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91.
by hnav 4mo ago
US manufacturers' niche is half-ton and above trucks. Even mighty Toyota's offering is playing distant #4 in that market with Nissan capitulating after 20 years of trying.
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by hnav 4mo ago
The EU is beholden to the Germans, ease of repair would wreck the profit margins of VAG, BMW and Daimler both because of reduced after-sales profits and due to cost increases to manufacturing and engineering.
93.
by hnav 5mo ago
a vibecoded rewrite right after being acquired is not political?
94.
by hnav 5mo ago
This is the case in lots of markets, e.g. look at used cars, luxury goods and more. Some of it is driven by inflation/the rapid devaluation of the dollar. General and AI-adjacent compute in particular hasn't come down in price in
95.
by hnav 5mo ago
it's stunning to me that in most verticals the middlemen seem to be eating the whole pie.
96.
by hnav 5mo ago
sync.Once is for performing lazy initialization once in a process' lifetime. This is for duplicative requests for the same resource. E.g. concurrent requests for the same cache key can be coalesced into a single call. You can use this
97.
by hnav 5mo ago
Exactly, the “economy” only matters because the ruling classes need the labor. If you could accomplish everything using machines you could have all the resources, beautiful vistas and global warming runway to yourself. Maybe some classical
98.
by hnav 5mo ago
Almost like the whole “learn how to code” thing was a play. Commoditize your complement and all.
99.
by hnav 5mo ago
for something like this strace is a really good fit
100.
by hnav 5mo ago
Exactly what I thought when I read the original article, though to be fair WebTransport is barely now entering the mainstream with Safari shipping support this year.
101.
by hnav 5mo ago
It is because most of their complexity is in routing packets. With IPv6 you can just have the thing handling the conversation directly addressable by the client. The last 64 bits of a v6 let you have billions of instances in a region.
102.
by hnav 5mo ago
It can, in general knowing how to shuffle packets according to RFCs is a pretty decent gig. Pretty much every hyperscaler ends up building various LBs and the learning curve is too steep to just toss randos at it unsupervised, but at the sa
103.
by hnav 5mo ago
hope you're handy with a soldering iron (reflow station?) because eventually the passive components are going to start failing and I don't imagine you'll be able to plug off the shelf components into a Dell
104.
by hnav 5mo ago
Besides watches becoming expensive trinkets, a Rolex Daytona in the 70s was basically the same watch as what you could get from other manufacturers with the same movement inside. Today you have to spend at least 30k to get something compara
105.
by hnav 5mo ago
Whenever something like this happens the shortage is exacerbated by hoarders and get rich types. For example used Mac Minis are almost certainly going to find another widespread use or be really underpriced in the secondary market.
106.
by hnav 5mo ago
It simply doesn't fit in the token/time budget to be useful. I don't think the purveyors of these technologies care about how expensive it is as long as it's "cheap enough"
107.
by hnav 5mo ago
The writing was on the wall with the MCP->CLI jump. The promise to investors is that you're replacing people. People don't make API calls.
108.
by hnav 5mo ago
RFC 9297 support can't come quick enough in browsers. Would obviate having to deal with WebRTC in a client-server scenario.
109.
by hnav 5mo ago
Wouldn't it be easier to get a Mk2 GTI and put some decent tires, shocks and pads on it? Steering being heavy just means you have to avoid steering at a standstill which can be fun in itself since you're actively working to be mor
110.
by hnav 5mo ago
I wouldn't call STIs darty. They're nose heavy and need heavy coaxing with the left foot to rotate. The big wheelbase in the Model 3 is a fair point though. Apparently there are TC/DSC defeat devices and mechanical LSDs avail
111.
by hnav 5mo ago
90% of the STi's charm is the drivetrain. How would a hacked up STi differ from a model 3?
112.
by hnav 5mo ago
I guess a better characterization is that it's more profitable to be in a meta-business than what's stated on the label. The original business is a almost a foot in the door and the money is all in value adds, ancillaries and side
113.
by hnav 5mo ago
Not exactly, the biggest annoyance with eBay (in my experience) is dealing with shipping, disputes and returns. If I could recover even 50% of the value of unused items without dealing with the ridiculousness of p2p transactions (flakes, ti
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by hnav 5mo ago
Retro-electric stuff makes so little sense since it's the worst of all worlds. Part of why Teslas get decent range is the slippery body. I wince every time I see people clamoring for the VW Scout reboot. Rivian too with their 140kwh ba
115.
by hnav 5mo ago
Good news is that you can get a brand new 66 shell stamped in Taiwan for about 20k.
116.
by hnav 5mo ago
There's friction though, if the process is under one roof end-to-end, ebay can take 30-40% (15-20% today) of every transaction by just letting you dump your old stuff. Might even eat FB marketplace and CL.
117.
by hnav 5mo ago
profit != revenue. Airlines have thin margins and the argument is that they're getting most of their profit from the financial side of things. This is the end state of any endeavor in capitalism: up the value chain there's always
118.
by hnav 5mo ago
The tradeoff is power vs water. Water is currently cheaper.
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by hnav 5mo ago
Feed cows in places without the water and sun to grow this stuff locally. Which is tantamount to exporting water from the American West which will eventually be turned into a desert. We effectively can't be trusted to govern our natura
120.
by hnav 5mo ago
assuming 300 days/year, 1c/kwh and ignoring opex that's $150m worth of electricity per year.

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