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New comment by berryg in "The Waymo World Model"

berryg — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 19:26:21 +0000

No Lidar anymore on the 2026 Volvo models ES60 and EX60. See for example: https://www.jalopnik.com/2032555/volvo-ends-luminar-lidar-20...

New comment by berryg in "Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work"

berryg — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 21:39:32 +0000

I cannot read the pages on the Claude website. I am using pi-hole and that causes text not being rendered. Annoying.

New comment by berryg in "Why Fei-Fei Li and Yann LeCun are both betting on "world models""

berryg — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 06:20:51 +0000

I’m trying to understand the conversation around “world models.” Why is Tesla’s FSD rarely mentioned in these discussions? Their system perceives, reasons, and acts in the physical world, and they train it using large-scale simulation/digital-twin environments. In what sense does FSD not count as a world model—or does it, and I’m missing something?

New comment by berryg in "QGIS is a free, open-source, cross platform geographical information system"

berryg — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 23:27:23 +0000

Used QGis for the first time a couple of weeks ago. Could only used it with the help of ChatGPT. But, I got what I wanted in a reasonable amount of time.

New comment by berryg in "How Britain built some of the world’s safest roads"

berryg — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 20:51:30 +0000

Driving in the UK can be quite a shock when you're used to the roads in the Netherlands. The speed at which people navigate roundabouts can feel terrifying, and the maximum speed in the countryside is something else. Going *60 mph* on narrow roads with limited visibility is just crazy. The locals just speed by. I guess it's just what you're used to.

New comment by berryg in "Fats from thin air: Startup makes butter using CO2 and water"

berryg — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 09:50:54 +0000

I always mention Solar Foods in Finland, https://solarfoods.com/science/. Their first factory is operational.

New comment by berryg in "This Message Does Not Exist"

berryg — Sat, 01 Jun 2024 21:05:39 +0000

:-) The Dead Parrot Sketch, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Parrot_sketch

New comment by berryg in "Map Machine: Python renderer for OpenStreetMap with custom icons"

berryg — Sun, 05 May 2024 19:22:29 +0000

Right on time. Very useful for a project I am working on.

New comment by berryg in "Show HN:Draw Fast - Real-time AI image generation based on drawings in a canvas"

berryg — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 11:26:16 +0000

And can you copy and/or save the generated image?

New comment by berryg in "Water heavily polluted with PFAS in 15 km radius around Dordrecht chemical plant"

berryg — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 15:49:59 +0000

I was on vacation in Sweden last year. Along the lake near the town of Östersund there were signs that said: PFAS pollution, prohibited fishing. The reason: a fire department training ground where firefighting foam was being practiced. Östersund is a small town in a sea of nature. Madness. - https://ostersund-se.translate.goog/bygga-bo-och-miljo/kemik...

New comment by berryg in "Digital Audio Workstation Front End Development Struggles"

berryg — Tue, 16 May 2023 12:30:07 +0000

Maybe this is the way forward: build a Rust SDK which does all the high-performance heavy lifting. On top of it you create bindings (using uniffi) to your favourite front-end language. And you create a frontend focusing just on the front-end stuff.

This was presented at FOSDEM 2023 by Matthew Hodgson on building Matrix 2.0. 15 minutes into the video Matthew explains the redesign of the Matrix clients for mobile. His conclusion: maybe this is ultimate stack to build mobile applications.

https://fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event/matrix20/

New comment by berryg in "Tesla driver falls asleep – Autopilot ignores police and continues driving"

berryg — Thu, 29 Dec 2022 20:38:30 +0000

It should be quite easy to stop a Tesla on Autopilot. You just drive in front of it and you slow down. And the Tesla behind you slows down automatically. Just like in a traffic jam. Autopilot is not switching lanes on itself.

New comment by berryg in "Gigafactories are recycling old EV batteries into new ones"

berryg — Sun, 30 Oct 2022 09:35:12 +0000

You are underestimating the life time expectancy of EV Batteries and the availability of charging stations. A holiday trip over in the northern countries in Europe (Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden and Norway) of around 3500 kilometers is very, very doable. There are charging stations everywhere. Even at remote mountain stations. Granted these countries are at the forefront of the EV car transition. Electrifying transportation is possible. Just as we were able to build a massive oil-infrastructure, we will and are able to build the necessary electric and battery infrastructure. Even in remote areas. You build charging stations with wind and/or solar power and a battery. That's it. It doesn't even need to be connected to the grid. They are already being build in Africa like this (and also provide power to local villages). They cost money to build of course, but the business model is there.

New comment by berryg in "The Restaurant Industry’s Worst Idea: QR Code Menus"

berryg — Sun, 30 Oct 2022 07:27:08 +0000

Same experience in Norway. Most day-to-day operations are handled using apps. Ordering at restaurants using QR codes, finding out bus routes and paying for a (digital) bus tickets, paying for a parking spot, using EV charging stations, etc. It is all done using an app. Apple Pay is a blessing. It takes a bit of getting used to. Especially as a tourist. But it works great. But I hate think what would happen if a loose my phone…

New comment by berryg in "GPT-3 can run code"

berryg — Tue, 29 Mar 2022 19:42:34 +0000

I struggle to understand how GPT-3 executes code. Is it simply running a python (or any other language) interpreter? Or is GPT-3 itself interpreting and executing python code? If the latter question is true that would be amazing.

New comment by berryg in "I quit caffeine"

berryg — Mon, 10 Jan 2022 20:21:02 +0000

I stopped drinking coffee 20 years ago. Mainly because I suffered a lot from IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome). After I stopped drinking coffee that quickly improved. And an added benefit was that I finally understood what sleeping and waking up properly really meant. What a difference! Later I worked hard to learn how to deal with stress. That further improved my IBS. My health has improved enormously. And still, after all these years, small amounts of caffeine, think chocolate, black of non-herbal tea, cola, etc., have an immediate effect.

New comment by berryg in "macOS unable to open any non-Apple application"

berryg — Thu, 12 Nov 2020 23:06:39 +0000

I experienced this a couple of weeks ago. My wifi was up, but my internetprovider was down. My Macbook came to a halt. Nothing worked anymore. The whole machine was extremely slow. When the internetprovider came back up again, everything was fine again.

New comment by berryg in "Two Way Mirror Improves Video Conferencing"

berryg — Sun, 23 Aug 2020 07:50:22 +0000

Why not use an iPad. IPad on a flat surface and a webcam or any other camera behind the mirror. You can even build a custom mirror-camera using a raspberry-pi, a rip webcam and a small lcd screen. Sounds like a nice DIY project.

New comment by berryg in "Hacking my arm prosthesis to plug into a synth: thought-controlled music [video]"

berryg — Sun, 16 Feb 2020 20:25:37 +0000

Indeed, very cool. I kept thinking that with an Arduino he probably could have build a first prototype with first building a custom circuit. Just nitpicking.

New comment by berryg in "What: A terminal tool to check what is taking up your bandwidth"

berryg — Mon, 30 Dec 2019 12:17:05 +0000

Same here. Tried different interfaces. Nothing.