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Re:Telegram Serverless on Wednesday July 15, 2026 @08:16AM (#48919655)
Out of curiosity - how did you figure this out? I cannot find any hints about that. Was it the language used?
Re:Zed is 1.0 on Wednesday April 29, 2026 @10:42AM (#47949140)
Does anybody have experience running Claude Code or Codex in Zed?
Re:GnuPG – post-quantum crypto landing in mainline on Sunday April 26, 2026 @03:10AM (#47908092)
I haven’t heard this quote before, but I am copying it here because it makes so much sense:

Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different from saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say. - Edward Snowden

Re:YouTube now lets you turn off Shorts on Thursday April 16, 2026 @12:11AM (#47788576)
I actually set the time limit to 0 minutes , then I restarted the app in iOS and right now I do not see any shorts. Let’s see how long it would take for them to reappear again
Re:7-Zip 25.00 on Saturday July 05, 2025 @08:05PM (#44476572)
I think that at least since win10 there is zip embedded in windows, it’s just not 7z
Re:Aptera's First Solar Road Trip. 300 Miles, One Charge on Thursday April 03, 2025 @03:25AM (#43566045)
there was a German startup (Sono Sion) some years ago that had a very similar idea and had even prototypes [0], but they filed for insolvency 2-3 years ago. Now I think they pivoted to something more boring and practical - putting solar panels on vehicles. I hope aptera gets to production though

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sono_Motors_Sion

Re:So You Want to Learn Physics on Sunday August 20, 2023 @03:35PM (#37202262)
It is interesting that 2 years later the same reviewer changes their mind a bit:

> Now, a few years after writing that review, I must return to say that as much as I hate this book, it's probably the best textbook that I have. I constantly return to it to reteach myself basic concepts or math. The problem with the text is that in order for it to be useful, you pretty much have to already understand the material. It's a dense, technical manual that, when paired with an easier to understand text such as Griffiths, grants tremendous power. Don't get me wrong, if there is a hell, I personally hope John David Jackson is burning in it right now, but I also have to tip my hat to him

Re:Gail.com FAQ on Monday January 09, 2023 @04:21AM (#34308400)
it reminds me of http://milk.com/faq/
Re:Tilck – A Tiny Linux-Compatible Kernel on Sunday January 08, 2023 @07:10AM (#34298428)
on NXP K60 with FreeRTOS and lwIP IP based networking runs without problems with 256k Flash and 64k RAM. Of course it depends on the application, because the throughput is not high, but that is not the point here
Re:A guide to getting started with embedded systems on Friday May 13, 2022 @04:17AM (#31364715)
I have thought about this myself. I do not think it is directly related to China. I think it is just not trendy to be an embedded developer. And the reason is that it is extremely difficult to start a hardware company (even more with the chip shortages in the last 2 years) because one needs to take care of delivering components that are rare or not available for months, to create the firmware for the board, to manufacture it and deliver it to the customer. Working from home office is often not possible, because soldering stations are needed, oscilloscopes, power supplies etc. The tools are also often not cheap, a debugger can cost 10-15$, but often for bigger projects the debuggers are 100x more expensive, the compiler could also cost a couple of thousand dollars. Then if there are bugs in the SW (there are always bugs) it is again difficult to update the software (this has improved in recent years with all the connected devices/cars etc., but it is still difficult). And as far as I know there are not that many hardware companies that have big exits. On the other side, being a web developer does not require being in an office, buying expensive hardware and tools, nothing is physically delivered and at the end there is a chance to be part of a big tech exit. Big exits -> big salaries
Re:Gas tanker hit by super-yacht sinks off New Providence on Thursday December 30, 2021 @04:54PM (#29741923)
My instructor told me that the size is what matters often in real life. He was sailing a 45 foot yacht from Europe to South America (ARC race) and in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean they were very close to hitting a huge tanker. They were with sails at night, but the tanker was not willing to change course for such a small boat so around 50m before the impact the sailing boat changes course. All the time they were on the radio talking with the captain of the tanker, but they could not persuade him to change course. And for them this is a race so they always wanted to follow the optimal course, therefore they were reluctant to change their course
Re:Open Steno Project – Freeing stenography on Friday October 29, 2021 @04:20AM (#29036427)
thanks, it also does not look fast to me and does not seem to improve the process the way it does for speech. Additionally I guess there is a steep learning curve so it is definitely not for everybody
Re:Open Steno Project – Freeing stenography on Friday October 29, 2021 @03:29AM (#29036147)
can stenography be used to write code? or is it only for text based on speech?
Re:Watchy: Hackable $50 Smartwatch on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @04:48PM (#26321365)
There is an assembly video at https://youtu.be/PCPxTS1aF3w
Re:Dog-walking startup Wag raised $300M, then things got messy on Friday September 27, 2019 @04:29PM (#21095978)
I wonder if his investments could really trigger something like that. Are there other investments of the Vision fund that are falling apart besides WeWork and Wag?
Re:Porsche Disrupts Itself with Taycan on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @05:26AM (#20926456)
I agree, it looks amazing, but I still do not understand why EV always means many/huge displays and no hardware buttons. Maybe we just have to get used to the future with no buttons and touch screens everywhere
Re:Debugging WebAssembly outside of the browser on Wednesday September 04, 2019 @12:50PM (#20879019)
Looks interesting, but why would I need to debug wasm binaries when I could debug directly the rust code? And why would I want to convert it to wasm? In order to run it in the browser, right?
Re:Compact TLS 1.3 on Monday August 12, 2019 @04:20PM (#20679532)
How long does it normally take for such a draft to become a standard - 4-5 years or less?
from what I understood, it is either home assistant, or this WebThings Gateway, it is not possible to use both at the same time
Re:Audi e-tron first drive review: a solid electric SUV on Friday December 07, 2018 @04:35PM (#18631906)
Besides that you don’t need the whole mechanics of the mirrors like moving and folding them. All this could be done with software. Dimming and heating is also not necessary and the camera could also be used for some part of the autonomous driving. I guess in 5-10 years many cars would have them
Re:Advice to read before buying a course from Udemy on Thursday May 31, 2018 @04:02PM (#17199684)
I have checked a couple of courses over the last months and they always offer 90% discount and only for a couple of days. But when the time expires, the discount gets automatically extended. So these 190$ are just a fiction
Re:Getting Google to ban our entire company on Monday May 21, 2018 @02:13AM (#17116489)
I also think am own domain and email is the better option and I cannot understand why a company of 100-150 employees would use google mail. Is it because of searching, sorting options or something else that is much better with gmail?
I think the updated version is called Magic Body Control [1] and the videos show an impressive behavior. But when this tech came out a couple of years ago, Autobild have tested it thoroughly and said that it works well on big bumps, but on everyday small street bumps and cracks that you mostly see on the streets, there was no effect. And it costs additional ~10k EUR...

[1]: https://youtu.be/ScpgI1w5F6A

This is exactly my impression. A friend bought a new Tesla S and one day while getting out of it I saw some quality problems that are easily seen on the outside by just passing by. I wonder what problems could arise if I inspect it in details.

We have developed one of the modules for all BMW series and I used to visit some of the BMW plants in Europe so I have a relatively good impression of their quality. Just an example: the tires are screwed manually by hand. With an automatic screwdriver, but still by hand... in Germany. When I asked why, they said that they have tried doing this automatically, but back then ( 5 years ago) there was no robot that could do it with that quality. So sometimes quality depends heavily on experience. And Tesla does not have enough experience.

This friend of mine had to bring back his Tesla a couple of weeks after he bought it, because the salesman told him on the day he received the car, that there were some small details that needed some improvements. On a 100k car. And unfortunately they have not fixed the flaws that I observed. Apparently there were also other things to fix.

I am huge fan of Tesla. I hope they succeed. But I will not but one in the 10 years. I will just let them gain some experience with serial production first.

Re:Dear Apple, please fix notifications on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @11:30AM (#16275077)
But they moved the lock button to the side as it was in android since forever, right? So navigation like android is not impossible. What is impossible is to reach the upper left corner with one hand
I do not understand why they do not switch to "progressive web apps". What are their disadvantages compared to native apps?
Re:Mercedes got caught trashing a rental Tesla Model X on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @01:13AM (#15850111)
From what I know, this is not only a normal thing to do, everybody is doing it. The reason for renting the car and not buying it is not only because it is much faster to get your hands on the car, much cheaper and much easier, but what would they do with do many cars that should be bought after disassembling them and doing whatever they want to do? They do not do this for every car, but with so many manufacturers and car models every year this could well be 50 cars a year. An interesting thing I know is that it could take 2 days to disassemble the rented car, one day of photoshoot and then two days of assembling the car back. And even for experienced people like them breaking some parts while disassembling is also a normal thing. So very often cable ties are used to hold some plastics or other parts together. Important is that they are not visible during visual inspection when they return the car back
Re:Ask HN: Best Hacker News client for iOS? on Sunday December 03, 2017 @03:18PM (#15839331)
I also use feedly, but you can't comment there, right? And you do not see the source of the link, which is sometimes quite helpful

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