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tchvil

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My current project is beebole.com
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tchvil··on EU Council has withdrawn the vote on Chat Control
Yes, one round late. But some past votes they did were decisive in my vote this year.

This is the site where we can see who voted what in the parlement: https://howtheyvote.eu/

tchvil··on The state of carbon dioxide removal
How to appreciate these feel good figures when you see this? https://ourworldindata.org/energy-mix
tchvil··on 'The big problem is water': UK ebike owners plagued by failing motors
This one is cheap and light and works great on various bikes but on a 29er:

https://a.aliexpress.com/_Eu2mwYj

tchvil··on LLaMA now goes faster on CPUs
Thank you for letting me know it was possible on an M1. I'll try all this now.
tchvil··on LLaMA now goes faster on CPUs
I'll try in a week+ when I'm back to a fast connection. Thank you.
tchvil··on LLaMA now goes faster on CPUs
Thank you !
tchvil··on LLaMA now goes faster on CPUs
By any chance, do you have a good link to some help with the installation?
tchvil··on Only walking for exercise?
I experienced acute lower back pain after walking for 30+ minutes. I searched the whole internet to find a solution but only found advice saying, "if you have back pain, walk!" which was ironic since my pain occurred while walking. Then it dawned on me: I sit most of the day, cycle a lot, and drive my car, but I wasn't walking regularly. Now, I walk the dog for 40 minutes a few days a week, and the pain has disappeared!
tchvil··on FSRS: A modern, efficient spaced repetition algorithm
Oxford Flash cards have a good take on spaced repetition.

They provide actual cards, you can use the old way.

Or you can then take a picture of them using their free app Scribzee, and review them digitally too. My son just aced his anatomy exam with them.

https://www.my-oxford.com/int-en/oxford-flash-20-flashcards

tchvil··on Court: Cloudflare Is Liable for Pirate Site, but Not as a DNS Provider
Didn't they ask you for your boarding pass? Far fetched, but it could be the reason they didn't ask you anything at the airport.
tchvil··on GraphCast: AI model for weather forecasting
windguru which is in part or fully based on crowd-sourced weather stations is already surprisingly accurate few days in advance, in many regions I tried. For a few hours forecast nothing beats the rain radar. I wonder if they have already or will put some AI in their models.
tchvil··on What I learned getting acquired by Google
In my previous service company, we aimed for 10%, which was considered the norm. However, we were particularly bad at achieving this, with only 8-9%, though we did have a good atmosphere and happy employees
tchvil··on Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info
When I began building bikes 10 years ago, Sheldon's site was already like an old book in the library.

It was a reference for older topics, such as recently when I needed to understand the internal workings of a Sturmey Archer hub to fix one.

However, it hasn't been of much help for the new developments from the past 15 years since his passing.

While less organized and sometimes messy, YouTube and many other sites can answer any bike mechanic question. Even ChatGPT generally provides good answers

tchvil··on Time to subsidize e-bikes?
If you like to tinker, buy a frame from Decathlon. Install a Bafang motor. Get Onirii MT4 brakes. Both are available on AliExpress. Use a 200mm front disc and 180 rear disc. Get a wheelset with a Sturmey-Archer hub, or normal wheels with a robust Shimano 9-speed transmission. And you have a very decent e-bike for around 1600€
tchvil··on CIA, MKUltra, and the cover-up of U.S. germ warfare in the Korean war (2022)
To make it slightly more complex, some are true
tchvil··on Apple dives into display-making to cut reliance on Samsung
The 2013 Macbook pro 13" has been my longest running laptop for work, and swapped it for the M1 two years ago because of the reviews. One of my kids is still using it for school.

I never had a laptop for that long before. And just had to replace the battery once, by an after market one. The keys on the keyboard disappearing is the only notable aging symptom.

Maybe an outlier, but based on that, I'm confident the M1 may last long too.

tchvil··on Google launches PaLM 2, its next-gen large language model
Same here in Belgium
tchvil··on There’s no universal cordless power tool battery – why?
As pointed in the article, battery packs aren't that expensive.

When my last of 3 Makita battery pack died I found reasonably priced battery holders with a PCB: https://a.aliexpress.com/_EjvvWY7

10 high current LG 18650 cells per pack.

Plus a cheap but good enough spot welder($65 I can reuse), some nickel strips and I ended up at about the same cost as the original ones on material alone.

tchvil··on Red Sea Dam
This would solve all Europe's energy problems. We "just" have to convince and compensate less than 1% of the European population.

Each time I see this story pops up, I think how it could be great, and impossible at the same time.

tchvil··on In 2019, Volkswagen decided to create a car OS. How’s that going?
Porsche is part of the VW group, and while you could expect something better for the price paid, the UI is even worse in their EV Taycan. With poor touch screen feel and frequent crashes too.

Luckily they integrate, when it works, with CarPlay and Android Auto that provides a 2023 like interface.

The last year drama firing the CEO for many reasons, one being poor software results, doesn't bring hope for a fresh update any time soon.

tchvil··on I wish GPT4 had never happened
I feel the same after programming for about 25+ years. Now I get an idea, ask GPT how to do it, or if there are other options, choose and adapt to my use case.

[edit] after reading the article... Why Priya couldn't use GPT and do the job much faster?

tchvil··on The electric vehicles we need now are e-bikes (2022)
I was about to say get a Bafang too. Put it on a normal, better old, bike. They are indestructible. And all other parts are standard and cheap. You need some bike mechanics skills, and a little understanding in connecting electric components. But all is well documented on the web.
tchvil··on The End of Front-End Development
I've been with other hats web developer for 25+ years. And have the impression ChatGPT gives me super powers.
tchvil··on Canada's tax revenue agency tries to ToS itself out of hacking liability
What was the reddit post about?

It is now:

Hey u/misanthrope2327, thanks for contributing to r/nottheonion. Unfortunately, your post was removed as it violates our rules:

Rule 2 - Sorry, but this story isn't oniony.

tchvil··on Making It Legal to Play Outside: “Reasonable Childhood Independence” Bills
In Belgium, we had Dutroux a serial rapist and child kidnapper that traumatised the country ~30 years ago. As a kid I remember living like you describe in Norway. Not anymore. Parents are still to this day worried letting their kids go outside.

Fast forward to spring 2020. The country is locked down. The weather is surprisingly excellent. It took me a lot of effort to leave my 8y old girl go play with her friend to the small wood nearby. Initially I even asked her to go with the dog. I could see the disapprovals of other parents I was talking to about this. But little by little other kids joined.

They had a blast. No school for months. Living in the sunny woods all day, just coming back to eat and sleep.

She's 10 now and as you can imagine a very independent girl.

tchvil··on There is a worrying amount of fraud in medical research
This blog post from the BMJ wasn't particularly comforting when published in the middle of covid: https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2021/07/05/time-to-assume-that-hea...

Richard Smith was the editor of The BMJ until 2004.

Competing interest: RS was a cofounder of the Committee on Medical Ethics (COPE), for many years the chair of the Cochrane Library Oversight Committee, and a member of the board of the UK Research Integrity Office.

tchvil··on Swiss to vote on preventing cashless society, pressure group says
No need to name only exotic or unfriendly places, Canada applied the same technique against its 'Freedom Convoy' truckers.
tchvil··on Linode rebranded as Akamai’s cloud computing services
Exactly, we are happy client for more than 14 years. And don't plan to move if they keep what Linode was good at. I mean when it is setup, except extremely rare migrations, you forget about it.
tchvil··on Where does ChatGPT fall on the political compass?
The subjectivity of truth is very hard to be trained to, and it is probably biased by the content it has read. But what if AI would come with unexpected answers to problems we humans represent? Guiding us for future improvements.

We do not have a good track record historically on many painful subjects.

tchvil··on Migrating from Vue 2 to Svelte
Particularly saddened they didn't chose web components.

After 25+ years of HTML, JS, CSS, the switch to TS, WebComponent(lit) and Tailwind in Vite is like sci-fi for me.

But let's discuss this again when escapy.js the library, that does not exist yet, will replace svelte in 5 years

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