I stumbled upon this video a few days ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dy-wFixuRVU

so recycling the batteries of the vapes is apparently a thing

And this is exactly why that report is somewhat misleading. On the cheaper end of cars, a lot of those are not maintained regularly, and this is the reason why they fail in the first place. And if you look closely, in most cases the reason for the fail has something to do with lights or brakes or tires. Stuff which does not cost much to fix in a Dacia, but is crazy expensive on the upper end, BMW etc.

I had the first major issue with my Dacia since I bought it 7 years ago, and it had something to do with the LPG installation, and it was about 1000€. From a TCO standpoint of view, that car is so dirt cheap, only my little Seat Mii (CNG) - which I bought used, is cheaper.

> On the cheaper end of cars, a lot of those are not maintained regularly,

Heh, by this logic Tesla as somehow expensive brand should be wa-a-ay below Dacia.

Exactly this. My Duster cost me 6 years of Mercedes service fees to buy outright.

They could offload the ui to Apple &google and then have a long term plan of bringing it back in house.

Any article about modern airships, failing to mention CargoLifter (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CargoLifter) is woefully incomplete

It's pretty simple, they are all bad, aren't they?

Especially all the network configuration variants went from bad to worse over the time.

I think its not fair to put the Elbphilharmonie in the same category.

The original plan looked very different from what was later realized. Which was a significant driver of the cost.

Just for fun, lets compare it to the Sydney opera house:

Elbphilharmonie, original projected cost: 186 Mio EUR

Elbphilharmonie, final cost: 866 Mio EUR

So in the end, 4.65x the projected cost and 7 years late.

Sydney Opera house, original projected cost (inflation adjusted cost in parens): 7 Mio AUD (70 Mio EUR)

Sydney Opera house, final cost: 102 Mio AUD (632 Mio EUR)

So in the end: 9-14x the projected cost and 10 years late (depending on if you compare based on the inflation adjusted costs).

Therefore, in comparison, not that dissimilar.

Add to that that the Sydney Opera House is absolutely horrific as a venue.[0]

After ousting Jorn Utzon[1] they tried to finish it on the cheap and running roughshod over the original plans they wound up with a totally iconic building (from the outside) and a terrible theatre and concert venue on the inside.

I haven't seen the Elb Philharmonie. But from what I heard it must be a fantastic venue in every respect.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/jan/30/the-b...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B8rn_Utzon

Since the number of dependencies is way less then in the JS world, its possible to pin them down manually.

If you absolutely need to have multiple versions of the same dependency, you probably need to use OSGi.

The point is, that in a moderately complex Java project that might be something on the order of 150-200 dependencies, and updating just one of those usually doesn't lead to a big change in the transitive dependencies (it is a different thing for a major update, Java 8 -> 11, or from the pre jakarta JEE to jakarta), but its possible for a single person to track whats happened. But with 1500+ dependencies, so an order of magnitude bigger, its just not possible.

Even then the cost of utility scale solar and wind was not that much higher than it is now.