Totally, and I think that’s why they thought it was worth a press release. In the article they go right to how they’re setting a new power density record with this design.

Electric motors are just really power dense. The article says they managed a short term peak of 1,000 hp with that little flat 12.7kg motor and the continuous output could still be half that.

Just the cooling must be crazy.

Out of curiosity I looked up something comparable. It looks like high-performance integrated drive units that have other stuff like the single-speed gearbox, differential, and inverter are still only in the dozens of kg.

The voltage/hp comparison there doesn’t really fit.

Power is in watts or horsepower. You multiply the torque with the RPM and a scaling factor to get power.

A higher voltage system could probably be expected to produce more torque and power from the same size motor, but a lot depends on the design of the motor.

Then to answer “how much torque though,” I haven’t looked into it but electric motors have a very nice torque curve across the RPM range. If a motor made all that power with low torque, then it must spin at super high RPM and need to be geared down.

Unfortunately, the rinse crew has been dissolved as a cost cutting measure.

It’s so interesting to see how other people’s experiences of white conservative Christian America can be so different from mine.

I agree. It’s interesting and enriching to hear about the different starting points in life that led us to similar places.

my upbringing in a little country church.

It looks like you had one of those pockets of “true” scotsman christians! _/s

My family was catholic. I was surrounded by miserable conservatives before it was cool! :D

I appreciate the comment. Thanks!

It’s funny how often I see a headline like this, then think to myself “now, now, let’s be reasonable and give them the benefit of the doubt because crazy situations happen every day…”

aside: You see, growing up in white conservative christian america, my brain has this old deep conditioning to see people who are different looking or who have different priorities in life than me and think of how stupid/worthless that makes them. I have those neural pathways pretty safely contained, but it’s important to do maintenance.

Anyways, I often think to myself oh hey they aren’t just mind numbingly stupid and surely there’s something else going on. Then I read the details and it’s like every sentence pushes my face closer to my silly optimistic assumptions bellowing “search your feelings, you know it to be true” like some really heavy-handed metaphor about feeling the call of the dark side.

Nah, I guess I do know how stupid they are. But their stupidity isn’t gonna frustrate me into being like them again.

When I switched over my home desktop to Mint, it was a very short time before I looked at Windows and said “I’m too old for this shit.” I mean, the reason I am a Mint fan in the first place is that I am a FOSS loving nerd but with a family and pets and hobbies and a career and a middle aged energy level. The decades I’ve spent fixing Windows based PCs is enough for a lifetime, thx.

I say consolidate old files you want to keep. Shuffle them between drives as necessary to be able to format everything. Go all ext4 on the drives you already have. (once you’re ready)

This is the way.

It’s like foveated rendering for the whole damn universe.

“Just vote” is kind of an election day strategy.

The whole part where the actual work happens to put a decent person on the ballot instead of corporate drone n+1 is right now!

Well now I absolutely expect to read a future story about somebody working their way into ICE to do some good. But then before they knew it they were hauled out into the desert and told by masked men to execute a Mexican detainee like some kind of fucked up gang initiation ritual, to prove their true loyalty.

Look you guys! I found the time cop!

This very special hour of the year has revealed you.

*Upgrayedd

That’s right about observation events. They are often called interactions instead.

But the wave-particle duality applies to literally everything at the quantum level, per the standard model and quantum field theory anyway. And that’s a model with an incredible track record.

Looking at a particle as a wave is usually in the context of that particle by itself moving in a straight line through a vacuum. There isn’t really vibration and temperature; there aren’t even atoms! You just have the particle’s energy in eV.

Whether we can subjectively compare the packets of energy in quantum fields with the waves of energy through matter, I have no idea. The math is solid though.

Yeah that sounds about like the line of reasoning I’d expect from conservatives in my family. The problem is that you gave them something at all. They made you a sucker. Stop helping people. etc.

They’d just terminate the thought there, and not move on to wonder if it could it be some other problem the system could help them with other than today’s cart of groceries. My goodness, they might accidentally save a life and not even know it!

I LEARNED IT FROM YOU, DAD!

The whole concept in quantum mechanics of a particle’s wave function collapsing into a single point due to an observation event is just weird enough, and feels just enough like some otherworldly programmer’s hack to save tons of resources, that I am not sure I will ever be fully convinced that we are not in a simulation.

I’m not asserting that we’re in one, and I don’t know of any reasons to believe that we are in one, but I think I’ll always have that little suspicion.

If you wanted to blow a bunch of money on the military there are better ways to do it.

Ohh we got you fam.

Well yeah their business isn’t to “serve users.” It’s to “farm consumers.”

That’s why I’m glad I do embedded systems in a niche industry. I’m not trying to drive engagement across the globe. I’m just making a device that serves the needs of a user who has other important work to worry about.

I have been in the mental state of “I guess if I’m living through significant history that people will read about decades from now, I should at least pay attention and appreciate the weight of it, in addition to trying to actually help people” for about two orders of magnitude longer than the duration our brains evolved to handle.

It would be really, really swell if that could stop for a while and not constantly grind in a worse and worse direction.

This is just how I felt when I first switched, also to Mint. I’ve experienced it a couple other times too when switching from some proprietary application to the FOSS option.

I like to describe it as feeling the different priorities of the teams working on each project. When one is made by passionate users who care about it being good software for its purpose, and the other is designed by a committee to hit as many different corporate metrics as possible, it shows.