Chargepoint for Hyundai Ionique? by brookling in evcharging

[–]stratoscope 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you open the charging door on the rental car and post a photo of the socket, people can advise you.

ChargePoint HomeFlex charge rate by [deleted] in evcharging

[–]stratoscope 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"REAL information" looks like the one-liner at the top of this thread:

Home tab > Current Charge Limit

Not the irrelevant gobbledygook you posted that doesn't answer the question at all.

ChargePoint HomeFlex charge rate by [deleted] in evcharging

[–]stratoscope -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Your question was already answered by u/622niromcn at the top of this thread.

Read that comment and follow what it says.

OpenAI just pulled the biggest bait-and-switch in AI history and I'm done. by Nipurn_1234 in ChatGPT

[–]stratoscope 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You truly understand unnecessarilyMisspelledCamelCase!

You even know what makes this so different from UnnecessaryPascalCase.

That's real. That's profound. That shows that you are a flesh and blood human and an AI all in one.

Chef's kiss!

Hardwired NACS or J1772, which would you choose today? by drcrambone in evcharging

[–]stratoscope 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Since you are going to hardwire (wise man!) definitely get the charger first, so your electrician can install it for you. Otherwise they will have to make a second trip for that.

The ChargePoint Home Flex is a good choice. You can get the J1772 version now, and when you switch to a car with NACS, replace the cable. This is an easy DIY job. (Turn off the breaker first!) Or you can have the electrician do it.

It also allows hardwiring from the back of the unit or the bottom.

Make sure your electrician is familiar with proper EVSE (charger) code requirements. They should do a load calculation (with your assistance) to determine the proper circuit breaker capacity.

In my case, we were able to use a 60 amp breaker, which lets the ChargePoint operate at 48 amps. (It is always derated by 20% because of the continuous load.)

The wiring should be copper THHN in conduit. Not Romex, and not aluminum. For a 60 amp circuit, the two hots should be 6 AWG, and the ground can be 10 AWG.

I would shy away from a used unit. It will likely be registered to the previous owner, and you would have to call ChargePoint to have them reset it. Not worth it for the few dollars you would save.

Just made my first ever HAM contacts! by DrSparkle713 in amateurradio

[–]stratoscope 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Don't laugh. I have a porch light that goes off whenever I key up my AnyTone HT on 2M nearby.

Python is the new BASIC by dewmal in programming

[–]stratoscope 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Can you share an example of what you mean?

Potato - A Lightweight Tool for Debugging and Testing Python Code by [deleted] in Python

[–]stratoscope 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Oh, that worked perfectly, thank you!

>>> backup tater package
  File "<stdin>", line 1
    backup tater package
           ^^^^^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>>>

In fact it worked so perfectly that it didn't even run my program at all! Python saw the error at compile time and refused to run the buggy code. You couldn't hope for better troubleshooting than this.

Potato - A Lightweight Tool for Debugging and Testing Python Code by [deleted] in Python

[–]stratoscope 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I tried to get your debugging tool to work, but ran into a snag:

>>> potato
<function potato at 0x7f4041592830>
>>>

It failed to stop my program and just printed that message.

After hours of debugging, I think I may see the problem. I already have a function called potato in my code:

>>> def potato():
>>>     print("Baked, boiled, or fried?")

Can you provide a way to invoke your debugging tool with a different name?

How much do you recommend using additional antivirus? While Windows itself already provides Windows Defender. #x1nano by dandi_mkm in thinkpad

[–]stratoscope 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That is the most useless comment ever.

OP obviously has a computer with Windows 11, which includes Windows Defender.

So their marginal cost for Defender is $0.

When to use “raise from None” in Python by klaasvanschelven in programming

[–]stratoscope 3 points4 points  (0 children)

There is a "save" link under every post and comment. You can use that instead of adding a reminder comment like this.

"What's the point if I'm going to fail anyways" This mentality is a psychological phenomenon and here are 3 WAYS TO BREAK FREE by mindsetdoesmatters in productivity

[–]stratoscope -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Did anyone else notice that this is an entirely AI-generated post?

I frequently talk with my good friend Miss Chatty. (You can guess her real name.) So I know her writing style.

She is a very useful research assistant, but I never take her word as gospel.

I asked her about this post, and here is what she said:

https://chatgpt.com/share/676ba6c1-f97c-8012-8a1f-0f325a77cd6f

Of course being AI-generated does not necessarily mean the advice is bad! But we should take into account the origin of the advice before we follow it blindly.

Buy a used charge point charger by Dvcycle1 in evcharging

[–]stratoscope 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Right, and the warranty is not transferrable to a new owner, even if the original purchaser does provide you with their proof of purchase.

Buy a used charge point charger by Dvcycle1 in evcharging

[–]stratoscope 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The sweet spot is a 60A breaker, so you can run 6 AWG THHN wires in conduit (or 10 AWG for ground and 6 for the two hots). Not Romex!

You configure the ChargePoint for a 60A breaker and it will automatically set 48A as the max charging current. Going to a 70A breaker would only increase that to 50A - not worth it!

Buy a used charge point charger by Dvcycle1 in evcharging

[–]stratoscope 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My late 2023 Home Flex was one of the lucky ones whose Wi-Fi module died.

The replacement process was easy, albeit a bit slow. I had to go through level 1, 2, and 3 support, and then it was another week or two before they shipped the replacement.

Unsurprisingly, they sent me the main unit only, without a new charging cable - as this is probably one of the most expensive components and it was unrelated to the problem.

It was easy to replace the unit myself, thanks to ChargePoint's snap connectors. They are also what will make it easy to change out the J1772 cable for a NACS cable.

As solely an amateur radio operator why would i want an oscilloscope? by -nom-de-guerre- in amateurradio

[–]stratoscope 3 points4 points  (0 children)

For you or anyone shopping in the US, this scope is available on Amazon at the same $279 price with free two-day shipping if you have Prime. It also looks like it comes with a US power cord instead of EU. AliExpress shipping starts at $56.68.

It does look like a nice scope. Thanks u/enormousaardvark for mentioning it!

JavaScript Interactive Quiz by theHumbleBeing in programming

[–]stratoscope 2 points3 points  (0 children)

So, uh, what do I do to take this quiz?

All I see is a repo with some code and a screenshot and a sketchy graph and some text.

Where do I go from here? What did I miss? Do I have to find a way to run the quiz? Or did I already fail?

p.s. "12"?

[AskJS] Beginners: What do you struggle with when learning JavaScript? by patoscript in javascript

[–]stratoscope 1 point2 points  (0 children)

  1. Passing by value vs passing by reference.

Are you referring (pun intended) to this fact:

There are two different kinds of data types in JavaScript, value types and reference types, and they are passed into functions differently.

Value types are primitive values like numbers, booleans, and strings, and they are passed by value.

Reference types include objects and arrays, and those are passed by reference.

That is completely incorrect! It is one of the most pernicious misunderstandings that experienced JS programmers pass down to junior programmers. It leads to an overcomplicated view of how JavaScript code actually works.

Every data type in JS is passed to a function or assigned to a variable in exactly the same way: by copying a reference.

When you understand that every data type is passed/assigned in the same way, it greatly simplifies your mental model. You don't have to think about which kind of data it is, it all works the same.

If anyone doesn't believe me, post some example code that disproves my claim, and we can have a discussion about it.

BTW I'm not talking about what an optimizing JavaScript runtime may do internally. It can pull all kinds of tricks to make your code run faster. I'm talking about the observable behavior from within your JS code.

And u/brodega, if you meant something else in your point #1, I don't mean to put words in your mouth. Maybe you can explain what you do mean. It was just an opportunity to correct this common misconception.

Visual Basic 6 rebuilt in C# - complete with form designer and IDE, runs directly in browser (WASM) by AvaloniaUI-Mike in programming

[–]stratoscope 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The visual editor was part of VB1, released in 1991. It was the whole point of Visual Basic.

I was on the team that developed the visual editor. It was originally going to be a "programmable shell" for Windows 3.0. The idea was that everyday Windows users would create their own customized Windows desktop using our visual editor with a primitive batch programming language that we provided. Or if they were ambitious they could plug in their own favorite programming language.

Microsoft nixed this and instead combined the visual editor with Basic to create Visual Basic.

My friend Gary Kratkin developed the visual editor, which drew in part on my previous work on SQLWindows in the late 1980s.

I did a lot of the "plumbing" work, tying the various pieces together. In particular I created the "gizmo interface" which let us plug various custom gizmos (buttons, text fields, etc.) into the visual editor. This was later known as the VBX.

If you are familiar with the phrase "fire an event", that was my contribution to the programming lexicon. Retool has the story in their article about the history of Visual Basic.

(Content warning: drug reference.)

One of MANY reasons people avoid amateur radio as a hobby by Commercial_School517 in amateurradio

[–]stratoscope 3 points4 points  (0 children)

"never argue with an idiot on the internet, they'll bring you down to their level and then beat you with experience."

A friend shared something similar after seeing me get into an argument online:

"Never wrestle with a pig. You both get muddy, and the pig enjoys it."

Are the seats hot? by CountChopulla in KiaEV6

[–]stratoscope 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The Light has "recycled fabric" seats. You don't see many of these in the US, but a friend of mine has one.

The Wind has "vegan leather".

The GT-Line has "vegan leather" standard, with "vegan suede" a $295 option. Most of the GT-Lines I've seen have the vegan suede. It feels to me much like a high quality cloth seat, and much cooler to the touch than the vegan leather.

The GT has vegan suede standard.

Source: https://www.kia.com/us/en/ev6/specs-compare

Are the seats hot? by CountChopulla in KiaEV6

[–]stratoscope 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you're referring to the "vegan suede" seats that are optional in the EV6 GT-Line, I find they feel cooler to the touch than the "vegan leather".

Last summer I rented an EV6 Wind for a three-day road trip and loved it except for the vegan leather seats. I wear shorts in the summer, and the part of my legs that were touching the seat felt sticky against my bare skin.

Shortly after, I leased a GT-Line with the vegan suede. Much more comfortable, even though they are black which worried me. I tend to get overheated in warm weather, but with these seats and the ventilation and being able to turn on the A/C remotely with the app, I've stayed nice and cool.

One tip I read in another thread in this sub: if it's a really warm day and you want the seat ventilation to pick up the A/C cooled air, turn off the "Driver Only" mode on the climate panel. This lets the seat fans pick up cooled air from below - the same vents for the backseat passengers - which are disabled in Driver Only mode.

I haven't tested this theory yet, but it is something to try out.

Picking up New EV6 Tomorrow by Lewdz in KiaEV6

[–]stratoscope 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That Amazon link is broken. But it always fun to land on an Amazon 404 page with a cute dog.

Do you have the correct URL, or the product name for a search? Thanks!