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solidr53··on Iceland votes on whether to restart talks on joining EU
The fishing thing is almost 40% of our export.

We cannot even keep up with the EU-lite regulations today.

But anyways, the vote is most certainly, but close, no.

solidr53··on Iceland votes on whether to restart talks on joining EU
Not quite true. The ratio fluctuates with the market conditions. Figure https://sedlabanki.is/library/?itemid=d2527537-11bc-4aca-944...

Verðtryggð loans are popular when economy is hard, people can enter the real estate market.

Once things go in the opposite direction people change to Óverðtryggð lán.

solidr53··on Iceland votes on whether to restart talks on joining EU
To be fair it wasn’t just Iceland? It was a global crash. At least that was my perception at the time.

But we recovered from it very quickly, and is often talked about. But we had currency exchange restrictions for quite some time to fix it. It worked.

solidr53··on Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year
Flutter "compiles to native," but the UI is just a giant canvas they paint themselves. React Native uses real native views, so you get actual platform widgets, accessibility, and OS-level optimizations instead of shipping your own game engine.

Also, Google has a habit of hyping projects then quietly killing them (I sadly took the Polymer ride).

solidr53··on Dual-Link QR Code Generator
real-world AB testing is the only thing I can think of
solidr53··on Using AI to develop a fuller model of the human brain
Amazing, there are estimated 86 billion neurons in the human brain, so they are just short of 85 billion and change.

But I think there is more to it, how many are used for speech vs vision, how much is used for motor control. If the idea is to build a speech neuron activity to some sort of ml data representation it's probably way less than 85b.

solidr53··on Ask HN: Predictions for 2025?
1. AI regulation becomes fragmented and messy as different jurisdictions implement contradictory rules. The EU's AI Act creates a "Brussels effect" but China and the US take divergent approaches, creating headaches for global tech companies.

2. "AI-free" becomes a marketing term like "organic." Premium services start advertising human-only customer service, human-written content, and AI-free creative work. A certification industry emerges around this.

3. Climate tech sees a boom in investment as extreme weather events continue to drive home the urgency. Particular focus on grid-scale energy storage and carbon capture technologies.

4. The "nearshoring" trend accelerates, with Mexico and Eastern Europe becoming major manufacturing hubs as companies seek alternatives to China while staying relatively close to major markets.

5. The first mainstream consumer AR glasses hit the market, but like early smartphones, they're clunky and limited. The real impact is in industrial and professional applications.

6. Remote work stabilizes at a new equilibrium: most tech companies settle into a hybrid model with 2-3 office days per week. Fully remote becomes less common as companies optimize for "collaboration days."

7. The web3/crypto world pivots hard toward "real world assets" and practical financial applications, moving away from speculation. Smart contract platforms become boring but useful infrastructure.

8. A major cybersecurity crisis involving AI models leads to a fundamental rethinking of model deployment and security practices. "Model poisoning" becomes the new ransomware.

9. The shortage of high-end GPUs starts to ease as new fabs come online, but the industry faces a new bottleneck in networking equipment and specialized AI accelerators.

10. Traditional higher education faces a crisis as employers increasingly accept alternative credentials and bootcamps. Several mid-tier universities merge or shut down.

- Claude | when asked for hacker news style prediction. I agree with most predictions.

solidr53··on Tesla Cybertruck Pricing and Specs
E-GMP (EV6, Ioniq5) actually charges quite fast on 400V as they run it through the motor/inverter which already pumps out more than 100kW

I think no one else is doing that at the moment.

solidr53··on Show HN: Play a pen-and-paper game that is almost unknown in the US and Europe
Seems like a great opportunity to train a neural network model for bot. There is a good article on tic tac toe for a base https://nestedsoftware.com/2019/12/27/tic-tac-toe-with-a-neu...
solidr53··on CATL (Tesla Supplier) Launches Superfast Charging Battery (10 min)
Exactly what I was thinking. They mention 700km as some reference point, then 400km in 10 minutes, not sure what the density is.

Hyundai/Kia launched the EV6 with 10-80% charging in 17 minutes more than two years ago.

They then launched Hyundai IONIQ 6 with 10-80% at the 16 minute mark.

I guess we will be seeing 10-80% times get close to gas pump refill times in the near future.

solidr53··on Why Tailwind CSS Won
Did not.

https://npmtrends.com/sass-vs-tailwindcss

solidr53··on Why Tailwind CSS Won
https://npmtrends.com/@emotion/css-vs-less-vs-sass-vs-styled...

And this is ignoring PostCSS which has over 60M downloads weekly. But I guess you can use postcss with tailwind.

Like... It has won nothing, its in the game though.

solidr53··on Hermes: An open-source document management system
For me it’s a JS engine for React Natve - https://hermesengine.dev/
solidr53··on My Youtube earnings
One channel I really like that reminds me of BEC: https://www.youtube.com/mymechanics (mymechanics)
solidr53··on Apple to start making MacBooks in Vietnam by mid-2023
Do these paywalls really work? I either click the comment with the link to bypass it or just skip the article all together.
solidr53··on The Architecture of the Lisa Personal Computer (1984) [pdf]
Also the forum announcement seems to have been deleted to.
solidr53··on CircleCI Layoffs
What kind of computers did you get to keep? M-based Mac’s?
solidr53··on Refurb Weekend: The Sega Dreamcast
My jam was Jet Set Radio, Toy Commander, Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX (What I got), and Sega GT.

But lets not forget Quake III Arena, which is "considered one of the best PC-to-console ports of its time thanks to its smooth frame rate and online play".

solidr53··on PostgreSQL 15
Thanks for your work on that, very useful.
solidr53··on Students break acceleration world record for electric vehicles
BEV used to have around 80kg of copper [1], nowadays, manufacturers are moving towards 800V architecture attempting to cut the weight in half.

I also feel like 800V cars also maintain their maximum power better on lower SoC than 400V systems.

[1] https://www.copper.org/publications/pub_list/pdf/A6192_Elect...

solidr53··on Toyota unveils 8.7 kWh battery for residential applications
The CCS connector equivalent is relying on the onboard DC-AC converter for V2L-V2G, hence no inverter needed.

The CCS cable uses a resistor between PE and PP pin to allow the EVSE to determine its current capacity, 1–2.7kΩ for single-phase 13A all the way down to 50–150Ω for three-phase 63A. [1]

What manufacturers have done is tap into that and use some resistance to tell the car to go to V2L mode.

- Hyundai IONIQ5 and Kia EV6 use 50-75Ω for its V2L adapter, offering 3.6kW load

- MG ZS uses 470Ω offering 2.2kW load

- Ford F-150 to offer 9.6kW load, but resistor is unknown

- BYD vehicles to offer 2.2kW load but resistor is unknown

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAE_J1772#Proximity_Pilot

solidr53··on Bitwarden: Generate a Username
I can recommend a free alternative https://10minutemail.com/

It wont forward to your inbox though and is only suited for temporary usage.

solidr53··on Solana Pay
Late to the party, but Solana is proof-of-history not pow. Not that it matters, or actually, kind of makes your argument even stronger.
solidr53··on The baseline for web development in 2022
It’s also the most popular framework. With popularity the overhead of inexperienced developers npm installing everything starts to show.
solidr53··on Browser fingerprinting using only CSS
Scary stuff, but is that enough information to fingerprint someone?

I’m thinking hundreds or thousands of iPhone 13 on the same IP thru a GSM network. How will you know?

Won’t you need battery status and all that other bits also

solidr53··on "Widevine Dump":Leaked Code Downloads HD Video from Disney+, Amazon, and Netflix
Sounds like an NFT project
solidr53··on Framer Motion 3D
Thanks for the demo, implementation looks good.

But the interaction feeling is still more natural with react spring, hopefully just a personal preference!

solidr53··on Framer Motion 3D
I feel react-spring is better suited for the job.

Can’t explain why, tried them both with r3f, i think it’s just about API design and framer starts to fall through once you start connect ing multiple animated nodes with interaction.

If Framer would rewrite one of their demos it would help - https://docs.pmnd.rs/react-three-fiber/getting-started/examp...

solidr53··on Framer Motion 3D
Figma also wins on Auto-layout and variants.

Especially helpful on UI library teams.

solidr53··on Tesla, electric SUVs get poor scores from Consumer Reports
Spec wise it compares well with the Tesla Model Y.

EV6 has vehicle-to-load, faster charging speeds due to 800V system.

And doesn’t look like a pregnant frog from the front/rear.

Y has 3rd row for your little minions though.

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