It's interesting how this sounds like a cutting edge experiment, while this is a common thing to see in Germany and other European states for quite a while now.
I live in the UK; my postman walks up to my house and posts my letters through a flap in the door. I grew up in Australia, where our postman used to ride up to our letterbox on a postal-service-issued motorbike, because the suburban houses are too far apart to make walking economical.
The fact that putting EV chargers in lampposts works in Europe doesn't necessitate that doing so will work in the natural environment, built environment and cultural context of the US. They have to do their own assessments to work out the best solution to the same problem in a different context.
Well, if we are discussing the scenario where people live in tall buildings with no private parking available and need to park the car overnight on the street (which is the scenario depicted by the study)... It sounds a lot like your average European city.
> in many states it's legal for the contractor to drive from the passenger seat.
I doubt they're driving from the passenger seat. It's hard to reach the pedals from the passenger seat. Many mail delivery vehicles in the US are right hand drive; the driver's seat is on the right. I don't know that left hand drive is strictly required by any states, it's more a matter of there's not many models available for sale in the US with right hand drive as an option, and few people order them when available; and importing out of market RHD cars is a chore.
You can (or could) order some Jeeps in RHD, and a lot of rural USPS contractors have RHD minivans (many from the Japanese Domestic Market)
I did see a 'converted' RHD Windstar (Ford minivan) on FB Marketplace, where they removed the driver seat, put a flat platform in, and connected controls with cables and levers. That's an option too, I guess.
When I briefly lived in a rural small town, several years ago, the mail delivery contractor who served our house used exactly such a converted minivan.
They do in the US too, but contractors use their own vehicles. Imported right-hand drive cars can be imported, but their use is rare.
This is partially because the car dealer lobby convinced congress to prevent the importation of cars less than 25 years old. Ironically, they did so using safety regulations, so a brand-new car meeting current European safety regulations is legally unsafe, but a 25-year-old car, complying with what European safety regulations were 25 years ago, less any deterioration in those safety systems, is legally safe.
Americans do that all the time though. E.g. Celsius vs Fahrenheit, Metric vs US Customary units, getting rid of copper coins, 230 vs 110 V electricity, etc.
The fact that large parts of the world do something without any problems is no guarantee that people in the U.S. won't argue about it endlessly.
Note the US is about as big as all of Europe, so it's easy enough for the US to do something different from other countries in a similar fashion to the EU doing something different themselves. Sometimes this complements things and the effects can be seen everywhere (USB charging/connectivity) and sometimes not.
Meanwhile on Reddit you will find people who delight in cutting charging cables they find plugged into street lights and the like. "Sticking it to the electricity thieves".
Quebec is ahead of the game vs most other places in North America when it comes to anything EV.
Having some of the cheapest and most plentiful electricity in North America, courtesy giant hydroelectric facilities, helps. (Also why it's a major aluminum producer)
As an EV owner, crossing the border into Quebec from Ontario gives me about 5x the charging options. Everything from ski hills to grocery stores are set up with a mixture of charging types it's great. Get a 20 minute DC fast charge while running into the IGA to grab groceries and conveniences blew my mind.
Those ONroutes in Ontario seemed pretty nice in terms of EV charging infrastructure planning as well. My road trip through Canada was in an ICE so I didn't actually get a real feel for the charging infrastructure, but seeing those definitely felt like the future of long shot highway travel. Looking at maps like plugshare though definitely made it feel like those were the oasis of good charging experiences with things getting more sparse as you continued to travel off the highway.
There were a number of good EV charging ideas I saw on my road trip through Canada.
I've heard they're unreliable and expensive. I don't fast charge much, but when I do I usually just hit a Tesla station and use the NACS adapter for my Polestar.
Electrify Canada was overall the best experience, though. No nonsense with installing a stupid custom app and setting up an account. Just tap credit card and go. Got full 150kW that my car can take. No hassle. Ate a burrito and returned to 80%.
I think the "bold innovation" framing partly because the current administration is making green technology a though crime, and partly just the ambient American tendency to describe any incremental improvement as groundbreaking.
I started playing around with the idea of a new programming language that compiles to JavaScript. Despite syntactic improvements and type-checking, it's goal is to streamline promises, async/await and callbacks into one signal based system I call live variables. Additionally, those could be compiled via different, interchangeable compiler plugins to framework specific code, like React's useState or Vuejs' Refs, to make it more future prove.
It's still in a concept stage and maybe the whole project is futile, but if it piqued your interest, check out https://github.com/nkoehring/Solace
The misconception here is that the internet is not decentralized. The original idea of the internet is to be decentralized. There are just very large centralized silos built on top of its structure.
I think you and GP are both right. The original idea and design of the internet is decentralized, but we're at a point where it's pretty hard to do that. Email being the best example. I'm quite the self-hoster and I've self-hosted email before, but even I pay for it now because unless you own your IP address and have invested years into building reputation, deliverability is abysmal. And one accidental click of "this is spam" by a recipient and your reputation is shot to hell.
So philosophical you're right, it's decentralized. But practically, it's more complicated.
The EU can still, in theory, sue them because they're serving Europeans. Especially in the beginning many companies became afraid of the possibility so they simply blocked access to see where it goes. Then it probably became clear the European customers are not worth the effort to change back.
But actually it's still illegal what they're doing because the GDPR also states that customers have to be treated neutral regardless of their location, as long as it's not about licensing of course.
Honestly, melting two open source editors together (or rather cloning one while integrating the other) and ask for that amount of money for it is in my opinion unacceptable. The only thing that would make this a bit more acceptable is when the developers are promising to spend a lot of their earnings for vim development (and maybe VSCode, too).
*edit:* Just saw that it is actually open source and will be available for non-commercial use for free. I'm more than fine with that model!
Onivim doesn’t use vscode. It’s a from scratch implementation that doesn’t use electron, but they do replicate the vscode plugin system so they can be compatible with it.
> Just saw that it is actually open source and will be available for non-commercial use for free. I'm more than fine with that model!
Yeah, we are using the dual-licensing model that some other projects use.
Source available may be a more accurate description, since it can be somewhat controversial to claim to be open source and use our licensing model.
Tl;dr:
- Commits from the core team are licensed under an EULA for 18 months. You can use Oni2 for free for non-commercial stuff, but need a license for commercial use.
- After 18 months, commits are re-licensed to MIT license, and appear in the Oni2-MIT repo, where they are then subject to the normal rules of that license.
We do also periodically give to the upstream projects that power us, i.e. you'll see our name in the Vim leaderboard thingy since we give money to the charity that Vim asks for donations to.
And to be clear, whilst we use the vim source code as the editing experience base, the UI is our own, thought obviously looks very similar to VSCode, though no UI code is shared etc (Oni2 is written in Reason, VSCode in Typescript).
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