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All EVs have a speaker and the noise is standardized. The problem is there is a different standard in each country and the solution is to make one noise which covers all of the standards - thats why it ends up sounding so strange. The combination of the various standards varies from OEM to OEM - thats why it ends up sounding different OEM to OEM.

I think a better term would be a 15m neighborhood, rather than city. I live in Stuttgart in Germany and there is no way that you can walk this city in 15m, however my neighborhood has everything I need (store, bank, pharmacy, doctors, dentists, hair cut places, kindergarten, school, metro station, train station, etc) within 10m walking from my house (the food shop is 700m away - the furthest of all). This becomes even more apparent in a city like Paris, it has its own quarters where everything is locally available - you don't need to cross the city to reach anything because its all already available in your quarter.

I wouldn't say that building on your skillset as (in this example) a skilled craftsman is deferring happiness. You still enjoy what you create today, even if its not as good as what you will create one year from now. I do woodworking and metalworking as hobbies - I've always enjoyed the process and the improvement I see in my work. Its about the journey not so much the end result.

When I'm doing manual machining at the lathe or mill I will use an actual calculator rather than smearing my phone with greasy fingers.

Expanding my workshop where I build stuff out of wood and metal. I can now 3d print parts and cast them in metal (including gold), build furniture out of wood, fix just about anything. Started a youtube channel, so video/sound/lighting has now become something I think about. I need more time.

German is not a romantic language, it is a Germanic language :)

Hard choice man. I went to a private engineering school and graduated with ~80k of debt. Paid it off in 4 years after graduation - no regrets about going there. I was not highly motivated or focused on what I wanted to do when I was 18 so I didn't try to really do more than what came easy. If I had to do it again with what I know now and I had the choice to go to MIT, I 100% would. You can also work/find scholarships/etc. during your studies to finance it. I would have been in over 140k if I didn't do anything on the side.

Are you swiss or were you an international student?

I'm a strava user and use it for biking and running...I am also a snowboarder and I have to ask...why would you ever record snowboarding runs?

I am 184 cm (~6') and 62-64 kg (137-141 lbs), have kept this weight range for the last ~15 years. Maybe sharing my diet/sport schedule could help ppl..? I drink mostly water and coffee (rarely but sometimes redbull, beer maybe 1L per week). I skip breakfast most days, eating a small portion of leftovers from the night before and some fruit (apple + orange or whatever is in season) for lunch. Usually I have a after work snack (bowl of corn flakes with a bit of sugar). Dinner is usually around 20:00 and we eat whatever...meat, veggies, carbs, whatever is available that week. For sports I am on the bike for maybe 50-100 km per week depending on how lazy I feel that week. I go climbing (bouldering) 2x per week (usually riding my bike there - makes a 2-3 hour boulder session with 1hr of bike on top). Not sure if the sport would make a big difference one way or the other (if it was there or not), I think eating the right amount makes the biggest difference. However without sport my brain feels like shit so I tend to keep doing it.

I use mine to 3d print parts and then cast them in metal. They make special resins for this process, works great. I can go from Sketch - Fusion - Slicer - 3d Print - Cast in about 18 hours depending on the part size (long time to print complicated / big parts). If you're interested look in my bio there is a link to my youtube - watch the "casting gold balls" video - it basically runs through the whole process (albeit without explanation).

See my comment below but again - this is reposted online everywhere but I've yet to encounter this even one time in my 10 years here that US citizens get denied an account or get complaints from their bank about FACTA.

I have a German bank and am a US citizen. No problems here. I've seen this reposted online on several occasions but living here and knowing other Americans here I've not actually heard any stories of people being denied a bank account. No idea if it would work but I suppose you could use something like Wise to bank here - it gives you an IBAN like a normal bank so it should work.

I've found a solution to this - you need to use the internet in any language other than English. You get much higher quality results that are not so full of ads and SEO and all of the other evil stuff which is going on. Its not perfect, but if you search for "pancake recipe" in French or German you have a much higher chance of being linked to some "old internet" style blog rather than some food.com bullshit.

I'm with the other guy - I've owned my car for 8 years and never touched the climate control except to set it to 24 in the winter and 22 in the summer. Otherwise I just let it do its thing, which works great. 2013 Audi A4, btw.

Dude, no. With your argumentation a mechanic should never replace a fuel pump in an ICE vehicle, or rebuild an engine, or rebuild a transmission, or replace airbags. There are speciality OE tools and training required for all of those jobs and guess what - mechanics are able to get those tools and the required training. The same as they will be able to get the tools and training for EVs. Its not rocket surgery, don't think you're working on some kind of crazy tech, its a battery and a motor. Source: electronics designer for steering systems

Look into cycling, you have a big range of efforts you can do from barely anything to full out and you will any ways put some km's behind you. Its less impactful on the knees and joints in general, running is relatively hard on your joints especially if its on asphalt or hard surfaces. I also sit at a desk (not all day but any way a good part of it) and my go-to is cycling (road, gravel & mountain XC). Starting is easy, find a bike and start pedalling. When you get tired pedal less hard and go home. If you feel like you can do more do a harder effort or sprint, then bring it back to a slower speed, etc. Lots of videos available on youtube.

Nothing caused by XP itself, mostly issues which come up that seemed (at least to me - as a non-SW guy) to be connected with the immaturity of XP. Its been some years but I remember often playing around in the TCP/IP panel to fix internet issues when setting up new wifi networks - this seems to just work in W10. I don't mean special networks with static IPs or some special configurations, I mean just moms network at home. Today its very plug and play. Concerning registry it was the same - no issues concerning XP specifically but I remember having to change a lot of things in there to get things to work how I wanted them. Seems these settings are just in a menu now in W10. Its more a user experience thing rather than specific bugs or issues.

You make a slightly different point, perhaps I missed the original point of the comment. I agree with you that upgrading HW without SW is much nicer than SW without HW. No argument there.

Have to partially disagree here. Remember Windows XP? Do you want to go back to that after having used W10? In W10 everything just...works. Think about how much time you spent fucking around with drivers or registry settings or TCP/IP settings or whatever to get things to work in XP, all of that is gone in W10. I can do a fresh install in 2 hrs and the computer is back to "like new" and not have to spend an additional 4 hours on drivers and updates and configuration. For me, OS updates have been nothing but a positive (lets set security/privacy aside).

My experience: we were working long hours (until 2am) trying to solve problems which were unsolvable. The end goal could not be reached. Second to that, engineering is a rather thankless job. You get nearly no feedback that your work is helping someone or helping to achieve something (as opposed to say, a doctor where the feedback to your work is very direct and tangible). What I found is that burnout isn't a particular event or a moment in time, its rather like a scale where on one side are all of the bad things in your life and on the other are all the good things. The mind can take a lot of stress, but if the scale tips too far toward the bad side the entire balance gets thrown off. It took me around two years to get out of it, but what helped was to become hyper aware of everything in my life and if it was a net positive or net negative event, commitment or activity. I tried my best to cut out all of the negative (not my job, however). I like my boss, my colleagues and I enjoy what I do. It was a temporary phase that tipped the scale in the wrong direction but we managed to regain balance in the end. Its been around 4 years since then, I'm still in the same job (with a slightly different perspective) and totally fine now. My takeaway from all of it: make sure to look at other areas of your life to find the source/solution to your burnout. For example: sport, eating well, sleeping well, taking time to clear your mind (meditation, walking, sport, whatever works for you), social activities, activities with your partner/spouse, family. This is of course anecdotal and worked for me, may not apply to everyone.

A society doesn't just need productive, value adding jobs which fill 100% of the working generations time. A society also needs fine arts, theatre, film because its part of being human. If we were all corporate wage slaves the world would be a terrible place to exist. The system as we have it in Europe is the perfect balance of this, you pay nothing or very little for your higher education and in return you can explore different areas which interest you without having this lingering thought of bankruptcy or financial ruin always in your head. I don't understand the US system at all, it is 100% geared toward profit and leaves no room for the creative, is that really a nice system to live in?

Does anyone want to team up and build the "dumb" electric car company?

When I lived in India I saw the following...the image will always stay with me and has really changed me. In Bangalore (Koramangala) where I was living was an area filled with very rich people (like western standards rich) who had massive houses, security guards, huge walls and literally right across the street was a garbage dump with people living in it. Was heartbreaking.

Not true, in Stuttgart we have an organization called "Das Kaufhaus", same basic principle as goodwill. I shop there and donate things often.

Spotify cannot figure out that I don't listen to German/French podcasts/books and constantly recommends them to me. My interface is English, I listen to primarily English but also Russian/German/French music and will often specifically click off of French/German music and after 5 years it still cant figure out that I don't want fucking French and German books and podcasts. WTF SW people, I thought this was your bread and butter...don't even get me started on youtube ads which seem to follow the country you're currently in, like...how haven't you figured out which languages I speak after using you for 10 years.

Can somebody Email Mr. Dominick Reuter and ask him wtf a "volt of power" is?

I've been looking for something like this myself for years. I would love to have a HN for electronics and automotive. Problem is both of those industries are quite closed and do not have large groups of their participants online, as with SW. I get industry news internally from our organization, there is unfortunately no online source for it.

Born in the soviet union, moved to America as a refugee when I was a baby with my parents due to threats from the mafia. Later in life moved to Germany, where I still live today. I "grew up" Russian, I went to school American and I now am trying to fit into Germany. My (soon to be) wife is French. I cant speak any language properly any more (Russian, German, French, English) and have nowhere where I can clearly identify as "home". I feel the most at home in Germany, but I am clearly an outsider here and will always be (even if in some cases people don't notice I'm not German). Can totally understand this article, hits close to home.

Does not seem to contain much "industry" news but rather "consumer" news. I am in industry and working on those cars, they are done and off of my desk 2 years before the public even sees them, its all just history for me...Industry news should talk about things like the current µ-chip shortage, sales, regulations, engineering, etc.