nilloc

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[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

One of the best parts from Spaced (Simon Pegg & Jessica Stevenson’s season show from the early 2000s).

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

We’re all FBI agents on this blessed day.

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 4 months ago

We know, but we don’t have time to change. We have another site waiting to get slammed out as soon as the one we’re working on, which was underfunded with a ridiculous timeline goes live.

There’s still a fair bit of “my nephew makes websites, it can’t be that [hard, expensive, time consuming], oh and by the way, e we need a way to edit every word and image on the site, that both our intern and barely literate CEO can understand, even though we’re literally never going to edit anything ever.”

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Anyone carrying a gun in a holster should be required have sufficient training to use the safety properly.

It gives you more time to think before killing something and also protects you from someone grabbing the gun or someone else mishandling your gun if it leaves your possession.

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

It was teased and unnamed in 2016c but we didn’t see the concept truck until November 2019.

The steering system and power delivery is interesting but not not enough to overcome the dangerously sharp, blind spot riddled, and impractical body design.

The couldn’t even be bothered to put a digital rear view mirror in the place other companies and third parties have been doing it for a decade.

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 5 months ago

Rivian was also first to market and showed their concept a year and a half before the cyber truck reveal (where the first showed it and smashed its windows).

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 5 months ago

Rivian had shown off their EV truck a year and a half before Tesla announced the Cyber Truck. And it’s a much more useful vehicle.

I believe the Ford Lightning EV might have been in the works already too, but not sure if it was announced yet.

Rivian also started delivering its truck in 2021 after showing the concept in may 2018.

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 5 months ago

No other wipers are this long and stupid though…

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 5 months ago

They do they both for cost and for weight savings to try and hit CAFE standard while only selling oversized CUVs.

Make small cars.

We want them, they’re fun and better for everyone.

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 5 months ago

But it doesn’t. PHEVs can still regenerate during braking though. ICE only vehicles can cut fuel when off throttle, but that’s not going reclaim the heat lost to braking.

PHEVs should still be more efficient overall especially in cities and stop and go traffic.

If we had ICE only vehicles with tiny engines maybe your point could work, but we don’t anymore at least not in the US.

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 5 months ago

This was my feeling after seeing it too. Architects also love to see models and more tangible things, even printouts in my experience.

Offering a fully rendered environment sounds amazing but someone would have to do a lot lore work at the office before presenting it to the client because it would look less complete than simple foam models can.

It may be useful for investor presentations for really large projects (Saudis or UAE style projects), but again, those are pretty narrow audiences and so expensive that bespoke displays could be viable.

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 5 months ago

They’ll make it illegal to charge your own battery. And enshitification will guarantee perpetually rising prices, lower and lower range batteries, or some combination of the 2.

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