I saw a PR to a project I follow that involves a specific piece if hardware. There are about 10 “solutions” in pr now of scammers trying to claim the bounty. None of them have even bothered to get the piece of hardware necessary to actually test their fixes. It’s disgusting.

I’m very happy for Claude starting to mark their code, and hope it becomes easier to detect. I’m actually all for ai being used to solve these issues, but I think it should make you ineligible to collect a bounty on it if you use AI.

Hey, this is great. If Google wants their services to be less secure then so be it.

Even if they do having the cartels demand in China cut is going to hurt. Demand is dropping in the datacenters market and supply is hitting, this is all fear lingering from them to get us to buy now at the peak

This has gone in a full circle now, because this one was your first comment or something. I’m not arguing in circles. I’ve addressed everything you brought up and now you’re just back to your first “argument”.

Your worries are over a future that you are predicting from… feelings it seems like. Taking all the worst conjured possibilities and rolling them up, like “there won’t be any gas stations” but somehow charging infrastructure and speed also hasn’t improved? What is your mind just imagining the lone gas station in the dusty town, closed forever, with a tumbleweed because of shakes fists EVs?

Like I said earlier, I’m dealing in facts right now, I’m not arguing with emotions or a future that you’ve made up for yourself with no backing.

The mental load of constantly needing to plan stops around fueling

Freaking, man I don’t even know. If planning ahead is a cognitive load on you, we don’t have much else to talk about.

I fully agree with you, but you should check out the rest off this thread. I have someone who literally said:

I’m not willing to compromise on my road trip plans.

I’m unwilling to plan out two 20 minute stops in my day long road trip that happens maybe once or twice a year in order to have the lowest maintenance lowest fuel cost vehicle I have ever owned. Not to mention the other two options if you seriously cannot do it. People are so carbrained/gas brained I just can’t even. I will never go back to owning an ICE vehicle, literally why would you?

I remember there was a time where my car-brained friends convinced me that it takes more gas to start a car than let it idle for 5 or more minutes. Now, I’m sure that was rooted in something, but looking at it now I just don’t see that as being true with start/stop engines.

I see the same thing, there’s a place near me where I walk by and I see people on smoke breaks sitting in their car, turned on, smoking with the windows open. I just cannot fathom this. Gas is how much a gallon and you’re just idly burning it while out there so you can listen to the radio? I don’t understand sitting you car car at all, there are benches and places to go, maybe it’s a no smoking thing, fine. But why turn the car on at all??

So we’re just going through the standard propaganda excuses. Since apparently we’re hung up on the probably 1% of driving you do (where you go more than 250 miles in a single day), let’s refer to what I already said above you:

As an EV owner the road trips we take are the vast minority of driving anymore. When we do there are options.

• plan out your route and stops. Requires maybe 15 minutes of planning before your trip. You pick a place with food nearby, get out for 30 minutes, stretch, eat your meal, and you are good until the next meal.
• if you are one of the 80% of households with 2 cars, take the other car for that roadtrip.
• get a rental car for your trip. (Remembering that a couple hundred for a rental car is vastly cheaper than paying for gas for 10+ years)

Your “compromise” feelings are unjustified. Even if you it’s just iMpOsSiBLe to drive your EV on a road trip (it’s not) you can do other things. Like I said, if you’re one of the 80% of North American households who own 2 cars you could take the EV for 99% of your trips, and on the 1% road trips you could… take the other car. If you are like me and only own one car you still have the option to rent a car.

Renting a car is relatively cheap and has the added bonus of not wearing down your car with added miles. Now I lived in the Midwest, I remember family car trips that were long. Driving over multiple states in one day. Those trips were rare, thinking once every few years rare. Maybe once a year. Numbers just make sense, a rental car for that infrequent of a trip is cheaper.

And that’s all assuming that again you just cannot take your EV on a road trip. Which is absolutely false. I did a 800 mile roadtrip just earlier this year.

I really do try to put myself into their shoes, growing up in the 60s when suburbs were brand new and cities were decaying. The reasons why are valid but to them that’s when they were children and growing up, and impressionable. So these people will forever believe that the white picket fence, the mcmansion, and the big car are all the ultimate goals. Your story just reinforces that. Even when it’s not practical, it’s a waste of money, it’s a useless thing, it’s still a status icon they hold onto, clinging to the “american dream”.

While true, I also want to reinforce that we at the same time do force our underprivileged to drive by not building out walkable cities and supplying good transit options. No one should be forced to drive at all. In the post I am talking about the privileged who are out buying new cars, but at the same time there is a whole industry who preys on poorer people convincing them to get 10 year car loans with crazy high interest and tells them it’ll be good for them. So it’s a complex issue, but I’m still annoyed that they are choosing large gas guzzlers in both cases.

it’s literally called anxiety, it’s a personal issue. We don’t call a small tank “tank anxiety”. I get a week’s worth of commuting out of a single charge. If you owned one for 10 years then you know you can charge at home, and unless you’re driving literally the max every day, which right now is about 250 miles every day, then range anxiety is a non issue because you just plug it in when you get home.

If you are worried about road trips, then you need to analyze your personal road trip habits. I already spoke elsewhere in this post about options if you roadtrip, but even frequently I highly doubt it’s more than 1% of your total trips.

simply not good enough yet

This thread is full of people telling you the opposite. I own an EV and am telling you it’s the best car I’ve ever had and will never go back. If you don’t believe they’re good enough then you need to analyze why you believe that, because it’s simply not true. If you want to ask me questions about what they are actually like, feel free, but I won’t sit here and help you “feel” better about them when all the facts show that they’re great vehicles to own.

Is your argument both in the same breath that EVs will catch on too quick that all gas stations will disappear in a matter of days and also that EV adoption will not catch on quick enough because charging is too slow?

Good thing I wrote up two other options if it doesn’t work for you. It works perfectly fine on our car trips.

You probably haven’t the most straightforward take here. The amount of people here trying to convince me (themselves) they bought a large car for safety…

Given their history, data says about 2 years.

The difference is this is one higher, and they get to deprecate the old ones. Yes it’ll all go to landfills, but they’ll get some profit.

There is actually, it is called “crash compatibility”. When everyone drives small cars or roughly the same sized cars it’s considered crash-compatible, meaning the cars will crumple correctly. With everyone driving 2-ton tanks now though that’s more or less gone out the window, as you driving a reasonable car compared to someone who was convinced that they needed a military vehicle to pick up groceries, theirs will win. I’m definitely not defending that though, because it did kick off this arms race, where now it’s “Well I killed everyone else in this accident, but I survived” when before it was simply “Everyone (probably) survived”

Ha, I never thought of it that way but yes, that tracks perfectly. The “inconveniences” of EVs aren’t worse than gas cars, it’s just that the gas car inconveniences are considered “normal” right now.

I had to buy a new TV a few years back and I remember I took it out to the car with the sales guy and he said “Oh I don’t think it’ll fit”. Told him to hold on, folded the seats down and that baby fit perfectly in there. Idk if it was the size of a sheet of plywood, but it was big, the box and all. Guy was legitimately impressed. Meanwhile yep agree, people get these super duper manly family trucks and can’t fit a few suitcases in there anymore. People mortified of admitting they need a van and have to feel good by driving a truck.

The car sized arms race. People believe the only way to be safe on the road is by driving the biggest car, which means the next one is the largest, and the next.

Bluntly, I think it’s a selfish take. “Well everyone else in the accident may die but I’ll be alive”