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New comment by Shekelphile in "Tesla’s 4680 battery supply chain collapses as partner writes down deal by 99%"

Shekelphile — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 08:49:15 +0000

tbh, it still isn't economically feasible. spacex 'cheated' to achieving reuse by just making the the entire plumbing and engine assembly bolt-on to the lower stage on F9 and they just replace that every time one is 'reused'. to my knowledge, they still haven't reused an engine without either replacing the nozzle, turbopumps or both, which are so expensive that reuse might actually cost them more money in the end for the benefit of faster turnaround times in years where launches are booked heavily.

New comment by Shekelphile in "Phoenix: A modern X server written from scratch in Zig"

Shekelphile — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 09:32:49 +0000

Does this mean we can finally be done with the farce of pretending that Wayland is a serious contender for replacing X11?

New comment by Shekelphile in "A time-travelling door bug in Half Life 2"

Shekelphile — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 05:30:21 +0000

It was publicly released in 2013 and you can enable it with -vr in args IIRC. Not sure if it would work with modern VR hardware since steamvr wasn't a thing back then.

New comment by Shekelphile in "Google Pixel's most dangerous bug: failing to call 911"

Shekelphile — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 06:57:57 +0000

This doesn't surprise me. Google still refuses to fix basic bugs in the distribution of android used in pixel devices. The alarm bug (where alarms will not work for days/weeks at a time, randomly) has existed since the pixel 1 and still affects the current generation of pixel phones.

New comment by Shekelphile in "Earth was born dry until a cosmic collision made it a blue planet"

Shekelphile — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 02:01:00 +0000

> when we drain the planet dry of easily-accessible fossil fuels we’ve deprived any successor civilization of its opportunity to escape the planet.

There will be no successor civilization to humans. Earth won't be able to support multicellular life in a few hundred million years due to the sun becoming gradually more luminous over time, resulting in higher surface temperatures that will eventually culminate in a runaway greenhouse happening, as it already has on Venus. Due to human-driven climate change effects this event will certainly happen much sooner (<100m years) as well, which is simply not enough time for another intelligent species to evolve after a large-scale extinction event.

Even if life evolving on earth was an incredibly rare event the chance of such circumstances not happening elsewhere even in our own galaxy is infinitely small - there are trillions of planets and 100b+ stars. On top of that there are 100s of billions of galaxies within the observable universe as well.

New comment by Shekelphile in "USB-C for Lightning iPhones"

Shekelphile — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 06:57:53 +0000

> I think you need a pretty good amount of willful naivety to think that Apple didn’t make the switch with such coincidental timing to EU law changes purely out of the love of their customers.

The designs are finalized years in advance. Apple would have made the choice to ship USB-C before the EU mandate was even proposed.

New comment by Shekelphile in "USB-C for Lightning iPhones"

Shekelphile — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 06:54:36 +0000

I have no clue how you're drawing that conclusion. The lightning connector is indisputably more durable than USB-C and failures of lightning ports outside of extreme abuse is pretty much unheard of.

New comment by Shekelphile in "Steam, Itch.io are pulling ‘porn’ games. Critics say it's a slippery slope"

Shekelphile — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 22:44:17 +0000

They’re being forced to remove games that are essentially anime CSAM. Payment processors shouldn’t need to be stepping up, but these platforms don’t bother to curate or moderate content so their hands are being forced.

New comment by Shekelphile in "Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to delist certain adult games"

Shekelphile — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 02:19:25 +0000

there are already hundreds, if not thousands of anime lolicon porn games on steam.

the people making a stink about this know this but are pretending that they don't because it would overtly out them as pedophiles.

New comment by Shekelphile in "Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to delist certain adult games"

Shekelphile — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 02:10:25 +0000

It is a shame that it takes payment processors to get Valve to do even the bare minimum curation of their store. IMO the thousands of outright bad games and ai slop asset flips and weirdo porn that verges on outright illegal content in many countries should have never been allowed in the first place. All of this leads back to various executives at Valve essentially doing no actual work and refusing to hire anybody because a huge part of their corporate culture is to keep headcount low while chasing constant growth.

New comment by Shekelphile in "New EV charging feature could make apps and cards obsolete"

Shekelphile — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 17:07:25 +0000

This is ridiculous and unnecessary.

I can always pay cash or swipe a card at a gas pump, why not the same at an EV charger? This is something that doesn't need to be changed.

New comment by Shekelphile in "GitHub MCP exploited: Accessing private repositories via MCP"

Shekelphile — Tue, 27 May 2025 04:53:10 +0000

No, what you're seeing here is that the underlying model was trained with private repo data from github en masse - which would only have happened if MS had provided it in the first place.

MS also never respected this in the first place, exposing closed source and dubiously licensed code used in training copilot was one of the first thing that happened when it was first made available.

New comment by Shekelphile in "GitHub MCP exploited: Accessing private repositories via MCP"

Shekelphile — Tue, 27 May 2025 04:19:06 +0000

Yes. Opt-outs like that are almost never actually respected in practice.

And as the OP shows, microsoft is intentionally giving away private repo access to outside actors for the purpose of training LLMs.

New comment by Shekelphile in "Android's new "feminine" design language"

Shekelphile — Tue, 13 May 2025 18:56:09 +0000

So they've fully capitulated and just copied Apple's UI/UX fully now.

Why exactly would anyone buy an android when you get UX that is a poorly made clone of the real thing, much worse battery life (despite batteries on mid-range and high-end android phones being 30% larger than apple's), far worse software support, and on top of that you're expected to pay the same premium price that an iPhone already commands?

What a joke. Within ten years the only people left using these android devices will be third world.

New comment by Shekelphile in "Wikipedia: Lamest Edit Wars"

Shekelphile — Sun, 11 May 2025 00:53:04 +0000

I feel like this page has barely changed since I last saw it, more than ten years ago. I suppose it would be much longer if it included more recent edit wars, especially since there always seems to be one over the usage of a trans persons preferred name, or the gulf of mexico page.

New comment by Shekelphile in "Sycophancy in GPT-4o"

Shekelphile — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 19:42:39 +0000

Grok could capture the entire 'market' and OpenAI would never feel it, because all grok is under the hood is a giant API bill to OpenAI.

New comment by Shekelphile in "Manufactured consensus on x.com"

Shekelphile — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 01:23:17 +0000

There were more than a few cases at the time around acquisition where Musk publicly got into autistic manbaby slapfights with people on twitter and ended up banning them publicly. Presumably he is choosing to avoid doing this to mask what is happening to the victim and to avoid more bad press about it - it directly harms his thinly veiled persona as a free speech absolutist.

New comment by Shekelphile in "Manufactured consensus on x.com"

Shekelphile — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 01:17:14 +0000

And even on tweets that don't seem to be outwardly ragebait the top replies will always be from blue checked right wing accounts, of course.

New comment by Shekelphile in "How a 20 year old bug in GTA San Andreas surfaced in Windows 11 24H2"

Shekelphile — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 16:24:57 +0000

That isn't a bug. https://x.com/ObbeVermeij/status/1757572432863384046

New comment by Shekelphile in "4chan Sharty Hack And Janitor Email Leak"

Shekelphile — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 02:24:27 +0000

> Then some morons connected them to the internet for no good reasons.

Elon Musk and Franz von Holzhausen, to be precise.