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AlternateRoute , 4 days ago to Technology in Elon Musk Openly Advocates for Overthrowing the Government of Bolivia, The Country with the Largest Lithium Reserves in the World

Likely has more to do with the cost of 1-2million per station vs 250,000 to 500,000 for a typical EV fast charging station

AlternateRoute , 4 days ago to Technology in Elon Musk Openly Advocates for Overthrowing the Government of Bolivia, The Country with the Largest Lithium Reserves in the World

Electrolysis is at least 25% less as efficient than just storing the electricity in battery’s as it produces both oxygen and hydrogen and then you need to spend some more of the power compressing it…. Even before you get to transporting it. Otherwise we would just have electrolytes plants all over already.

AlternateRoute , 6 days ago to homelab in Optimizing a WiFi Network

I get 550Mbps on 5 ghz (80Mhz wide) with my iPhone 13 and I get 800-850Mbps on an iPad pro on 6Ghz (160Mhz wide). When in the same room as the AP. When not in the same room speeds are a bit all over the map.

This is via the speedtest.net app on a 1Gbit fibre connection.

I am using new U7 Pro Wall APs.

AlternateRoute , 6 days ago to Technology in Elon Musk Openly Advocates for Overthrowing the Government of Bolivia, The Country with the Largest Lithium Reserves in the World

There is no clean, cheap, efficient source of hydrogen. You still need to transport it around burning more fuel to transport it all around.

There are already multiple ways to get clean electricity for BEVs and the supply chain is cleaner.. Plant, grid, car.

Also coal is already a TINY TINY % of US power production, https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/us-energy-facts/ , going to natural gas sourced hydrogen would be a step backward.

When source to consumption is considered BEV is the cleanest option so far.

AlternateRoute , 7 days ago to Technology in Elon Musk Openly Advocates for Overthrowing the Government of Bolivia, The Country with the Largest Lithium Reserves in the World

but there’s evidence that this shift is already happening.

Shift? Dude that article has been debunked already.

https://thebusinessjournal.com/blog-harris-ranch-sets-record-straight-on-diesel-powered-tesla-supercharger-allegations/

BEV is effectively running on coal.

Funny thing is that EVs are still cleaner than ICE even when powered by a Coal grid

https://www.forbes.com/sites/mikescott/2020/03/30/yes-electric-cars-are-cleaner-even-when-the-power-comes-from-coal/

AlternateRoute , 8 days ago to Technology in Elon Musk Openly Advocates for Overthrowing the Government of Bolivia, The Country with the Largest Lithium Reserves in the World

The FCEV is going to be fueled from fossil fuels for the foreseeable future

Today, about 95% of all hydrogen is produced from steam reforming of natural gas.

https://www.energy.gov/eere/fuelcells/hydrogen-fuel-basics#:~:text=Today%2C%20about%2095%25%20of%20all,steam%20reforming%20of%20natural%20gas.

EV battery packs however can be nearly fully recycled back into more batteries.

https://blog.ucsusa.org/jessica-dunn/how-are-ev-batteries-actually-recycled/

AlternateRoute , 8 days ago to Technology in Elon Musk Openly Advocates for Overthrowing the Government of Bolivia, The Country with the Largest Lithium Reserves in the World

You do know that nearly all fuel cell vehicles also use lithium and a battery pack, as well the fuel cell it self uses a number of rare earth metals.

AlternateRoute , 9 days ago to Technology in McDonald’s Gives Up On ‘AI’ After Comedy Of Errors, Including Putting Bacon On Ice Cream

The self serve terminals and apps actually work well. I prefer using them over ordering at the counter.

So ya I am surprised they rolled this out so poorly.

AlternateRoute , 9 days ago (edited 9 days ago) to Technology in McDonald’s Gives Up On ‘AI’ After Comedy Of Errors, Including Putting Bacon On Ice Cream

Natural language is really messy.. Could go through many variants on things. Then you get text to speech issues due to audio quality / accents.. And you need an engine that can "best guess / best match" based on what it has or ask for clarification.

Similarly you can ask for TWO of a complex thing: I would like Two.... meals, with,,, XXXX

AlternateRoute , 9 days ago to Technology in McDonald’s Gives Up On ‘AI’ After Comedy Of Errors, Including Putting Bacon On Ice Cream

An LLM can somewhat smooth over variances in language without having to have all possible variances known just the valid options and the raw input.

• I would like a Big Mac, no lettuce, no tomato, no cheese.
• I would like a Big Mac, no vegies, hold the cheese.
• I would like a Big Mac, no vegies, no dairy

AlternateRoute , 9 days ago to Technology in McDonald’s Gives Up On ‘AI’ After Comedy Of Errors, Including Putting Bacon On Ice Cream

Mc Donald's already has customer self serve kiosks and mobile apps with the full menu that limit you as to which items you can add or remove.

How did they screw this up and leave things open ended for the LLM?

IE why was the LLM not referencing a list of valid options with every request and then replying with what the possible options are. This is something LLMs are actually able to do fairly well, then layer on top the EXACT same HARD constraints they already have on the kiosk and mobile app to ensure orders are valid?

AlternateRoute , 16 days ago to Technology in Why do you have to install Usb-Drivers on Windows, but I never had to do it on Linux?

What version of windows and what mouse and keyboard. 99% of them work out of the box and the drivers only add extra functions if there are special features.

AlternateRoute , 17 days ago to Technology in How One Chinese EV Company Made Battery Swapping Work

neo is the ONLY company doing swap stations, and that is how they work.. I also described current, available EVs with available chargers.

AlternateRoute , 17 days ago to Technology in Nearly 20% of Microsoft SQL Servers running have passed end of support

And how many years do they support a specific release before making you upgrade.

Looks like MySQL standard releases are one year and LTS releases are 5 or up to 8 with extended support.

So somewhat similar to Microsoft

AlternateRoute , 17 days ago to Technology in How One Chinese EV Company Made Battery Swapping Work

An EV6 on an capable fast charger can do 10% to 80% in 17 min

They need to make the swap faster / higher throughput or charging is still going to make more sense .