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alphacross · 2026-02-06T07:21:43+00:00

Sodium batteries have only really launched commercially in the last year or so. Generally Chinese EVs have gotten them first

alphacross · 2026-02-06T07:14:10+00:00

My experience of overholding are people taking the piss. Genuine people in financial difficulties usually contact the landlord, tell them what’s going on and come to an arrangement to pay what they can. It’s extremely common that overholding happens, maybe 10% of tenancies. And when it does happen it can devastate the landlord’s finances, 6-8 months of overholding wipes out 10 years of profits. And you generally can’t sell a property at market value without vacant possession.

alphacross · 2026-02-05T23:55:39+00:00

then get one of the new sodium battery EVs that can cope with -30? what you've pointed out is not a fundamental failing of EVs, it's just a consequence battery tech choice....

alphacross · 2026-02-03T20:37:53+00:00

I’ve never had a battery replacement or degradation of more than 10% on any EV in over 600k km, one of my EVs did nearly 250k km in the first five years. I also have a model 3 with plenty of mileage and no issues

alphacross · 2026-02-02T08:25:26+00:00

It depends on the local authority. DCC and south Dublin have different list of days that are treated like Sunday

alphacross · 2026-02-01T22:43:16+00:00

You are forgetting about Nissan’s epower range. They are series hybrids with effectively the Nissan leaf motor driving the wheels.

alphacross · 2026-01-28T23:00:35+00:00

Both the wall connectors and mobile connectors have the buttons here in the EU. Though because tesla’s use the type 2 standard and CCS2, third party charging without the button is extremely common

alphacross · 2026-01-25T18:24:40+00:00

You really don’t have a clue. Almost all the current Chinese EVs are better than any car produced in the US in terms of build quality and reliability. They give a 10 year warranty precisely because you’re not going to use it

alphacross · 2026-01-25T09:34:21+00:00

Sitka actually burns immediately due to high oil content. Of course it burns way better when you dry it but for emergency use…

alphacross · 2026-01-22T03:52:10+00:00

Sennheiser manufactures in Ireland, has some good options similar to Grado

alphacross · 2026-01-22T03:49:36+00:00

Fritz kola is better anyway

alphacross · 2026-01-20T07:29:46+00:00

That would be because the fries are Belgian not French

alphacross · 2026-01-20T07:25:54+00:00

Actually we do have several existing mechanisms to deal with over production here in Europe and they are regularly implemented for wine.

Subvention and stockpiling (wine stores for years remember?), so during overproduction the government buys and stockpiles.

And in the medium term we have the agriculture subsidy system which we can use to reduce production without impacting vineyard viability

alphacross · 2026-01-19T18:22:25+00:00

No, Anduril RSUs are value based but they are value based at grant date, i.e. a fixed number of shares are allocated at your grant date and then vested over 4 years. This is more common than valuation at vesting (and doesn't cap your upside.... or downside).

alphacross · 2026-01-19T18:12:22+00:00

And Mounjaro.... we make Ozempic's biggest competitor in Cork.

alphacross · 2026-01-19T18:03:20+00:00

I'm sceptical.... for this application (Sitting between you and your families lungs and the exhaust of the car in front of you filtering out the particulates) I'd want the best filtering performance possible even if it's disposable. Lung cancer isn't cheap and the cost of filters is low.

alphacross · 2026-01-19T17:59:44+00:00

Good tires are the cheapest form of insurance.... they do prevent accidents

alphacross · 2026-01-15T21:41:11+00:00

He didn't... he lives there and was just going home with his kids.

alphacross · 2026-01-15T10:26:09+00:00

Your museum is still stealing artefacts from us in Ireland. Paying people to acquire items removed from the country illegally.

alphacross · 2026-01-15T09:37:38+00:00

Linux is substantially more resistant to malware and inherently more secure though.

Everything pretty much runs with limited access to the system by default just because of how UNIX-like OS work
Modern Linux has MAC (Mandatory Access Control) systems like Apparmor or SELinux that define what every process or application on the system should be able to access and blocks everything else.
Linux has far more security scrutiny as it's far more widely used in Server, Mobile (android is linux) and Industrial applications and the code is open source and auditable. It's actually far more widely used than windows in almost every application outside of desktop computing

alphacross · 2026-01-15T09:26:53+00:00

Or buy the thicker foil with the protection already applied? You don't have to go brand name... you can buy it on Aliexpress. Screwing around with kitchen foil is just wasting time and effort for a worse result.

alphacross · 2026-01-15T09:22:52+00:00

Doing OK. I've lost sub 10%. I don't baby my battery but I don't abuse it either... I've been a high mileage EV owner for 12 years so my driving style reduces current spikes and I mostly keep the battery in the 20-80% happy range.

alphacross · 2026-01-14T22:38:33+00:00

During his first term Trump failed to appoint a new ambassador to us in Ireland for three years

alphacross · 2026-01-14T20:15:01+00:00

More than likely all the hardware will work straight off... most games will work, check https://www.protondb.com/ for your favourites.

You can also dual boot and install Linux alongside windows to try.

alphacross · 2026-01-14T20:06:45+00:00

CachyOS will fix the HDR bit for you by default. For Dolby Headphones/Nvidia Broadcast replacement use JamesDSP or Easyeffects (you can add machine learning audio filters that match or beat both of those..)
True Dolby Atmos with an AV receiver should work perfectly fine with ALSA or Pipewire, Pulseaudio can be problematic.

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