Notices by bhtooefr (bhtooefr@mastodon.social), page 2

(That's because the charge depleting range is 50 km.)

That electricity is a huge deal, though, and it's completely ignored.

You actually can reverse the real charge sustaining efficiency out of their claimed range figures, though - 50 km on electric only, >500 km on electric plus the diesel, with a 10 liter tank.

That means 10 l/450 km, or 2.2 l/100 km, which is nowhere *NEAR* the target!

In the US, when a plug-in hybrid's efficiency is certified, there's a lot of numbers reported to the customer, which looks a lot like this.

You'll see a miles per gallon gasoline equivalent figure for "elec+gas" - charge depleting mode, in other terms. This is complete with the amount of gasoline and the amount of electricity used to go 100 miles, and a range figure in that mode.

Then, you'll see a separate figure for "reg. gas" - charge sustaining mode - with the same figures.

And, wait, if it was bigger... how did they get that? The engine's more powerful, after all, and not much more advanced than what they showed in 2009.

They made it a plug-in hybrid, which is a completely valid approach to improving efficiency of vehicles. As the electric grid moves towards renewables, electric transport only gets better.

However, plug-in hybrids in Europe have efficiency reported in a very strange way.

@rotatingskull @floatoverblow @kaniini Except RT is funded by the Russian government, to the tune of $307 million in 2016. And, it shares a building with RIA Novosti, which is state-owned.

USA Today... isn't state-funded or state-owned.

(And I'm speaking as someone who did vote for Jill Stein, twice. I... appear to have made mistakes.)

So, this is an idea I know I've mentioned on other platforms, but one thing I've been a bit interested in, even though I don't have that much use for one, is camper vans.

Modern versions aren't exactly popular in the US, but they are popular in Europe, and quite a lot of people pay insane amounts of money for old Volkswagen Westfalia Campers.

The VW T3 Westfalia had a layout that many later camper vans have copied, with kitchen and cabinets on one side, and a bench that folds into a bed.

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It came! (It being a SwissMicros DM42.)

#calculators #hp #rpn

@mcscx Code is compiled to an intermediate bytecode (MI) and translated to the native instruction set upon installation. (You can move a binary compiled for a System/38 system in 1979 over to a brand new POWER S812 system running IBM i 7.3, and it'll just work, and be performant at that.)

Single address space - everything has a memory address, so you just access the memory. If it's not in memory, that's what page faults are for.

Everything is an object, there is no traditional filesystem*.

Holy hell, I forgot how much power well.bhtooefr.org, my IBM POWER 520 Express, with 2x 4.2 GHz POWER6 Dual Cores, pulled at idle.

The answer is 465.5 watts based on my current UPS load (62.4%), versus my UPS load without it (14.9%), and my UPS's 980 watt (1500 VA, but, well, power factor) rating.

But, hey, it gives me pretty green screens like this:

...I may have just written a Maidenhead Locator generator for Free42 on Android and iOS. Because, you know, there aren't already eleventy billion programs to do that natively on those platforms, so I had to target an overgrown HP-42S calculator emulator instead.

(Fun fact, if someone built a GPS module for the HP-41, and made it compatible with Free42's implementation, you'd only need to change six lines (31, 43, 53, 62 from FP to FRC; 56, 65 from 97 to 65) for it to work on that calc, too.)

Jog dials.

Boost if you agree.

#retrocomputing #handhelds

@djsundog @slipstream @calvin Assembler? That's software shit. HTTP+TCP/IP state machine in a FPGA.

@halcy Screw turning it up to 11, it's time to turn it up to 230.

Another way to implement it is to simply make L1 larger, and reserve the additional space for speculative execution. (I'm thinking this could work along similar lines to register renaming?)

There, if speculation succeeds, the cache lines that would have been purged in a smaller L1 are invalidated and returned to the speculation-reserved pool of lines, and the ones that speculation added become part of the active L1.

If speculation fails, the ones speculation added are invalidated and returned.

@djsundog Xeon Phi first gen is likely safe (being essentially Pentium I, pre-MMX, but with AVX units), second gen is not (being Silvermont Atom with AVX2 units), FWIW.

OK, firing into the void, #retrocomputing question.

My family used a mapping program back in the 1990s (this was probably somewhere between 1995 and 1997), that was a shareware DOS program, either EGA or VGA, and the name started with "Interstate", and had a second word.

Additional info that might help, I know we got it from some shareware place somewhere in Ohio, that sold floppies of shareware at the Extravaganza show in Columbus.

Any ideas of what this was?

@wiloma @djsundog Hot Take: I think Microsoft should've bundled a cut-down, possibly detuned, Visual Basic 1.0 without a compiler (much like the later VB5 Control Creation Edition) with Windows 3.1, just as they shipped QBASIC with MS-DOS 5.0+, as a cut-down, detuned QuickBASIC 4.5.

It would've encouraged tinkering, I suspect it would've *increased* the market for "full" VB, and it would've helped counter HyperCard (which was, by that point, bundled with Macs).

Fun fact: having three PCMCIA stacks installed on Windows 98 is a good way to have a bad time.

@Tom Here, enjoy the HP 200LX: https://mastodon.social/@bhtooefr/99038985170391120

@penelope @bob And it's not even something automakers *want* to do - they want to chase Tesla's putting all of the vehicle controls in the infotainment system, instead, which means that it *HAS* to access everything.

@maiki Just posted that info here: https://mastodon.social/@bhtooefr/99039165534453911