Yeah that's obviously not great but that video is nothing like what you described. You made it sound like it drove onto a mainline train track with a train barreling down the tracks that couldn't stop with the guy diving out of the car to avoid getting clobbered. It did not, it got stuck on a tram track. Not quite the same thing.
People get very annoyed and less productive when they have to relearn a large portion of their workflow. A carpenter uses the same tools the same way for fifty years, but someone working with software in any capacity has their tools replaced with new ones every few months and has to learn first how they differ and then how to get them to mostly do the same things as they old tools.
It may not be enough, but I think it'd be more appropriate/constructive to point to other companies benefiting from Python that have never contributed, rather than saying one that contributed didn't do enough.
Best I can tell you're arguing that 9% market share by units sold is some kind of failure. Now go look at who has the highest market share by revenue. Hint: it's a fruit company.
At least as recently as 2014, I was aware of some random Windows 3.1 (yes) machines running in a corporate data center owned by a very recognizable Fortune 500 company. At the time, they were upgrading all their Windows PCs from XP to 7 and this 3.1 box showed up. I confirmed that it was, in fact, real.
True story- when XP was released, all of the people "in the know" (among Windows users) used Win2k.
Nobody wanted to upgrade to XP. It was called the Fisher-Price OS because of the way they made the GUI colorful with oversized icons/shapes and rounded corners everywhere.
The old rule of thumb was that every other version was the good one, so people were naturally skeptical of XP (and after having seen ME, who could blame them). Not sure if that holds anymore, or if there is a good one.
>You can imagine the storage tank as a large thermos flask, but it never gets empty. The hot water with a temperature of 98 degrees Celsius is at the top, cooler water layers at the bottom, with the cold water still having a temperature of about 50 degrees. A pipeline of about 400 meters connects the storage tank to the pump house where four pumps ensure that hot water reaches the tank. It is pumped into the top of the storage tank and is also taken out here when needed. If hot water is added at the top, the same amount of cold water is taken out at the bottom. So only the quantity ratio between hot and cooler water in the storage facility changes but not the total amount of water. At maximum output of 200 Megawatt thermal, the storage facility can provide heat for about 13 hours.
It appears to be resistive when the electric part is being used, but looks like it also takes waste heat from a coal combined heat and power unit, and some other industrial heat sources.
I think the electric heat part is to help provide load balancing so theyre probably aiming for cheap and simple as it'll be used intermittently.
It is possible to have heat pumps at the other end of district heat systems, to let individual units pull heat from the shared source and also feed it back im when in AC mode.
Good point (I'm personally on your side), but what is needed from both EV-cautionary and ICE-cautionary commenters is some odds ratio or data on both, rather than impressionistic and qualitative quips about either.
