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justsomedood··on AWS to start charging for IPv4 usage, but critical services don't support IPv6
The IPv4 header is a fixed size. You can't include a source or destination address outside of 4 bytes. Hence, IPv6 as the replacement.
justsomedood··on Tesla on autopilot rear ends motorcycle on freeway, killing rider
The speed limit where this occurred is 70mph. Most motorcyclists are at the speed limit. If the Tesla rear ended the motorcycle at 80mph (10mph difference) that is a life ending mistake.

As to how the driver didn't see the motorcycle, if the car is driving for you why even pay attention? Especially at night when there are so few other drivers. The whole reason to use autopilot is to interact less with the vehicle. I know telsa says you have to pay attention, but the point of the feature is not to.

justsomedood··on An extinct millipede the length of a car once roamed northern England
Some things are better left unearthed. Who knows what other terrors lie beneath.
justsomedood··on Which brand/fuel/color/plate of car has the most “psychopath drivers”?
How can electric be the highest scoring of that group, but electric only manufactures don't show up?
justsomedood··on Making Emacs Popular Again (2020)
This is the exact issue I have with VSCode. I don't particularly like the keybinds in emacs, but the killer feature for me is that everything is a text buffer. Eshell, magic, lsp, I interact with them all in a similar way from the keyboard. It was the terminal in VSCode that brought me back to emacs
justsomedood··on Movie written by algorithm turns out to be hilarious and intense
Wow, this really illustrates how much of an impact a skilled actor can have on a script.
justsomedood··on Show HN: Which DNS servers are you pointing to?
Wow, this is such a useful tool and a clever way of finding out the DNS server. Great job!
justsomedood··on California to Require All New Vehicles Be Zero-Emission by 2035
This is a big thing. Not just because I can and would forget to plug in at home, but a very large amount of people just aren't going to be able to charge at home. If you find out you need to take a longer trip than you had planned for quickly it would be hard to sit for an hour while the vehicle "quick" charges
justsomedood··on Mainline Linux on the MikroTik RB3011
What do you like about openWRT over routerOS?
justsomedood··on Trump’s WeChat curbs halted by judge on free speech concerns
A counterpoint is that the telephone infrastructure has been tapped by the US government to monitor even citizens conversations. My opinion is that since it requires fewer people it is easier to do. I don't think the CCP is as concerned with chinese citizens knowing what they are doing like the US seems to
justsomedood··on Bitwarden leaks passwords to other subdomains
BasicAuth is a plain text header, there is no other way to send it. Are you meaning it should only allow Basic Auth over https and refuse to login over http?
justsomedood··on GM can manage an EV's batteries wirelessly and remotely
Does this mean that battery levels reported to the driver could fluctuate and be inaccurate when there is interference?
justsomedood··on Linear – A fast issue tracker
We have been using Linear at work, but at times loading a page can be dirt slow at 30+ seconds or more in Firefox. Once he page loads interactions are fairly quick, but the page loads times for me make it hard to load an issue to look at the comments so I use them less frequently now.
justsomedood··on Five-year-old boy stopped on highway driving from Utah to California
Even looking at the other article he is gigantic for a 5 year old. Definitely closer to a 8-9 year old height.
justsomedood··on Five-year-old boy stopped on highway driving from Utah to California
Agreed. There is no way this kid is actually 5 years old. He's massive for a pre-school aged kid and our five year olds were I no way attentive or coordinated enough to have pulled something like this off. I don't get why they would like about this age. Maybe hoping for more sympathy?
justsomedood··on Radical surgery permanently extends your legs
I believe they can get 3 inches only if they lengthen femur and tibia/fibia, so it would be closer to 3.8 cm longer tibia. Still seems like it would make everything different
justsomedood··on Pollution from tire wear is worse than exhaust emissions?
Keep in mind too that a tire that has no usable tread life left is still quite heavy compared to the full tread life, new, version because there is so much left for the sidewall and the steel belts inside of the tire. They must be getting this number from measuring something else in addition to the tire
justsomedood··on Artificial intelligence will do what we ask, and that's a problem
The argument at the beginning of the article includes YouTube recommendations front more extreme, but isn't the reason that happens because of these new proposed 3 laws?
justsomedood··on Postgres tips for the average and power user
The value from generate_series is not used for anything, it is only used to generate the listed number of rows. The actual value in the examples is only provided by random(). You can create random strings, or other data types, to use with scalar selects.

I had never thought of using generate_series for inserting random data, but like you said for some tables it doesn't make sense to use purely random values.

justsomedood··on Rechargeable vs. Alkaline Batteries
My bike lights are very bright, so I get maybe 10 hours out of them from the AA one i had before it broke. We have a lot of Eneloop batteries so it was great to be able to just swap out the power without waiting for a recharge.

My current light is also lithium and gets about 10 hours because of the brightness level, but it's a little smaller. I do miss being able to find ones that use replaceable batteries, though.

justsomedood··on Volkswagen’s Costly Bet on Electric Cars
With tow ratings you subtract the weight inside the vehicle. At a tow rating of 800lbs you're not going to be pulling much of anything, and with a 41 kW/h battery it is not going to be going far at all either while towing.

I would love to replace our ICE tow vehicle with an electric if any existed, but the electric range would drop by at least half while towing. That's a lot of stopping.

As a comparison a v6 Dodge Durango's tow capacity is 6200lbs/2800kg. A v6 tow vehicle is a part-time tow vechile not intended for large loads. That durango can pull some boats and smaller camper trailers. We have used it to haul rock/gravel/stone as well. Electric would be great because the transmission wouldn't be as much of a concern but it would definitely need a lot of battery and would need a larger cooling system for the batteries and motors just like ICE tow vehicles need larger fuel tanks and larger radiators.

justsomedood··on Volkswagen’s Costly Bet on Electric Cars
That only means it will get less expensive to buy and operate an ICE vehicle, especially as the demand for fuel decreases and the price for it goes down as well. For those using an ICE vehicle for transportation and not as investment that is only a good thing
justsomedood··on Twitter Still Can't Keep Up with Its Flood of Junk Accounts, Study Finds
I'm getting 90 million hours of single threaded execution time for 326 million users with 10k passwords each, and 100ms per hash.
justsomedood··on Netflix Flexes
The Disney kids TV shows are on Netflix right now, yes. There are a lot of those shows that appeal to toddlers up to the tween age ranges. They have a very large amount of content besides just movies
justsomedood··on David Byrne Curates a Playlist of Great Protest Songs
I thought for sure Black Sabbath's War Pigs would be on here. Maybe it's not as specific of a protest as some of these.
justsomedood··on What if the Placebo Effect Isn’t a Trick?
What if it being $0 reduces to placebo effect so that it no longer is effective?
justsomedood··on Southern California just saw its longest streak of bad air in decades
Lots of fires. For the past couple of months something has been burning here and the air has been mad much more often than not.
justsomedood··on Pizza Physics: Why Brick Ovens Bake the Perfect Italian-Style Pie
Another option is to use a Kamado grill with a pizza stone. They can get very hot, and with the charcoal it gives it a nice smokey flavor. You can add wood chunks for extra flavoring as well. It's hard to eat pizza from the oven now after we have starting cooking them this way!
justsomedood··on If you’re not a Prime member, Amazon won’t sell you "The Last Jedi"
This has definitely made me shop much more often with Walmart, Best Buy and eBay
justsomedood··on Tesla issues strongest statement yet blaming driver for deadly crash
What is the point of Autopilot? It's not self-driving. You're not supposed to let go of the steering wheel and you have to be completely alert to take over if there are problems. Isn't it easier to just not use it in the first place?
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