As a CoffeeScript fan things were looking pretty bleak a year or two ago. In particular there was zero momentum for new features.
How things have changed! Major kudos to Geoffrey Booth and all involved. Coffee's beautiful syntax combined with async/await has taken a lot of the 'ick' away from coding in JS, at least for me.
having used Coffeescript almost exclusively (in the Node.js world) for something like 6 years, async/await was the only feature i have been gnashing my teeth waiting for, but i wasn't even that impatient because i have also been using Fibers for just as long.
As a fan of all electric cars, I really hope the Bolt does well. However, my understanding is that GM/LG only have enough battery manufacturing capacity for 50,000 units a year. So that puts a major cap on how much success it can have, at least initially.
This is why Tesla longs are so bullish on the stock... even if the other car companies instantly switched all their models to electric, there wouldn't be enough battery supply to meet that demand for years. Tesla, on the other hand, should be sitting pretty with their Gigafactory 1.
Tesla's "Gigafactory" currently has just the assembly line for battery packs that used to be in Fremont. LG's factory in Holland, MI is the largest battery factory in the US and is set up for easy expansion.[1]
The Chevrolet Division of General Motors has a good track record at manufacturing large numbers of cars. They can probably make as many as they can sell.
I'd be glad to be wrong! But according to [1] LG's factory might get to 3 GWh output in a few years. At 60 KWh per Bolt that is 50,000 cars, in a few years.
Tesla is planning 150GWh eventually, but starting at least in the 10's of GWh's to start. Lets say 30. At 30 GWh that is potentially 500,000 Model 3s.
Obviously, this is all speculative on both sides. Let me know if my calculations are off or I missed something.
LG has other battery factories for EVs. One in Poland, one in China, some in Korea... Also, since the Faraday Future project seems to be tanking, and LG built up battery capacity for that, they probably have some extra capacity.
China is building about 100,000 electric buses a year. That's where the batteries are going right now.
Big fan of the old Podcast and looking forward to the new ones! As for a suggestion:
I wouldn't want this to be every episode, but a themed episode on a specific 'hot' industry could be neat, i.e. interviewing founders of three companies in related fields. e.g. drones, crypto-currencies, bio, etc...
Often there's so many promising directions in a new industry that existing founders don't have time to explore all the opportunities.
YC should encourage them to share these avenues of potential in a discussion format... because who knows, maybe someone listening could grab an idea and run with it (and be in the next batch.)
I'm running a 2016 Lenovo X1 Carbon with Mint 18 Linux on a Samsung 950 NVME SSD.
I've never had such a flawless Linux desktop experience. Almost everything just worked out of the box, it's super-zippy, and the laptop is so light and portable. Never heard the fan yet.
But if you want to an external GPU, this is not the system for you. Also, if you get the hi-res screen, you're forced to play the LCD lottery (LG vs. Panasonic, one has PWM, and you don't get to pick.)
Desktop Linux has really come a long way. Just in time too, now that MS is probably gonna force us to 'subscribe' to Windows, send us ads, etc...
I got an 2015 X1 carbon, too (used). I have dual boot with win10 and ubuntu xenial. Win10 was just for checking it out and occasionally remote server management (Juniper VPN/Junos Pulse is a nightmare on Linux).
Ubuntu works great despite some problems with the keyboard back light turning on automatically with newer, unsupported kernels.
I love how light the laptop is and the display (got the high res) is great.
Another thing that is just beautiful: the support. I got a pixel error on the display, opened a ticket with lenovo support and two days later a technician showed up at my place and changed the display (worth a few hundred bucks) in 10 minutes, let me verify that it was fixed and took off. And I was in a foreign country at that time. I loved it and tell everybody about this great experience. I don't think the apple store can even remotely compare to that.
edit: Oh, and the quick charge. THE QUICK CHARGE!! Only 10% battery left (still >1.5 hours) and 10 minutes near a power point? It will charge up to maybe 70-80% in that few minutes. If you travel a lot this is fantastic. Combined with deep sleep (laptop goes from standby to hibernate after a set amount of time, 3 hours for me, great if you don't know how much time before using the computer again) the battery was never a problem.
I agree, the quick-charge is astonishing sometimes. And I love how with Thinkpads you can limit the max battery charge to 80%, to maximize the lifetime of your battery.
I've been saved by the on-site service a couple of times, it's really good (just wish 3 years of it was still included by default - those were the days!)
the plank (an exercise to help lose excess fat round the stomach)
Cringe. Hard to take the writer seriously after this statement. The rest of the article seemed fine so I googled around to see if there was some stunning new research showing the plank (or any specific movement) spot-reducing fat. Nope.
I know they won't kill the tire/wind sounds, but if they break the mental association of loud == fast == cool for men, it could be a game changer.
No more ridiculously loud acceleration from 'modded' cars and bikes...
Also heavy trucks / buses under acceleration can be loud too, hopefully those'll go away as well.