Toutouxc

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by Toutouxc 2mo ago
There isn’t a word in the comment that I can relate to. Might be a US thing, I’m in Europe. My [very normal although otherworldly beautiful] wife thinks my job is interesting and talks about me with pride. When I tell people that I work in
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by Toutouxc 2mo ago
I’m don’t know how to say this, but if you’re claiming that there’s a place anywhere in Europe where going outside is “not possible” for more than a handful of days of the year (like extreme heatwaves), you definitely have some kind of prob
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by Toutouxc 2mo ago
That’s not how electricity works. The electrons don’t really care about borders, and neither do the suppliers and consumers.
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by Toutouxc 2mo ago
In my corner of Europe, I have vacationed in a house that’s completely off-grid with solar and a bit over 20 kWh of storage (it does use about half a ton of wood pellets for heating during the coldest months of winter). Link in Czech: http
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by Toutouxc 2mo ago
Absolutely, makes my blood boil. Claude proposes an obviously wrong/overengineered solution to a problem. I come up with a better approach and we agree to do that instead. Every step of the way, Claude leaves code comments with long-wi
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by Toutouxc 2mo ago
If Norway is the size of an US state, what’s stopping every state from being like Norway? Or does it somehow matter for EV efficiency or charging speed how far away the borders are?
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by Toutouxc 2mo ago
Very happy with an EV as our only car here in Europe. No charger at home. The car does about 24k kilometers per year, including road trips and vacations. Remember that there are other countries on the planet and lots of other people.
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by Toutouxc 2mo ago
> Ton of used EVs not being sold because the battery replacement is somewhere between 40~60% of the car's value. These EVs, are they in the room with us?
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by Toutouxc 2mo ago
I don’t understand how a self-proclaimed engineer can’t grasp the concept of a non-linear charging curve and also spread so much absolute crap about EVs. Fucking 2 hours of charging, my 28kEUR EV could drive from Prague to Spain on two hour
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by Toutouxc 2mo ago
I believe you’ve made all that up. The battery is “solid state” as in “solid state of matter”. There are no liquids, gases or plasma in the battery. It’s an elementary school physics term.
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by Toutouxc 3mo ago
The slop jockey failed to deliver a cleaned up speech. The politician failed to proofread it or even just skim it once before giving the speech. The journalist failed to understand the difference between a prompt and LLM output. Every singl
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by Toutouxc 3mo ago
I feel like the world has lost 30 IQ points over the last two years. I can’t think of a better way to describe it, the dumbing down of everything is palpable and accelerating.
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by Toutouxc 3mo ago
> an airplane descending still wants thrust from the engines, just not as much as in cruise > My assertion is that there are no turboprop plans that can maintain a 3° glideslope at normal approach speed without thrust from the engines
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by Toutouxc 3mo ago
How is Node a package manager?
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by Toutouxc 3mo ago
Exactly like a car going down a hill, a descending plane doesn't need any thrust for anything in particular. Planes are notoriously aerodynamic and can trade altitude for speed easily. (Note how gliders don't need any thrust at al
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by Toutouxc 3mo ago
Note that these are more like turboprop quirks, not "airliners". Turbofans will idle happily from cruise to final approach, Dash 8 will not.
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by Toutouxc 3mo ago
Supercapacitors are heavy and basically useless for any kind of propulsion. Note how neither e-bikes nor EVs use them. You need a proper lithium battery if you need any usable amount of energy.
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by Toutouxc 3mo ago
> you'd have to nose down at a very aggressive angle to actually pick up speed Sorry but what the hell are you talking about? Airliners are heavy, very aerodynamic, very easy to overspeed and they regularly actively brake on descent
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by Toutouxc 3mo ago
I think what they're trying to say is that there are regimes in which the HSD actually shunts energy from one electric motor to the other (i.e. one of them is "braking" and acting like a generator and the other one driving) a
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by Toutouxc 3mo ago
I’ll check this out. The macOS photo library situation is really embarrassing. I actually migrated from Affinity to DxO Photolab (expensive!) a few years ago just for that.
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by Toutouxc 3mo ago
It’s written in Swift and uses SwiftUI and UIKit and AppKit. Seriously, what the hell are you talking about and why.
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by Toutouxc 3mo ago
> If LLMs reach a point of sufficiently high competence to the point that they're capable of producing usable software from vague, and sometimes contradictory instructions - the same software engineers have to regularly deal with, t
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by Toutouxc 3mo ago
> if in the future there's a prompt specific language, it would be committed. I dont think we've reached there yet, but i dont doubt this is on the path to the future You mean, like a ... programming language? Honestly I can&#x
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by Toutouxc 3mo ago
IMO delegation isn't abstraction. I work at a certain level, like Ruby code. That's what I write, debug and maintain. I don't really care about the internals of the interpreter or about the source code of Linux, because these
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by Toutouxc 3mo ago
Two 18650s hold about 22Wh of energy, more than two iPhones, and 20x more than what the parent comment is talking about.
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by Toutouxc 3mo ago
Wider architectural guidelines, yes. "How a senior developer in this company would do it" — not so much.
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by Toutouxc 3mo ago
My understanding is that this is still an unsolved problem. At some point you lose touch with the code and you start working with a mental model that’s subtly inaccurate. You just sort of hope that the people below have are competent and ar
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by Toutouxc 3mo ago
For me, the issue is that the model can explain what the code IS, not what it’s supposed to be or aspiring to be. The code doesn’t explain the original constraints (because it already fits within them) and it doesn’t show the tried and disc
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by Toutouxc 3mo ago
> Fable is better than most staff engineers at my FAANG. That’s genuinely disturbing.
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by Toutouxc 3mo ago
The very first image at the very top of the MultiAir article shows, prominently, a camshaft and the cams used to actuate the valves.

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