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tdrdt··on Polishing Cloth
I think the point is that you can buy fine fabric cloths like these for less than $5

And anyone who weares glasses will have them laying around.

tdrdt··on Polishing Cloth
I prefer the $99 cloth made by Monster. Their cotton is more pure and the cotton plants were exposed to classical music.
tdrdt··on MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch
Yes the naming is very confusing but it is understandable that a desktop GPU can be faster than a laptop GPU.
tdrdt··on MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch
They only say 'pro laptop GPU' and everyone is assuming a mobile 3070.

But we don't know what Apple is comparing.

tdrdt··on MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch
A desktop RTX 3070 is 50-60% faster than a mobile RTX 3070. Which ofcourse is understandable.
tdrdt··on CityEl Electric Car from 1992
Rich Rebuilds did a video on this where they replaced the battery with a pack of modern cordless drill batteries [1]. Unfortunately they crashed it later but it shows that the old batteries just were not ready. I also remember our city had electric vehicles around 1985. At the end of the day they could only drive very slow at a walking pace.

[1] https://youtu.be/erMhK4Hf16E

Edit: just remembered the brand of the electric vehicles: Spijkstaal. They are still in business https://spijkstaal.com and have been creating electric vehicles for over 80 years!

tdrdt··on Leave no trace: how a teenage hacker lost himself online
The only experiment is Frederick's experiment.

This was a very long time ago but I can imagine nobody does want to repeat this experiment.

tdrdt··on Most comments that people post on my videos disappear [video]
Recently in the Netherlands there was a small case against YouTube because they were removing Covid related content.

I don't want to argue about the specific content, but Google made it very clear they just remove content they don't like.

So they admit they censor content. And because it is their platform you can't do anything about it.

tdrdt··on China's Robotaxis Hit the Road
Some people downvote my comment and I assume this is because they don't think Tesla is at level 2. But Tesla's own legal department stated this about FSD beta.
tdrdt··on China's Robotaxis Hit the Road
This is not the point.

But you can order any modern car, place the sensors and let Mobileye control the car.

Udelv Ink is planning to implement it in 36000 delivery vehicles.

You can also buy a level 4 shuttle from Navya if you like.

tdrdt··on The Hindenburg disaster denoised, upscaled, and colorized using ML [video]
The channel Rick88888888 has a ton of restored movies: https://youtube.com/user/Rick88888888
tdrdt··on Ask HN: What does one look for in a laptop these days?
Good Linux support

Numeric keyboard

ISP screen

As much CUDA cores as possible

>= 32MB RAM

tdrdt··on China's Robotaxis Hit the Road
Mobileye for example. I believe this is an Intel company.
tdrdt··on China's Robotaxis Hit the Road
But China is a country that is different. I can imagine they take some accidents for granted when they can be the number one in the world. Because that will be good for the whole country.
tdrdt··on China's Robotaxis Hit the Road
Tesla's level 2 FSD is still behind companies that are already at level 4.
tdrdt··on China's Robotaxis Hit the Road
Sometimes I have to think about the Wright brothers. In most today's societies there is no way to be like those brothers. Everything is so heavy regulated to avoid risk that no risk can be taken.

Maybe this is why China will succeed to be the first to have level 5 self driving.

tdrdt··on Crystal 1.2.0
It is not Windows specific.

I believe it was Haskell I tried on Linux. After multiple compile errors caused by missing libraries and conflicting versions I just gave up. And this is not the only time this happened to me. Even with old languages like C this happened to me in the past.

This is a real problem for beginners because you just don't know all ins and outs of the ecosystem.

tdrdt··on Oculess – Removes account requirements and telemetry from Oculus Quest devices
Yes absolutely!
tdrdt··on Spinoza’s God: Einstein believed in it, but what was it?
Those concepts can also be found in the Christian bible.

Maybe the biblical series by Jordan Peterson (@YT) are something for you.

tdrdt··on Spinoza’s God: Einstein believed in it, but what was it?
There are a million hobbies in this world. Why did you choose the hobby you chose? Because it pleases you.

Why did you pick up that one shell at the beach while there are thousands of them? Because your eye fell on it.

I am not sure if I understand your argument. If there is a God who is the first and last element, who created everything, why wouldn't his eye fall in love with one element? And why not with all elements?

tdrdt··on Oculess – Removes account requirements and telemetry from Oculus Quest devices
Looking at the source code it seems only some system flags are (un)set.

So unless you disable all updates I assume most settings will be reset after an update.

This app is more like an interface for some settings than a hack.

tdrdt··on Apple Joins Blender Development Fund
Well I guess they also donate a ton of money to Adobe each year in the form of licenses.

Companies like Apple also need software. To me this donation to Blender is just a gesture to show they like to use Blender in-company.

tdrdt··on Apple Joins Blender Development Fund
While I agree I think the reason a lot of big companies are funding Blender is because they use it internally as tool. I can imagine Photoshop is used internally at Apple and they will just pay a license for this. So there is no reason they would start funding Krita or Gimp.
tdrdt··on Jony Ive's design agency launches website
Somehow it is strange that Ive is very much inspirated by Dieter Rams but didn't get the clue that design is something different than art. Or maybe art is where his heart is really at. If that is the case I can understand this website.
tdrdt··on How Laravel Livewire works
I write a lot of apps in Blazor. And I also think this is where we are heading. Just write code in C# and it works. Unfortunately Blazor feels a step back compared to something like VueJs but I really like that I don't have to write JavaScript anymore.
tdrdt··on SUVs are offsetting EV car gains
Ah, I now see another article that states it is 6x more than the country's average. So it seems it has to do more about this specific city than SUVs.
tdrdt··on SUVs are offsetting EV car gains
Meanwhile the German city Tübingen is raising the parking fee for SUVs by 6 times and other cities are thinking about this as well. They are too big for those cities.

https://www.rtl.de/cms/tuebingen-parkgebuehren-fuer-suv-fahr...

tdrdt··on Samsung Foundry Forum announcements
There is also a big difference between the nm accuracy of lithography and the transistor size.

Creating chips with an accuracy of 1nm does not mean 1nm transistors.

But 1nm sounds good as marketing.

tdrdt··on Tesla’s headquarters will move to Austin
Well they aren't wrong. They protect important visitors.
tdrdt··on Steve Jobs tried to convince Dell to license Mac software
Around that time I was forced to use MacOS 9 at work. It was terrible. The OS was very unstable and I had to reboot serveral times a day. This was one of the reasons a lot of companies were using Windows because it was way more productive (except for Windows ME).

So I can imagine large companies would not trust OS X at that time and it would have been a big risk for Dell.

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