Range Anxiety comes from living on the east coast and wide availability is not a thing, unless it’s a gas station.

Before I moved around the world, I lived in Indianapolis. The EV situation there wasn’t fantastic, but it was good enough. Grocery stores, hotels, parking garages, apartments, Costco, even some public parks had charging stations in front of them, not to mention a lot of people’s workplaces. I’m sure that New York, Boston, Atlanta etc. are all better than Indy was, and as EV adoption increases, having chargers in your parking lot will become more and more of a perk.

“Anywhere,” is broad af and isn’t true.

An order of magnitude more places than you can find gas outside a gas station.

you’re gonna want to calculate the amount of time it takes on an average speed for it to run out which makes it so that you’re pretty much screwed if you’re not near a charger, nmw.

Every EV instrument panel I’ve ever seen includes a “range remaining,” same as modern gas cars.

Like someone using gas, you could be running on fumes and get to a station, when that ev battery is done, it’s done.

This seems like a really weird objection. When you’re out of gas in an ICV, you’re done; when you’re out of electricity in an EV, you’re done. There’s no such thing as “running on fumes,” actually; engines need liquid gasoline to inject into the cylinders. When the gas gauge hits empty but the car is still running, that’s just because the sensor that reports gas capacity isn’t sensitive enough to detect the last remaining puddle of gas in the tank. That problem is far less pronounced with battery capacity. So what you’re complaining about here is that the battery state-of-charge sensor is too precise.

I mean, that’s just strange.

The one thing I can say about gas, is a gas tank takes seconds to fill via gas container/jerry can of gas and get you to a station.

There are two scenarios for running out of gas in an ICV:

• one, you run out right by the pump, or in stop-and-go traffic in town. Both an EV driver and an ICV driver in that situation would do the same thing: ask for help to push it to the pump. The EV driver has an advantage, though: they can push their car into anyone’s driveway and ask the owner if they can plug in for a few minutes.

• two, you run out on the freeway, far from town. Again, both an EV driver and an ICV driver in that situation would call for help to get them to a station. The ICV driver would fill up a jerry can and take it back to the car. The EV driver would save a trip, because they’d just have a truck tow their car to a station where they could charge up. And actually, just like AAA has spare cans of fuel in their roadside assistance vehicles, some of them are starting to carry around a generator or mobile power bank to get cars that last few miles they need to get to a station.

But for all of this, remember: most of the times you’ve ever run out of gas, it’s not because you misjudged a distance. It’s usually because you didn’t realize how low the tank was when you left. With an EV, you don’t have to worry about that because your battery is full when you leave the house. That or you’re going on a road trip, for which you’ll need to plan anyway; might as well just plan charging stops. Most EVs have that part built into their infotainment systems.

Honestly, I don’t remember the last time I ran out of gas. Like, completely ran out. I know it’s happened to me, but it has been a very long time. Twenty years or more, maybe. I just don’t think it’s as big an issue for most people as they think it will be.

I’m not saying they couldn’t be better. I’m saying that most range anxiety comes from people thinking of EVs like tanks that need to be filled from a special place, when they can actually be charged basically anywhere.

True. They’re also owned by the NZ government, actually.

It’s a bank owned by the New Zealand government, so if you’re not based in New Zealand, that’s not a surprise.

Yes. Because with an EV you live at the gas station.

People need to stop thinking about EVs like cars that need to be fueled. They’re more like phones that need to be charged.

Fyi, if you didn’t know: Shift + Right Click in Firefox always brings up the context menu, even if JavaScript tries to block it.

Tricky to make that work in the (moneyless) Federation. Maybe the Enterprise gives a Whateverian ship asylum against the Ferengi just inside Federation borders, and then the Nagus (Wallace Shawn’s Nagus, of course, I can’t imagine that Rom would do such a thing) demands that they extradite the Whateverians to face prosecution for theft. An investigation ensues, and it turns out that they didn’t actually take anything physical, they just pirated a replicator pattern for the Whateva root, the root of an extinct plant which the people of Whatever III desperately need and are running out of. So now Picard has to figure out how to not cause an interplanetary patent incident and still make sure that the Whateverians get what they need.

The B-plot is pretty solid, though. That can basically stay as-is.

Comedy writers are incredibly smart people. It takes real brains to make something of sufficient absurdity that still manages to make enough sense to be a valid cultural commentary. The smartest man in the king’s court is the jester.

When I was looking into this a while back, iirc the only way you could use that one for free was on a phone and the watch version had a subscription. I kind of need it to be on my wrist so that I don’t wake up my wife, and I’m not going to pay a subscription fee for an alarm clock.

I looked a while back, and I couldn’t find any non-subscription apps (I don’t mind paying a one-time fee, but I’m not going to pay a subscription for an alarm clock). But they just added it natively to the Pixel Watch alarm app, or at least they just rolled it out to my Pixel Watch 3. Love it.

I used to get that sometimes. Rough way to wake up.

True, but we figured out how to deal with the epistemiology in a world with Photoshop; I think we can probably figure it out with generative AI, too.

I second getting a sleep study. The CPAP seems like a medieval torture device, but after you push through the anxiety attacks, you start to feel so good in the mornings.

Also, since you already use a watch, I have to recommend the feature that wakes you up in your lightest sleep phase within a half hour of your alarm. It’s called Smart Wake on Android and Garmin watches, it’s an app like AutoWake for Apple Watch, and it’s Smart Alarm for Pebble. I’ve only been using it for a few days, but it’s already a game changer.

I just started using that feature on some smart watches that wakes you up when you’re in light sleep within 30 minutes of your alarm, and DANG–game changer, seriously. For the last few mornings I’ve woken up feeling better after six hours of sleep than on a lot of mornings where I’ve had a hard wakeup after nine.

EDIT: It’s called “Smart Wake” on Android and Garmin watches, it’s an app like “AutoWake” for Apple Watch, and it’s “Smart Alarm” for Pebble.

I don’t know that we can necessarily critique the spelling of an abstract signature. I mean, mine is pretty unrecognizable as my name; if my initials were XYZ, my signature would kind of look like “xY–”, with a little bump at the end that you could kind of interpret as a z.

And famously, the Disney logo looks distinctly like the signature of “Waly Gisnep.” Elvis Presley’s autograph looks like “Elim rules.” John Lennon’s looks like the autograph of someone named “Sarah Clancy.” Very fittingly, Henry Ford’s signature is “Hemmy Turd.”

Actually, on that note and in your defense, unreadable signatures kind of seems like a requirement for terrible people. Donald Trump’s signature (“Snnnn Suuuuuuugh”) is up there looking uncomfortably like Benito Mussolini’s “VnnnnnnnWi!,” Zuck’s “Mr Zz” kind of reminds me of Adolf Hitler’s “by Him” signature, and while I can’t read Devanagari or Cyrillic, Sundar Pichai’s signature sure does call to mind Josef Stalin’s.

But it’s a thing for not-fascists, too. Kurt Vonnegut’s signature is just a line drawing of his head with the letter “t” somewhere in his hair, Emily Dickinson’s is literally just her first name, Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s looks like “Puth Badu Jinobung,” and Charles Dickens’ signature looks like it says “Snarls Wickens” (which in hindsight would be a great band name)–and they were some of the most literate people of all time.

A lot of them are starting to fix that, too. The easy tells are going away fast.

Her fidelity became less of a political asset than that picture was a political liability.

I’m not taking the IT manager’s POV. I’m speaking from the point of view of the Outlook PM and developer. Their product has a bug because it doesn’t follow spec. They’re the ones who have a responsibility to fix it.

“Jeff, the Blackbird doesn’t go to the moon.”

“Moon’s haunted”