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zodo123··on Launch HN: InspectMind (YC W24) – AI agent for reviewing construction drawings
How does your system do with hand-drawn plans from an old-school architect? Is reliable OCR and line reading dependent on CAD output plans?
zodo123··on Rivian embraces Tesla's charging standard for EVs
NACS is dramatically easier to maneuver into the port on the car, and supports higher amperage. CSS requires an extra internal flap on the car side that you have to open and close manually, as well. It’s a seriously underwhelming design.
zodo123··on Rivian embraces Tesla's charging standard for EVs
I’d say that’s the case for Stellantis (Dodge etc), but I suspect the big European automakers will be slower to get onboard due to the greater investment in CCS in the EU. It’ll require a bigger mental shift, as their leadership may not have as strong a grasp on the North American situation, and will probably have a greater bias toward “standards”. (Yes I realize we’re talking about CCS1 vs CCS2, but it doesn’t practically matter).
zodo123··on Journalist writes about discovering she’d been surveilled by TikTok
It seems odd to me that short of the nuclear option (removing the app from stores), no one has suggested revocation of the device permissions that TikTok is shown to abuse. Following something like this, it feels entirely reasonable for Apple/Google to reply "Submit an update to your app that removes all use of location permissions within 30 days."
zodo123··on Charl-e: “Stable Diffusion on your Mac in 1 click”
People have been focused on getting stable diffusion running well on M1 macs because their graphics systems have so much more horsepower than the Intel macs. The M1s also have a fast memory sharing architecture for graphics, and this needs an absolute minimum of around 8gb of vram — many Intel macs just won’t be able to handle this.
zodo123··on The history of the elimination of leaded gasoline
Private aviation in the US is still, somehow, allowed to use leaded avgas for small planes. It’s a small market but still enough to have an impact on the communities near airports. The FAA has shown little interest in the impact of the problem, and one can only hope the EPA will step in at some point. https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/leaded-gas-wa...
zodo123··on Audiblegate
The giant nosed character shown in the twitter preview for the audiblegate.com site brings to mind some uncomfortable and hopefully unintentional stereotypes.
zodo123··on Tesla Ventilator
It said “Continental” as the manufacturer on it. If I had to guess, I would say it was the reservoir for their adjustable height air suspension.
zodo123··on Side Effects of the Growth of Wealth (1999)
The plural of 'anecdote' is not 'data'.
zodo123··on BitTorrent Live stream of Egyptian protests
It's a 2 megabit stream at 854x480.