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loosescrews··on Tesla to wind down Cybertruck production
I have an electric Hyundai and you can disable all internet connectivity fairly easily. I have mine disabled and the car works fine. It never connects to any internet connection. I suspect that most other modern cars are similar. The firmware is closed source, but it works fine. It supports CarPlay and Android Auto, which are effectively open standards, so you can replace the infotainment system with whatever you want. This is standard for modern cars.
loosescrews··on EA is shutting down BioWare
Bioware had a string of hits before EA bought them.
loosescrews··on Launch HN: Agent37 (YC F26) – Low-cost agent sandboxes for running agents
> gVisor is... less secure than VMs

Do you have evidence for that? I’m personally more concerned about QEMU based escapes.

loosescrews··on Orkut.com
I don’t trust this guy after the hello.com debacle.

In the words of some people at Google at the time:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31809240

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41439540

loosescrews··on Leaving Linux
I had always used a mix of Windows and Linux until a few years ago. Someone gifted me a mac. All three seem like they have a similar number of issues, but I regularly run into issues with macOS that seem to be impossible to solve.

People who complain about Linux usually either insist on customizing it (as you noted) or run it on hardware that it doesn't work well on. If you are willing to buy special hardware to run macOS, why not the same for Linux?

loosescrews··on HMD Touch 4G
It seems particularly similar to the short lived Microsoft Kin phones from 2010.
loosescrews··on Claude Code uses Bun written in Rust now
I'm doubtful that it has fewer lines of code, but even so, it is almost certainly less tricky and simpler code. You could also rewrite it in a higher level and more forgiving language than Rust (e.g. Go) and get huge improvements. The improvements would probably be much bigger than the improvements they have achieved at the JavaScript runtime level.
loosescrews··on I am worried about Bun
Hasn't your team shrunk a lot? Word on the street is that many of Bun's employees left or let go in the time leading up to the acquisition. How many people are left working on Bun?

Has development velocity increased because you are merging large quantities of unreviewed LLM generated code? If so, I would be very worried about future stability if I used Bun.

loosescrews··on US Department of Justice has officially reclassified cannabis as less dangerous
Aren’t there laws regarding the transport of hazardous materials?
loosescrews··on Claude just jumped to #2 on the iOS App Store
It is listed as #1 for me.
loosescrews··on Bus stop balancing is fast, cheap, and effective
The bus lines in the US tend to be spread out enough that riders often have to walk a long distance anyway as many/most destinations are far away from the route itself and would require substantial non-bus travel even with infinite bus stops along the route. Given that reality, the density of bus stops along routes seem inefficient for a very small real world improvement.
loosescrews··on Online Pebble Development
It isn't clear from the website, but the GitHub repo states that this is for building apps for Pebble smart watches:

https://github.com/coredevices/cloudpebble

loosescrews··on Tesla announces Powerwall 3P with native three-phase inverter
I got two Tesla Powerwall 3s partly because I thought the software would be better. Instead, they are extremely buggy and the software has poor functionality. Many of the features are broken. The product feels like a prototype. Grid charging is broken and many of the features related to it don’t do what it says in the app. The batteries regularly do calibration cycles where they dump their entire charge and then stay at 0% charge level for at least 24 hours. When I first got them about a year and a half ago they would do that about once every two weeks, although they have reduced the frequency. I’ve also had issues with them turning on their heaters when it isn’t even cold and draining themselves. You get little to no insight into their operation and need to contact technical support for any little issue. They crash and do a hard reset and shut off the power every so often as well.
loosescrews··on Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues
It seems that the Spotlight Search box (from CMD + Space) can be moved by clicking anywhere on it and dragging.
loosescrews··on Tesla is committing automotive suicide
Yes, and the reality is that any of those would require a fairly large constellation of satellites. I guess the play is that many large constellations of satellites will be launched.
loosescrews··on Tesla is committing automotive suicide
On top of that, despite huge investments of both time and money into both areas, seemingly rivaling competitors, Tesla does not seem to be anywhere close to a market leader in either segment. They have to both prove the markets and that they can compete in them.
loosescrews··on People who know the formula for WD-40
To some extent. There are limitations on the technique, including, but not limited to, not determining the relative concentrations and not detecting all components. The WSJ article actually links to an older Wired article about doing gas chromatography and mass spectroscopy on WD-40 and the results: https://www.wired.com/2009/04/st-whatsinside-6/
loosescrews··on Adoption of EVs tied to real-world reductions in air pollution: study
The default setting just moves the coast point to a slightly depressed accelerator. This is because EVs typically have lower drag, so this behavior mimics a higher drag vehicle. If you use the accelerator to achieve the desired speed, you will coast when possible. You can also monitor the display to see the coast point. My 2013 plug in hybrid only supports this style of operation.

Modern EVs have easy adjustment for this. The Hyundai/Kia EVs for example have shift style paddles for adjusting this on the fly which includes a mode for regen only when depressing the break pedal.

loosescrews··on Go away Python
The blog says that in regard to finding bash with env. My reading is that it does not make the same claim regarding finding go with env. bash is commonly found at /bin/bash (or a symlink there exists) as it is widely used in scripts and being available at that path is a well known requirement for compatibility. Go does not so much have a conical path and I have personally installed it at a variety of paths over the years (with the majority working with env). While I agree with the author of the blog that using env to find bash may or may not improve compatibility, I also agree with the parent comment that using env to find go probably does improve compatibility.
loosescrews··on Court filings allege Meta downplayed risks to children and misled the public
If you want a company to do something, you do need to ensure that the fine is bigger than the amount of money they made or will make by doing the thing you are trying to discourage. You need there to be a real downside. I don't think any of the fines that have been discussed are anywhere close to the levels that I am talking about.
loosescrews··on Ubuntu LTS releases to 15 years with Legacy add-on
I think you are talking about an upgrade install. Those have a long history of breaking things. You would have to be crazy to attempt one of those on a critical production system.

What you would do for anything important is build a new separate system and then migrate to that once it is working. You can then migrate back if you discover issues too.

loosescrews··on New gel restores dental enamel and could revolutionise tooth repair
Any chance you would be willing to summarize the research or provide information on some relevant studies? I've always been skeptical about flossing and would like to learn more.
loosescrews··on 1X Neo – Home Robot - Pre Order
It actually is a Bluetooth speaker:

> Use NEO as a mobile bluetooth speaker anywhere in your home.

loosescrews··on Athlon 64: How AMD turned the tables on Intel
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45376605
loosescrews··on Someone at YouTube needs glasses
A 32” monitor should be 4k. If anyone needs glasses, it might be the author of this blog post as that is the typical market for low pixel density displays.
loosescrews··on Road signs to help people limit radiation exposure in contaminated areas
Similar signs were installed near highly contaminated parts of Russia, specifically Chelyabinsk near lake Karachay, one of the most contaminated places on earth.

https://www.damninteresting.com/in-soviet-russia-lake-contam...

loosescrews··on Family of Deceased OpenAI Whistleblower Disputes Suicide Ruling
This tweet has new information, specifically that the new autopsy was completed and did not confirm suicide.
loosescrews··on Duck typing (horror) in Go
So Go supports both structural and duck typing? Why is that a problem?
loosescrews··on Ask HN: What's your preferred logging stack in Kubernetes
I'm not entirely sold on it yet, but Quickwit seems to be the current trendy solution.
loosescrews··on We improved the performance of a userspace TCP stack in Go
Can you elaborate on your concern? Is the issue that you don't trust gVisor to keep the cloud provider secure?
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