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- Comment on Even Apple finally admits that 8GB RAM isn't enough 5 days ago:
Oh, my sweet summer child…
- Comment on Julian Assange has reached a plea deal with the U.S., allowing him to go free 6 days ago:
From this thread, looks like you’re right, sadly…
- Comment on Julian Assange has reached a plea deal with the U.S., allowing him to go free 6 days ago:
Even if Assange himself was openly interfering in US politics, how is that relevant? If he isn’t a US person, and he’s not on US soil, why would he be bound by US law? US law isn’t universal law, you know.
- Comment on Julian Assange has reached a plea deal with the U.S., allowing him to go free 6 days ago:
Yes, but that’s not treason. It could be treason if he was American, but he isn’t.
- Comment on Julian Assange has reached a plea deal with the U.S., allowing him to go free 6 days ago:
I fail to see how that’s relevant here. The guy isn’t a US national and wasn’t in the US when he committed his alleged “crime”.
He has absolutely no duty towards the US and is 100% free to associate with whoever he wants, and yes, even Russia.
US has no standing whatsoever in this situation, and it’s a travesty of international law that Sweden and the UK even entertained the idea of extraditing him. The response should’ve been “go sue the American who actually committed that crime on American soil. Oh wait, you’ve already convicted her, and she’s already out after serving her sentence? WTF are you going on about then?”
- Comment on The cost-of-living crisis is so bleak that some Gen Zers genuinely fear becoming homeless 1 month ago:
Looking at the drama that’s currently going on in my small village, NIMBY is a hell of a drug. Not sure how we can regulate that.
- Comment on Republicans are pulling out all the stops to reverse EV adoption 1 month ago:
They already do: Ford has the Mach-E & F-150 Lightning plus a bunch of PHEVs, GM has (had) the Bolt, Stellantis makes a few PHEVs among which one of the the very few cars on the market that can carry 7 passengers on battery power (the Chrysler Pacifica) altough that one is made in Canada, not the US.
Oh, and all of Tesla.
- Comment on Republicans are pulling out all the stops to reverse EV adoption 1 month ago:
A 100k mile used car is already near the bottom of the depreciation curve, you probably sold it too cheap. Adjusting for inflation, $10k 10 years ago is $13k today. Covid did a number on the auto industry so all car prices skyrocketed, but they’re starting to recover: your hypothetical is only 15% higher when you adjust for inflation, which looks about right.
Cheap new cars don’t exist anymore because everyone want to buy fucking luxury SUVs or pickup trucks to drive their kids to school. It has nothing to do with EVs; we actually see this trend on the EV market too: GM abandoned their best-selling EV (Chevy Bolt) to instead focus on a bigger SUV (an electric Equinox, IIRC).
- Comment on Post your Servernames! 2 months ago:
I use famous programmers. First Linux server was Torvalds, first mac was Woz, currently in service I have Kernighan (one of the inventors of C), KJohnson (Katherine Johnson was a programmer for NASA) and Shamir (The S in RSA).
- Comment on Apple argues in favor of selling Macs with only 8GB of RAM 2 months ago:
Sometimes I wish Apple hadn’t turned all of their notebook lines into MacBook Air variants. The unibody MBP line was amazing.
Typing this from a M2 Max Macbook Pro with 32GB, and honestly, this thing puts the “Pro” back in the MBP. It’s insanely powerful, I rarely have to wait for it to compile code, transcode video, or run AI stuff. It also does all of that while sipping battery, it’s not even breaking a sweat. Yes, it’s pretty thin, but it’s by no means underpowered. Apple really is onto something with their M* lineup.
But yeah, selling “Pro” laptops with 8GB in 2024 is very stupid.
- Comment on why don't people say mega meters 3 months ago:
We routinely count vehicle odometers in thousands of kilometers, AKA Megameters. I’d say it’s a common enough measurement to popularize Megameters
- Comment on Why Charging Your Gadgets Over 80% Is Such a Bad Idea | iFixit News 4 months ago:
I have enabled the option to limit charging to 85% on my Samsung, and last weekend I needed it to last for 2 days so I charged it to 100%. Easily made it. It’s nice to know you have that 100% when you need it .
- Comment on Passkeys might really kill passwords 4 months ago:
KeepassXC works on Mac, too and there’s KeepassDX for Android.
- Comment on Weather app asking for permission to manage calls 5 months ago:
Even SD cards and USB chargers have powerful microcontrollers in them nowadays
- Comment on The "i" in Linux and Linus have different pronunciations even when they shouldn't. 6 months ago:
The I as in “free”, but shorter (not drawn out) and the u as in “urban”, maybe? It’s hard to find English words where they make the french U sound, but it’s pronounced the same pretty much all the time.
- Comment on The "i" in Linux and Linus have different pronunciations even when they shouldn't. 6 months ago:
Hey, we pronounce both the same, too. Sorry English, that’s on you and you alone.
- Comment on Toyota boasts new battery technology with 745-mile range and 10-minute charging time — here’s how it may impact mass EV adoption 6 months ago:
Actually, no. I’d like a Dodge Caravan or Odyssey. The Tahoe and Suburban are way too big on the outside, but they’re actually very small on the inside.
You’re on point about the fanciness, though. I got TVs in my current car (Pacifica Pinnacle, it’s the only model they had), and they’re awful. For the cost of that option, I would’ve been much better off buying a bunch of iPads.
- Comment on Toyota boasts new battery technology with 745-mile range and 10-minute charging time — here’s how it may impact mass EV adoption 6 months ago:
The Pacifica is actually what I ended up buying.
- Comment on YouTube’s Loaded With EV Disinformation 6 months ago:
EVs are a good stopgap solution for climate change while we rework our urban environments to be less car-centric.
But we have to start somewhere, and as an individual I can pester my representatives to improve public transit & infrastructure and at the same time look at EVs next time I buy a car. One doesn’t preclude the other, and EVs are still a step in the march towards carbo-neutrality. They’re not the destination, but they absolutely have a role to play in getting there.
- Comment on YouTube’s Loaded With EV Disinformation 6 months ago:
These are bad from a local air-quality perspective, but they’re not relevant to climate change.
- Comment on Car dealers say they can’t sell EVs, tell Biden to slow their rollout 6 months ago:
Batteries are often the part that has the longest warranty. It’ll be a while before it’s your problem, and even then, costs will probably be down by a lot.
- Comment on Toyota boasts new battery technology with 745-mile range and 10-minute charging time — here’s how it may impact mass EV adoption 6 months ago:
I’m in Canada, we’re supposed to get the US model which is longer and not out yet. The European model is only a 5-seater so it’s not for me.
- Comment on Toyota boasts new battery technology with 745-mile range and 10-minute charging time — here’s how it may impact mass EV adoption 6 months ago:
My previous vehicle was a Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid (which I sold in 2022 when I left for a long trip), and I actually bought another one after Tesla cancelled my order. It is a good option, but my main gripe with it is that it doesn’t have enough electric range and it only charges on AC. I was ready to go full electric, but apparently the market isn’t.
- Comment on Toyota boasts new battery technology with 745-mile range and 10-minute charging time — here’s how it may impact mass EV adoption 6 months ago:
You mean the VW ID.Buzz? It’s not out yet, and I needed a car in June.
- Comment on Toyota boasts new battery technology with 745-mile range and 10-minute charging time — here’s how it may impact mass EV adoption 6 months ago:
I bought a car last summer, and I had my wallet out ready to buy an EV. I had only 2 criteria:
- Must seat at least 6 (I have 4 kids)
- Must be under 100k CAD (a bit beyond my budget, but I’m willing to stretch to avoid gas)
Guess how many models were available? 1 - the Tesla Model Y, 7-seater option. And I did order one, but they cancelled my order because they stopped selling that variant in Canada.
So that’s why I am not buying an EV. Manufacturers can’t be arsed to build a car that meets my very simple criteria; they prefer making another boring 5-seater crossover or yet another humongous “luxury” SUV. I want a minivan, dammit.
- Comment on Lookin for self hosted invoice system 6 months ago:
I use pancake, works pretty well. It’s paid, but only a one-time payment and you get the code.
- Comment on Apple has a memory problem and we're all paying for it 7 months ago:
I buy and use Macbook Pros for work (web dev), and I do look at specs. And yeah, 8GB is ridiculous and the upgrade prices are absurd. Amazingly good machine, though.
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
They are heavier (altough not as much as Lead-Acid!), which is why they don’t tend to be used in “portable” applications like e-scooters.
- Comment on Anybody using a local server for their "cloud"based thermostats? 8 months ago:
For baseboard heaters, I have the Sinopé line of ZigBee thermostats, with home-assistant on my home server. Baseboards are kind of particular in that you have one thermostat per room, so at 350+ for a Nest, it’d be cost-prohibitive as I have like 15 thermostats in the house. Also, they’re line voltage, meaning that they directly switch the full power of the heaters, so they need to be well made.
I’ve had my Sinopé thermostats for 2+ years now, and I’m very happy with them. No clouds involved here.
- Comment on Which side are you? Javascript or Typescript 9 months ago:
This last part sounds nice in theory, but it’s way outside the scope of what Typescript is intended to accomplish. I’ve been pursuing a similar goal on and off for 10+ years at this point, I even wrote an ORM for Backbone.js so I could use it on the server as well. Back then we called it Isomorphic Javascript, later on it got renamed to “universal javascript”, nowadays I’m not sure.
But yeah, the problem is similar with any code, really… What you’re often writing in software dev is just functions, but the infrastructure required to actually call said function is often not trivial. I agree it’d be nice to be able to have different “wrapper types” easily, but I’m afraid their usefulness would be limited beyond toy projects.