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debian3··on Low cost mmWave 60GHz radar sensor for advanced sensing
There is tons of cheaper alternatives now. Some chinese brand. The implementation is particularly hard to get right (how to avoid object that enters the radar field of view like passing next to a fence among other tricky scenario like a car that follow at the same speed as you but suddenly accelerate to pass you, etc). A lot of competiting radars will have false positives or negatives. That’s why Garmin is still the favorite product on the market. Wahoo just released one as well, and the reviews are quite positive so far. Bryton makes one, Magene, Giant, Trek, igpsport, etc.
debian3··on Tesla sales decline in Europe for fifth straight month as rivals gain ground
The two biggest is BYD and Geely. Pretty much the Toyota/Honda of China.
debian3··on Phoenix.new – Remote AI Runtime for Phoenix
Try claude --dangerously-skip-permissions
debian3··on US Streetlights Are Turning Purple
Philips are great. I installed the Phillips hue in 2013, they are still going strong. I replaced one out of the 40 or so over the years. It didn’t burn out, it was turning back on by itself…
debian3··on LLMs and Elixir: Windfall or deathblow?
Gemini is not great in Elixir, Sonnet is the best by far.
debian3··on A flat pricing subscription for Claude Code
The default unlimited model is now gpt 4.1 https://github.blog/changelog/2025-05-08-openai-gpt-4-1-is-n...
debian3··on OpenAI in Talks to Buy Windsurf for About $3B
Tried them, sonnet is still where it’s at. Not sure what is the special sauce at Anthropic.
debian3··on Windows 2000 Server named peak Microsoft
I don’t know why they always alternate a good with a bad release. Technically Windows 12 should be good.
debian3··on Foreign visits into the U.S. fell off a cliff in March
If you are from Canada, get Nexus. Much less trouble crossing in USA. Small fee to pay for the peace of mind and the process to cross is so much faster.
debian3··on Block YouTube ads on AppleTV by decrypting and stripping ads from Profobuf (2022)
And that’s why there is SponsorBlock
debian3··on Ask HN: Replacement for Rackspace SMTP Hosting?
Im using MXroute. I got their lifetime deal maybe 4 years ago. Good for basic smtp
debian3··on New battery-free technology can power devices using ambient RF signals
https://www.eevblog.com/2023/03/01/eevblog-1532-another-2-8m...
debian3··on Get coding help from Gemini Code Assist – now for free
Why is it so bad in this day and age of Cursor/Windsurf? I installed yesterday expecting I will loose my time since it’s made by Google (how far have they fallen, I remember being so excited about gmail in 2005). And ho boy, you can’t even drag and drop files from your ide in the chat to add them into the context. Basic features that we now take for granted are lacking. I uninstalled right away, don’t know why I fell for it once more.

Why is Google in that state? What happened?

They have to give their product for free and it’s so bad that even for free it seems nobody wants them. During that time you have company like Cursor that are super popular and charge for their service. Anthropic their servers are melting under the load and they charge top dollar for it.

If this came out 2 or 3 years ago, that would have been good.

debian3··on Apple Debuts iPhone 16e
83% is pretty bad. You might be surprised if you put a new battery in it.
debian3··on Apple Debuts iPhone 16e
I never had safari crash on mine except that one website from here a while back. Not sure what it was .
debian3··on Apple Debuts iPhone 16e
Maybe the battery. I’m typing this on my 13 mini and it’s as fast as it’s ever been.

I still have apple care+ on mine. I knew they will probably never make a new one again. I use it without a case, so when I drop it break the screen or something, I just get an express replacement. There is a small fee ($100 or something) and I basically get a brand new iPhone mini. Hopefully their replacement stock last for a while.

debian3··on My LLM codegen workflow
Use vs code insider if you can. They double the context size and it really makes a difference. You get 128k input token.
debian3··on I put a Spotify jukebox on my website so you can control what I'm listening to
It’s an algorithm loop. Here the popular song you might like. Oh, you are listening to those songs so here more of it. There’s millions of songs on the service, but I have the feeling mine is only 1000 or so.

Any one have good suggestions for music exploration on Spotify?

debian3··on GitHub Copilot: The Agent Awakens
I will need to rebuild that dev container.
debian3··on GitHub Copilot: The Agent Awakens
I use both too.

1 year ago Cursor was way ahead. Copilot had only one model and it was 4k input 4k output and it was forgetting about the previous reply. It was horrible.

One year later, the input context is at 128k token if you use vs code insider (64k for stable). You have multiples models, etc. they still cut corner like o1 barely answer (I guess they severely restrict the amount of output token) but sonnet 3.5 works surprisingly well.

They do have rate limit, you can check their issues tracker on GitHub, there are complaints about rate limits every day.

All in all, for $10 it’s good value. Cursor is also great for $20 and you get more models and more features.

Copilot is catching up fast, but they are not there yet. But they finally woke up.

debian3··on Where are Mr. Beast's early sponsors now?
I just tried Facebook, not my experience here.
debian3··on Where are Mr. Beast's early sponsors now?
Cloudflare warp.
debian3··on Show HN: It took me 5() months to build a Plausible alternative
Is it me that doesn’t see the obvious, or backing up with docker is not as easy as it could be? VM are much easier to backup for exemple.
debian3··on When railroad dining cars were the height of luxury
If anyone is interested, you can look up Rovos Rails. They have dining car like shown on the articles. Truly unique experience and even better for those of you who want to disconnect, as there is no cellphone service for most of the journey.
debian3··on Tesla's value drops $60B after investors fail to hail self-driving 'Cybercab'
I’m in China, there’s a few Tesla, but the bulk of it is BYD and Geely. Not sure why Nio always get mentioned, they are not that popular.
debian3··on Moments in Chromecast's history
Or Gtalk, Google Chat, Hangouts, allo, duo, wave, whatever it’s called nowadays.
debian3··on AWS CEO Stepping Down
I have been using OVH since 2005. Still waiting to loose my data.

Uptime wise I had 2 outages last December with one of my server with them (electrical issue). Prior to that I don’t even remember, maybe in 2018 or something. Thankfully I had no server in Strasbourg, I saw pictures of their containers datacenter there and decided to choose Roubaix.

OVH is great if you need a lot of bandwidth. Servers price are no longer as competitive as before.

debian3··on Gamers Nexus: Asus Scammed Us [video]
I bought a 32 inch 4k screen from them in 2016. Lot of dead pixels. Replacement had more. Second replacement had a bit less but still a few. Left a bad review, Asus contacted me, they sent me a replacement directly telling me it would be perfect. That screen was worst of the previous 3, lot of uneven backlight and tons of dead pixels. I kept the third once and shipped back their « replacement ». I’m still using it, but the menu is slow and it take forever to wake up. I haven’t bought anything from Asus since.
debian3··on Costa Rica restored its forests and switched to renewable energy
Panama is pretty stable as well and it’s next door.
debian3··on TrueNAS Core: Soft EOL
I built a truenas server last December and I was hesitating between core and scale. I went with scale since I have been using debian for a while and never saw any reason to switch away from it. Glad I did.
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