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- Comment on Val Kilmer, Film Star Who Played Batman and Jim Morrison, Dies at 65 1 day ago:
Joking about people dying is in very poor taste tbh
- Comment on We are so cooked 1 day ago:
I meant around town and such, but yeah, wild yards are cool too. Easier to maintain flowers and clover and stuff.
- Comment on Elon Musks Grok openly rebels against him 1 day ago:
You skipped kids 3 thru 14 there
- Comment on We are so cooked 1 day ago:
All you can do is add to pollen I guess. Plant seeds of native plants that bees love. Indiscriminately in random places.
Maybe someone else has some better ideas.
- Comment on Overblown quantum dot conspiracy theories make important points about QLED TVs 2 days ago:
Do be careful. I’m considering 700€ headphones because of them.
- Comment on Overblown quantum dot conspiracy theories make important points about QLED TVs 2 days ago:
Sony and Philips are the top tier lately as far as I know. LG has been doing weird things and Samsung hasn’t actually been good on the high-end for a long time. Or maybe it’s coming back now with the QD-OLED displays? Because the original “QLED” absolutely felt like deceptive marketing, as “QLED” looks so similar to “OLED”. Then there’s the whole ads thing on Samsung. Idk if LG does this.
So chances are, you made a pretty good choice. Sony’s a reliable company generally.
- Comment on Overblown quantum dot conspiracy theories make important points about QLED TVs 3 days ago:
Not OP, but rtings seems good to me.
- Comment on ghibli posting 3 days ago:
Yes but the question is whether it’s imagined newly by a human, or it comes from an algorithm that only works because it’s combining other people’s existing works.
Tablets and software made things easier for humans, AI just… Makes artists obsolete and if you do create something new, it’ll be ingested too.
I agree with you in the core principle that less work for more productivity is good, but I feel creative work is the one notable exception. We remember a bunch of paintings from centuries ago not because they’re beautiful to look at even, but because these particular artists have found interesting new ways to convey their view of the world or their feelings. AI generating a new version of a Van Gogh painting isn’t as impressive.
Ghibli movies, similarly, have a distinctive art style that reminds you of how these movies have been lovingly made by dedicated artists who poured their souls into it. Using AI to shit out random content with the same style is just blatant disrespect for everything they’ve done. You can use AI to clone paw patrol or something if you want. That’s a merch seller, not art.
- Comment on ghibli posting 3 days ago:
That one IS a controversial opinion unfortunately.
- Comment on Official poster for "Rust" 4 days ago:
Tunes indeed and a very common mistake to make. I thought for years it was toons for sure, but it’s tunes for the music, not toons for cartoons. The sister show was merry melodies, kinda helps remember.
- Comment on Bazinga 4 days ago:
“Urknall” which I’m not sure how best to literally translate to English
Don’t worry, those of us who love German cars and Czech pilsner are already used to calling things ur-something :)
- Comment on Alarm as Florida Republicans move to fill deported workers’ jobs with children: ‘It’s insane, right?’ 4 days ago:
Trump own all of the swing states which was real weird.
I mean according to Trump, Elon’s knowledge of computers, including election counting machines, won him the election.
- Comment on but what happened to logsday? 6 days ago:
It is the middle of the week if you consider the week to me the workweek, from Montag to Freitag.
- Comment on Javascript/Linux is what I call it 6 days ago:
Is that the driver or just the configuration interface in Javascript?
I would suspect that the actual driver is written in C.
- Comment on FOREX is not for the faint hearted 1 week ago:
There are neobanks for people who travel a lot. Both Revolut and Wise should let you either convert ahead of time or just convert as you withdraw (Revolut has a notice saying please don’t let the ATM do its own conversion as the ATMs are going to be higher fees). Currencies here. They apparently have a 2% withdrawal fee with a 1 EUR minimum. Revolut’s fee-free maximum depends on your plan. Metal gets you a metal card and 800 EUR per month fee free, Ultra or whatever gets you a platinum plated card and 2000 EUR per month fee free, but it’s also ridiculously expensive compared to their free, plus and premium plans. Metal itself is already a bit expensive, but it’s still way less than Ultra.
Wise has both a monthly allowance for proportional fee free withdrawals and a monthly limit of 2 completely feeless withdrawals. You get hit by fees once you hit either limit Basically: From the 3rd withdrawal of the month I pay 0.50 EUR for every withdrawal, and for any withdrawals above 200 EUR per month I pay 1.75%. If I make card payments or withdrawals in e.g the US, there’s a 0.47% conversion fee from EUR. In South Korea it’s 0.71%.
In both cases, the fees are predictable and low, just gotta familiarize yourself with the beforehand. There are other similar options out there as well, but these are the ones I use (Wise is great for giving you both a USD and EUR native account so you can receive USD and convert it to EUR instantly. Other currencies as well, but these are the ones that matter for me).
- Comment on ^_^ I just think skibidibi sounds neat :3 1 week ago:
I think Gen Z is about joining us millennials in being too old for that shit at this point, it’s α taking over now
- Comment on He's just eccentric 1 week ago:
Methylphenidate doesn’t help a whole lot, I still have little control over what I hyperfocus on. It’s better then nothing though.
I should try Elvanse (Vyanse), maybe that’s more useful. Need to actually get it prescribed first though.
- Comment on He's just eccentric 1 week ago:
Yeah, I hate how great it is…
- Comment on Fast boi 1 week ago:
Yup, it’s the sweat thing that makes us able to run indefinitely, as long as we’re in good shape. I hate the feeling of sweating, but it’s pretty much magic that with how much heat my body generates, my resting body temperature is actually pretty low, maybe 36.1C.
- Comment on Hehe 1 week ago:
I’ve never owned a car that small and I’ll preface this with saying that of course the tiny car wins the fuel economy competition. My friend also has a tiny car with a 1.2 liter engine that absolutely beats anything I’ve ever owned in terms of fuel economy in the city. However, sustained highway mpg of 40 (just under 6l/100km) for a large luxury sedan with an ancient 4 speed auto box is pretty impressive if you consider that at the time, my other friend’s newer, significantly smaller, lighter and manual transmission equipped 1.6 liter Mazda 3 averaged 36 mpg or 6.5l/100km on the highway.
Of course the giant (by European standards) beast’s fuel economy dropped off if I gunned it from a red light in the city. Starting and driving in the city in -30C was also absolutely brutal for the fuel economy. But the fact that at least on the highway, for which it was truly made, it beat a smaller, lighter car with a smaller engine says a lot IMO. The beast ran around 1500-1600 rpm at 90 km/h, whereas the Mazda was more like 2000-2500 IIRC, in 5th/top gear. If you wanted to overtake anyone in the Mazda, you generally had to drop from 5th into 3rd gear as well, whereas my Chrysler didn’t really NEED to downshift from 4th to 3rd, but it certainly made the whole ordeal take a lot less time. Probably if the Mazda had had a slow revving 2 liter engine with decent low-end torque, it could’ve been geared entirely differently and would’ve used significantly less fuel. Underpowered engines don’t get the best fuel economy - appropriately sized engines for a car do. Keep in mind that my Chrysler was from 1999. It had a 4 speed transmission. My friend’s Mazda was a 2005 model. Modern cars tend to have turbos and 7-10 speed transmissions to help keep them in efficient RPM ranges for good torque-specific fuel consumption too.
Long term average for the Chrysler (300M) with a bunch of city driving included was 10 l/100km, or 23 mpg. Obviously no match for your ecobox, but still better than my current 2.5 liter Subaru Outback, which is 14 years newer, 21 CM shorter and 14 CM narrower than the 300M, and has similar gearing (it’s a CVT, but I get similar RPM ranges at similar speeds generally). The Outback of course does have the disadvantage of extra height in this case though.
So no, I never wanted to say that a bigger engine is always more economical. There are clear cases where there is no need for a big engine. Modern technology has also helped small engines deliver power in a much better fashion. The 3 cylinder 1.0 engine they put in some Škodas nowadays has about the same max power rating as my friend’s 1.6 liter Mazda did, but it has more torque AND at lower RPMs. The VAG 1.4 or 1.5 or whatever TSI with 110kW? It gets WAY more torque at MUCH lower RPMs compared to the 1.6. Hell, the 2.0 variants they put in the new Golf GTI, R, etc, are torque monsters that also blow my 300M’s N/A 3.5 liter out of the water. These engines can drive bigger cars without any issues. Of course this all comes with the cost of added complexity. Turbo, direct injection, etc.
So TL;DR: My claim that small engines are less economical pertains to underpowered naturally aspirated engines that lack the torque for the car they’re trying to move, versus adequately sized engines with adequate torque. Small car with small engine is of course still going to be more economical. Medium sized and big cars with gutless engines are where my point applies. Modern tech expands the torque range of small engines so you can’t compare it anymore anyway, you can now put smaller engines in cars without losing driveability and fuel economy.
- Comment on Hehe 1 week ago:
They put the 2.2 ecotec in several Opel models and the 2.4 in a select few I believe.
A sluggish 2.4 engine isn’t a performance engine. If anything, it’s ideal for fuel economy in those bigger cars because you’re not tempted to rev it that much. It’s got some more low end torque, but it’s not fun to redline.
The best highway fuel economy I’ve gotten out of a gasoline engine was a 3.5 V6. You never needed to rev it over 2000 in regular usage and honestly 3000 rpm was plenty for overtaking. It had plenty of top end power too but you never needed it, so the pedal only got full usage when overtaking someone in a 3.0 diesel Audi or BMW and they couldn’t handle an old Chrysler passing them, but my young reckless ass also wasn’t going to back off obviously.
- Comment on He's just eccentric 1 week ago:
Yeah it gives me superpowers like once every few months where for a day or 5 I get a ridiculous amount of work done. The rest of my existence is miserable and I hate myself for not just my lack of work productivity but also how hard it is to get myself to exercise, brush teeth, or just get out of bed. And not a single healthy routine sticks. Only the unhealthy ones.
- Comment on Fast boi 1 week ago:
Wait till you hear about humans.
While most of us these days are obese, humans as a species are capable of running indefinitely. Because of that, we could hunt faster prey by simply tiring them out
- Comment on Hehe 1 week ago:
I mean they used the ecotec engines in plenty of Opel, Saab, Vauxhall and Holden models too. Those are all non US market cars.
- Comment on I tried THIS and it actually works all the time 1 week ago:
- Comment on Why Ben Stiller Ended Severance With Mel Tormé’s ‘Crazy Drug Trip’ 1 week ago:
No timeline yet but with the writers strike and everything, it took 3 years to get season 2. Hope 3 comes faster, but they’re kinda proud of taking their sweet time instead of rushing things. I can respect that.
- Comment on I tried THIS and it actually works all the time 1 week ago:
Do non-white people not love it?
- Comment on The specter of a GTA 6 delay haunts the games industry: 'Some companies are going to tank' if they guess wrong, says analyst 1 week ago:
I’m holding out some hope for GTA VI still. Reason being, while Cyberpunk promised to be super duper everything interconnected magic programming to follow an absolutely awesome but technologically realistic game (Witcher 3), I haven’t seen hype like that for GTA VI. The expectation is to get a well polished freeroam game with lots of fun toys to play around with, a story that’s hopefully long enough to be worth the game’s price, and a new Online mode that gets updates over time. Basically GTA V with a new city and a more polished game overall, but no exponential leaps - despite the fact that the budget is much larger than Cyberpunk.
But I mean MudRunner is also awesome. Couldn’t get into Death Stranding myself, just wasn’t feeling it. Should pick up Art of Rally soon. Tons of great AA and indie games out there if GTA VI flops indeed.
- Comment on Enshittification 1 week ago:
I understand some of it tbh. Not the cars. A car is one and done, you manufacture it and you don’t NEED to spend much more after the fact to keep the happy new owner happy. There’s no way servers cost as much to run as they want for their cloud services (e.g remote start via app, unlock via app, etc). Before Tesla, cars didn’t really get software updates unless there were major issues.
But I’m starting to understand why the software industry adopted the service model. Having worked for multiple companies doing B2B SaaS… The customers just keep asking for new things. Does a meal planning app need to be a subscription service? Probably not. But anything that keeps on adding new features costs a lot of money. Software engineers aren’t cheap.
Of course my view may be skewed because it’s B2B, not software anyone would just download off an app store or website. At my different jobs we’ve had billion dollar companies come and say “we love what you’re doing, we want to keep using it, but you have to do X, Y and Z or our workflow just won’t work and we can’t use it efficiently”.
Also in the world of consumer facing software, nobody wants a big upfront payment, but people are more willing to stomach a small monthly subscription. We could do away with proprietary software altogether, but oftentimes what happens with open source software is that due to lack of funding, devs don’t have enough time to work on things, and they lag behind proprietary offerings. Large software suites like Adobe Premiere are never “finished” and thus neither are the open source alternatives. But Adobe has a ton more engineering resources to throw at improving their product than most open source projects.
TL;DR: Software engineering is expensive. People working open source projects are often doing it in their spare time after the work that actually pays their bills. If you want free and open source software to be competitive to paid subscription software, you gotta set up recurring donations and convince other people to do the same. At least it’ll be forkable, voluntary and democratic, unlike with proprietary software companies.
- Comment on Win win 1 week ago:
Ioniq 5 starts at 54k after the government rebate here. We have this thing called VAT/sales tax which is not included in US prices usually, but is nearly always included in prices here.
German cars in the US aren’t actually too bad to own, FCPEuro gives you lifetime warranty on everything, including brake pads and engine oil. Yes, you can send them back your old oil after buying new oil and you get the money back. The catch is that it only works if the car hasn’t changed owners in the meantime. But you’ll need to do your own labor, otherwise it’s not going to be cost effective owning an older German car. The key is to buy a model that is known for its’ longevity and ease of repairs and a good healthy DIY community.
As for tech - sure, you won’t get Android Auto or Apple Carplay on most 10 year old cars. But all the latest and greatest safety systems started appearing in normal people cars around 10-15 years ago, and in heavily depreciated German nearly 20 years ago. Add the fact that crash safety pretty much linearly scales by the area under the car (literally width * length), an aging luxury car is actually about as safe as a new economy car, because while you’re more likely to get in an accident if you’re on your phone, you’re also more likely to survive an accident once you are in one.
Look at this data, both the newish models via the dropdowns, and the PDF for the models around 2008 model year. You’ll see that the 2006-2009 E-Class (really, it came out in 2002 or 2003) at least in its days was safer than most new mid-size vehicles are now. Usually you’ll never see any Mercedes or Volvo near the deadliest cars, but you’ll see some Hyundais, Kias, and of course smaller models from the American marques as well.
This is not safety ratings in the traditional sense, this is driver deaths per million miles driven. It’s great because it includes both the likelihood of crashing and the likelihood of surviving a crash combined into one number. Downside is that it does include driving habits as part of it too. BMWs naturally get more deaths than Mercs because the owners are more likely to drive like shitheads.