lazyjones

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by lazyjones 4mo ago
Better check what crypto.js is actually doing in your exact setup. Weak polyfills exist...
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by lazyjones 7mo ago
These large trucks must go. While the mentioned numbers make some economic sense (cost per tonne transported etc.), the road wear is excessive due to the fourth power law. Most cargo can be split into smaller chunks.
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by lazyjones 1y ago
Haters will say a major factor in still using Perl is the difficulty to replace up to 25+ years old Perl code written at startup pace AND the difficulty to teach old Perl devs a new language.
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by lazyjones 1y ago
The domain was a gift by the founders of inode (former Austrian ISP) and the website grew pretty fast after the brand change in 1999. But it curiously turned out that while Austrians mostly like the name (notable exeptions were delusional m
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by lazyjones 4y ago
I won't complain about this new world of "algorithmic desire" because my desires provide me with interesting and enjoyable content (none of Mr. Beast). Perhaps the problem isn't the algorithms of yt and Tik Tok, but rath
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by lazyjones 4y ago
It's pretty evil to troll people into giving them e-mail and name and then have the audacity to ask for a phone number. Without giving people who don't want that the possibility to delete the previously entered personal data...
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by lazyjones 4y ago
Tactical nuclear weapons for example. https://www.19fortyfive.com/2022/02/russia-has-a-massive-sto...
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by lazyjones 4y ago
> That is very far from the truth - please check the recent events You are forgetting or ignoring Russia's bigger guns. If Russia wanted to use NATO methods, it would be over in one day with hundreds of thousands of civilian casualt
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by lazyjones 4y ago
Putting NATO soldiers on the ground is equivalent to declaring WW3, few are willing to do that. Therefore, Ukraine's fate is sealed and the outcome is dictated by Russia's desires. The open question is how long it will take and at
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by lazyjones 4y ago
AI-generated media in general will likely plunge us into a new dark age. Every report you see on the news, every "secret recording" of a politician doing something dodgy, will be either an AI generated fake or considered as such b
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by lazyjones 4y ago
Someone should build stackable, pluggable shipping containers with a battery in the floor, to power both container ships and trucks. Tesla?
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by lazyjones 4y ago
> I bet if you correct for the effect of GDP per capita, they will rank near the bottom among European countries too. If you start correcting for other variables, you'll have to look at demographics, size and flatness of the country
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by lazyjones 4y ago
Danes still own as many cars as everyone else, it's not really an outlier and the number of cars per capita is growing. https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/road_eqs_carh...
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by lazyjones 4y ago
Bicycles compete with public transport, not cars. Also: > The Vehicles per 1000 people of Denmark is similar to that of United Kingdom, Qatar, Czech Republic, Estonia, Ireland, Dominica, Barbados, Bermuda, Bulgaria, Slovak Republic with
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by lazyjones 4y ago
I'm actually surprised that parasitic infection rate with native parasites (where humans aren't an accidental host) was so low at 30% or less. That would mean the existing treatments were rather effective. Just for comparison, ht
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by lazyjones 4y ago
And still you're typing repetitive text. My dad was punching cards and able to read code from punched tape. I grew up writing code on a home computer's display. And now, 35 years later, it's long overdue that some visual NoCo
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by lazyjones 4y ago
This will just make rents more expensive.
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by lazyjones 4y ago
The whole idea of a "scientific consensus" is flawed as it's being used. Here, DM is the dominant theory in the scientific community at this time, but there are strong arguments against it, how can one call that a "conse
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by lazyjones 4y ago
As GDP includes earnings from investments in foreign countries (which at least Germany does plenty of), this is a somewhat moot point.
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by lazyjones 4y ago
> Can we get that below 10 for regular highway driving, say at 130km/h? Probably not with normal-sized cars. For the Model 3, the theoretical minimum is 13.8 kW. This increases linearly with drag coefficient and area (as seen from
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by lazyjones 4y ago
From my perspective as someone who wrote and moderated his own NIH forum in 2000 - still in use today - the main reasons for the slow decline in usage both by users and publishers were: - the move to media-heavy content (images and video) a
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by lazyjones 4y ago
> Nobody would care about the slipped FSD timelines if they hadn’t paid for it. Tesla’s mistake was charging for it. I paid for it (€2500 or 3000 I don't remember) and I'm not stressed. I have the world's best "autopi
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by lazyjones 4y ago
My point is that the tone of the article is "the company is doomed" when all that is doomed is perhaps the previous high stock valuation.
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by lazyjones 4y ago
I don't really understand the tone of this article. Estimates are that they lost 1% of subscribers in Q2 while stock price is down 70% this year. Are they going broke? Apparently not. Is the stock price already very low? Yes, it appear
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by lazyjones 4y ago
> and they are just becoming one of the 50 EV car makers out there. The Model Y was recently the best-selling car regardless of technology (i.e. overall best-selling passenger car) in several countries. Most notably, last month in China.
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by lazyjones 4y ago
Why should it? It's geting really good. https://www.youtube.com/c/WholeMarsCatalog/videos
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by lazyjones 4y ago
I've had nothing break after 5 years so far. Best car I've ever had (previously: VW Passat, BMW 525iX, BMW 530xd).
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by lazyjones 4y ago
> Does anybody seriously think Karpathy would step down if FSD was really close to be released ?? Life is not only about work. I stepped down from the company I funded after 14 years, it never stopped growing after that. Some people just
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by lazyjones 4y ago
> doesn’t seem capable of solving it, How so? If humans can master driving with 2 eyes looking forward, why would a car with plenty of cameras in all directions not have sufficient sensory input to master it? The problem is the software,
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by lazyjones 4y ago
Capital always flows to regions where it's not subjected to high taxation and where it's reasonably safe from political turmoil. And without plenty of capital, the only way developing nations can get rich is by exploiting resource

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