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  • There is so incredibly much knowledge that isn't on the internet.

  • A child got by my small long range EV would be more likely to survive than one hit by a similar weight internal combustion vehicle as mine is a car (with proper pedestrian safety) and the other would be much higher and larger.

    A child still cares that the front of the vehicle is low, that it doesn't have a bull bar. A kid would be better off hit by an electric car than by a landcruiser

    A 2t EV is much smaller than a 2t diesel

  • I don't think there are chargers close enough together across the Nullarbor. Darwin is also hard

  • I'm on a visit to the wine region around Adelaide, and am staying in Willunga. The trips I'm doing need a car, and the timing would be similar and the cost higher if I had flown to Adelaide and hired a car for the month

    And I couldn't have seen the painted silos had I flown

    And I couldn't have seen the sights of the great ocean road had I flown

    And road trips in an EV are quite nice.

    You can make good savings by not having a car at all, but that's not possible outside Sydney and Melbourne and probably Hobart

  • Sure, but access doesn't need to be at 100km/h. You only lose a few minutes at each end going from a rural road to a well maintained one at 80

  • Unpopular stuff gets voted to oblivion just with random drive-bys. It looks like brigading but doesn't need to be organised

  • Friends and enough to eat is a pretty good recipe for happiness. Presuming you can be rich and still need a job, make it a job that isn't stressful

  • No they can't, at least not in general. The longest lived, easiest to date, life has been trees, but there's no suggestion that they'll survive climate change

    Most trees have live spans in the low hundreds of years

  • I'm not a vampire and I didn't die. I expect to, but I definitely haven't died in the past

  • I don't think you want to run on all of those devices. I think you probably only want to run on your machine and your other machine

  • I don't think you can tell a Linux from a Unix. Though in general unixes are tidier, there are Linux users with Unix style and habits that will break the style

  • Don't worry about long update gaps, that is just their "between basic package changes" updates. They won't change you between Apache and Nginx (web servers) within a version number, but you get all the updates for everything over that time

    Unless you're running servers you won't notice the difference between different distributions' update schedules

  • Current Windows seems to need to reboot four times to get installed. Linux updates as it installs so it's just "reboot and eject installation media to start using your new system"

  • People called the stuff on the surface "lava"

    Scientists called the stuff the crust floats on "magma"

    Science needed to draw a line for when magma becomes lava, they chose when it reaches the surface

    Calling the stuff lining your underground lair lava is about as bad as calling the Moon a planet

  • Okay, so give us the IQ 150 take on why dinosaurs are reptiles, with particular note to birds.

  • My small city wants to run its tram line one particularly difficult way just to give fast public transport for the 5000 people who work near the difficult tram stop

    Public transport is pretty good in Canberra

  • In Canberra they're black overlaid with iridescent colours. They fly noisily when it's dark

  • That's really expensive, and they're lightly used as most people are using the highways. It's hard to justify the expense

  • We have done more than that over the thirty years. It hasn't helped.