I actually leased a Kia EV6 recently without too much research into the charging situation, assuming that in 2025 it was probably pretty well figured out, and I could just do as you propose and just charge in small bursts at the grocery store etc. But:

- It didn't come with a home charger at all. They're not cheap.

- It came with a J1772 adapter, but no CCS adapter. The car itself has NACS. So I'm limited to Tesla superchargers, which are expensive, unless I buy a new adapter (not cheap, or cheap, but suspicious Temu brands).

- The experience of using all of these different branded charging points is _awful_. You need to create 10 different accounts with a bunch of terrible apps. The maps to find charging infrastructure seem universally awful.

- Pretty common to arrive at a charging location to find that some nutjob has hacked off all the charging cables. The only reliably maintained charge points are the larger, more expensive high speed charging locations.

I think a lot of the issues would be solved if I was more committed to the car and the house that I'm living in, and installed a home charger to charge at night. But the charging experience out in the world is absolutely _dismal_ when compared to gas vehicles, even if you change your behavior.

The thing is, for most people a standard wall outlet is plenty. The math works out that a simple 15/20 amp circuit can charge over 40 miles overnight, and the vast majority of people aren't driving more than that for their daily commute plus errands. Level 1 charging is genuinely sufficient most of the time. I was particularly swayed by the technology connections video on this topic I watched before buying my first EV https://youtu.be/Iyp_X3mwE1w

The real pain point, in my opinion, is whether you have any place to plug in nightly. If you don't, then as you pointed out, it becomes a nightmare to own. Range anxiety is completely justified when public charging infrastructure is still as unreliable as it is, years after the initial build outs. Your points about charging pain are all too common.

If you have a garage with an outlet, you are generally fine. I lived off a level 1 charger for over a year before I decided I wanted the convenience of a level 2 charger.

Sorry, I love Technology Connections as much as anyone, but that's a ridiculous argument. Even people who drive less than 40 miles a day will occasionally need to drive 100 miles a day for two days back to back. That's not even a long distance trip, it's just driving around. With level 1 charging they are stuck and frustrated. With level 2 they're fine. Not to mention the hassle and mental energy required to plug in and out for every little trip.

For most people a 240V outlet is worth it. Not to mention it's at least 10% more efficient, which is quite significant and weird that Technology Connections didn't mention that.

You can use DC fast chargers to fill gaps as needed.

Also if you are always driving 40mi/day, you likely float with a battery percentage around 80%, leaving plenty of capacity for those consecutive 100 mile days with your standard overnight slow charge.

Again, this cannot be said enough, EVs are not gas vehicles, they do not refill like gas vehicles, if you apply gas vehicle logic to them, they look awful. But they are not gas vehicles, they don't follow the same logic and rules of gas vehicles. So you don't apply gas vehicle logic to them.

It's like handing chopsticks to an 18th century westerner, they'll stab their food with it and laugh about how stupid and useless they are. You need to learn and use chopsticks before criticizing chopsticks.

This whole thread (as always) is full of people stabbing their food with chopsticks.

Look, I don't care, I know there are strong opinions about how these discussions sway people one way or another. I'm as much of an EV technology fan as anyone, but I'm speaking from personal experience with this exact situation: if I didn't have a 240V charger in my garage, my EV experience would be garbage and I'd give up on it in frustration. I own one of the most common EVs, I have DC fast chargers in my area, I don't drive my EV that much during the week, but when I need to drive a bunch of short trips on the weekend, this exact scenario arises. I don't care what your theoretical model of an average EV driver looks like, I'm telling you that it doesn't match my reality and I am certain the reality of many others.

What's bizarre is that this should be incredibly non-contentious when it comes to EV adoption. By code, everyone in the US already has two phases at their panel and running a wire and outlet in their garage (or a weatherized cable to the outside) costs $100-150 in materials and a similar amount in labor. This is literally negligible in the broader scheme of the automotive economy. My humble suggestion to you is: save your breath, we're on the same side, raise your voice instead when it comes to demanding a sane EV industrial policy, regulatory policy, urban planning policy, removing subsidies for oil and gas industries, and the like.

That example doesn't make sense, because 100 miles back to back is only 200 miles. You've got about 80 miles from charging overnight those two days and another 200+ miles already in the battery. In that situation you're totally fine. After that there are superchargers of course.

> It didn't come with a home charger at all. They're not cheap.

Level 1 EVSE's are super cheap, almost all of them are under $200. They aren't fast (most are 1.44kW), but that doesnt really matter if you are parked at home for 12+ hours a day.

(also small semantic nitpick, but your car did come with a charger, its built in to the vehicle. the EVSE that connects it to a wall outlet is basically just a fancy extension cord. this is why they are so cheap)

> You need to create 10 different accounts with a bunch of terrible apps

I've admittedly only used public fast charging twice in my year of EV ownership, and both times, I used a credit card at the machine. No app.

The two were EVGo and ElectrifyAmerica. I don't know if the other ten brands require an app ;)

It'll need to be shut down anyway to pull the giant metal chain out. You might as well do it right away. Patients can and will be rescheduled to other MRI facilities.

Sexing is typically done immediately after hatching, yes.

They don't feed male chicks - from the first paragraph:

> in the United States alone, approximately 350 million male chicks are routinely culled each year, typically by methods such as maceration (being ground up alive).

but they'd save on incubating the eggs which they could otherwise use or sell.

I suppose that is true. But I imagine that the scale of egg incubation to produce hens is a relatively small portion of total egg production, since each hen produces many eggs. You'd probably have to compare the cost of incubating an egg and the labor to manually sex the chick to the per-egg cost of this technology. I would be surprised if that comes out in favor of the in-egg-sexing tech right now, but it would be great if it did.

What’s a good way to Airplay to your own speakers?

Buy an older Apple TV, or an Amazon Fire. Connect them to your receiver and you're good to go. Or buy a newer Yamaha or Denon receiver and they'll be ready to go out of the box.

The "Not a Simple Operation" section really stands out for its GPT writing style ("While [pro], it's important to note [con]", "In short...").

The reason that ChatGPT and other LLMs use such language is because they often find it in the corpus of text they’ve ingested. It’s a frequent pattern in writing.

So, I don’t necessarily think that’s an immediate red flag. To be sure, I guess you’d need to go back and look at the author’s previous stories and compare writing styles.

I went to one of these this summer and had to create a full corporate account online before the people at the front desk could sell me a day pass, and I was bombarded with emails for months afterwards about signing up the rest of my "company"

I went to a wework for the first time today and they technically set up a whole corporate account for just me to be there for one day to try it out.

Today? Was this disaster tourism?

They are in chapter 11, which is aimed at reorganizing a company. They hope to still be a business going forward.

For customers, it should still be relatively the same service. I expect some amenities to change, but you should still be able to rent a desk (for at least the near term).

As mbreeze stated, this location is probably going to continue operating as some form of coworking space even if it gets spun off of wework, which it may or it may not. There were a lot of people there, I imagine that location is probably cash flow positive. It would make sense for someone to operate it, as there was clearly demand at least at that location.

I would add https://blumira.com to that list; it's more mature than at least a few of these (I'm a former employee)

What makes you call your current review culture “sane”? I’m not sure I have seen that yet in my career.

YMMV but i work at a place where

* code review is expected responsibility, so everyone participates in every part of it regularly, so they are also incentivized to keep the process sane

* we have an auto linter and we recommend saving on fix specifically so no one argues about useless style nits

* CR back and forth is measured in minutes or hours so you are not waiting days to resolve someone’s drive by comment

* CR feedback always has a specific action item that is easy to address

* reviewees submit smaller CRs which are quick and easy to review for reviewers

> * CR feedback always has a specific action item that is easy to address

Then CRs are pretty much pointless. The feedback I want as a senior developer is the complex stuff and that is half of the time not easy to address. The trivial stuff I usually, but not always, spot myself when checking the code before sending it for a review.

You ideally want that earlier and more high level than a code review.

If you are doing system/algorithm design in the code review, it’s not meant for that.

The action item can also be “can we create a issue to track and discuss this further”

Reviewers are responsible for not just pointing out issues, but also providing (at a minimum) some form of direction, or (more ideally) one or more explicit suggestions as to how to resolve those issues.

This is an essential component of a productive code review culture.

Yeah, a good review must explain why, and should ideally explain how it should be instead if it needs explaining.

* This code should be changed looks bad - not a good comment

* This code should be chabged because ten nested ternaries gets hard to read - better

* This code is hard to read because there are ten nested ternaries. Can we replace it with a helper method that returns one value using if blocks? - best, in terms of actionability

This right here! It makes for a sane, friendly culture, and junior team members also get to learn during the code review process.

Prioritize code reviews over development work. Have SLAs. If you are assigned a CR, get to a good stopping place, pause your work, do the CR, and resume. Close CRs that have become stale due to submitter abandonment.

+1, every PR should ideally be reviewed within a day, and certainly within a week.

that's exactly what it does.