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svet_0··on Routine dental X-rays are not backed by evidence
plaque and food under gum line
svet_0··on Tesla Is Pulling Back from EV Charging, and People Are Freaking Out
Please don't disturb the FUD with facts.
svet_0··on [dead]
My (human) heuristic LLM score for this text is very high.
svet_0··on Ask HN: Sales Tips for Solo Devs?
Specify what languages are supported
svet_0··on ASK HN: What’s a small thing you’ve purchased which has made your life better?
You don't need bone conduction for that, air pods pro 2 work just as well. Bone conducting headphones are mainly good for sports involving water (or sweat) IMO, but the quality is significantly subpar to regular headphones.

Also, you can definitely hear bone conducting headphones in the environment if the volume is high enough as the vibrations also vibrate the air.

svet_0··on Show HN: I made a puzzle game with Three.js
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svet_0··on Update on Twitter's Rate Limits
People are hating because Elon == Bad. Twitter is pretty good these days, I see almost no spam and content quality has improved.
svet_0··on Tesla FSD Beta ignores stop sign in live test with Ross Gerber and Dan O’Dowd [video]
O'Dowd picked this route specifically to fail FSD, as he obviously has a financial interest and a vendetta against Musk. It was clear as day Gerber was gonna get tricked but he didn't care.

As can be seen in hundreds of uncut hours of driving, FSD is already pretty good and improving fast. Most rides don't req

svet_0··on Brave Browser introduces vertical tabs
Brave gives a very bad vibe (mostly due to the affiliate links scandal), I prefer to just use my favorite browsers (ff/edge) + uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger which give good privacy/adblock experience, are open source and customizable to my liking.
svet_0··on One Day You'll Find Yourself
It's the internetz' eye-roll, shorts are perfectly fine in nyc.
svet_0··on One Day You'll Find Yourself
> One day you’ll find yourself wearing shorts. Fair enough, it’s probably hot out. One day you’ll also find yourself wearing a t-shirt. Again, fair enough. Unless you’re playing a sport, however, you will not be wearing the two together because you’re also no longer a ten-year-old boy.

Yikes, OK boomer

svet_0··on Why is DNS resolution via UDP slower than TCP on Mac?
Filter by "ip.addr == 1.1.1.1" and look at the "Time" column. With UDP you'll see 2 datagrams - request and response. TCP you'll see a SYN,SYNACK,ACK handshake and then 2 segments. TLS you'll see a longer handshake and then (encrypted) request and response (2 segments).
svet_0··on Why is DNS resolution via UDP slower than TCP on Mac?
On Windows DNS/UDP/WiFi to 8.8.8.8 with query=www.google.com is 3-4ms

TCP is around ~10ms including overhead, 3ms excluding.

TLS is ~100ms including overhead, 5ms excluding.

1.1.1.1:

udp - 5ms

tcp - 15ms / 10ms

tls - 70ms / 4ms

Use a sniffer (e.g. wireshark) to get a better idea for timing, I wouldn't count on dig for that.

svet_0··on VPN by Google One security assessment
Really boring report, nothing of real essence. Either G's product is bullet-proof or the research quality from NCC has deteriorated.
svet_0··on Avoid sending download token to Mozilla by downloading Firefox via FTP
Avoid sending a token when downloading, then send thousands of metrics to Mozilla when double clicking firefox.exe (Not necessarily saying it's bad, just the least of your worries)
svet_0··on Meta fires a software engineer two days after he relocated from India to Canada
Elon hate is strong on this site
svet_0··on CS quotes found while browsing Notepad++'s code
Type random, select the word and click ? -> About Notepad++
svet_0··on [dead]
That's one of the oldest Tesla FUD classics, from ~10 years ago. It probably has little to no relevance to current operations.
svet_0··on Brave browser to start blocking annoying cookie consent banners
uBlock origin removes all "annoyances" from the page, which should imply reject most cookies.
svet_0··on PhD gets 5x increase in postdoc interview invitations by just changing his name
https://old.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/xcrv6k/i_sent_1...
svet_0··on Prevent DoS by large int-str conversions
So now an unreasonable user input will crash my server instead of slowing it down by 50ms. Great DoS mitigation!
svet_0··on Meta VR prototypes aim to make VR 'indistinguishable from reality'
> this sort of directly lays out "Here are 3 difficult technical problems we need to solve for a VR headset"

It lays out the problems Meta had most progress in. Another very significant VR metric is FOV which was not discussed.

> He says normal monitors are a fixed distance, whereas in VR and AR you need to focus on different distances. But these VR headsets are just a fixed distance away, so how is that really a problem?

You want dynamic focus to convey the feeling of real world eye focus, and make the projected scene more natural/believable.

svet_0··on Seven Teslas have caught fire in the last four days
Seems like another unbased short sellers conspiracy:

> Ultimately, math doesn’t lie. If we are going to find fraud, the math should add up to at least justify the reason for the fraud. As far as I can tell, and as far as a warranty expert can tell, Tesla’s numbers don’t support the company doing any sort of fraud with this. I cannot find proof of the supposed “widespread” issue of repairs being mislabeled as goodwill. And the only things I can seem to find that are even questionable wouldn’t have a benefit from a safety standpoint, thus not lending credence to the theory that Tesla is avoiding NHTSA scrutiny.

(https://cleantechnica.com/2020/07/18/re-tesla-tsla-has-a-war...)

svet_0··on Seven Teslas have caught fire in the last four days
> There were reports of Tesla logging repairs as "goodwill" repairs and replacements, when they should have really been done under warranty

I call BS, got any source for that? Tesla has cash reserves for warranties (as most companies do), it would be stupid financially not to use them, and waste "real" money instead.

> There's several other things like this were Tesla has first hand manipulated data to benefit them.

Like what?

svet_0··on Seven Teslas have caught fire in the last four days
PlainSite's owner Aaron Greenspan is a known TSLAQ troll who's obsessed with Tesla and Elon Musk, and just lost a huge lawsuit against Tesla (https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/judge-dismisses-...)

Let's look at all these reports:

* Some seem fake/old - (e.g. a single potato quality image in a tweet https://twitter.com/ATXKev1n/status/1528826357177892864 from a TSLA short - https://twitter.com/ATXKev1n/status/1527691352569524224)

* Some are caused by other fires (e.g. https://brooklynreporter.com/2022/04/streets-of-fire-tesla-g... - "A garbage fire on Fifth Avenue and 77th Street engulfed a Tesla")

* Some are minor fires in the cabin that didn't proliferate to the battery and didn't cause any serious damage (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgZf-auOZxI)

* Some involve other vehicles as well (https://presse-fotos.dk/post/fire-elbiler-i-ladestander-brud..., https://abc7.com/santa-monica-car-crash-fire-parking-garage/...) - and as expected only reported as Tesla fires on PlainSite, although it's unknown which one started the fire.

Overall, the rate of serious Tesla fires with any injuries/fatalities is extremely low, since there are many safety nets in place and fires take a lot of time to expand (if they do at all).

svet_0··on Ask HN: How can this happen without the phone covertly listening?
Many apps are "pinning" TLS certificates, so you can't see their traffic w/o changing a hard-coded public key in the app itself.
svet_0··on San Francisco cops pull over a Cruise driverless car for no lights on
Autonomous cars are already safer than human drivers. Not as featureful or accurate, but safer.
svet_0··on Ask HN: Why are chess problems attack oriented?
Usually puzzles start from a position where one side has a clear advantage and a single good move. It depends on your puzzle rating, but many puzzles include an important defensive component (e.g. preventing the opponent from mating you while you keep the advantage). However in low puzzle ratings I believe it's more mate-in-X, material grabs, and other simple attacks.

You can also use the defensive theme on Lichess: https://lichess.org/training/defensiveMove

svet_0··on Don't ask to ask, just ask (2019)
You should introduce them to RFC 7413.
svet_0··on No hello – please don't just say hello in chat
A bit passive aggressive and snobbish when collaboration is already difficult, even when co-workers are welcoming and engaging.
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