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vardump··on Grok 4.5
> actively helped Russia in its invasion of Ukraine

That's the opposite. Without Musk, Russia might have succeeded back in 2022. All other communication methods failed other than Starlink, which Musk provided early on.

In terms of concrete actions, Musk has been highly supportive of Ukraine. For that, Ukrainians have been very grateful to him.

vardump··on Bonnie Tyler has died
Little by little, memories of the 1980s fade.
vardump··on Car touchscreens are cheap, not good
Curiously Teslas currently have two click wheels in the steering wheel.
vardump··on WinPE as a stateless harness for Windows driver testing and fuzzing
That’s nice. Windows drivers have always been a PITA to test.
vardump··on One KW wind turbine without civil engineering
I’ve been looking for a wind turbine you could deploy on the roof. I’ve got 15 kW of inverter capacity available.

So far my conclusion has been that it’s not yet time for this.

vardump··on Box3D, an open source 3D physics engine
Great, now we can have Angry Birds in 3D.
vardump··on Hatari – Online Atari ST/STE/TT/Falcon Emulator
Try quarter of a century.

Time flies.

vardump··on "Fix" MacBook Neo Cursor Lag: Record 1 Pixel of the Screen Every 10 Seconds
Thanks! I think both approaches have their uses, neither fully replaces the other.
vardump··on "Fix" MacBook Neo Cursor Lag: Record 1 Pixel of the Screen Every 10 Seconds
Embedded Swift in a script. That seems like a useful concept for small scripts on macOS. I will definitely steal this idea.
vardump··on Raspberry Pi Pico W as USB Wi-Fi Adapter
Thanks! Now I potentially have ~20 USB WiFi adapters I didn’t have yesterday.

Even better, no need to hassle with the WiFi settings on the target system.

In wrong hands, Pico W is actually a bit terrifying device, because it combines USB and wireless.

vardump··on Unity vs. Floating Point
I would be surprised if you could get even one third of performance of floats. So why bother?
vardump··on Tesla Full Self Driving uses bicycle lane in official Denmark approval video
In this case, the whistleblowing was done by DirtyTesla (as credited by Dan). Respect to him for that. Dan has created proven fake videos where Tesla is allegedly unsafe, but got caught. So he has lost his credibility.

It's very important to call out these issues AND to do it honestly.

vardump··on Swift at Apple: Migrating the TrueType hinting interpreter
Does it borrow borrow checker?
vardump··on Tesla Full Self Driving uses bicycle lane in official Denmark approval video
You should have shown the original video and not the one from Dan O'Dowd. He is not interested in pedestrian safety in any way, he is doing this only to promote his own company, Green Hills Software. He didn't have any issues with Tesla until it stopped using his software.

The original: https://x.com/DirtyTesLa/status/2062260954709049840 or https://xcancel.com/DirtyTesLa/status/2062260954709049840.

vardump··on Tesla Full Self Driving uses bicycle lane in official Denmark approval video
Do you mean FSD or Autosteer (or Autopilot or whatever it's called now). I think Tesla left Autosteer purposefully crappy. FSD is excellent at keeping the lane, way better than what your Škoda can do.
vardump··on Upcoming breaking changes for npm v12
There should be a path for local building as well. Node.js is being used on a lot of embedded systems. I’d imagine there are also lots of other reasons for local builds.
vardump··on Win16 Memory Management
3/1 split was common, though. Especially towards the end of 32-bit era.
vardump··on Tracing a powerful GNSS interference source over Europe
Are you joking? Russia has thrown everything it has at Ukraine for quite some time.
vardump··on Entanglement Builds Space-Time. Now "Magic" Gives It Gravity
Does this mean universe can only support certain amount of energy (or motion) in a certain volume?
vardump··on Voxel Space (2017)
Was the RAM shortage finally over that year?
vardump··on News about Raspberry Pi 6 and Microcontroller Development
Sure (inflation adjusted), but I see no harm if they also provide higher specced SBCs.
vardump··on SimCity 3k in 4k (2025)
Or a demoscener.
vardump··on Converting an Integer to a Decimal String in Under Two Nanoseconds
MMX was what they could do that time without adding a lot of new registers. It still had its uses. 3DNow! made MMX semi decent on AMD CPUs. Of course SSE was superior, but early SIMD was all about compromises.
vardump··on Was my $48K GPU server worth it?
> Gemma 4 31b? Firstly you don't need 64GB for that model.

You don't? It for sure doesn't run on my 32 GB M2 MAX.

vardump··on Everything in C is undefined behavior
Some instructions were very useful and they were simply discovered by programmers who tried out what each instruction did. People did not necessarily have access to documentation those days!

So any instruction or hardware feature would get used, whether it's "officially" documented or not.

vardump··on SpaceX S-1
> I just can't, can't wait until this whole Musk fugazzi finally blows up.

Be careful what you wish for. The collateral damage would be mind boggling.

vardump··on Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI
> Tesla is falling to pieces now

Did I miss something?

vardump··on WinCE64 – Windows CE 2.11 for N64
WinCE was so weird. Didn't it have pretty insane limits, like maximum 32 processes?
vardump··on Show HN: Find the best local LLM for your hardware, ranked by benchmarks
This AI slop should not be here.
vardump··on Photoshop's challenges with focus, pt. 2
I've been too scared to buy anything from Adobe anyways, because I'm worried I can't get rid of them.
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