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I'm curious if there's a reason why or how Tesla tend to build 10+ stations per location while EA/EVgo tend to only do 4 most of the time. I still need to wait a lot of times at EA/EVgo locations.
Re:Aeon: OpenSUSE for Lazy Developers on Friday June 28, 2024 @04:24AM (#40818728)
It’s already here: openSUSE Kalpa. Daily driving it!
Well, I, for one, am Taiwanese and happy to see it happen. We also did legalize gay marriage (albeit unfortunately through a special law instead of fixing the civil laws).
Re:Solving the Motorcycle Keychain Problem [video] on Monday December 11, 2023 @12:00AM (#38597796)
My bike has keyless ignition. Definitely one of my favorite thing on that bike!
Re:Ask HN: What side projects landed you a job? on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @01:50PM (#38535257)
I wrote a program to fetch lyrics from some websites and then got approached by someone who has license to actually use the lyrics but they don’t have it in digital form so they asked to purchase my app.

Ended up working with them and later moved to a startup that also worked with them. For a college student, being able to work as one of the two engineers was great, system architecture, distributed queue, networking setup, everything is yours to do and learn. It was also a Mac OS X / Objective-C shop so learned a lot of obscure debugging techniques because there’s just not that many info available for OS X as servers. (We made web photo album editor and print it out for our users, OS X had the best PDF engine for free.)

Moved to the US from Taiwan later, the knowledge I’ve accumulated helped me passed my interview at Twitter and things went from there. I would never imagine a tiny app would lead me into a career!

Re:AirportSim on Thursday October 26, 2023 @08:35PM (#38033381)
Re:GNU/Linux Aviation How To on Sunday September 24, 2023 @12:48AM (#37630215)
lol yeah, I was very sad that I forgot to take a pic but it's black and white, text on top-left and it's just a register dump.
Re:GNU/Linux Aviation How To on Saturday September 23, 2023 @07:55PM (#37628766)
I've seen a kernel panic on G1000 once, does not feel like a Linux (unless they also heavily modified the panic handler)
Agree that it’s expensive and the range sucks, but I still love my Energica EVA Ribelle. It’s super satisfying to ride!

So far the furthest I’ve ridden is from Bay Area to Big Sur and back, which needs to fast charge like 2 times each way.

Re:Has Google Translate been fixed yet? on Thursday August 10, 2023 @12:25PM (#37078213)
Author here. Surprised to see this website made it on to Hacker News

Glad to see some debates on the vocabs listed there:

* Yes, it is very IT oriented.

* Yes, I have been in some academic environment. (but seriously, 文本 is rarely heard in my life!)

* No, it is not supposed to be an exhaustive list of all things wrong nor _the_ correct list.

At the end of day, it is a short list of what I'd like to see it changed and thus I tracked it. We may not all agree on the translations, but I think we can agree on 1/55 is a pretty sad score to have.

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Lastly, feel free to fork and run your copy if you'd like a different set of words / translations to be tracked!

https://github.com/itszero/hasgooglefixedityet

Thanks for my 5 mins fame on HN!

Re:Keyless Cars and Their Carbon Monoxide Toll on Monday May 14, 2018 @04:53AM (#17063886)
My car key's battery suddenly gives out mid-drive once and I had to listen to a warning tone every few minutes but at least it got me home. It would be incredibly frustrating if the car just decided that it doesn't see the key and shuts it off.

It also breaks the backup mechanism for no-battery situation where you can tap the fob on where the ignition lock would be for key cars to start it up.

Re:How Taiwan transformed its health care system on Sunday December 31, 2017 @02:24AM (#16039761)
Both. The best hospital is a public one and tons of smaller or local hospitals run by both private (usually non-profits) or public. I think the smaller public one do suffer from resource shortage but fair service and quality are still expected and available. (but i live mostly in the city, I do imagine remote area would have some problems)