If you optimize code, it will still run faster if the CPU or GPU is 30% faster.

If you make 50% speed improvements with code, you get 65% improvement with code+hardware upgrades. The hardware multiplies your software gains.

The Prius PHEV manual states that there is a battery conditioner: both battery-cooling when its hot and and battery-heating when its cold.

I assume that a significant amount of the electric charge from L1 charger is going towards battery-heating. Ex: I have a 1000W L1 charger (measured from the wall). If 100W is going to heating, then that’s a 10% loss before other voltage-conversion losses. (The Prius is a 400V battery, so 110V to 400V will incur additional losses).

The L2 charger likely has 100W of heating in these cold nights as well, but at 3,300W charging, that’s only a 3% loss. Far more efficient. Furthermore, 220V is closer to 400V, so there will be less voltage-conversion losses associated with L2 charging.

A lot of reasons to favor L2 charger installation. So that’s going to be my recommendation to anyone doing Electric.

Did you forget about the election?

Immigrants from Springfield, Ohio are eating cats and dogs.

And now Trump is moving for mass deportations.

The good news is that Trump is ignorant and bad at his job. I dunno how long it’d take to setup detention camps for immigrants but it’s definitely coming.

I’d say that any Hispanic or Latino, even Puerto Ricans, are at risk. Depending on which state you are in. Arizona is known to throw out US Citizens for deportation if the sheriff thinks you look funny.

The fucker paid for Pennsylvania votes last election. Literally paid for them.

He grew up in Apartheid South Africa and calls his African American workers ‘Plantation’ and none of them can move up the ladder in any of his companies.

He God damn knows what he is doing.

See for yourself.

We need to save and remember this moment. The assholes are already rewriting history as we speak.

Biden was a Charismatic leader?

What we have here is Elon Musk helping out on Trump’s branding.

Even Team Trump, as fascist as they are, are being run by entire teams of teams. The spokespeople are just that, speakers.

A leader doesn’t make the decisions. The leader just unifies the people.

If there is a leader, any leader at all, who’d try to lead the progressive cause? And one that people would really behind?

That’d be a good first start. Even celebrities like Jack Black.

No. I’m just aware of the need for a charismatic leader.

Civil rights had Martin Luther King. Among other leaders. The idea of doing this without leadership is the fundamental flaw.

Cool.

Give me a name. And stop stalling.

And who will lead this revolution? Biden? Kamala?

Go on. Who is the leader? Do we just gotta all rally behind Jill Stein now?

Frustrating but predictable.

Personally I’m pretty happy with how fucking awkward Elon was while doing it. The whole gif is really cringe.

It’s a long way to 2026 folks. We are going to have a lot of Federal Level damage in the next couple of years. Even if Democrats get elected in 2026+ we will have absurd debts to pay and likely be forced to raise taxes and be the bad guy again.

Those NPCs are going to be part of American Politics for the next 20 years.

This isnt a laughing matter. This is the new reality of politics for at least 4 years and with serious possibilities for decades or even a century.

Uhhh, Trump is literally the executive.

He just commands the FCC or other authorities to ignore TikTok. He can extend this ban evasion for all 4 years if he wants.

Congress and Supreme Court do not control the executive powers. The President does.

Netflix has a substantial number of caching boxes owned by Netflix on the edge.

This means that a neighborhood has a cache server with 20TB of video serving everyone in the neighborhood (and maybe also the next 3 or 4 neighborhoods). So if everyone watches the same episode they only pay for one cloud download / bandwidth cost.

Netflix outsources cloud for their core infra but then runs very very heavy edges around the world. It’s backwards but if you think about Netflix and the watching pattern of neighborhoods (ex: neighbor likely tells friends a new show is good, then everyone watches it) it’s to the benefit of Netflix to run their infra like this.

I wouldn’t be surprised if these caching servers help each other out like BitTorrent either to avoid central cloud bandwidth costs.

L2 charger at work returned 3.4mi/kwhr !!!

L2 charging at 50F (and below) is clearly way more efficient than L1 charging.

With this, I can safely say that L1 chargers should be avoided if possible.

2.87mi/kwhr is the final number for 50F test.

That’s +38% range. Or conversely, a 28% drop during freezing conditions. Or 72% efficiency near freezing compared to 50F.

Measured from Kill a Watt and therefore still a L1 charger that may have other inefficiencies.

Huge differences between 50F and 30F. Very curious indeed

I have a test reporting 53mpg. You do not.

Everything else is just a weird internet ego shitstorm. But at least my numbers are backed by reality. Yours are not.

So as I’ve said many posts ago, bugger off until you do tests yourself.

I have driven this car on pure gasoline.

That’s the fucking joke you nit. It just doesn’t match the temperature conditions so it’s not apples to apples.

The 53mpg number stands unless you do your own test and report back to me. Yes it was a small test but I actually have hard and real data.

You think you can sit there on the internet and pretend to tell me how I’ve run my own test? How fucking arrogant are you?