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Comment Re:Must not be in the USA (Score 1) 151

Larger battery is still massively expensive if the goal is occasional towing. The increased energy demand for towing today makes it less a question of expense and more one of being able to make the trip. One idea I've had is placing extra batteries I the trailer.
Right now batteries are still expensive and production limited. A hybrid actually conserves more gasoline and oil for a given amount of battery.
Same deal with Semis, really, get the in city daily drivers where stop and go traffic gives them the best competitive advantage over diesel. As familiarity spreads and people accept them for longer range operations, just keep expanding.

Comment Re: 455 calls failed and two callers died (Score 1, Insightful) 14

It's certainly a testament to how many of those calls didn't need to happen, and I'm not seeing here that we're sure those people would have made it if the calls had gone through, or they'd even have had a good chance.

On the flip side, if anyone certainly died because of negligence around a critical emergency service, some heads should roll. Unfortunately, it won't be the ones which it needs to in order to prevent it from happening again.

Comment Re: Ohhhhh! (Score 1) 93

You can get a full sized convection oven. You can also power a medium sized one from 110v@15A. When I was a teen we moved into a mobile with a lousy oven and my mother bought a DeLonghi countertop convection oven that plugged into a regular outlet. It cooked about as rapidly as any normal oven, and had capacity between one and a modern air fryer. Just enough for a turkey basically.

Comment Re: Completely unnecessary (Score 1) 35

"Congratulations, you just coded an unplayable lagfest. This has been tried, this has failed"

This is nonsense.

You don't have to detect cheating before it happens. You can detect it slightly after the fact and then retcon scores and ban players. This is almost as good, much easier, and doesn't create any latency.

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