last a really long time and don’t usually straight up fail, but degrade slowly over time. The oldest batteries like this are usually from circa 2012 or so Tesla cars. I wouldn’t count Nissan Leaf because they were not liquid cooled and we know overheating is the quickest way to degrade a battery.

After 200,000 miles of usage, the battery only degraded 12%. So if you have a battery at new that could go 315 miles on a full charge, after 200,000 miles of usage it can now only go 277 miles on a full charge. Would you replace the battery for only that?

partial_accumen , to technology in Twitter is throttling traffic to websites Elon dislikes

Bluesky confuses me as a business. It is made by a founder of Twitter. Twitter was not profitable for MANY YEARS before finally making a very small profit. So the business model itself seem suspect, and there’s the question of why the creator of Twitter couldn’t make it work, can make another stab at the same thing work.

Further, with the acquision and death spiral of Twitter post-Musk, why would users be interested/willing to sign up for *yet another service that did the same thing before by the guy that sold out once already.

None of it make sense to me.

partial_accumen , to noncredibledefense in A new aid package, you say?

Or maybe some used industrial solvent that someone was paid to dispose of safely.

partial_accumen , to news in Russia fires warning shots at ‘Ukraine-bound’ cargo ship in Black Sea

Damaging or even sinking a cargo ship would be another escalation but I’m not sure what possible retaliatory measures remain.

NATO countries escorting cargo ships. I’m not even talking about US, French, or UK ships. Romania, Bulgaria, and Turkey are all NATO countries on the Black Sea. If Russia is interfering with their trade, then those countries Navy vessels can protect trade.

partial_accumen , to nostupidquestions in Are there any US banks that provide automated access to account data?

I’m hoping someone gives you a better answer, but in case no one does, here’s one potential path depending on how much work you’re willing to put into it.

For decades there has been a Personal Finance software package call Quicken. Even before online banking existed, Quicken offered a way for banks to export transaction and balance data for people to manage their finances. Rich online banking came along and largely negated this need for most folks, but the Quicken links and exports were already implemented in thousands of banks across the USA. Now, I imagine some have given up supporting Quicken exports, but a quick Google search shows there are Quicken users doing exports even today in 2023, so apparently its still a thing.

So to programmatic access:

I don’t know of any banks that have a straight up REST API you can hit, but with Quicken the linkage is there for exports you’d just have to wrap your own controls around it. Here’s one conversation about some advance end users (not programmers) doing basic automation. In one search I saw some references to some python packages, so maybe that’s path less kludgy.

partial_accumen , to technology in Debian Linux is Joining The RISC-V Bandwagon

How would this change anything Linux Phones? Debian has had support for ARM CPUs for quite awhile, which is what nearly all of today’s smartphones run. So how does RISC-V support change anything now?

partial_accumen , to news in Dog abandoned at Pittsburgh airport after owner learns it needs crate to fly

one of them was found in an empty apartment. Her owner moved and just left her,

So a warrant for animal abuse was issued for her arrest, yes? If she was a college student she may be gone for years, but it would be great if she were to be arrested when she returns for her 10 year reunion.

partial_accumen , to mildlyinfuriating in First Alert smoke detector...non replacable battery supposed to last 10 years...dies after 2...for warranty contact, the verify you're human puzzle does not work on 3 different browsers I tried

Many smoke detectors only last for 10 years. What you’re describing is what mine did in my house when they hit the 10 year mark. If you remove it from the ceiling, they usually have a human readable date printed on the ceiling facing side of the smoke detector.

I’m betting if you pulled one of your “one chirp” smoke detectors down, you’ll find a date more than 10 years ago printed on it. Buy new ones, dispose of these. Note on disposal: old school smoke detectors contain a very small amount of radioactive material. If you have one of these there will be a radioactive logo on it PLEASE DO NOT PUT THIS IN THE LANDFILL TRASH! Please dispose of these and your registered hazardous waste site.

Newer style smoke detectors don’t use radioactive material and instead use regular light sensors. These are safe to dispose of as regular ewaste.

partial_accumen , to news in Malaysia makes owning an LGBTQ Swatch punishable by up to 3 years in jail

What is the Malaysian government plan to do to wipe out the naturally occurring rainbows after a rain shower? Is literally weather now illegal?

partial_accumen , to news in New school bus route is a 'disaster,' Kentucky superintendent admits. Last kids got home at 10 pm

Even after increasing pay

Hmm, so what did they increase it to? Oh look only $20.65/hour., and I’ve heard of some school districts only paying during the driving meaning you show up for work early AM to pick up your bus as a driver and start being paid. You pick up and drop off kids for your routes. Now its maybe 9am. No more pay for you until you go back to the school and pick kids up again to take them home at maybe 2pm. I don’t know if this district does this, BTW.

$20.65/hour is way WAY too low for a job with lots of unpaid hours in the middle of the shift, and having to be responsible and deal with kids that can’t behave enough on a school bus.

partial_accumen , to news in AP: US Navy sailor's mom encouraged him to pass military details to China, prosecutor says

To my knowledge, US Citizenship is not required for service in the US Military. I’m remembering some controversy when Trump deported US veterans that were not yet citizens. Here’s some effort working to undo that Trump damage

partial_accumen , to selfhosted in The Cloud Is a Prison. Can the Local-First Software Movement Set Us Free?

A bad command execution in large cloud providers can literally make significant portions of the web unavailable, just by the sheer number of services dependent on it.

You can’t have it both ways. You’re trying to call out all of the benefits of running your own infra, but then calling out the downsides of public cloud. Talk apples to apples or oranges to oranges. The point I’m making in the post you’re responding to is that “rolling-your-own” as an organization, specifically a small or medium sized one, comes with risks that far outweigh the costs and risks of public cloud.

The convenience is not worth the risk.

That is not the opinion of non-IT business leaders make decisions to the detriment of the advice of IT departments. You’re ignoring that good IT decisions don’t get to be make by good IT professionals. You’re always limited to the budget and power granted by your organization. That is the practical reality.

partial_accumen , to noncredibledefense in The Special Operation in Osgiliath is going fine! There is no panic at the Black Gate! They are mostly mobilizing!

“Mordor comes to the defense of ethnically-orcish Hobbits in the Shire.”

partial_accumen , to selfhosted in The Cloud Is a Prison. Can the Local-First Software Movement Set Us Free?

So you’re recognizing that a bad command execution can exist in CDN or cloud provider, but where is your recognition of the tens of millions off bad command executions that happen in small IT shops every month?

I looks like you’re ignoring the practical realities that companies rarely ever:

  • hire enough support staff
  • hire enough skilled staff
  • invest in enough redundant infrastructure to survive hardware or connectivity failures
  • design applications with resiliency
  • have high enough rigor for audit, safe change control, rollback
  • shield the operations stupid decisions leads impose because business goals are more important that IT safety

All of these things lead to system impacts and downtime that can only come from running your own datacenters.

The cloud isn’t perfect, but for lots and lots of companies its a much better and cheaper option than “rolling your own”.

partial_accumen , to explainlikeimfive in Why do SSDs have a more limited number of times data can be written to them, but RAM memory can handle loads of re-writes?

You’re on it.

With RAM the data is being stored as a voltage level continuously refreshed by computer. When the power is removed, the refresh voltage disappears, and the data it represents disappears. This is volatile storage. Infinite re-writes of the same bits, but data cannot persist without power always on it.

With NVRAM aka Non-volatile RAM (which is what SSDs are) data is being stored in a physical material. When data is written, the data represented by voltage differences, is used to make a physical change via chemistry to the material that makes up the SSD. This is also a MUCH slower process in NVRAM than updating data in real RAM. However the benefit is, because NVRAM is a physical change, you can remove power, and the data persists. When you power it back up, the data is read from the physical shape of the chemical material that makes up the NVRAM and then represented again as voltage differences when passed back to the computer.

The cost to this is there are only so many times that the chemical material can be changed. It wears out and is eventually no longer changeable.

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