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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Most of hydrogen's problems are solvable - we can pack a car with hydrogen tanks, make hydrogen with electrolysis, build infrastructure, etc.

The big killer is price. Those hydrogen filling stations aren't $1000 each like home chargers or $50,000 each like DC fast chargers, they're something like 2 million dollars each. And you need them everywhere, there's no home filling to carry most of your usage.

The hydrogen you put in them? You have to pay for not just the electricity that makes it into your car's electric motor, but all the energy that was wasted along the way:

Nobody's looking to spend all that money on filling stations, and nobody's interested in paying 2-3x as much to fill their car.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

IIRC it depends a lot on humidity. If humidity is low, you can be fairly comfortable at higher temperatures with just a fan on.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Intel's Linux support has always been pretty good. IIRC they even do open source video drivers, it's just that nobody cared about drivers for their IGPs and they didn't have real video cards until recently.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I think they were pro-hydrogen, and now they're using hydrogen as an excuse not to do battery EVs.

People who have heard of hydrogen cars but haven't looked at how inefficient and expensive they are still think that they're the future.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Naw, cheating at life is if your Daddy owns an emerald mine in apartheid South Africa, then you get smart people to do the thinking and PR for you.

There's a risk that you'll start to believe your own PR and try to do it yourself, though. I can't imagine that going well.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah, but Reddit makes pennies per user from showing them ads, so they're still losing money.

Rather than laughing all the way to the bank, it's more of a forced chuckle on the way to the dole office.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Their announcements about products that are way better than anything that actually exists with no solid plans to actually bring it to market is actually just another flavor of anti-EV FUD.

It's not the right time to buy an EV because our imaginary product is SO much better than any of those boring products, you should wait for it and keep buying our gas vehicles for now.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (5 children)

they do understand that the APIcalypse will make their financial figures look great

That would require people to actually pay that API pricing. The apps closing down and AI people scraping the web site instead won't help them.

[–] [email protected] 73 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

It's remarkable to me that Reddit could have let one of their PR drones write a post that essentially took seven paragraphs to say, "Sorry but we have to" and it probably would have mostly blown over.

But Huffman's ego took the wheel and he had to make it personal. Instead of just leaving, people are actively cheering for Reddit's downfall.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Apparently there's a sealed chapter recommending investigations against individuals, which has to be kept sealed so as not to prejudice future court cases. So the people responsible may actually see consequences.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Last I heard, iThings weren't allowed to have other browsers, everything just had to be a different UI on top of Safari.

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