Between us we have had zoe R1, Zoe R2, fist 500e, hyundai ioniq 5.

Pros, massively cheaper. We put about 500kwh in a month at about 7p per kwh. That’s about 2000 miles (between three cars) a month for £35. No ICE is anywhere near that. Money saved basically pays for the two smaller cars.

Cost us best worked out over year, a lot of what about ism on cost based on only charging on expensive public chargers when vast majority of miles should be covered by cheap home charging. If it’s not then I wouldn’t be buying an ev.

Never bother with fuel stations again. EV charging at home or if out on long trip we charge while car is parked and we doing something else. The ioniq we charge at ultra rapid in about 20 minutes while eating on long journeys.

Fiat does about 140 miles, zoe 200 miles, ioniq about 280 miles. All actuals between charges not indicated max range with no headroom.

Cons, more effort for journeys as you have to plan charge stops for availability and cost. We can charge as low as 40p. Kwh and as high as 95p kwh. Only a moron who doesn’t plan gets stuck with the latter in the UK. Charging when cost or timing is best is how to do it with EVs not a slavish adherence to charging when empty. The latter is properly idiotic and its as bad as not planning ahead. As is charging to 100% on public ultra rapids or any other expensive charger.

Not enough pull through spaces for charging while towing. We unhook, its a pain even with a motor mover for the trailer. Adds about 10 minutes per charge, max. Towing halves range typically. Anybody getting worse than that is driving fast with their trailer, as aero gets exponentially worse over 60 mph. It’s noticeable with a large trailer even between 58 and 62mph on a GPS speedo.

Interestingly the AI stories are voiced by real people, ractors. That would now be one of the first things cut, see James Earl Jones

The only remotely suspect part is she filed the plan to sell the shares as soon as she knew Musk was going all in on Trump, it doesn’t take a genius to know that would finish Tesla. The plan is then the fastest timeline to offload her shares before Musk kills the company.

Or that they would even be born degenerate gamblers

If your plan has that many moving parts with that many opportunities for derailment and relies on people you employed fucking up it’s the plan of a crack addict

They and the Torys are inveterate gamblers who every couple of decades win a huge number of seats as Labour did at the last election and that hope that they can win big every time rather than playing the odds properly.

This is coupled with wanting to lock out smaller parties like the Lib Dems, but that doesn’t really work for Tory adjacent parties like Reform when seat boundaries have been gerrymandered by the Tories to such a degree that a small shift in certain seats can win the election.

When I was a teenager I had a bad wipe out cycling off road doing about 30mph that resulted on me landing on my head. I was knocked out, swallowed my tongue, and if it wasn’t for my friends stopping myself from choking to death I would have been dead, as it was I had a concussion and an overnight stay in hospital. But if I had not been wearing a helmet I would have been dead on impact. I think its pretty telling that all my friends invested in helmets after that.

Even in non car areas you can fall from relatively low speeds and have a bad time.

What I do not like is that a significant number of other road users are more likely to see you as less human for helmet wearing than not: https://road.cc/content/news/cyclists-wearing-helmets-seen-less-human-301661 This has a negative impact on how they treat you on road.

Simplest way is a Windows VM and screen capture in the OS running the VM. Obviously next step for Microsoft is to detect and block Windows VMs, good luck to them with that.

But elon burned it down before he realised

Its also that he started meddling in car design, manufacturing, and roll out of his charging stations even before he went full nazi. Without exception, every recent decision hes made for those three areas has been fucking awful.

The cars have never been comparable build quality to established European (ICE) cars available for the same money, but somehow build quality has gotten worse. Then there are the just plain dumb design decisions hes forced, such as the yoke being the only steering wheel available for one model, till dealerships pushed back to at least offer a round wheel as an option. Indicators as buttons on the wheel. Gear select (yes its technically direction selection in an EV) on the big screen with no physical controls, some cars don’t even have a dashboard in front of you, speed in on the tablet. 100% of everything to do with the cybertruck.100% of everything to do with his self driving system, no lidar is the dumbest hill he will die on.

Manufacturing its been a constant push to reduce costs at the expense of quality, failure to deal with systemic racism, labor law violations (particularly in Europe) and a ramping up for cybertruck production for demand that just was not ever there. They had to discount the dumb thing almost day one.

Charging stations he fired the entire team for the only thing that made Tesla unique in 2024, then hired a bunch of them back as he realized he fucked up. Instead he should have been doubling spend on chargers as this is the path to EV adoption, especially of Teslas, and other manufacturers in the US were lining up to pay him to use the charging standard, it could have been a significant revenue stream.

The icing on the cake is that they have failed to develop new models and people are sick of the old ones. Experienced manufacturers know that the majority of their line up needs refreshing every few years, Elons failed to do this.

The guy couldn’t manage a Banana stand.

That its being co hosted will backfire on the US. If it was just the US and nobody turned up they can and will blame football for that rather than their own idiocy, but because Mexico and Canada are also hosting matches if they get great attendance then its clearly an issue with the US.

If you want to go, go to the matches in Mexico or Canada, spend your money there.

Yeah its a super paranoid process, I would just rather take a traditional person exam

Question difficulty makes no difference whatsoever with proxying, these are already long form questions in the main. The whole point of it is you are paying somebody else to take the exam for you, either directly by something like screen sharing or indirectly by relaying questions and answers. The AI voice assistant is another form of this, its higher risk as LLMs aren’t always right but its still proxying.

I personally know of half a dozen people who used Cheggs to indirectly proxy their engineering degree exams as they weren’t proctored and had 12/24 hour exam window. The uni was meant to require an in person defense of similar questions from anybody getting unusual results, something people who cheat simply cannot do, but because they had done it the whole way through they never triggered the flag. This is why proctoring is so important.

One of the reasons so many companies use Pearsons for their exams is because they have centers everywhere, they are by far the largest. If you cannot do it online then you have to go to your nearest center. Simply too much cheating is attempted otherwise. As always the actions of a minority ruin it for everybody else as rules have to be put in place.

Yup, exactly that. You are not allowed to proceed if you have additional devices including your mobile visible during the setup phase, you have to sweep the area with your webcam so they can see. When the exam is proctored if they see a phone or anything suspicious that you introduced into the frame you are generally fucked and have to go through a review.

Pearsons run a lot of different exams on behalf of a lot of different companies so the rules change depending on what that company wants and will pay for.

I know of one that you have to connect with your webcam and again with your phone camera so the phone can capture from behind you.This is one is live proctored by a real person throughout, it is pretty damn expensive so its not the norm. Many are just at the start and end, with AI triggers and random sampling to find cheaters.

I know of another than limits how many screens you can have connected to just one, this is principally to reduce the chance of a IP KVM being used for proxying. Its trivial for the software to detect how many displays are connected, same with number of HID devices.

I think you are underestimating how much cheating is attempted with these, and how much they have already been through the loop of being able to detect it.

Yeah making it optional for them to turn on because they are still entitled to privacy even though they are children is the key to building trust. Them trusting you as a parent is the most essential thing here, there is always a way around something, you want them being honest by choice rather than sneaky or you forcing “honesty” by coercion.

We always did that from when the kids were younger and my now adult daughter still chooses to turn it on when going on dates.

Nope as you have to show the room before the exam starts andusing the second computer shows up in the webcam. It’s what the webcam if for.

So, in principle, I agree, but it doesn’t help with proxying, or for example, one I saw this week of someone using AI voice assistant to answer questions. Or people copying and pasting from online groups.

Their shitty software monitors all the connected devices, running processes, and webcam. That’s still needed for open book.

Does it have online exams? Pearsons shitty anti cheat stuff they use for proctoring is windows and mac only.

Having seen how much people cheat including using someone else using screensharing to proxy the exam for you I cannot blame them for wanting to do this, but I do blame them for not wanting to support Linux properly.

You not going to break the loop till you pay dramatically more to teachers, poor pay usually attracts under motivated people in smaller numbers, so you cant be picky. These people eventually get promoted, an you end up with poor quality managers running the school who take advantage of good teachers.

Its so self defeating as high quality teaching as you do results in better engaged students with better results that lead to life long improvement to the entire economy. Instead we have ladder pulling from the rich who want to kneecap state funded schools while enriching their own private schools to create a barrier for the majority to compete.

The real reason he will justify this bullshit like that is because he has to admit hes racist otherwise, “if hes brown I want him gone from my town” basically. Ask him if we should be deporting white right wing gang members based on their tattoos and show him cropped photos of Hegseths tats.