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chippyteaon Electric Vehicles Are Less Reliable Than Conventional Cars

“ The survey reveals that, on average, EVs from the past three model years had 79 percent more problems than conventional cars.”

I’m not really interested how reliable cars are in their first 3 years. I would guess 99% of cars are problem free in the first 3 years. So maybe for ICE there is 1% and for EVs there is 1.79% problem rate that is a very small difference in reality.

chippyteaon Ági Szabados Does Not Need to Apologize to Me

I am hungarian and haven't heard of this controversy before. I tried to look it up, it hasn't been in any of the major news sources (yet), except for HVG[1] but they are only referencing an article written in a relatively small online magazine[2].

The only real problem I can see with her speach is that she was asked to give a laudation, but gave a more generic speach instead. Laudation seems to be a custom at this book festival. Also it's kind of funny that she stole the first part of her speach from "rory's graduation speach" in Gilmore Girls TV series[3].

[1] https://hvg.hu/kultura/20230929_Kinosra_sikerult_Szabados_Ag...

[2] https://konyvesmagazin.hu/nagy/john_scalzi_boldizsar_ildiko_...

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MndMDj8uKUY

chippyteaon Pinball is booming in America

There is an excellet pinball museum in Budapest where you can play original restored machines all night for an entry fee.

chippyteaon Russia risks becoming ungovernable and descending into chaos

>US and NATO diplomats were crystal clear that after the USSR's fall, the former Soviet states should not be invited into NATO. And later that they should not be invited into the EU.

Do you have a source for this? All I could find was the Warsaw and Budapest pacts. I'm not trying to nitpick. I share the same view but when I explain this to people they alway say these are soviet lies.

chippyteaon Habitual GPS use negatively impacts spatial memory during self-guided navigation

One of the things I like to do when I go somewhere new is try to drive (or often cycle) back home without using my phone. I get lost sometimes, but I feel a silly sense of achievement when I make it back home without checking my phone. I enjoy the challange and I also learn a lot about my local area. There are many businesses in my city that I discovered only because I was trying to memorise a route.

chippyteaon The ‘E-Pimps’ of OnlyFans

I have been using a linux vm setup on azure as vpn for years and it works great for iplayer.

chippyteaon Ryanair Condemns Hungarian Govt’s Idiotic ‘Excess Profits’ Tax

The 'Extra Profits Tax' is targeted at the passanger, not the airline. They knew that the airlines will pass on the extra cost to the passanger.

The hungarian government knows that they have overspent in the past years and need to raise additional taxes. So they introduced a flat tax of about €10 (€30 for inter-continental flights) per flight. This achieves many things at the same time: -The government gets additional income -Orbán can blame the airlines/multinational companies for cost of living crisis -Fewer people go on holiday abroad, more money spent at home

chippyteaon Ask HN: Is there a TV on the market without “Smart TV” features?

When I received my TV I took it out of it's box removed 12 screws on the back and unplugged the wifi module. Now I just have it connected to my old laptop running linux with a bluetooth keyboard.

chippyteaon I disabled WiFi on the new Samsung fridge

I have done the same on my smart tv. I am worried that if everyone starts doing this they will start integrating the wifi card into the motherboard.

chippyteaon How to build homes with virtually no heating (2020)

Modern heat exchangers allow you to set the air humidity.

chippyteaon Ask HN: Have you had Covid? How bad was it?

I had it October 2020 and November 2021 again after 2x AZ vax.

First time was a few days of high temperature, shortness of breath and dizziness. Dizziness continued for a month before fading.

Second time was the same except no shortness of breath.

For me the dizziness was the worst I couldn't do anything standing up for a month. When I tried to push it I took quite a large fall.

Male, 27

chippyteaon A person without abnormalities learned to change his pupil size

That is very interesting. I have just been to some clinics to get examined for laser eye surgery and found that I am not a good candidate because my pupils get too big at night.

I wonder if learning this skill could fix that.

chippyteaon Summer 2021 has changed our understanding of extreme weather

This article seems to rely heavily on single points of data. For example weather in the UK or wildfires in the sub-Arctic. This is no better than saying "If it is getting warmer why did it snow in Texas" and not a good way to construct an argument against climate change sceptics.

For example here in Eastern Europe I have been very happy with the weather. There were some heat waves like usual but also quite a lot of rain. Normally grass and plants are scorched to death but this year everything is green and growning.

chippyteaon How WhatsApp works with other Facebook products

There are also third party apps like "Click to Chat" that let you start conversations with phone numbers. Once you sent 1 message you can just use whatsapp normally.

chippyteaon An Economy of Godzillas: Salesforce, Slack, and Microsoft

Microsoft was auto installing Teams with auto startup on Windows Server 2019 for a while. And you could only access settings to turn off auto startup if you logged in or changed some registry settings.

chippyteaon Tricks to Appear Smart in Meetings

#4 Nod continuously while pretending to take notes.

I have learnt this a long time ago and used it a lot at university. I must admint I was quite a lazy student.

However if/when I went to classes I made an effort to sit close to the front, make eye contact with the professor and nod when they looked at me. The way this makes you stand out of thousands of uninterested faces is astonishing. Many of my teachers knew me by name. There were a few occaisons where I even got preferential treatment or an extra few points if I needed them for a better mark on an exam.