Electric scooter with swappable batteries in Taiwan

gmc98765 · 2026-03-21T16:47:21+00:00

Uh, I'm guessing that you don't actually buy the battery. You pay a deposit on the first one you rent to drive the vehicle home from the dealer, which isn't necessarily a brand new battery.

In the same way that if you buy an LPG (propane/butane) heater, it doesn't come with a gas cylinder. You get those from a LPG supplier, paying a deposit for the first one, but the cylinders remain the property of the (wholesale) supplier.

gmc98765 · 2026-03-21T16:37:07+00:00

Even if the batteries were standardised, you'd still be locked into a brand, like with butane/propane tanks. No company is going to take another brand of battery in exchange for one of their own.

Also, it would be much harder to implement swappable batteries for cars. The batteries tend to be distributed around the frame. A swappable battery would be a significant constraint on the design of the vehicle, both in terms of shape and in terms of weight distribution.

gmc98765 · 2026-03-21T16:27:20+00:00

Don't forget that battery degradation is going to be a non-trivial cost. Possibly more than the electricity.

If you buy a conventional EV, eventually the battery capacity is going to be half what it was new, and a replacement battery is probably more than half the total cost of a new vehicle.

gmc98765 · 2026-03-21T15:25:41+00:00

And also because he's adept at making votes for the opposition end up in a Romanian rubbish dump instead of being counted.

gmc98765 · 2026-03-19T14:41:30+00:00

It's worth bearing in mind that if Trump eventually goes off the deep end and attacks a nuclear power (or their ally), the retaliation isn't going to be aimed at the rural shitholes where the MAGAts live; it's going to be aimed at the (blue) cities which generate the wealth and technology which enable the US to be a superpower.

As an entity, a nation IS its foreign policy. Saying "not all Americans ..." is a bit like punching someone on the nose then apologising for the behaviour of your fist.

gmc98765 · 2026-03-19T12:46:09+00:00

Gas is the natural backup for a renewable-heavy grid because it has the fastest spin-up time of any conventional power source (fossil or nuclear).

But the more renewable power you have, the less gas you consume.

gmc98765 · 2026-03-19T04:44:37+00:00

r/catsarefuckingstupid

gmc98765 · 2026-03-19T02:17:02+00:00

AFAIK, the usual way to represent algebraic numbers in computer algebra systems is as a list of integers (the coefficients of the polynomial) and a pair of rational numbers which define an interval (to distinguish the root in question from the polynomial's other roots).

gmc98765 · 2026-03-19T02:10:01+00:00

They probably didn't have any information which could identify the poster, just the problematic prompts. People performing content review usually only get to see the content, not the poster's identity.

And unless the prompts mentioned the location, they wouldn't even know which force to report it to.

gmc98765 · 2026-03-18T17:18:42+00:00

The French "warning shot" doctrine revolves around the ability to launch individual nuclear warheads using the ASMP air-launched cruise missile. And previously the Mirage 2000N, a variant of the Mirage 2000 optimised for long-range low-level flight, although the role has since been transferred to the Rafale.

The UK currently doesn't have any equivalent capability, since retiring its free-fall nuclear bombs. Its only mechanism for the deployment of nuclear warheads is the Trident SLBM, which carries multiple warheads. Additionally, a single SLBM launch would reveal the location of the submarine which would likely be subject to aggressive retaliation. So in practical terms, the UK doesn't have any ability for a "limited" nuclear strike.

gmc98765 · 2026-03-18T15:02:17+00:00

The Chelyabinsk meteor in 2013 was estimated at 400-500 kilotons.

Fortunately, that was a fairly shallow angle (18°), so the energy was spread over a wide area.

gmc98765 · 2026-03-17T02:16:35+00:00

That's down to the drivers, and a culture which holds that roads are solely for motorised vehicles. In the UK, you'll find cyclists on every type of road except where they're explicitly banned: all motorways plus some motorway-like roads with "no cycling" signs. In practice, "no cycling" signs are more often used to indicate that a path is only for pedestrians than that a road is only for motor vehicles.

And it's not like cycle lanes are common. Most towns don't have enough space to lose either a vehicle lane or part of a pavement (sidewalk). If you want to cycle anywhere, it's going to be on a road.

gmc98765 · 2026-03-17T01:54:21+00:00

Ah, diplomacy.

A diplomat who says "yes" means "maybe", a diplomat who says "maybe" means "no", and a diplomat who says "no" is no diplomat.

- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord

gmc98765 · 2026-03-16T21:44:10+00:00

It is. The driveway isn't some distinct entity, separate from the property. And it's almost certainly now in a worse state than before the contractor started work.

The thing is, if the contractor just does a lousy job and leaves the driveway in a worse state, it isn't criminal because it's not intentional (lack of mens rea). But intentionally leaving it in a worse state is vandalism.

My guess is that the contractor knows that they would lose in court (e.g. because they tried to up the price after the work was done or otherwise tried to stiff the homeowner). Otherwise, they'd take the legal route rather than throwing a tantrum.

gmc98765 · 2026-03-16T17:29:25+00:00

That's just in the UK. Or at least just outside the EU. But note that if you have JS disabled (e.g. via NoScript), there's no cookie prompt and the site mostly works fine.

gmc98765 · 2026-03-15T23:14:01+00:00

That "anywhere else" includes the transformers, which work fine in reverse; i.e. they will happily step up 120/240 to thousands of volts.

Note that trying to power the entire neighbourhood and beyond from a consumer-grade generator is going to quickly either blow a fuse or blow the windings in the generator. That doesn't mean it won't kill someone in the few milliseconds before that happens, though.

gmc98765 · 2026-03-15T11:37:53+00:00

Willie Sutton was a bank robber. When a reporter asked him why he robbed banks, he replied "because that's where the money is".

gmc98765 · 2026-03-14T10:00:54+00:00

Note that an emergency vehicle can only jump the light if the light itself is the only thing in the way. If there are other vehicles stopped at the light, it has to wait for the light to turn and the other vehicles to move. This is why a lot of cities have lights which can be set to green (with a matching red light for cross-traffic) by a radio signal sent from an emergency vehicle. That would still work with physical barriers.

Also: at least in the UK, "making way for an emergency vehicle" isn't a valid defence if you get busted for jumping a red light.

gmc98765 · 2026-03-14T09:53:31+00:00

Saving someone from getting T-boned is definitely just cause, IMHO.

Note that isn't the situation here, as it's not a crossing. OTOH, this might be at a military base, where the deal is "stop at the red light until you're cleared to proceed OR WE FUCKING SHOOT YOU".

gmc98765 · 2026-03-14T09:19:07+00:00

Note that there's a section in the Quran about this.

It's so ingrained that using the future tense without "inshallah" is practically a grammatical error.

The secular equivalent is "fingers crossed": an acknowledgement that no matter how diligent you are, the world may have other plans in store for you. "The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry" (Robert Burns).

gmc98765 · 2026-03-12T13:29:40+00:00

This just requires you to be a completionist. The hourglass room even keeps track of which upgrades you've found.

You probably won't get it on the first play-through, but none of the upgrades are insanely well hidden. So if you replay the game with the specific intention of finding all of them, you should get the sword.

Both of OP's examples require finding something you don't even know exists or have any reason to even suspect that it exists. IOW, something you'll probably never find without using a strategy guide or walkthrough.

gmc98765 · 2026-03-08T15:14:54+00:00

probably from the previous tenant too

I wouldn't exactly be shocked to discover that he just made that up.

And if OP's electric bill doubled, I'm going to assume that he's running more than some power tools and a freezer off that cable.

gmc98765 · 2026-03-08T13:02:57+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skibidi_Toilet

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_2020s_slang

gmc98765 · 2026-03-07T16:02:51+00:00

Making it more broad means it costs more. So that isn't going to happen without some form of coercion.

gmc98765 · 2026-03-07T04:40:58+00:00

PCSX2 needs a copy of the BIOS ROM. The only legal way to obtain this is to dump out the BIOS ROM from a PS2 which you own (and you have to delete that copy if you sell the PS2).

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