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by plqbfbv 2mo ago
> the OTAs break shit all the time Uh? I can literally count the times my Model 3 2019 software broke something on one hand: - when they redesigned the AC controls to make them more visually appealing but less functional (no button borde
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by plqbfbv 2mo ago
> Actual link speeds of Starlink terminals don't seem to be published in the open, but it's at least throttled to up to 310Mbps down/44Mbps up for Priority plans. I had it last year in the Canary Islands (where I assume su
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by plqbfbv 2mo ago
I guess things keep getting more features and complexity but all of it is 80% done because it's "shippable" and updates are cheap. This is most visibile for me on Windows/MacOS and complex web apps (e.g. GitHub and GitLa
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by plqbfbv 2mo ago
> Ordinary plebs trying to prevent climate change is like subtracting $100 from a billion dollars - it does not make any meaningful difference. It stops making any difference if everyone stops trying. You compare this to subtracting $100
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by plqbfbv 3mo ago
I think I saw a few years ago another version of this for IC and simpler CPUs. For me the takeaway is: - the libraries we use for chip design are small and reproducible, and we can reason about and account for their properties properly, so
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by plqbfbv 3mo ago
> What about the losses in the electricity transmission and the batteries and the conversion to motive force in the motor? Is it way less than that 40%? And wouldn’t there be more than 0% losses because refinery -> power plant shippin
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by plqbfbv 3mo ago
I have the Fairphone 5, for which they picked the IoT equivalent of the mobile chipset so they could ensure 10 years of driver availability from the vendor (8 years of majors + 2 of security patching IIRC). Fairphone 2 came out in December
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by plqbfbv 3mo ago
> There's no way to verify the integrity of the system, and any malicious app can just grab your banking credentials or enable criminals to unlock and drive away with your car. I get that Google doesn't want to be sued for fail
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by plqbfbv 3mo ago
> Sure people care about the environment, but it is always lower than all the other factors in their personal list of things they worry about. Emissions scale with performance, and inversely of fuel efficiency. So the environment may not
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by plqbfbv 4mo ago
Early adopter and subscriber (I think I saw the link here on HN), have been happily paying for 4 years now. It does one job and does it well, and you have additional features if you want/need to configure them or tweak the results to y
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by plqbfbv 4mo ago
> 2. Firefox's tab crash recovery isn't as solid. I use chrome with fully persistent tabs, and its a gigantic pain if I can't re-open them I normally have 5-50 tabs open (so perhaps on the lower end), but I can't reca
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by plqbfbv 4mo ago
> Solar is a massive maintenance liability that a majority of buyers will avoid My parents put up solar in 2005 when it was very expensive. The original panels, inverters, cables are all still there, nothing had to be replaced in the las
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by plqbfbv 4mo ago
Fair, I had a quick look, 600-700 is likely for the big cities areas.
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by plqbfbv 4mo ago
Moved out last year after 10y in the Zurich area. There's always been a pull-and-push between getting skilled workers and protecting the internal labor market. Right-wing political parties never made a secret of the fact that they hate
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by plqbfbv 4mo ago
Yeah, but while Belgium is basically a huge plain, Switzerland is 60% Alps. If you account for that, the effective density of Switzerland on the usable area is 600–700 people/km².
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by plqbfbv 4mo ago
I had to start using noTunes years ago because whenever I accidentally touched or removed my (Sony / non-Apple) bluetooth headphones, iTunes/Music would pop up without fail. Apparently they sent a "play" button press, so
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by plqbfbv 4mo ago
> why companies like Tesla deliberately make their cars inconvenient My 2019 Model 3 has been the most convenient car I've driven by far . Other companies saw Tesla get away with it and tried to replicate it, but given they had bas
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by plqbfbv 4mo ago
And I totally agree, but I still use mirrors because when I need to pass and park next to a pillar (my garage has a few) I can never tell how far I actually am from it through the cameras, whereas the mirror will tell me without lag and w
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by plqbfbv 4mo ago
You can definitely do it with a Tesla. Disable Auto, select the airflow direction and vents, select the fan speed you want (1-10), select the temp you want. Fan speed will not change with temp if manually selected.
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by plqbfbv 4mo ago
> It's really hard to justify $1000 for it when the Switch 2 is $450 (soon $500). I had a Nintendo Switch 1 and sold it. My wife wanted to play the latest Pokemon release, she did for 2 months, then it sat unused for 3 years in its
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by plqbfbv 4mo ago
It does take a while for all warrants to be in place, run the investigation and tie up all loose ends.. 6 months is fast by bureaucracy standards. The fact that he happened to be in NY is a lucky shot for the prosecutors.
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by plqbfbv 4mo ago
> Polymarket accounts should be untraceable The funding/retrieval chain normally isn't if you want to spend the money in real world goods and services.
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by plqbfbv 4mo ago
> if an employee can predict specific search results to such a granular extent It's not a prediction, it's a query in a tool/database that's supposed to hold counts. There's no rigging here - it's just a sum
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by plqbfbv 4mo ago
> What prevents car manufacturers from taking a normal-looking body style and electrifying it? Seems popular with the aftermarket mods. Every hybrid and EV I can think of looks like a suppository. The fact that even though an ICE engine
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by plqbfbv 4mo ago
Just like parent poster, there's a few things I pay for, and those are Kagi and Fastmail :) Fastmail is... FAST. The page refresh is basically instant, and the UI is super-snappy, well refined and something like 2026, while Gmail hasn&
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by plqbfbv 4mo ago
> such that they can use the right set of sensors in the right environmental conditions Because this part is really hard, and that's why Tesla abandoned the fusion approach. You cannot possibly foresee all the conditions in which LI
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by plqbfbv 4mo ago
> I would NOT be using Starlink for remote vehicle teleoperation even as a fall back. I had to use Starlink last year, and latency was way more acceptable than expected even when under load (I did try to analyze and remove bufferbloat)
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by plqbfbv 4mo ago
> Why do I need a cluster? I run a single-node K8s cluster on a dedicated server because it's way cleaner to manage than the previous mess and mix of docker compose + traefik routing + random stuff installed as package on the host.
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by plqbfbv 5mo ago
> Claude has limits that would make this simple statement be much more complicated- I guess the user simply pointed Claude Code at a local folder containing all the backups and files, and Code went through them via find/ls/etc
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by plqbfbv 5mo ago
> so it just boils down to strictness even when we're talking LLMs? The article describes what I've been doing for the past few months - I did small python projects in the past because of the ecosystem: I couldn't possibly

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