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Me too, I'm really hoping that electrics get rid of a lot of annoying and completely unnecessary vehicle noise. I know they won't kill the tire/wind sounds, but if they break the m…

Nothing here yet, but saw a couple invites celebrated on Twitter.

For a while he was saying "on there" all the time too. But I think that has been reduced in his recent talks. Public speaking well is hard . Most are not good at it, myself include…

As a CoffeeScript fan things were looking pretty bleak a year or two ago. In particular there was zero momentum for new features. How things have changed! Major kudos to Geoffrey B…

My guess is frequent, automated, battery swaps.

I'd be glad to be wrong! But according to [1] LG's factory might get to 3 GWh output in a few years. At 60 KWh per Bolt that is 50,000 cars, in a few years. Tesla is planning 150GW…

As a fan of all electric cars, I really hope the Bolt does well. However, my understanding is that GM/LG only have enough battery manufacturing capacity for 50,000 units a year. So…

Big fan of the old Podcast and looking forward to the new ones! As for a suggestion: I wouldn't want this to be every episode, but a themed episode on a specific 'hot' industry cou…

I agree, the quick-charge is astonishing sometimes. And I love how with Thinkpads you can limit the max battery charge to 80%, to maximize the lifetime of your battery. I've been s…

I'm running a 2016 Lenovo X1 Carbon with Mint 18 Linux on a Samsung 950 NVME SSD. I've never had such a flawless Linux desktop experience. Almost everything just worked out of the …

the plank (an exercise to help lose excess fat round the stomach) Cringe. Hard to take the writer seriously after this statement. The rest of the article seemed fine so I googled a…

Yep, me too. More productive, and as a bonus I no longer have 'mouse hand' RSI wrist pain. People are missing out.

You must not be a programmer. Being able to move the mouse and scroll without your hands leaving the home row is genius.

Ah, thanks for putting some numbers out there everyone. Very interesting. That's why I love HN. Musk has said several times that if he wasn't working on space and EVs, he'd be work…

Like most, I originally assumed that because batteries have poor specific energy compared to fossil fuels, there was no point in considering them for aircraft. But Musk's assertion…

I agree. Another crazy thing is that there is a shortage of Tesla-level batteries in the market right NOW. Yet aside from Tesla/Panasonic, no one else is ramping battery production…

Musk has addressed this a few times. If I recall correctly Cobalt production will be more of a constraint than lithium... for example, from the Q1 2014 earnings call: the lithium, …

TrackPoint user of 10 years here. I used to get repetitive strain in my right hand/wrist, mostly from reaching for the mouse. I switched both my laptop and desktop to TrackPoint ke…