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fransje26··on GPT‑6 and Intelligent UI for everyone
It's the "intelligent UI" you didn't know you wanted..
fransje26··on California closed the Montana license plate loophole
> it can amount to 1500-2000€

That's a crazy amount of money for a third-party liability insurance.. It looks like insurance cartels are having a field day..

fransje26··on Testing 12 different Zigbee temperature/humidity sensors
See some of the other comments for further information about Aqara problems:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49957835

fransje26··on The technology to eradicate mosquito-borne disease exists
Only $988 for a gadget that probably doesn't work. Nice!
fransje26··on Replacement of petroleum based products with plant-based materials (2025)
Then it's a way to subsidize agriculture?
fransje26··on Sales of sub-€25,000 electric car models set to rise sevenfold
Insane to think those are reasonable prices.

10 years ago, a new Renault Clio had a starting price under 14 000 €.

fransje26··on How Singapore's government-run dating service works
> Which is often what the users want too.

Or at least to start practicing how to make babies.

fransje26··on Returning from vacation? The government can search your phone without a warrant
> that you remove and *secure* before the search.

In a dark body cavity?

fransje26··on September 2026: The world today, as seen by one Polish guy
> see this event as probably the largest nail ever driven into the oil coffin.

It will probably go like this:

war -> fuel costs explode -> economic crisis -> AI bubble burst -> bigger economic crisis -> eventually rebuild on the ruins of what is left and go electric

fransje26··on Vermont replacing power plants with home batteries
How is the price system set up when re-injecting to the grid?

Do you get the full 5 minute spot price, or do they then charge you re-injection costs per kWh?

And are the grid-costs fixed yearly, or do they also charge you per kWh re-injected?

fransje26··on US Forces Exit Iraq
> I remember a certain powerpoint presentation ...

I remember a speech at the UN, with a certain vial being held..

fransje26··on Pirating the Pirates
Isn't the article explaining that it is supposed to be the "better" version?
fransje26··on Toyota is taking the Corolla electric
Yeah. Completely insane.

10 years ago, an "equivalent" entry-level Renault Twingo was about €10.8k.

fransje26··on Intellectuals Are Fucking Idiots
Savour the irony.
fransje26··on Toyota is taking the Corolla electric
> VW doesn't sell new ICE models in the sub 25k€ segment anymore.

Knowing VW, I read that as: "VW doesn't sell cars in the sub 25k€ segment anymore."

fransje26··on VSCode's SSH Agent Is Bananas (2025)
> I don't know what Microsoft is thinking if they allow this.

First time?

fransje26··on VSCode's SSH Agent Is Bananas (2025)
> You can restrict SSH access arbitrarily to ensure whatever security or access guardrails you need.

How, specifically for VSCode?

fransje26··on Mercury 2.5 LLM hits 770 tokens per second
Then again, good luck writing a coherent paragraph in French without an "e". :-)
fransje26··on Attention is all you have
Keeping track of what a car costs you.
fransje26··on Study: Young users (9 to 18Y) ditch Google for AI, with unknown consequences
Well, if Google search actually returned anything useful, other than the SEO-rigged trash and AI generated slop it pushes forward as results to queries, then there would be a reason to actually use Google.

For the time being, AI seems to be doing a much better job in most cases, so as we say: So long Google!

fransje26··on Engineering Memory: On learning to memorize first 100 digits of pi (2024)
Funny, I just finished that book.

They were using a few more mappings per number for instance:

0: 's', 'z', soft 'c'

1: 't', 'd', 'th'

6: 'j', 'sh', 'ch', soft 'g'

etc

The problem I have, is that they present them from 1 to 0, and the first 4 have some mnemonic logic added to them: a bar in 't' for 1, two bars down in the 'n' for 2, three in 'm' for 3, and the 'r' from fouR in 4.

Great. And then mnemonic logic goes out the door. 5: 'l'. Ah. A single bar. Err.. is it 1 or 5..? 7: 'k'. Imagine the K looks like a 7. Ok, maybe.

So the mapping itself starts getting confusing. Unless you do what they claimed all along the book you shouldn't do: rote memorization.. Which was grinding my gears a bit..

fransje26··on The Return of Sail Power: Cargo Ships Are Turning Back to the Wind
Gotta adapt to the decreasing attention span economy.
fransje26··on Saving Jet Fuel
I have no doubt that Dr. J. Sun, tenured assistant professor at the TU Delft faculty of Aerospace Engineering, has absolutely no understanding whatsoever of the impact of temperature on aircraft performance.

> To give you an idea of data complexity, all airliners come with hundreds or thousands of pages of closely printed tables giving performance at specified weight, temperature, altitude, etc.

Make you wonder about who comes up with the theory on how to write those performance tables..

Scikit-decide, hosted by Airbus.

fransje26··on Nike exits the S&P 100 after 18 years and a $200B market-cap wipeout
Thanks!
fransje26··on Linux from Scratch
Tangential, but how good/useful/approachable is the book you cited as example?

How would it compare, in your experience, to other (modern) cooking books with a similar scope?

fransje26··on Nike exits the S&P 100 after 18 years and a $200B market-cap wipeout
Ah. I see we are going around the autocratic circle. Past and present!
fransje26··on Nike exits the S&P 100 after 18 years and a $200B market-cap wipeout
> one was a full leather design made in Spain

Would you care to share the brand name, for posterity?

fransje26··on Nike exits the S&P 100 after 18 years and a $200B market-cap wipeout
> a 3" thick sole, with a 1" protrusion coming out the back. Most running shoes look goofy has hell

I call them clown shoes. Unfortunately, they are everywhere.

fransje26··on Diesel prices in U.S. top $6 a gallon for first time
> Gemini says since Russia attacked Ukraine in 2022, so another thing to blame Putin for), now it's about 5% more expensive...

No. That's not correct. It got more expensive than gasoline since the attack on Iran.

fransje26··on Hitachi launches CO2 heat pump water heaters with solar-friendly tariff controls
> A smart reaction! But most baths are also whole-room units, with a floor drain

Nice concept! Do you have any problems with mold build up?

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