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by plqbfbv 8mo ago
Other brands force you into doing yearly/x-1000-km inspections to keep your warranty, even for EVs. If you were to skip their inspection cycle, they may decide not to cover the issue, even if it's clearly a warranty case. You go t
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by plqbfbv 9mo ago
> Is it working if it's not actually doing anything? Yes, because unvaccinated humans lack immunity. A single imported case could spread rapidly through an unvaccinated population. I found this informative ECDC page: https:/&#
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by plqbfbv 9mo ago
> testing the CI/CD script on gitlab. It doesn't exist, and it's hell. Did you try the pipeline editor? It's at <project_url>/-/ci/editor You can see how GitLab expands the code, validate it (synt
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by plqbfbv 9mo ago
> Since you've been on the ride since '04, I'm curious to hear your thoughts. How do you feel the maintenance burden compares today versus the GCC 3.x era? With the modern binhost fallback and the improvements in portage,
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by plqbfbv 9mo ago
> I would disagree with that. You do not need a big flashing distract-o-tron in the middle of the dashboard. Except my car's screen is not distracting: I set it up for my destination, I give it a glance when needed for navigation, a
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by plqbfbv 9mo ago
I own a Tesla, and I agree. 1. What Tesla did right was put a big screen in the center of the car, and then actually think about the UX, and how to improve the software to avoid having to fiddle every other minute with controls on the scree
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by plqbfbv 9mo ago
I know I'd be one of them. A big and higher definition screen provides a ton more context from the navigation's map with wider sidebars that can contain more information, while also providing more contrast and better legibility. U
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by plqbfbv 9mo ago
I'm happily using Zed for a few weeks now. What prompted me to evaluate it was it being written (mostly) in rust, so expected better performance and stability and I got that (UI redraws are stupid fast compared to VSCode), but I wanted
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by plqbfbv 9mo ago
Yes, but they set more ambitious goals than the EU and they're succeeding at moving energy generation to renewables and electrifying transportation: https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chinas-co2-emissions-ha... The c
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by plqbfbv 9mo ago
> However Chinese domination .. make even choosing the obviously cheapest (and incidentally clean) option difficult in many parts of the world. In what way? China has basically dwarfed solar installations of any other country combined fo
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by plqbfbv 10mo ago
I dabbled a bit with recoding/encoding videos in the past: 40mbps is basically blu-ray quality (1080p/4k depending on content), and it's being used to stream a mostly-static background with some text scrolling in front of it.
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by plqbfbv 10mo ago
> how can I utilize AI without degenerating my own abilities? Personally I think my skill lies in solving the problem by designing and implementing the solution, but not how I code day-to-day. After you write the 100th getter/setter
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by plqbfbv 10mo ago
> However, honestly, 99% of my multitasking pain on MacOS comes from the un-removable ~300ms animation delay when switching spaces. "Reduced Motion" changes the animation to a fade and doesn't solve the problem. That'
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by plqbfbv 10mo ago
> I repurposed an old gaming PC with a Ryzen 1600x, 24GB of RAM, and an old GTX 1060 for my NAS since I had most of the parts already > I wish people would understand that waste is waste I think the point is that the configuration fro
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by plqbfbv 11mo ago
> the main reason is probably that Tesla no longer has much competitive advantage Yep, I think Tesla simply squandered its clear advantage and slowed research and innovation, while everybody else was accelerating. I sat in one of the fir
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by plqbfbv 11mo ago
> the same can be provided by a local provider that also has the ability to deal with large DDOS and cap off the outside when it comes down to the wire Local providers often can be 2-3x to 10x+ expensive compared to hyperscalers for the
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by plqbfbv 11mo ago
> Personally, I find this a move in the wrong direction where hostile behavior by websites is normalized and hidden. Cookie banners show web site true colors. When someone asks me to share data with a thousand of "partners", I
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by plqbfbv 11mo ago
If anybody wants to read a comic with the perspective of someone that went through one of these places and spent the years after fighting against them, I stumbled upon this one a few years ago: https://elan.school/ I am not
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by plqbfbv 11mo ago
I'm also seriously considering dropping Grafana for good for the same reasons stated in the post. Every year I need to rebuild a dashboard, reconfigure alerts, use the shiny new toy, etc etc. I'm tired. I just want the thing to al
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by plqbfbv 11mo ago
I delete almost everything: - 1:1 or 1:n conversations get archived - appointments, receipts, ... snoozed until day before use/event, then deleted afterwards - newsletters, automated messages deleted after read - promotions, discounts,
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by plqbfbv 11mo ago
It's not just that. LED headlights are much more focused beams than the old bulb lamps. As a guy with moderate myopia, even low beams can be extremely annoying up to the point of physically hurting my eyes if there are no street lights
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by plqbfbv 11mo ago
It's not like they need to `sudo apt install openvpn` and tweak the config file manually and tinker with routes and firewall rules afterwards. Basically every youtube video for the past decade has been sponsored by a VPN service offeri
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by plqbfbv 1y ago
> best of both worlds And the worst too: https://evclinic.eu/2025/09/27/if-you-drive-a-hybrid-may-god... I don't have first-hand experience, but these guys have an EV repair shop for a while and do al
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by plqbfbv 1y ago
What does particularly relevant mean? [lets set aside the CT, agree) They lost a lot of the advantage they had on hardware, but if you want a non-chinese EV with really good software and well-thought and working UX they're still a perf
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by plqbfbv 1y ago
Yep, close to regular browser tabs from my point of view. I don't know all the shortcuts, but the few that I used - CTRL+{T,W} - behaved like Chrome or Firefox.
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by plqbfbv 1y ago
I'm 93% useless for having written in 5m a plan that covers all layers of failure, keeps in touch with stakeholders and would very likely lead to the resolution of the issue in <15m (nvm that I literally did this job in the past wit
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by plqbfbv 1y ago
This is far from a new story. What is notable is that the failure is so widespread it's prompting government inquiry and action. When I still had my reddit account, maybe 95% of battery failures showing up in r/TeslaLounge or r&#x
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by plqbfbv 1y ago
I have a similar setup, but with AdGuardHome. I used Pi-Hole in the past, but AdGuardHome's UI is from this century at least. That, and the fact that with Pi-Hole it was very difficult have IPv6 working. I have an instance on my router
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by plqbfbv 1y ago
My fairly recent experience with some timelines, posted 20d ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45210911 Some of the most catastrophic ones were 3 years ago or earlier, but the latest kernel bug (point 5) was with 6.1
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by plqbfbv 1y ago
Thank you for sharing this! I've been using Witch Daemon for a while, but it does have the occasional glitches (esp. multi-screen setups). At first impression this is super-fast without lag, I'll keep testing it for a while.

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