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New comment by mukundmr in "India’s electric rickshaws"

mukundmr — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 02:58:03 +0000

2 Wheeler EV penetration is increasing in India. "2W EVs form the majority of EV sales today, accounting for 85%–90% of all EV units sold in India, followed by 4W EVs (7%–9% of sales) and 3W EVs (5%–7% of sales)." Source: https://www.bain.com/insights/india-electric-vehicle-report-....

EVs have crossed the 6% threshold of volume of all vehicles sold in India.

India's EV migration will start from 2 wheeler and 3 wheeler EVs. Public transport is already migrating to EV based. City buses have already migrated to EVs in cities like Pune and other cities are catching up.

Cars and long distance transport trucks will be last. You can read up on the EV statistics here - https://www.autocarpro.in/analysis-sales/over-34-million-evs...

New comment by mukundmr in "6.2 GHz Intel Core I9-14900KS Review"

mukundmr — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 08:51:43 +0000

I am finding it hard to come to terms with the power and thermal figures. The CPU draws 320watts and likes to operate at 100 degrees Celsius. The CPU uses adaptive boost technology to pull more power to get to the 100C temperature mark. Again, from the review, most enthusiast motherboards default to limits near 4096W of power and 512A of current.

Compared to house hold appliances, with 4000watts of power, you can run 3 microwaves (at 1200 watts), more than 5 refrigerators (at 800 watts), a reasonably sized central air conditioning unit (though 5KW models aren't that rare), etc.

These power and thermal figures make me wonder why Intel is not moving towards Apple's design philosophy behind the M1, M2, M3 series of chips.

New comment by mukundmr in "AMD announces the Spartan UltraScale+ FPGA family"

mukundmr — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 13:07:29 +0000

From the article "AMD Spartan UltraScale+ samples and evaluation kits are expected to be available for sampling and evaluation in the first half of 2025." For hardware products, what is the point of making these announcements a year in advance? Are they available for select partners before 2025?

New comment by mukundmr in "Google Demands That We Censor Our Content"

mukundmr — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 06:35:19 +0000

duckduckgo. It is getting better. I rarely need to fall back to a Google search. ChatGPT 4 is good at getting to the specific information that I am looking for and I can get the source links.

New comment by mukundmr in "California's war on plastic bag use seems to have backfired"

mukundmr — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 14:10:34 +0000

It is better for shops to just sell jute or cloth bags at retail price for carrying goods instead of allowing users to buy any type of plastic bag. This is how it is done in India in places where plastic is banned. Of course, customers can bring their own carry bags and avoid buying bags.

New comment by mukundmr in "28-ton, 1.2-megawatt tidal kite is now exporting power to the grid"

mukundmr — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 10:20:32 +0000

While 28 tonnes appears to be a lot of material for generating 1.2MW of energy, it compares favourably when you look at wind turbines. How often does this need maintenance though?

New comment by mukundmr in "Bill Gates tries to install Movie Maker (2003)"

mukundmr — Mon, 16 Jan 2023 10:18:18 +0000

One of the more annoying things with Windows for me is when when Windows Update fails stating that KBxyz failed to install. It is a nightmare to find the right version of the updater from Microsoft's website. In my case, the particular update didn't have a standalone updater. Instructions like the ones provided at https://www.windowscentral.com/how-download-and-install-wind... are a life saver, but how does an end user work their way through this?

Linux and macOS handle updates more gracefully.

New comment by mukundmr in "Tesla Semi, a Deep Dive"

mukundmr — Mon, 05 Dec 2022 12:32:56 +0000

I don't understand why you don't have companies like Tesla building fuel cell (hydrogen) solutions for commercial use cases. Here is an article that explains it - https://www.bmw.com/en/innovation/how-hydrogen-fuel-cell-car... If Tesla can build a super charger network, they can build a hydrogen refilling network.

New comment by mukundmr in "Tesla Vision Update: Replacing Ultrasonic Sensors with Tesla Vision"

mukundmr — Tue, 04 Oct 2022 21:07:22 +0000

My rear view camera regularly gets covered with dirt and grime after a highway run during the monsoons. The car has both camera and radar so that I can have reliable assistance while reversing. With this experience in mind I fail to see how Tesla’s camera-only move is reliable for the use cases that they have mentioned.

New comment by mukundmr in "PayPal’s updated acceptable use policy [pdf]"

mukundmr — Mon, 03 Oct 2022 12:21:27 +0000

I was on the fence about closing my account. This was a good motivator to actually do it. It is hard to understand who PayPal is trying to appease.

New comment by mukundmr in "Linux on the laptop works so damn well that it’s boring"

mukundmr — Sat, 24 Sep 2022 20:28:59 +0000

We use several hundred laptops from Dell that run Linux (Ubuntu & CentOS) as the primary developer laptop in our organisation. They work well. Of course every now and then some user comes up with an idea to uninstall default Python…

New comment by mukundmr in "Skyrim on Mac When?"

mukundmr — Sun, 17 Jul 2022 15:57:17 +0000

The whole OpenGL versus Metal situation doesn’t help in porting games to macOS. Also, Crossover ports no longer work. Getting a nice console has been my solution for gaming.

New comment by mukundmr in "Skyrim on Mac When?"

mukundmr — Sun, 17 Jul 2022 15:56:37 +0000

The whole OpenGL versus Metal situation doesn’t help in putting games to macOS. Also, Crossover ports no longer work.

New comment by mukundmr in "Turning a 1995 IBM Aptiva, 66mhz 486DX2, into an i7 6700k"

mukundmr — Sun, 12 Jun 2022 04:50:23 +0000

I just finished seeing the movie Sonic 2. Are you Dr. Robotnik by any chance?

Seriously though, the floppy drive is the icing on the cake. Great build.

New comment by mukundmr in "Switching from macOS to Pop_OS"

mukundmr — Sat, 15 Jan 2022 21:33:00 +0000

What about security patches for the Pop _OS specific desktop components? The underlying Debian components are maintained elsewhere.

New comment by mukundmr in "India tells public to shun Starlink until it gets licence"

mukundmr — Sat, 27 Nov 2021 19:38:50 +0000

Starlink cost is 499$ for equipment and 99$ per month? That is way too high for broadband prices in India. Fibre internet of 100 Mbps is about 18$. Mobile 4G is even cheaper.

New comment by mukundmr in "Ask HN: What do you think about the no-code movement?"

mukundmr — Fri, 12 Nov 2021 03:28:48 +0000

No code has the potential to be a Visual Basic for the enterprise for tasks that are cookie cutter. However the adoption cost is very high for tools like Appian.

New comment by mukundmr in "People exposed to lead in Flint, Mich., water will get a $626M settlement"

mukundmr — Thu, 11 Nov 2021 01:13:00 +0000

Have they fixed the problem though?

New comment by mukundmr in "Roblox has been down for days and it’s not because of Chipotle"

mukundmr — Mon, 01 Nov 2021 02:19:14 +0000

Robolox is back online. https://twitter.com/roblox/status/1454994222583455744?s=21

New comment by mukundmr in "A Look at PureDarwin – An OS Based on the Open Source Core of macOS"

mukundmr — Wed, 27 Nov 2019 07:10:20 +0000

Apple's Open Source repository has the current version of Catalina's core. https://opensource.apple.com/release/macos-10145.html

Why is PureDarwin on an older version? Lack of volunteers? Too many hacks required?