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by hedora 7mo ago
Even in the US, our overpriced EVs are cheaper than comparable ICE. They’re mostly big, and compete with 20mpg models. At $4/gallon, you’ll spend $40K on gasoline to drive a new ICE car 200K miles. The EV premium is typically $10-20K
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by hedora 7mo ago
Tesla seems OK. I’m really spoiled by the “complete stop” feature. The worst (which is what most brands are moving to in the US) is when it’s completely unpredictable. Basically, half the time, the car unexpectedly accelerates from a stop
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by hedora 7mo ago
Out of curiosity, do they support one pedal driving correctly (i.e., let you set it and forget it, and never unexpectedly accelerate from a stop unless you turn it off explicitly). BMW used to, but broke it on the i4, and presumably all the
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by hedora 7mo ago
Even the Ford Lightning (by far the best work truck on the market) was modestly priced compared to other Fords. Ford claims there’s no market for “expensive” $60-70K trucks in the US, but go to any Ford dealership in the bay area, and they’
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by hedora 7mo ago
As far as I can tell, a software defined vehicle is one that has fewer computers in it for cost cutting reasons. There’s an argument to be made that this allows better integration between subsystems, and therefore a better user experience.
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by hedora 7mo ago
I think modern fonts include hinting software and stuff like that. If you produced a bunch of screenshots of the output at various sizes, and then asked an LLM to convert to ttf or whatever, I’m guessing that’d be OK. I’m not an expert in
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by hedora 7mo ago
The earliest example I know of for this is CLKSCREW, but security hardware (like for holding root CA private keys) was hardened against this stuff way before that attack. Has anyone heard of notable earlier examples?
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by hedora 7mo ago
If you do that, it expands your test matrix quadratically. So, it makes sense if you have infinite testing budgets. Personally, I prefer exhaustively testing the upgrade path, and investing in reducing the time it takes to push out a hot fi
549.
by hedora 7mo ago
I have seen the future, and it is a robotic boot pushing a human neck to the left.
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by hedora 7mo ago
The federal government is trying to create problems. For instance, a Real ID won't be good enough to vote this fall if SAVE passes: https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2025/apr/18/byron-dona... T
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by hedora 7mo ago
For there to be a solution, there needs to be a problem. These bills are not addressing a problem. Assume the online platform has a video feed of my kid, or their SSN, or a zero-knowledge-proof of age, or whatever. Now, what will the plat
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by hedora 7mo ago
These bills are specifically exempting platforms that distributed the ISIS videos (like meta), and including platforms that did not. apt-get install isis-beheading-vids doesn't work on any Linux distribution I've seen, and it&#x27
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by hedora 7mo ago
This is outlined in Project 2025 (which I have not read). As I understand it, the age verification laws are part of a three pronged plan to eliminate privacy, freedom of speech and freedom of expression online. The goals being to expand cur
554.
by hedora 7mo ago
At least for amdgpu, variable refresh rate is at feature parity for x11 and wayland. They use the same kernel drivers for that stuff. Touch has been working under x11 for 20+ years (even before the iPhone). I have no idea what you are ref
555.
by hedora 7mo ago
How many remotely exploitable zero days has FreeBSD had in its init system this decade? SystemD has to be in the dozens at this point.
556.
by hedora 7mo ago
I recently spent 20 minutes reading forum posts and vague documentation because MacOS couldn’t confirm a .md file wasn’t free of malware. I could say some nice things about MacOS, but it certainly is not “cohesive” any more.
557.
by hedora 7mo ago
I don’t have any experience with it, but it sounds plausible. What about FreeBSD / Unix native things, like syslog or jails?
558.
by hedora 7mo ago
Hey; Linux refugee here. I want to have a bunch (5-10) of freebsd cattle-style servers to run a service on. What’s the preferred infrastructure as code style approach to setting them up? Some will be bare metal with kvm console access. Som
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by hedora 7mo ago
You can also play tricks with inlining and constant propagation in C (especially on the malloc path, where the ground-truth allocation size is usually statically known).
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by hedora 7mo ago
Perl frees memory. It uses refcounting, so you need to break heap cycles or it will leak. (99% of the time, I find this less problematic than Java’s approach, fwiw).
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by hedora 7mo ago
I’m surprised (unless they replaced the core tcmalloc algorithm but kept the name). tcmalloc (thread caching malloc) assumes memory allocations have good thread locality. This is often a double win (less false sharing of cache lines, and mo
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by hedora 7mo ago
As the US transitions into a high corruption / low trust environment, business investment disappears. Trump tried to solicit bribes from anthropic, retaliated by violating the DoW contracts when they didn’t pay, and then somehow forced
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by hedora 7mo ago
How does wayland handle the hypothetical problem of playing a 24 fps movie split across a 48hz and 60hz display? (Hint: It’s not possible to solve correctly.)
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by hedora 7mo ago
I haven’t had problems with tearing in x11 for 20 years, with or without compositors, on nvidia, amd or intel. Each driver spells the TearFree / vsync option differently in the config. They probably should have just enabled it by defa
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by hedora 7mo ago
First they said we couldn’t have screenshots because they were insecure. Then they added them back in. Next, it was accessibility APIs and I guess copy paste is still flaky. Now, it’s window managers. What’s next, Remote Desktop? The whole
566.
by hedora 7mo ago
In other news, we’re still trying to backfill a reason for the Iran War. One theory is that we’ll starve China for oil, so their navy won’t be able to hold Taiwan. (Projections show the US losing a war like that badly due to them have orde
567.
by hedora 7mo ago
I guess this kind misses the point. I was an early compiz user (wobbly windows, fire effect and all), but, at this point I just don’t miss it (literally: I thought I was running a compositor for the last ~5 years, and just… wasn’t.) The X
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by hedora 7mo ago
Speeches are just talk. If I understand this bill, it makes it illegal for service providers that operate in Canada to avoid gathering unnecessary metadata about end users. It also makes it illegal for them to demand a warrant when the go
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by hedora 7mo ago
If I had to stack rank: (1) TOS (1) TNG (2) lower decks (3) the animated series? But, I watch it for the science fiction. The other series were hardly the same genre. DS9 was trying to be babylon 5 / sanctuary moon half the time. Th
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by hedora 7mo ago
(1) Why? (2) The code I write with AI doesn’t fit on the scale.

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