The gains compound a bit too, 20 percent less weight equals proportionally less battery capacity required to shift the now-lighter vehicle from point A to point B.
So then you can cut the size of the battery while maintaining the same range, and that's where you start to get significant overall weight and cost savings.
The only extra moon I'm willing to accommodate is a blue moon. All the rest are just social media wankery, especially "supermoons" that are merely a few percent larger than usual due to the minor eccentricity of the moon's orbit.
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Hey can you spare $20 for petrol? I'm a bit skint this week.
Personally, I'm holding out for the Electric Twizzler Platinum Edition Supermoon Series 9000, I hear it's going to be the best one yet.
This is entirely the wrong community for this answer, but I've used the pro version of Textra for 10 years now. One time payment (10 years ago), updates every few months, lots of features, but they don't get in your way if you don't need them.
The main feature I use is "delay send for 5 seconds" to allow me to catch all my spelling and grammatical errors after I hit send , but the rest of the UI is pretty well thought out.
One of the very few commercial Android apps that I'd recommend to someone.
Fossify Messages is your trusted messaging companion
I hate this kind of advertising language.
Don't sell this as some fait accompli , done deal thing. It's not anything to me at the moment. It doesn't need to be my "messaging companion". It needs to be a program, that I use to send and receive SMS/MMS messages. That's it.
And "trusted"? I'll be the judge of that.
Firstly, figure out the fixed cost per day of owning your car for a year if it was parked all the time (including the cost of getting a replacement in X years time when this one is worn out), and a cost per mile/km of using it.
And then the biggest cost saving is basically use your bicycle or public transport whenever you can, assuming that you can't just get rid of the car and it's daily fixed cost.
You might also find that it's cheaper to just drive your car than use carpool apps with their internal overheads once you figure out the daily and per km costs. (Edit: especially for short trips)
The cost of servicing your car (minor stuff like oil/filters/plugs) generally is lost in the noise of everyday use, that is, fuel and tyres are the biggest cost.
Finally , don't forget that your time and labour is also a cost. Unless you really enjoy working on cars, "rent yourself out" at whatever your country's minimum wage is and factor that in when costing up doing servicing and repairs on your car yourself. This is basically an intangible number (it doesn't affect your bank balance, unless you service your car yourself and break it and then can't get to work!), but it's important to factor it in.
Can it be disabled?
Sure! There'll be a dialog box that comes up every single time that you wake your PC saying:
"Do you want to activate AwesomeAI™ now? 98 percent of the functions of this OS are crippled or unusable until you activate AwesomeAI™ so Microsoft recommends doing so immediately."
And the two options will be "OMG Yes!" , or "Maybe Later".
It straight made up a powershell module, and method call. Completely made up, non existent.
Counterpoint 1:
I gave Copilot a couple of XML files that described a map and a route, and told it to make a program in C# that could create artificial maps and routes using those as a guideline.
After about 20 minutes of back and forth, mainly me describing what I wanted in the map (eg walls that were +/- 3m from the routes, points in the routes should be 1m apart, etc) it spat out a program that could successfully build xml files that worked in the real-world device that needed them.
Counterpoint 2: I gave Copilot a python program that I'd written about 8 years ago that connected to a Mikrotik router using its vendor specific API and compiled some data to push out to websocket clients that connected. I told it to make a C# equivalent that could be installed and run as a windows service, and it created something that worked on the very first pass using third party .NET libraries for Mikrotik API access.
Counterpoint 3: I had a SQL query in a PowerShell script that took some reporting data from a database and mangled it heavily to get shift-by-shift reports. Again I asked it to take the query and business logic from the script and create a command line C# application that could populate a new table with the shift report data. It created something that worked immediately and fixed a corner case in the query that was causing me some grumbles as well.
These were things that I've done in the past month. Each one would have taken a week for me to do myself, and with some general discussion with this particular LLM each one took about an hour instead, with it giving me a complete zipped up project folder with multiple source files that I could just open in Visual Studio and press "build" to get what I want.
In all these cases however, I was well versed in the area it was working in, and I knew how to phrase things precisely enough that it could generate something useful. It did try and tack on a lot of not-particularly-useful things, particularly options for the command line reporting program.
And I HATE the oh-so-agreeable tone it takes with everything. I'm not "absolutely right" when I correct it or steer it along a different path. I don't really want all this extra stuff that it's so happy to tack on, "it won't take a minute".
I want the LLM to tell me that's an awful idea, or that it can't do it. A constant yes-man agreeing with everything I say doesn't help me get shit done.
The problem is that the "release a minimum viable product, then update-update-update" software development model has reached cars.
But all other ways cost more and take longer to get to market which makes shareholders unhappy, so we can't have that.
What do yanks call thick cut chips? It seems "burger and fries" is burned into their national psyche (leading to memes such as these) but surely they have a word for the non shoestring fry version. Wedges? 🤔
Anyway, the Brits have probably got it right on this occasion, but context definitely helps with the dual usage in Aus. I'm not going to have fish and chips with crisps, and a packet of chips isn't going to be of the hot variety.
Somewhere, a grizzled old sub-editor's eye is twitching over that title.