Toutouxc

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by Toutouxc 6d ago
Hey, the Python thing is interesting! I’ve noticed that Fable, too, likes to write tons of Python, even for just replacing a few lines of code. Before that used to be either some kind of internal thing or regular awk sed, now it’s full pyth
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by Toutouxc 7d ago
I’ve had them for 3,5 years now and off the top of my head I can’t remember where the “charging leads” are. So it’s safe to say that mine definitely don’t get gunked up.
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by Toutouxc 7d ago
That might make sense, but to clarify, my dad has disabled his ad blocker a few months ago by accident, so he’s fair game. An older guy too, I guess that’s why there were so many scams.
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by Toutouxc 7d ago
I like how the least optimistic scenario is simply LLMs not making a difference, instead of the very real possibility of them damaging education, destroying people’s attention spans and their ability to learn, eroding trust within societies
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by Toutouxc 7d ago
This is so perfect and depressing that I might cry. It’s like a Kafka novel about programming.
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by Toutouxc 7d ago
Note that your reply has exactly 0 value for anyone who doesn’t already know where and how the parent poster is wrong.
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by Toutouxc 7d ago
That’s surprising, because in my opinion Google doesn’t care about malicious anything. The other day I had to look for something on YouTube on my dad’s computer with a disabled ad-blocker. I saw like 30 ads in 15 minutes, every single one o
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by Toutouxc 8d ago
It’s true that my first thought, as someone with actual diagnosed ADHD, was “how the hell is this related to ADHD?”.
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by Toutouxc 8d ago
Are people that much larger in the US? I’d happily raise three European-sized kids in the 130 sqm bachelor pad.
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by Toutouxc 8d ago
> the original LAN house was not very big: 1400 sqft. This made for a pretty awesome bachelor pad, but would have been a bit cramped for raising a family. That’s 130 m^2. A fucking bachelor pad.
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by Toutouxc 11d ago
Infuriating, yes, but apparently getting shot for no reason is also quite popular. This sounds like the better deal.
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by Toutouxc 12d ago
Sadly, I don’t keep older conversations. Also now that you’ve asked, I expect Claude to be absolutely stellar for the next few weeks :D
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by Toutouxc 12d ago
The electric plane isn’t a 737, the fuselage looks quite slender.
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by Toutouxc 12d ago
> You are saying that they took off with a normal amount of power for a plane that size, then cruised around using an amount of power (45kw) that wouldn’t keep a two person plane 1/20th the weight airborne. No, I’m not saying anythi
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by Toutouxc 12d ago
I have no idea what point you’re trying to make or how is my vacation “the key here”. I’m visiting a regular Czech town that just happens to be almost exactly 125 miles from another regular Czech town (the one where my parents live), and I
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by Toutouxc 12d ago
I live in Czechia, in Europe, a first-world country with dense population and a very normal road network. I am now on vacation, and I’m exactly 205 km as the crow flies from where my parents live. If I wanted to drive to them right now, it
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by Toutouxc 12d ago
Sorry, but you’re still weirdly switching from power (kilowatts) to energy (kilowatt hours). The electric plane could easily pull 1.5 megawatts for two minutes (on takeoff) and consume 50 kWh of energy, then spend the next 45 kWh cruising a
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by Toutouxc 12d ago
That’s why I approximated the fuselage as two EVS (the frontal area) and I only looked up the drag coefficient of a 737 because it’s a well-known narrow-body airliner. I don’t know what speeds they flew, but AFAIK most maiden flights are ve
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by Toutouxc 12d ago
I am, but it doesn’t take a genius to know that 125 miles as the crow flies is “less than 2 hours of driving” between like 6 specific pairs of destinations in the whole world.
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by Toutouxc 13d ago
I still don’t see what the problem is. The entire flight was likely just a few patterns and your earlier figure of 100 kWh (let’s assume they get their electricity for cheap) is already a serious amount of energy. It takes 100 kWh of energy
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by Toutouxc 13d ago
Even Ryanair turnarounds take like 30 minutes. A bit more than that and you can charge the plane comfortably. Fueling bigger planes is quite the ceremony.
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by Toutouxc 13d ago
Somewhat quieter, but not by much. We’re talking about prop planes here, where the prop is the noisy part.
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by Toutouxc 13d ago
As a rule of thumb, when you find yourself looking at an existing internal combustion vehicle and converting fossil fuel energies and efficiencies using battery gravimetric densities, you’re almost always at the “garbage in” stage of GIGO.
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by Toutouxc 13d ago
> 125 miles … That’s less than two hours of driving. I don’t know where you live or what you drive, but I just punched in a destination 200 km away as the crow flies, the Alps are in the way and I’m looking at five hours of driving. Also
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by Toutouxc 13d ago
> Aircraft fly with a buffer of fuel though to avoid such situations, so why can't an electric aircraft fly with a similar buffer on it's range? Because the required buffer is HUGE and we’re at a point where electric planes bar
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by Toutouxc 13d ago
> I am reasonably confident that there's essentially nothing that I am better than Fable at despite generally being substantively above average on human benchmarks I genuinely don’t understand how an adult can say this with a straig
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by Toutouxc 1mo ago
Roughly the usable lifetime? Based on what?
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by Toutouxc 1mo ago
My experience is that if there’s water and mud on the ground, a fender doesn’t help much. Especially on a higher travel mountain bike (I ride 150mm of travel front and back) where you can’t get it close enough to the tire. After a while it
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by Toutouxc 1mo ago
Personally I’m not doing any downhill riding with the motor in my backpack. Or really anything hard with sharp edges. I like having a working spine. Either it’s unsprung mass or a liability, and, well, actual e-bikes have converged on BB mo
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by Toutouxc 1mo ago
“Cheap” meaning low-end, not actually cheap for people to buy with their salaries. Bikes are, unfortunately, surprisingly expensive nowadays, and the market isn’t doing great.

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