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iknowstuffon I went to Mexico to test-drive the cars Americans can’t buy

Even the worst ev driven off coal nets out to less emissions in its lifetime than gas cars. this has been known and well studied for like a decade. Keep up!

Also their LFP batteries are extremely simple and recyclable forever.

iknowstuffon Ghostty 1.4

Yea unfortunately eg Ubuntu’s bashrc has a script which will make it drop colors regardless of the presence of ghostty’s terminfo. Its `screen` will also fail, so e.g. it will refuse to upgrade to a new distro release.

Lots of jank due to this custom terminfo.

iknowstuffon Ghostty 1.4

rootshell is libghostty and free, doesnt strike me as vc backed

iknowstuffon 2026 is an exciting year for the Rust compiler (and me)

Maybe the proposal you saw was breaking up into crates, which is Rust's compilation units and can be parallelized. They're not microservices, they're just libraries which still combine to produce a single binary.

iknowstuffon macOS 15.8.2 Breaks OpenGL

There's a bug causing NSStatusItems in MenuBar<->WindowServer to enter a continuous redraw loop after a number of hours of uptime which pins CPU at like at least 10-20%. I filed it as FB24528844

    1. WindowServer sends the app a stream of remote-context notifications (CGSDatagramReadStream::dispatchMainQueueDatagrams -> remote_context_notify).
    2. AppKit responds by rebuilding the status-bar window's tracking areas and structural regions (_NSTrackingAreaAKManager _updateStructuralRegionCreateIfNeeded / displayCycleUpdateStructuralRegions, including NSButtonCell _hasRolloverAppearance for the menu bar rollover effect).
    3. That dirties the window, so UpdateCycle/stepTransactionFlush commits a CA::Transaction to the WindowServer.
    4. Another notification arrives and the loop repeats at display refresh rate.

iknowstuffon I electrified my push scooter with a power drill

do you have alerts set up for your personal site's traffic?

iknowstuffon Tesla Roadster

https://robotaxitracker.com/cameras?metric=vehicles&kind=cyb...

they have about as many unsupervised robotaxis on the road as there are waymos in austin, as spotted by an AI watching public camera feeds

iknowstuffon Grok Voice 3.0

hackernews is sleeping on this model

iknowstuffon Solar panels that plug into your wall

grid forming inverters : )

iknowstuffon I turned my unused Kindle into a photo frame with GPT-6 Astra

Yes! I had it refuse on a similar claim of legality and when challenged to say what law forbids it it proceeded. Lil bitch.

iknowstuffon Reverse engineer anything with agents, from app behavior down to native binaries

Nah sadly not. It's very slow, fails to respond half the time (just decides to disappear, ot "we ran into a problem"), it's nowhere near the full duplex voice of GPT Live - Siri is still some dumb text model behind a TTS model, and does not work like modern agents which can take chains of actions for me. It's pathetic.

iknowstuffon MrBeast 'spends millions reverse engineering the algorithms on each platform'

Yeah if you pay for his patreon you can read his discord where he’s mentioned it. Also I think on stage at a recent youtube convention in san mateo he mentioned he always looks for the hook. Note also the increase in video length corresponding with the platform’s algorithm changes

iknowstuffon Citroen revives the 2CV for an electric age

Mazda famously built the worst EV, almost on purpose it seems

https://electrek.co/2023/11/27/ceo-of-mazda-which-makes-one-...

Its been a decade of sandbagging. Fuck them https://electrek.co/2016/11/17/madza-electric-cars/

iknowstuffon MrBeast 'spends millions reverse engineering the algorithms on each platform'

You’re incorrect about Alec from technology connections. He is very aware of hooks for videos and retention is very much on his mind. His videos are well scripted, for the most part, given his niche. But the reason the videos are an hour long is BECAUSE of the algorithm rewarding long form second screen content.

iknowstuffon Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program

It's literally required by the government's PERM process

iknowstuffon Resurrecting iChat audio and video conferencing

Holy cow I hate the facetime app so much

- answering a video call freezes the app. It recovers 10s later but video is not transmitted out

- 4 seconds to load in contact pictures

- typing 5 letters in the contact search field freezes the app for 5 seconds

- scrolling the left sidebar with contact posters is choppy

iknowstuffon Greenvolt begins building 600 MW/2.4 GWh BESS in Poland

We have one of the world's largest BESS installations in California. Calm down.

iknowstuffon Run Qwen 3.8 Flash Next (125B) on consumer hardware (RTX 4090) at 100T/s

Probably the 35B-A3B qwen

iknowstuffon NRC issues first U.S. construction permit for a BWRX-300 small modular reactor

Nuclear costs $16B/GW

Solar $1B/GW. $1B buys 5GWh of storage.

You do the math

iknowstuffon Gemini 4 Argon

lol I've hit the hipStreamCreate problem!

iknowstuffon Ask HN: Hypothesis: Cellular providers are deprioritizing voice calls?

That very much does exist still? https://reddit.com/r/nocontract

iknowstuffon Apple has added persistent 'ads' to iOS, and it's driving users crazy

It's simply a phased, safe rollout.

Europe has a long tail of MNOs and MVNOs that don't support eSIM well enough. In China, SIM activation requires visiting a store, ID verification etc. so they only recently added eSIMs, and with limits: only Chinese iPhones can install a Chinese eSIM, and foreign eSIMs cannot be installed onto a Chinese iPhone while you're physically in mainland China.

iknowstuffon Elon Musk and Tesla Forged a New EV Path

last I checked BYD was making more hybrids but not more BEVs.

iknowstuffon NASA’s Mars Sample Return mission is dead

Yeah the new one is trash. Meant and dairy are correlated with bad health outcomes. The Danish food piramid is legit. More legumes, whole veggies etc

https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1hpiuem/the_officia...

iknowstuffon AI coding has made CI a bottleneck, so we reworked ours to keep up

AI doesn’t make a responsive right-click menu a higher business priority. But we are seeing a ton of small custom projects that are as easy to dismiss as they are to abandon.

iknowstuffon Xcode 27.1 Beta Release Notes

Apparently the camera has to be active to render on both displays

iknowstuffon AirPods 5

Different strokes.

I'm the opposite, the rubber ones are annoying and give me headaches. Love the open ear feel.

iknowstuffon iPhone Duo

I don’t see the problem with the pricing. It’s the most used gadget and its an iphone and ipad in one.

iknowstuffon iPhone Duo

Samsung’s choice of square corners makes more sense for this type of device.

iknowstuffon Growing proof that autonomous cars save lives

Real world data results are so much more important than an obstacle course to overfit for.