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lavela··on Cloudflare acquires Deno
Afaik it's used more for circumventing anti-bot measures and solving challenges than the download handling itself.
lavela··on Germany’s RobCo hits $1B valuation
Speaking for Germany: there have been 3.5 years of center-left governance in the last 21 years and you blame them for all the issues?
lavela··on Vermont replacing power plants with home batteries
Do you have a source for the cost benefit? Any lifecycle assessment I find says that Lithium is cheaper.
lavela··on The Benchmarkpocalypse
> it's become easier than ever to make serious performance gains

Is that true and if yes why? I was under the impression that it would become more difficult over time to make serious performance gains, which would also fit with reaching for benchmark hacking rather than relying on natural gains.

lavela··on Gloomberb
Agree. If you really want to know what's used here: probably uses bun single-file executables[0] so shouldn't clash with anything else on your system.

[0] https://bun.com/docs/bundler/executables

lavela··on FFmpeg 9.0
I really don't get why there isn't more work put into making LLM generated prose less bad. Or is it just not possible?

'Release note' as a genre shouldn't be too hard to train? Especially when there are already a plethora of release notes of the same project.

lavela··on There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf]
I'd be more interested why there seem to be fresh charred bodies in the morning.
lavela··on Ruby Central's Destructive Legacy
No, it's just not a liberal-extremist argument.
lavela··on Using ThinkPad T480 as a mobile phone
Pretty sure USB-C being on a sub-board only applies to t480s not t480.
lavela··on Using ThinkPad T480 as a mobile phone
On virtually all t480's I've seen having a broken USB-C port it was only the left one (some people don't even realize there are two!) so you can charge using the second one and since it has thunderbolt you could connect a dock and both charge and have e.g. a monitor on one port(obviously?).

On my current t480 I also succeeded in slightly bending the port shell tighter and using a USB-C cable with tighter tolerances to get the port to be usable for charging again, but it's a not guaranteed trial and error solution.

lavela··on Using ThinkPad T480 as a mobile phone
there's both the bad firmware issue and ports physically failing on a lot of t480s
lavela··on JetZero
Please explain how more flights with optimal routing are environmentally cheaper than less flights with optimal routing.
lavela··on Gleam Is Now on Tangled
No I don't know this. Do you have any source for that?
lavela··on Gleam Is Now on Tangled
So I assume you know that tangled being ATProto-based was the reason for going there?

And please explain how it's not a choice when they are still on GitHub.

lavela··on Gleam Is Now on Tangled
I'd love to hear why they chose a VC funded forge over e.g. Codeberg.

Doesn't really fit the 'friendly language' claim IMO

lavela··on OnePlus halts operations in USA and Europe
If you'd prefer an Iphone if it weren't for price, you should probably have a look at refurbished Iphones.
lavela··on Irish datacenters now guzzle 23% of the country's electricity
We need global minimum tax.
lavela··on GPT-5.6
Am I missing something or isn't sol/lunar 5.6 only out for like 3 hours? How did you evaluate?
lavela··on Spider venom kills varroa mites without harming honeybees
I am pretty sure I read that Bees would be capable of taking care of mites themselves, but taking away their honey puts them in constant food stress, thus suppressing that behavior, and compresses the colony thus increasing mite density. Can't find a proper study right now though.
lavela··on Spider venom kills varroa mites without harming honeybees
As far as I know VSH is suppressed when you take away the honey. Taking away the honey puts the colony in constant food stress, which suppresses reproductive work.
lavela··on Organic Maps
I was using Street Complete for some time and was always wondering if using these apps is considered helpful or if it only creates churn/noise. Is there a general consensus on that in the community?

Would it be more accepted to just do a few small, potentially not metadata-complete edits myself or is the review structure (if there is any) geared more towards fewer, more steady contributors?

Did one direct edit once and iirc it took ages to land in the map and I wasn't able to grasp if came from new editors' edits being scrutinized more carefully by too few reviewers, from the nature of the edits (deleting a bunch of buildings after demolition and probably not replacing it with the right area type) or if the release cycle for new edits to be included is just way longer than I would have expected.

lavela··on The Vespa at 80
Agree, as long as you don't use it around other people it's probably fine.
lavela··on My favorite keyboards
Can't wait for mainstream laptops with ortholinear layout and split space bar.
lavela··on TIL: You can make HTTP requests without curl using Bash /dev/TCP
I know, that's why it'd be an alternative to "in the last millenium" if they try to use the largest time frame that just ended.
lavela··on The forge we deserve
> Then you should avoid and steer very clear of Tangled since it is VC funded

Yes, that's what I'm referring to. Could have made it clearer.

lavela··on The forge we deserve
To me being VC funded is the opposite to "structurally resistant to the lock-in".

I'm not against VC funding everywhere, but I don't want it at the core of my development stack.

lavela··on TIL: You can make HTTP requests without curl using Bash /dev/TCP
perhaps you meant "in the Holocene"?
lavela··on Your ePub Is fine
Shouldn't a CSS engine just ignore directives it doesn't know? At least it shouldn't fail without an error.
lavela··on EV Stupidity Checklist
> Turn signal stalk

While we're at it one thing to add: Keep your turn signal at an on-off pattern.

I don't wan't to have to parse your cute turn signal animation. It's a warning light and should be somewhat irritating/eye-catching.

lavela··on Breakthroughs for batteries could soon make them better
Maybe I am missing something, but I haven't seen a solution to the noise problem of air traffic (especially anything rotor based).

Might not be an issue for long distance connection in sparsely populated countries like the United States, but I don't see it replacing trains in Europe until this is solved.

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