Hacker News: albertopv

New comment by albertopv in "Rivian's chief software officer says in-car buttons are 'an anomaly'"

albertopv — Sat, 02 Nov 2024 19:29:21 +0000

"you would want to interact with your car through voice"

I stopped reading at this insanity. I'm usually listening music or radio, or talking to other passengers, I can interact with the car with easier, flawless and much faster buttons.

New comment by albertopv in "Apple stuck the Mac mini power button on the bottom"

albertopv — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 06:14:13 +0000

Modern Standby is an abomination. Battery almost completely depleted in a couple of days doing "nothing" useful for me happens too often.

New comment by albertopv in "Will the China cycle come for Airbus and Boeing?"

albertopv — Sun, 27 Oct 2024 20:53:35 +0000

More sales now, none in the future, though.

New comment by albertopv in "QUIC is not quick enough over fast internet"

albertopv — Sun, 20 Oct 2024 07:30:01 +0000

I would be surprised if online games use TCP. Anyway, physics is still there and light speed is fast, but that much. In 10ms it travels about 3000km, NZ to US west coast is about 11000km, so less than 60ms is impossible. Cables are probably much longer, c speed is lower in a medium, add network devices latency and 200ms from NZ to USA is not that bad.

New comment by albertopv in "Executives and Research Disagree About Hybrid Work. Why?"

albertopv — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 05:24:22 +0000

It's always been like this, for every decision.

New comment by albertopv in "Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu 24.10 Performance For Intel Core Ultra 7 Lunar Lake"

albertopv — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 05:09:59 +0000

Of course. Mine is just an example to explain that there are many ways to improve Windows performance

New comment by albertopv in "Tesla Robotaxi"

albertopv — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 05:08:32 +0000

If you are still believing a word from that man you're delusional

New comment by albertopv in "Car brands are collecting and sharing your data with third parties"

albertopv — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 11:56:58 +0000

I can only talk about Ford and Italy. Here the owner of the vehicle must give explicit consent to collect and share data with third party. Ford italian branch is very strict about this, first hand experience. I know other european car makers processes are similar, but I have no first hand experience with them.

New comment by albertopv in "Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu 24.10 Performance For Intel Core Ultra 7 Lunar Lake"

albertopv — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 18:39:15 +0000

Coworkers switched from Win11 to Ubuntu, our main Spring Boot project compiled time was cut in half. I guess ntfs is a factor in this specific use case, it's a medium sized project with a few thousands files and classes.

New comment by albertopv in "We're excited about our new roundabout"

albertopv — Sun, 06 Oct 2024 19:36:42 +0000

In Italy we had them for 30 years at least, they are everywhere now.

New comment by albertopv in "Hartford Public High School grad can't read"

albertopv — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 18:27:41 +0000

Can't agree more. We read so many books to my kid when se was young that she almost taught herself how to write and read at 5. Now she can read a couple of books per day, thanks god the public library is free and has soo many that she'll always have something to read or I could go bankrupt buying them.

But truly it's up to family to a large degree. When I was a child my mother helped a kid of a working woman to learn to read when he was 10. He was 1 year younger than me, same school and many teachers in common.

New comment by albertopv in "When, why, and how to stop coding as your day job"

albertopv — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 07:07:58 +0000

In Italy if you want a decent salary after 40 you have to move to a manager position. I truly like coding, but recent organizations changes lead to a change of role for, leading a team of 8 I have no more time to code. I'd like coding also because it's the easy part of the job for me, but a 15% pay-cut is huge when you are making, e.g., less than 40k/year, which average for a programmer in Italy.

New comment by albertopv in "Microsoft's new Outlook client moves your email to the cloud (2023)"

albertopv — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 07:46:50 +0000

New Outlook is 100% shit. So many features missing. Even adding attachments is sick. Of course, given it's an embedded web app.

New comment by albertopv in "Sublime text started adding a “.s” to new files"

albertopv — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 11:56:21 +0000

Users are beta testers, and always have been.

New comment by albertopv in "Porsche's idea for a six-stroke internal combustion engine"

albertopv — Sat, 21 Sep 2024 11:19:22 +0000

Transferring so much electricity to everywhere in an efficient way is more expensive and harder though, not counting electricity generation, only partially clean, noy enough, very expensive.

New comment by albertopv in "47-year-old Voyager 1 fired up thrusters it hasn't used in decades"

albertopv — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 05:43:45 +0000

Boeing could take notes /s

New comment by albertopv in "Almost all new car sales in Norway last month were EVs"

albertopv — Sun, 15 Sep 2024 05:22:14 +0000

BYD (but not only) is heavily subsidised by chinese government.

https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2024/06/13/what-brussels-...

https://www.ifw-kiel.de/publications/news/chinas-massive-sub...

New comment by albertopv in "Ditching EVs for Hybrids Is Already Paying Off for Automakers"

albertopv — Sun, 08 Sep 2024 09:36:06 +0000

It may be EV and infrastructure are just not really there. In Italy outside of cities you have to use a car, no questions. You take a state road or extra-urban and battery range easily drop to 250km at most. There are many charge stations, but often they don't work, or are placed far from needed. Here many have no way to charge at home. And EV prices are far higher than ICE ones, which are insane theirself.

New comment by albertopv in "Boeing Starliner, leaving its crew behind, lands in New Mexico"

albertopv — Sat, 07 Sep 2024 05:47:25 +0000

Problematic parts burned down with services module, so no, not going to able to troubleshoot thrusters problems better.

New comment by albertopv in "Can solar costs keep shrinking?"

albertopv — Fri, 06 Sep 2024 06:25:16 +0000

Ingenious question, huge to do what, exactly? I manage to cook for 4 people in my tiny kitchen, what's the purpose of such big kitchens?