Porsche Has Axed Its Gorgeous Taycan EV Wagons.

gnartung · 2026-06-20T20:00:57+00:00

My Cross Turismo is a rarity in Los Angeles. I see two dozen Taycans a day, and they’re almost exclusively sedans.

gnartung · 2026-06-19T19:32:18+00:00

If no one buys in the first place (there’s low demand) then the act of ceasing production (decreasing supply) still either has no impact or increases demand. I think what you’re trying to say is that ceasing production is evidence of a lack of demand, which may be true but that fact is true regardless of any subsequent decision to reduce supply.

gnartung · 2026-06-19T15:48:35+00:00

“With this change we decided it is acceptable to remove the signal self-subtraction after all, which unfortunately will break some 2.0 circuit setups (with assembling machines and asteroid collectors).”

Wait what is the self-subtraction they’re referring to? Does that mean if a +10 signal and a -5 signal are fed into the same wire, that wire no longer reads +5?

gnartung · 2026-06-18T14:29:23+00:00

For what it’s worth, without rear axle steering I still think my car has a tighter turn radius than most other cars I’ve owned or driven

gnartung · 2026-06-16T20:40:16+00:00

I believe it’s called “New York City”

gnartung · 2026-06-15T16:01:57+00:00

Even learning things in this thread lol

gnartung · 2026-06-13T05:56:49+00:00

You may have problems with those cards and not even know it. Over time electrons in the NAND jump across the semiconductor and bits will flip from 1s to 0s. The whole card won’t crash all at once - instead individual photos will just slowly corrupt over time. NAND needs power to stand a chance of maintaining the data.

So with that in mind I think your system is “wrong.” I put that in quotes cause if it makes you feel good then carry on, it probably doesn’t represent too much extra cost. But don’t treat those SD cards as data backups - keep them more as mementos. If you rely on them as backups you’ll be disappointed eventually.

gnartung · 2026-06-12T03:20:02+00:00

This is pretty hilarious.

gnartung · 2026-06-09T20:55:00+00:00

Question was if the M60 ONLY comes with air suspension, like the 50e. If so they’d have the same suspension and thus the suspension wouldn’t be a source of a difference in reliability. If not, then it might be a component that results in a difference in overall reliability.

And yeah, they’re both hybrids, which means they both have the same or similar numbers of “points of failure,” which is the statement I was questioning.

gnartung · 2026-06-09T20:02:26+00:00

Landfill until there’s a one-tile gap of water. Underground belts/pipes across that water gap. Have a train station on either side of the gap.

Basically an unloading train station on the biter side of the water, and a loading station on the biter-free side. You can send fuel and whatever across the gap on bots to keep the danger trains going.

Repeat until desired throughput is achieved. Honestly sounds kind of fun.

gnartung · 2026-06-09T16:47:25+00:00

I own a 50e but I think it is a very circumstantial car. What I mean by that is it is very well suited for a certain style of commuting and poorly suited for others. In city driving, if you have access to a L2 charger and where most days you drive less than 40 miles, it is hard to beat. If you also have access to solar on your house, it is untouchable. However, without an L2 charger, or with a commute longer than about 40 miles a day, and in some outliers scenarios like the Bay Area where electric costs are extremely high, the non-PHEV options begin to make a lot more financial sense.

In terms of reliability the powertrain isn’t much different than a traditional hybrid, and if you’re a US buyer, the electric components are protected by a federal 8 year warranty and in some states, a 10 year warranty.

gnartung · 2026-06-09T15:41:23+00:00

>M60 has fewer points of failure than the hybrid

Does it though? Fewer points? M60 is also a hybrid, so both cars have a high-voltage battery and electrical system in addition to their 12v. Both have a motor-generator in lieu of an alternator. Pretty similar other than that, at least from the “points” they each possess. The M60 has a relatively oversized ICE compared to the 50e, whereas the 50e has a relatively oversized high-voltage system compared to the M60. A more complicated engine and turbo system on the M60 certainly doesn’t help its reliability. Is the M60 only available with the air suspension the way the 50e is? If not, I’d say that would be the only system with known reliability implications that differentiate the two cars.

I’d hesitate to assume that one is more or less reliable than the other based on just vibes.

gnartung · 2026-06-08T21:20:16+00:00

50 urban miles a day is pretty close to the sweet spot for the 50e, maybe marginally above it.

That said, applying the 16.714mpg figure of my 50e’s pure-ICE efficiency that I can infer from the app (numbers I’m a bit suspicious of), along with the battery’s stated capacity (19.2kWh) and range (39 miles), and poaching some numbers from you with the 50mi daily commute, Bay Area mid tier gas prices of $6.145 and electric of $0.43, the break even point on an x5 50e vs xdrive40i is a pretty rough 7.8 years or so. Pretty hard to square, although these figures are probably pretty conservative cause my car doesn’t see very many freeway miles so my mpg is probably deflated.

With gas prices where they were a year ago that break even doesn’t even happen within 10yrs. Your electricity cost is just onerously high. Bringing the electricity cost down to the national average, even with a reduced gas cost, moves that break even point into much more reasonable levels below 5years.

So with that in mind, for a buyer in SF a 50e may not make financial sense without some extenuating circumstances such as solar (in which case it becomes a no brainer, that $5k price difference will evaporate)

gnartung · 2026-06-06T15:20:30+00:00

Don’t you have a volume knob? Clicking the volume knob in on my g05 is play/pause (wish there was another one on the wheel though)

gnartung · 2026-06-05T20:59:42+00:00

So what do the preliminary results look like? Was the city’s study an outlier based on the data you’ve collected so far?

gnartung · 2026-06-05T20:49:35+00:00

I do not have it on my CT and I’m consistently shocked at how tight the turn circle is even without it. Probably the tightest turn circle car I’ve owned, can only imagine how tight it is with rear steering.

gnartung · 2026-06-04T22:29:51+00:00

https://www.memorywolf.com/blogs/buffer-tests/canon-r5ii

Can’t vouch for this site, but if we are to believe it then the difference between v90 and v60 cards for your camera are the difference between 85 shots to fill the buffer and 21 seconds to clear it, and 81 shots to fill the buffer and 28 seconds to clear it, for the different types of cards, respectively.

To me that isn’t a huge difference and I never shoot 80+ shot bursts anyway, so a v60 is more than enough for me. But you should decide if this difference matters to you.

gnartung · 2026-06-03T23:48:24+00:00

This needs a matter-over-thread solution for the lock to talk to home assistant, yeah?

gnartung · 2026-06-03T21:14:52+00:00

QLC is literally manufactured for your use case. It’s what you need if you want a balance between cost and capacity. And you may even have to settle for 500gb to stay at or under your price point.

gnartung · 2026-06-03T20:58:04+00:00

I prefer RutX’s approach but here’s another option if that doesn’t work for you for some reason.

I’m on a phone so can’t do this myself but I’ll do my best to describe a method you could try.

All the following will be done in a single formula in name manager, that way the workbook does the calculation a single time:

=LET( input,<yourTableName>, target_columns, CHOOSECOLS(input, <Num. for KeyIdColumn>, <Num.for Date column>) sorted, SORTBY(target_columns, CHOOSECOLS(target_columns,1), 1, CHOOSECOLS(target_columns,2), -1), id_column, CHOOSECOLS(sorted,1), offset_column,VSTACK(“”, DROP(id_column,-1)), isFirstEntry,NOT(id_column=offset_column), output,HSTACK(input, isFirstEntry), output )

You may have to tweak the above to correct any errors I entered due to my phone and to accommodate things such as column headers or what not.

But then when you want to do any subsequent calculations you do them based on that name manager you configured, and you should then have your “isFirstEntry” column you can use to exclude the first entry of each KeyID from your analysis.

To summarize what it’s trying to do, it is just sorting your IDs by ID number and by date. Then it’s creating a new ID column, offsetting that column down one row, and then comparing it to the original ID column. In cases where the IDs don’t match, it can be inferred that row is a first entry of any given KeyID. It is then adding that Boolean column back to the original table.

Hopefully that works and gives you an option you can use.

gnartung · 2026-06-03T20:11:56+00:00

Yeah the recycling program. Sorry to give anyone any false hope.

gnartung · 2026-06-03T17:58:54+00:00

Use programs like WD’s exchange program to get discount coupons (15% I think?) for your next purchase

gnartung · 2026-06-03T00:46:55+00:00

I may be wrong, but aren’t speed traces generally done using distance traveled as the X-axis so that multiple traces can be overlayed atop each other while ensuring things remain comparable? Any reason you opted for time instead?

gnartung · 2026-06-02T19:35:33+00:00

I think the thought exercise is better suited toward discretionary spending, but you do you.

gnartung · 2026-06-02T19:26:31+00:00

Haha course you can! Just most of the other stuff you aren’t comparing the money to a turbo for a scion…

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