Yeah, I choose that comparison intentionally. Social media was seen as good early on, but got enshittified beyond recognition. Shitty as it is, it’s still very much a necessity in modern life (see: institutions using it to broadcast information, non-tech people using it to communicate and organize events, etc).

AI will be similar, it’s already changed how I work: developing software now is much more about managing the process than writing code. I don’t mind that much; writing code was never the fun part for me. I also wanted to go into management at some point, but not like this… I’m also worried about the future of the profession; how are we going to create new senior devs if there are no juniors today?

AI is a tool. Learning to wield it effectively is a skill. What they’re saying is that if you don’t learn it now, you’ll have to learn it later when everyone is an expert and you’ll still be a beginner.

IMO it’s a bit like computers. I imagine at some point AI-resistant people will be like the “not computer people” that still do everything using paper and faxes.

I know every 2-3 years there’s a new hype in tech that eventually fizzes out: Web 2.0, social media, virtual reality, cryptocurrency, etc. All of them were supposed to revolutionize the world, but not all of them actually did. I think AI is a lot more like social media than crypto; it’s here to stay. I think the best possible outcome at this point is that the open-source models eventually get good enough and small enough to run on our local hardware, but things sadly don’t seem headed that way…

In the same vein as AvE, SV Seeker. It was fascinating to watch some guy build a 72ft steel sailboat in his yard in Oklahoma, but he became such an asshole his YouTube channel got deleted.

These figures are also heavily dependent on where and how the car was manufactured, too. If the factory is powered by clean energy, doesn’t that reduce the amount of greenhouse gas emitted during manufacturing? If EV tech advances enough that the mining rigs are electric-powered, does that not also reduce the amount of GHG emitted mining lithium? Eventually we’ll also have enough batteries to recycle that too (batteries are basically a very rich lithium ore), can’t we do that in clean-powered factories?

Basically, I think the conversation on “how much manufacturing a given product pollutes” is entirely focused on the wrong thing…

Also, a lot of these studies compare an EV’s complete lifecycle with just the tailpipe emissions of an ICEV. Mining, refining and transporting gasoline has a huge carbon impact before you even put it in the car.

2% is probably near the theoretical maximum, too. Actual output considering weather, efficiency losses, etc is probably less than half that. Solidly in “not-worth-it” territory for most use-cases. Heck, my car won’t even properly charge on a 120V outlet when it’s too cold, because it needs to heat up the battery to a safe temperature first and at -20°C that takes more than the ~1kW available from the outlet.

“rich people” in your mind is who, exactly? Here in Canada only cars below a certain MSRP qualify for subsidies, so “luxury barges” are not subsidized. Also, a $50K car is not luxury anymore, have you seen car prices recently? New ICE cars are expensive as hell too!

Pretty sure the conditions on the planet when oil/coal formed were substantially different from today. In particular, there are now various organisms which feed on the decaying matter that’s at the start of that process. These organisms eat that matter and emit CO2 as they live and breathe, returning the carbon to the air instead of burying underground.

You vastly overestimate that. It’s not a fixed number of cycles, it’s a number before significant degradation. In other words, after you’ve spent ~8000 hours driving, you’ll have to recharge about 40 minutes earlier.

If you think your ICE car is still top shape after that long, go ahead man… But in all likelihood, it’s burning a little oil, it’s not as quick as it used to be, the transmission has a weird clunk in third, etc… nothing mechanical works forever, and yes that includes hydrogen.

Hydrogen, by the way, is the worst of both worlds… It solves a very minor issue (charging on road trips) while introducing a whole lot of new ones. The infrastructure for it is non-existent, it’s still a lot of mechanical parts (if you’re talking about the ICE version) or pretty niche technology (if you’re talking about fuel cells), it’s a nightmare to store, and it’s probably still produced from fossil fuels.

There’s a reason BEVs have caught on, and hydrogen hasn’t.

You know that fast chargers exist, right? In my car it usually takes less than 15 minutes before I’m good for another 4 hours. Charging for hours is only when I’m at home, but then I’m sleeping or something… By the time I need it again it’s full.

Batteries already last about 4 hours at highway speeds, what do you want more than that? Are you not stopping for a coffee/bite/wee/gas at some point? People say they only stop for 2 minutes to fill a gas tank, but they only count the time spent pumping gas… If you count the time spent paying, getting snacks, waiting for the bathroom to be available, etc you’re at much more than that. All that takes the same amount of time in an EV, but the car charges while you do that.

Most of these things are issues with all modern cars, not necessarily specific to EVs…

I think you’re right about there being entirely too much hype, and we’re definitely in a bubble right now, but I think this technology is here to stay. It definitely won’t have the current economic shape forever, but it’ll follow a similar trajectory to the “web 2.0”/social media tech. Is that a good thing? Probably not, but we may end up being surprised. I personally think running the models locally will end up being the best way to use AI.

The AI fad is a lot more like the Internet fad than the crypto fad. I think once the bubble pops (like the .com bubble 25 years ago) some use-cases will definitely remain. But yeah, we definitely are in a bubble.

Funny, LLMs actually gave me the time and energy to move forward with a lot of my personal projects. It’s a lot more fun when I don’t have to lose time investigating why some component doesn’t work, or build oauth for the gazillionth time

For sure, we need to get landlords to install EV chargers in all parkings too. We’ll probably need legislation for this.

I kinda doubt the genuineness of the question given the comment about telemetry… I’ll be the first to admit that these things are a privacy nightmare, but that’s a problem with ALL modern cars, not just EVs. It just so happens that most EVs are modern cars, but they’re not necessarily worse than your random off-the-shelf 2026 Nissan Rogue.

Still, genuine answer: Haven’t done that many roadtrips where I’ve needed to charge more than once, actually. But my car can easily leave now and go 2-3 hours at highway speed without stopping. Make that 3-4 hours if I set it to charge at 100% the night before (in case of a planned roadtrip), as I usually only charge it to 80% to preserve battery life. Not sure how many miles that is as I’m to lazy to do the conversion, but this is why I use “hours at highway speed” as a metric.

A good resource to look at the various scenarios specific to your situation / area would be ABRP.

You misunderstand. The roadtrip planning, at least in my EV, is all handled by the car itself. I just punch in my destination and go. It figures out where I need to stop to charge, for how long, etc. When I’m stopped charging, the “time remaining until full enough” is prominently displayed in the car itself as well as in the app, and I get notified (in the car and in the app) that my car is ready to continue. All that time I also have a (very accurate) estimate of how much charge I’ll have remaining once I reach the next stop.

There’s no guesswork, the car figures it out on its own, and I can tweak it however I want.

Also, the actual experience refueling is horrible compared to charging: When fueling I have to stand outside in the cold, breathing noxious fumes while being blasted with loud adverts from the machine… Then I get inside to pay, and if I want to grab a snack, coffee or go to the bathroom, I know that I’m not making progress towards my destination during that time so I’m kind of in a hurry.

Charging, you just park, plug, and let the car do its thing. You know you have 10 minutes to kill anyway, so you do the same things knowing that your car is doing something productive in the meantime. The vast majority of the time, the car is done before me anyway. It’s just a lot more relaxing honestly.

But all this is something I do what, at most once a month with my car? Day-to-day is done with home charging, where I get home, plug in, and the car is full the next time I need it. No more stressing about running late but finding out you need to stop to refuel, etc.

All in all, I find my EV experience to be WAY less stressful / annoying than my gas car. Just yesterday, we did a small family trip about 2 hours away with the gas car (the EV doesn’t fit the whole family sadly), and on the way back we found out gas prices had jumped 15¢ / liter during the day, thanks to Trump’s war… With an EV the price stays a lot more stable over time.

Not to full, you never charge to full on a fast charger… You charge enough to continue with your trip, which, yes, takes about 10-15 minutes in my real-world experience. I’ve also timed my fueling stops in my gas car, and they also take at least 10 minutes if I have to pee, grab some coffee, etc.

I’m one of these people. Simple answer? It’s the documentation. I’ve given k8s an honest try, but it honestly feels like the “draw the rest of the fucking owl” meme, starts way basic then gets wayy too hard without explaining anything in between.

Meanwhile docker is 1 file, 1 command to get started.

Edit: I just realized you were talking about k3s, not k8s. Is that something different somehow? Google says it’s a “k8s” distribution? WTF would that be?

No, it’s pretty hard to get rid of heat in space, vacuum is a very good insulator. The only way is radiation.