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New comment by adamtulinius in "A macOS bug that causes TCP networking to stop working after 49.7 days"

adamtulinius — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 22:30:16 +0000

We're talking about a company that produces the hardware their OS is running on. I'm sure they can find a way to make the hardware clock run faster.

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adamtulinius — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 15:15:57 +0000

Maybe because a mask without eye protection doesn't help when the US government sprays irritants straight into the faces of their citizens?

New comment by adamtulinius in "TÜV Report 2026: Tesla Model Y has the worst reliability of all 2022–2023 cars (2025)"

adamtulinius — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 14:30:24 +0000

Teslas doesn't fail because of fluids or worn brakes. They failed due to causes that Tesla didn't even recognize, as I already told you, because they thought wobbly wheels were ok, and other structural issues.

Stop making up excuses for Tesla, it's tiresome.

New comment by adamtulinius in "TÜV Report 2026: Tesla Model Y has the worst reliability of all 2022–2023 cars (2025)"

adamtulinius — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 14:27:11 +0000

You're ignoring the basic fact that Teslas doesn't fail because of the electric drive chain, but because of basic things like wheels, suspension and brakes. Sure, electric cars are heavier, but heavy cars (vans, trucks) have existed for ages.

New comment by adamtulinius in "TÜV Report 2026: Tesla Model Y has the worst reliability of all 2022–2023 cars (2025)"

adamtulinius — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 14:25:06 +0000

Exactly. I don't understand the focus on VW here. That wasn't the point of my original post at all.

Tesla didn't even recognize the inspection failures in Denmark as real at first, so it's probably fair to assume that they're only now trying to sort out the problems on new cars, and that we'll see many more failing Tesla inspections the coming years, even on cars sold up to this day.

New comment by adamtulinius in "TÜV Report 2026: Tesla Model Y has the worst reliability of all 2022–2023 cars (2025)"

adamtulinius — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 14:21:41 +0000

That's interesting with the pre-inspection. I haven't heard about a systematic pre-inspection here. I also don't think it really matters, the most important metric I'm quoting is 7% failure rate across _all_ electric cars, and no way that's caused by every non-Tesla owner going to a pre-inspection.

(inspection costs around 80 euros in Denmark, so there's no financial reason to go to a pre-inspection anyways, just do the inspection and have it redone if the car fails).

Tesla wouldn't even recognize the problem at first, and refused repair of customer cars. Of course there's issues with every brand of car. It's just that the numbers show that Teslas are much, much worse with regards to safety critical components.

New comment by adamtulinius in "TÜV Report 2026: Tesla Model Y has the worst reliability of all 2022–2023 cars (2025)"

adamtulinius — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 13:42:58 +0000

Oh I'm sure there's many faults on the VW (as well as Skoda, Audi and Seat) electric cars, but not in the "failing inspection" category apparently.

(I drive a Skoda Enyaq, so no particular shade meant towards the VW-group)

New comment by adamtulinius in "TÜV Report 2026: Tesla Model Y has the worst reliability of all 2022–2023 cars (2025)"

adamtulinius — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 13:39:42 +0000

This mimics numbers from Denmark, where Model 3 had a failure rate of 20-25% after four years a couple of years ago, and last year the first Model Y's had to go through their first 4 year inspection and 45% failed. 34% of Model 3's failed last year.

For comparison: Last year VW ID4 had a failure rate of 2%, and the average for _all_ electric cars (no matter age, including Teslas) was 7% failure.

Causes: Breaks, wheels, steering, and a few more critical things along those lines.

Objectively speaking, Tesla cannot manufacture cars that live up to European standards.

Source: https://fdm.dk/nyheder/nyt-om-trafik-og-biler/tesla-skandale...

New comment by adamtulinius in "EU readies €93B tariffs in retaliation for Trump's Greenland threat"

adamtulinius — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 09:44:06 +0000

That will cause a total loss of EU-money ever being spent on US digital goods for a generation.

New comment by adamtulinius in "Trump Links Greenland Threats to Nobel Peace Prize Snub"

adamtulinius — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 09:42:17 +0000

Who "they"?

The problem here is that Trump believes that the Norwegian government has any say in what a private organisation is doing, and - to be frank - just shows that Trump is a tyrant who wants everyone to use illegal force to please him.

New comment by adamtulinius in "The mineral riches hiding under Greenland's ice"

adamtulinius — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 11:35:38 +0000

Jens-Frederik Nielsen is the PM of Greenland, while all the things you mention are from Denmark.

New comment by adamtulinius in "AWS raises GPU prices 15% on a Saturday, hopes you weren't paying attention"

adamtulinius — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 12:54:55 +0000

Can we please not kid ourselves with thoughts about how this being good from certain perspectives, when the development is _clearly_ bad for consumers?

New comment by adamtulinius in "Kafka is Fast – I'll use Postgres"

adamtulinius — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 15:58:38 +0000

The problem is benchmarking on the 96 vcpu server, because at that point the author seems to miss the point of Kafka. That's just a waste of money for that performance.

New comment by adamtulinius in "Kafka is Fast – I'll use Postgres"

adamtulinius — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 15:57:15 +0000

I remember doing 900k writes/s (non-replicated) already back on kafka 0.8 with a random physical server with an old fusionio drive (says something about how long ago this was :D).

It's a fair point that if you already have a pgsql setup, and only need a few messages here and there, then pg is fine. But yeah, the 96 vcpu setup is absurd.

New comment by adamtulinius in "Niri – A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor"

adamtulinius — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 12:21:35 +0000

I think they can be a helpful hint about how things are positioned relative to each other.

New comment by adamtulinius in "Denmark wants to push through Chat Control"

adamtulinius — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 20:26:27 +0000

There was one this Sunday, but it wasn't even mentioned in the news.

New comment by adamtulinius in "Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year"

adamtulinius — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 13:38:01 +0000

Then they lose their 11 years of history

New comment by adamtulinius in "Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year"

adamtulinius — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 13:37:41 +0000

This is very well explained in the linked post.

New comment by adamtulinius in "Nix Derivations, Without Guessing"

adamtulinius — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 10:36:51 +0000

Yeah of course, but channels probably shouldn't be used outside of managing the local machine, and there's usually quite long and fair time period for deprecation warnings taking effect. Not sure how bad if one uses unstable, but if using unstable the complaint isn't really fair to begin with.

New comment by adamtulinius in "Nix Derivations, Without Guessing"

adamtulinius — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 08:14:16 +0000

Are you importing things from all over the internet, without pinning to a specific version? It sounds a lot like it, at least, and in that case I'm not sure how this is a flaw of Nix, or how it would be much different in other places.