Oh Lord. Before I found power bi 15 or so years ago I made interactive speeadsheets that did a lot of querying directly towards sql based on a set of input cells. Did a lot of crunching on the data merging data fetched from different database etc before presenting them in their own sheets. The worst part is that it was a huge leap from what we did earlier. Then I would write sql queries and dump the result to Excel every time management needed data.

I mostly use sql for data management stuff through c# .NET. But there is a lot of Excel and power bi towards the numbers people.

Computer engineer checking in. Same here!

I’m Norwegian. We have dragonflies. They are dope. But we don’t have any of those horrifying insects and eight legged ones that kill you. So I don’t resonate with the paranoia of checking your shoes, like at all. I am not sure if I would survive a week in Australia.

Have you ever done any sort of IT support? I was internal IT in my first job and we had those people. It was mostly women 50+ years old who were proud that they know nothing about computers and would actively avoid listening when I tried to tell them how to do something trivial. Even when it was part of their jobs to do it. Then they would ask for help with the same stupid shit a few weeks later.

We have a similar one where the pronounciations are flipped in Norwegian.

Cook(as in chef) = kokk

Cock = kukk

We have that pricing as well but we also pay a dynamic cost to be connected to the grid. When the power is cheap the grid cost is the biggest part of the bill.

With regards to our Hydro power: since the europeans took over we tap all of our water reserves and sell it cheap to the continent ever since the large acer cables came. When the winter comes our reserves are low and we buy expensive power back. It’s been like that for a few years now. The government are looking into making a subsidy or tax break or something to compensate but EU is blocking it as market manipulation or something like that. It sucks ass.

I think it is based on some EU stuff? Lots of our power related issues is based on the new International power cables. Suddenly power got really expensive because some assholes in central EU took over our power pricing around the same time.

We are so afraid of violating the EEC that we implement everything they dream up that is market related even if the EU countries themselves might hold back. Our labor party has sadly turned more and more to the right these last 20 years. Our mainstream right is still more to the left than the US democrats on most things though.

Here in Norway they changed all of our meters to a live upload of consumption. This allowed them to make complicated systems with increasing tiers of “grid rental” prices based on your maximum full hour of kWh consumption per month. My wife is paranoid about washing clothes while I am cooking or running the dryer while the washing machine is running etc. We don’t even use that much power since we have external water based heating, so it really doesn’t matter much. Fucking shit.

Isn’t it possible to strike a deal if you tell them of your predicament?

The grammar is bad as well. The of is superimposed in the translation. It should have been slutten/enden av datafag to be correct Norwegian. But by then the joke is fully gone.

I guess. Any word ending with ics ends with ikk in Norwegian basically. Ceramics - keramikk, electronics - elektronikk, etc.

Its a loan word for Informatics

Uh. Norwegian chiming in. That translation is really bad. I would never translate slutt that literally means end or stop as graduate or the other way round. For graduate I would translate it to fullført (completed).

Also datafag may be used some places i suspect, but I haven’t seen it used in higher education. Maybe it was used earlier. But now the terms datateknikk or informatikk are the most common. I have a degree named dataingeniør myself.

Oh man! That took me down memory lane!

I once had to reverse engineer a database to make an invoice integration. They had an int named flags. It contained all status booleans in the entire system. Took me a while to figure that one out.

Store 8 bits in the same byte then 👌

Scrolled passed this story several times. Thought it was Larry David every time.

I still think a standard for swapping is a good idea.

For me it’s not just about the charging. If I can swap my battery then the risk of the battery breaking is suddenly not as big anymore. A lot of the cars that are trashed, here in Norway at least, is because of the battery.

I don’t really need a really long range ev in my day to day. I live 10 km away from work and have a cheap car with wltp of 240km (150 miles), which is kind of low, but more than enough. We charge it one to three nights a week and that works great for us.

With regards to the charging stops: We have a gasoline powered car as well and we always take that car to visit family which is a five hour drive because we don’t want the one hour mandatory stop. Juggling kids in the back seat with all of their stops needed it just isn’t practical. Also the one hour stop isn’t even enough in the winter. Then we need two stops. Combined with all of the small stops a five hour drive can suddenly become seven and those hours are the difference if we do the trip or not for us.

I would like the combination. Home charging day to day, but swapping on longer road trips.