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New comment by biker142541 in "Tesla Roadster"

biker142541 — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 22:02:39 +0000

Some, sure. The one person I know who reserved this owned the original roadster, believed in Tesla (quite wealthy by putting money where his mouth was in stock), and genuinely trying to advance the EV industry. He was so annoyed at this, and generally the last half decade of Tesla.

New comment by biker142541 in "Tesla Roadster"

biker142541 — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 21:59:37 +0000

Tracks exist and people can drive there, even if not common. I’m not aware of any real world scenarios you could jump a car like this, except I guess if you have the money to hire a stunt crew on your own massive property. That’s still very different than having an unreasonably fast car you can bring to a track. The closest I can think of are the prototype flying cars… also not practical, but generally intend to be able to take off and land and perform some function. A driving bomb that can perform controlled stunts is in a different class.

New comment by biker142541 in "Tesla Roadster"

biker142541 — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 21:45:51 +0000

One difference being that those in some way relate to performance of a vehicle and engineering ability to achieve it in a package which can be used for its intended purpose. This is just a vehicle with massive tanks strapped in and and obviously non production (not even remotely on path to production) package to make it achieve what has been proven since the 1970s as feasible for stunts.

New comment by biker142541 in "Tesla Roadster"

biker142541 — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 19:50:42 +0000

Maybe, but why? Feels like a slap in the face to people who have been waiting ten years for the car. Gimmicky demos just scream waste of money and loss of focus on what matters.

New comment by biker142541 in "An ongoing 3D-printer AGPL violation"

biker142541 — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 19:05:44 +0000

That confused me as well. I interpreted as judges not having (much) precedent and potentially unable/unwilling to interpret along lines of the license intent. But that’s what courts in this process are there for IMO. If a well written license and a good case, then you need to start somewhere to set precedent.

New comment by biker142541 in "Oldinsurancemaps.net is now a Charter Project"

biker142541 — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 14:18:54 +0000

Awesome project! Would definitely love to see more overlap with Allmaps. It’s pretty trivial to utilize centralized gcps for both server and client applications and maintain single sources of truth. I’ve been meaning to dive a bit deeper on an old project anyway, good excuse.

New comment by biker142541 in "Show HN: iPhone app takes simultaneous images from 2 lenses, fuses into 1 photo"

biker142541 — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 02:38:51 +0000

Awesome work. Now to bring back the fusing of several images into a true high res pano! Not the garbage native “pano” mode but a true stitched mosaic.

New comment by biker142541 in "Spotify adds 'Verified' badges to distinguish human artists from AI"

biker142541 — Fri, 01 May 2026 20:30:52 +0000

There is no reason to even allow AI music on your platform. Instead of labeling, remove if identified as such. Such garbage.

New comment by biker142541 in "I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it"

biker142541 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:26:49 +0000

Nah, bad idea. The timeframe of an active connection really varies by age and type. Some important connections are once-every-few-years communications. A year, or two years, etc is too arbitrary.

New comment by biker142541 in "Palantir employees are starting to wonder if they're the bad guys"

biker142541 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:24:15 +0000

“Starting”… hmmm

New comment by biker142541 in "I don't want your PRs anymore"

biker142541 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 22:13:43 +0000

The LLM isn’t contributing garbage, the user is by (likely) not testing/verifying it meets all requirements. I haven’t yet used an LLM which didn’t require some handholding to get to a good code contribution on projects with any complexity.

New comment by biker142541 in "GitHub's Fake Star Economy"

biker142541 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 13:53:06 +0000

“no longer”… lol

New comment by biker142541 in "Microsoft: Copilot is for entertainment purposes only"

biker142541 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 23:25:31 +0000

Should just be called the “Funsies” and “More Funsies” plans

New comment by biker142541 in "Missile defense is NP-complete"

biker142541 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 13:44:11 +0000

History would suggest otherwise; rarely is this ever the case.

New comment by biker142541 in "QGIS is a free, open-source, cross platform geographical information system"

biker142541 — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 15:20:22 +0000

It’s been a while since I georeferenced in qgis, but there used to be some great plugins. Looks like some of those are gone now, and the core module has improved a lot. This newer plugin looks promising, though: https://github.com/cxcandid/GeorefExtension

New comment by biker142541 in "Pricing Pages – A Curated Gallery of Pricing Page Designs"

biker142541 — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 14:07:46 +0000

Not being boring doesn’t translate to $$, however.

New comment by biker142541 in "OpenFreeMap survived 100k requests per second"

biker142541 — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 03:05:16 +0000

Quick benchmark of pmtiles directly in maplibre vs served tiles, both via Bunnycdn and 5 areas sampled using same style. Total impact on page end to end load time: 39ms longer with cached range requests from pmtiles than cached tiles. Individual requests are comparable in the 20-35ms range, so the slight extra time seems to be from the additional round trip for range headers (makes sense).

New comment by biker142541 in "OpenFreeMap survived 100k requests per second"

biker142541 — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 02:18:01 +0000

Interesting, I should benchmark this. I have only used Bunnycdn so far and latency seemed similar to most tile providers like Maptiler and others (but a very limited test). This was using the full planet pmtiles file. Bunnycdn also makes it easy to prevent downloading the entire file, either in case you care about anyone using it or just want to prevent surprise downloads for those exploring network tab.

New comment by biker142541 in "OpenFreeMap survived 100k requests per second"

biker142541 — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 23:58:36 +0000

Curious how this would have compared to a static pmtiles file being read directly by maplibre. I’ve had good luck with virtually equal latency to served tiles when consuming pmtiles via range requests on Bunnycdn.

New comment by biker142541 in "I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone (2022)"

biker142541 — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 21:59:16 +0000

As a 12 mini user daily since it came out in 2020, I've only just now started to hit any noticeable battery dip (~85% after almost 5 years usage). It's still pretty solid on a daily basis. On very rare occasions, the smaller battery has required charging before evening due to excessive photos taken and/or nav without a plug. FWIW, I will probably replace the battery by end of year, or next, and keep it going as long as I can... I refuse the massive "normal" phone size.