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by piquadrat 2mo ago
Your Polestar 2 battery is based on battery technology that is 5+ years old. Right now you can buy a BYD car in China that charges at up to 1500kW - close to 10x the peak charging rate of a Polestar 2.
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by piquadrat 7mo ago
Isn't what you are describing known as Zonal Architecture (as opposed to Domain Architecture) and supposed to be the hot new way of architecting automotive platforms? Tesla was pioneering it. The Volkswagen Group spent billions to get
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Unitree Robotics demostration during the Chinese New Year Gala is incredible [video](youtube.com)
8 points by piquadrat 7mo ago|2 comments
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by piquadrat 10mo ago
That's something that should be possible with the upcoming Workflow feature. Some details can be found in the November Recap blog post. https://immich.app/blog/2025-november-recap
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by piquadrat 11mo ago
They announced that Nano Banana will be integrated in Google Photos a couple weeks ago. https://blog.google/technology/ai/nano-banana-google-product...
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by piquadrat 2y ago
My source is an article from the ADAC, a German automobile association. https://www.adac.de/rund-ums-fahrzeug/elektromobilitaet/lade... They say 100-300W for the onboard electronics, and 15-25% total loss when usi
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by piquadrat 2y ago
One drawback of charging on an 120v (or 230v) outlet is efficiency. While charging, the energy consumption of an electric car can easily reach 300-400 watts. When you're only charging with 1800-2400 watts, that's a sizeable amount
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by piquadrat 3y ago
> Model 3/Model Y has been the most sold new car in California and a few other areas, selling more than the usual toyotas and hondas. Model Y is going to be the most sold car model of 2023, not just in California, but in the whole w
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by piquadrat 3y ago
Only about 7000 of those are HPCs (150kW+)[1]. This proposed law mandates at least 150kw per charge point, so it would more than triple the amount of HPC charge points. In general, it makes a lot of sense to differentiate between slow charg
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by piquadrat 4y ago
I wish Google Maps had an option to avoid small roads that are not made for transit traffic. I live next to such a road, and the amount of cars using it has grown considerably over the last few years, many with license plates from neighbori
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by piquadrat 4y ago
The problem is more that the Swiss Plateau (where most of these tunnels would be built) is very densely populated. There's just not enough room for a whole new road network to be built on the surface.
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Swiss airspace re-opens after ‘technical malfunction’(swissinfo.ch)
6 points by piquadrat 4y ago|0 comments
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by piquadrat 4y ago
Well, he for sure pissed Garmin off with his review of the Garmin RCT715[0] (the bike camera/radar/light thingy). At least in my case, his review stopped me from upgrading from an RTL515. [0]: https://www.youtube.com&#x
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by piquadrat 4y ago
Yes, I unplugged it.
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by piquadrat 4y ago
Just yesterday I noticed that a device installed by the cable TV company in my house (a WISI VX 2030 amplifier, according to the sticker) was warm to the touch. Measuring its power consumption, it uses a constant 15 watt, so about 130kwh&#x
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by piquadrat 5y ago
I have a networked all-in-one HP printer that can scan to a network share on my NAS. On the NAS, I set up a watcher script that runs OCRMyPDF [1] on any incoming PDFs. That gives me a super easy workflow, just feed documents into the scann
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by piquadrat 5y ago
he has proven time and time again that anything with a keyway can be picked quickly and discretely by anyone with a little knowledge (and the sometimes the right tools) While it is fascinating to watch LPL make short work of almost ever
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by piquadrat 5y ago
Arianespace fat-fingering an Ariane 5 into the wrong orbit recently didn't exactly help with my anxiety... https://spacenews.com/bad-coordinates-led-ariane-5-astray-la... (OTOH, I'm positive that particular issue
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by piquadrat 6y ago
They say otherwise on their blog[1]: " Clearinghouses are SEC-registered organizations that act as the central depository for securities. They keep a record of the stocks owned through a brokerage. Clearing brokerages, like Robinhood S
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by piquadrat 6y ago
The fact that Robinhood had to emergency-raise $3billion to be able to put up the collateral with their clearing houses should be enough indication that a lot of retail traders were engaged in these highly volatile stocks. See e.g. https
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by piquadrat 6y ago
> causing oxidizer rich combustion which eventually burnt up the engines Which sometimes is called "engine rich exhaust". I love these sarcastic terms in rocketry. RUD, lithobraking, etc.
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by piquadrat 6y ago
Exactly, that's what I like about pyscript: it is a great alternative for simple YAML automations, but it also allows for complex logic that would be impossible or very cumbersome with YAML.
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by piquadrat 6y ago
There's also PyScript, a custom component that allows you to write automations in Python. The docs have a bunch of nice examples that give you an idea how it looks. https://github.com/custom-components/pyscript h
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by piquadrat 6y ago
I got this one: https://aliexpress.com/item/4000917130635.html They are also available on Amazon under a bunch of different brands, e.g. https://www.amazon.com/LENCENT-1080p60fps-Definition-Acquisi...
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by piquadrat 6y ago
I recently tried to get a setup similar to this with a Fujifilm X-T20 I had lying around, remembering that Fujifilm announced similar software. Alas, that software only works with their higher end models. I ended up getting a $10 HDMI USB c
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by piquadrat 6y ago
Zurich resident (and Swiss citizen) here. I agree that in the beginning, a lot of people and politicians didn't recognize the seriousness of the situation. The fact that the Swiss political system isn't really made for quick decis
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by piquadrat 6y ago
This looks very interesting, thanks. Side note, any particular reason for having `user-select: none` set on your blog? That seems somewhat counterproductive for a blog with code examples...
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by piquadrat 7y ago
The thinking might be to avoid people watching games in sports bars and similarly crowded places.
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by piquadrat 7y ago
Right, it was cancelled yesterday by the cantonal authorities due to two confirmed cases of the virus in the region where the race was to take place. Sorry for the confusion.
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by piquadrat 7y ago
Also the Engadin Ski Marathon on March 8, the second largest cross country skiing event in the world with 14000+ participants. I was looking forward to it, but I understand the decision. I can't really imagine a worse scenario than tho

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