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New comment by thisisnico in "Electric Cars Could Last Much Longer Than You Think"

thisisnico — Tue, 24 Dec 2024 20:27:49 +0000

Anecdata as well: I own a 2022 Jeep Wrangler 4xe that comes with a 17KW battery pack with Samsung Prismatic Cells, battery management includes liquid cooling with chiller, liquid heating for winter months. I've seen about 10% degradation over 3 years, referencing battery SOH data from the onboard battery management module. The last 3 or so months have really slowed down the rate of loss, I'm hoping this continues throughout my ownership of the vehicle.

From my understanding Jeep was really cautious with the battery, on the display you will see 0%, but it's always at least 20% of remaining charge in actuality.

New comment by thisisnico in "Orion, our first true augmented reality glasses"

thisisnico — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 23:03:50 +0000

The RayBan AR Glasses are about right for size/style. This is not something I would wear out in public. Cool technology, lacks style. Style for a wearable is necessary.

New comment by thisisnico in "Canadian mega landlord using AI 'pricing scheme' as it hikes rents"

thisisnico — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 04:10:18 +0000

It may have been an illegal increase, any apartment built before 2018 in Ontario is subject to rent control, 2.5% was the max this year.

RealPage would only have an affect on new leases with new apartments.

Your lease does not renew, it automatically goes month to month. They can't cancel a lease, they would need a reason to evict and apply for it at the LTB.

New comment by thisisnico in ""Fake Chinese income" mortgages fuel Toronto real estate bubble: HSBC bank leaks"

thisisnico — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 20:31:49 +0000

As a Canadian, living in Southern Ontario, I couldn't agree more with your assessment. Somehow we are ranking #1 on so many charts for quality of life etc. I'm starting to believe these sites and reviews of Canada are paid for.

We were an incredible country before Trudeau took office. His aggressive immigration policy, no economic policy or plan, and creation of infighting on social issues, not tackling any of the core issues we face as a country, until absolutely forced to do so (in this case unlikely re-election).

We need to stop fighting over social issues and start being productive towards a stronger, healthier, and happier Canada. Social issues can't fixed if people can't afford shelter and food.

New comment by thisisnico in "Hackers can infect network-connected wrenches to install ransomware"

thisisnico — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 17:22:29 +0000

Having worked in manufacturing IT, I can tell you that the security of shop floor systems is an afterthought. A lot of the systems are German based, and they are set in their ways when it comes to IT, they find something that works and they use that for a long time. This is good for reliability, but bad for security, because there is a lack of patching/updating/security infrastructure.

New comment by thisisnico in "Ask HN: Small-batch builds of smaller phyiscal objects"

thisisnico — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 15:50:48 +0000

Where I live in Canada here it's like a mini-china when it comes to shops and manufacturing. You can speak to someone that speaks English and won't steal your product. As well as USD is worth more than CAD, you will get a decent deal. I know of one shop that does custom fabrication that I've done IT work for: https://www.acmetalfabricating.com/

New comment by thisisnico in "Why companies still want in-house data centres"

thisisnico — Sat, 07 Oct 2023 19:23:04 +0000

I work as an IT Infrastructure Architect for VMware and Windows Based Enterprise workloads and a lot of the time it's just more cost effective to have the servers in house for many of the workloads. It isn't the case for ALL workloads, for example we move almost all exchange email services to office 365, in combination with Azure AD for active directory service. As far as datacenter space and power usage, a lot of the time the server room is located in the utility room / closets, they already have the space and the building and the power infrastructure. Typically they have vendors that require VM's because the vendor software is not cloud based, many of these enterprise software can consume quite a lot of CPU/RAM/DISK and are very latency sensitive. Having a couple of powerful vmware hosts and an all NVMe SSD SAN is really really nice for performance and speeding up these applications and not paying 4K+$ a month for equivalent hardware in the cloud. You can even argue against the capital investment cost because a lot of this gear you can lease directly from DELL, and have full service contract for 7 years 24x7 4 hour SLA on hardware.

New comment by thisisnico in "Samsung considers moving to Bing as default search engine"

thisisnico — Mon, 17 Apr 2023 13:48:19 +0000

As someone that works at an IT company, not a software company, Almost every customer that started with google is switching to o365. Nearly 99% of our clients are on o365 or are switching from on-prem exchange to o365. I can see maybe the bubble of silicon valley might be more oriented toward google, but the vast majority of businesses continue to migrate to o365.

New comment by thisisnico in "Study finds mushrooms magnify memory by boosting nerve growth"

thisisnico — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 04:49:34 +0000

I'll be patiently waiting for the vermintide - the day the rats fight back.

New comment by thisisnico in "Play Counter Strike 1.6, with full multiplayer, in the browser"

thisisnico — Thu, 02 Feb 2023 16:12:33 +0000

This is my childhood and much of my teenage-hood!

New comment by thisisnico in "Apple: $52,000 Mac Pro Is Now Worth $1k"

thisisnico — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 18:24:51 +0000

Sell it yourself.

New comment by thisisnico in "How to Be 18 Years Old Again for Only $2M a Year"

thisisnico — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 15:59:11 +0000

Honestly he's got some obsessive issues here. Mental health issues that he's willing to try anything to be younger. He doesn't look young in the face and very little can change that. He must be very insecure about it. The sad this is that the doctors see money, and with that much money people won't tell you no if you have terrible ideas.

New comment by thisisnico in "How to Be 18 Years Old Again for Only $2M a Year"

thisisnico — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 15:56:34 +0000

There is data that shows that exercise can reverse-aging, I forget the mechanism. Calorie-restriction can do the same, through a different mechanism. It's reversed up to a limit of course, the sands of time continue on.

New comment by thisisnico in "The skilled trades haven't caught as a career choice with Gen Z"

thisisnico — Fri, 06 Jan 2023 01:02:30 +0000

Couldn't agree more.

New comment by thisisnico in "AirDrop is now limited to 10 minutes"

thisisnico — Mon, 28 Nov 2022 23:22:50 +0000

Considering that China has the ultimate power over apple with Foxconn manufacturing their device in China. Apple makes a lot of money because of China, China can have a lot of influence over Apple. I'm not pro-China, pro-America, pro-anything, just stating this fact.

New comment by thisisnico in "Ask HN: What tech companies/industries will do well in a recession?"

thisisnico — Wed, 27 Apr 2022 17:37:51 +0000

How does real estate make sense when interest rates are rising?

New comment by thisisnico in "3,200-year-old Egyptian tablet records excuses for why people missed work"

thisisnico — Tue, 26 Apr 2022 16:16:39 +0000

This really just depends on where you work

New comment by thisisnico in "We can do better than “same, but electric”"

thisisnico — Tue, 29 Mar 2022 15:32:56 +0000

When you live up north you quickly realize that a bike is not a all-season practical mode of transportation. Additionally, when you have kids, everything changes.

New comment by thisisnico in "How “latency numbers everybody should know” decreased from 1990–2020"

thisisnico — Fri, 04 Mar 2022 16:10:35 +0000

10KRPM SAS drives in my SAN.

New comment by thisisnico in "Russian Ruble just lost ~30% of its value"

thisisnico — Mon, 28 Feb 2022 01:37:25 +0000

Canada, US, UK, and more are blocking their ability to withdrawal foreign reserves.