<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: erxam</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=erxam</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 08:22:02 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=erxam" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by erxam in "CT scans of BYD car parts"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> if religiously you stick to the manufacturer recommended regular service intervals where they rip you off at every visit.<p>That's something you're supposed to do for any and every car. I had to do it on my Japanese cars to keep the warranty.<p>Also, the <i>last</i> people I want to hear complaining about being ripped off by dealership service intervals are <i>Germans</i>. At least for Chinese cars, you do it for the warranty. For German cars, you <i>have</i> to bring it in for the services at the specified interval (or, in many cases, even shorter intervals!) or else it will blow up in new and exciting ways and basically total the damn thing.<p>Oh, and the services for German cars <i>start</i> at around 1500 euros. Hope you're rich!</p>
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<p>More fun driving dynamics aren't worth the extra twenty thousand dollars you need to buy the equivalent European car, let alone the ridiculous lifetime costs of ownership, such as maintenance.<p>I mean, seriously. I can buy a shitty Argentine-made base model used 5-year-old VW Amarok with 70K km on it for the same price as a brand new Chinese-made Changan Hunter (whether gas or REEV). The second one is also going to be far, far cheaper to fuel (if you choose the REEV), maintain and repair.<p>Let's not even talk EVs. Europeans exited the market before it even began. European brands only start to show up at around what, the 70-100K dollar bracket? Sure, the Porsche Taycan is cool and all, but I've never seen one. Meanwhile, BYDs, Deepals, MGs, and a million other random brands are only growing more and more common with each passing day.</p>
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<p>Systemd will reign supreme for a millennium if the answer to every question or complaint about non-systemd tools is "you're holding it wrong".</p>
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<p>Why the fuck is it all focused on Stories?<p>I would understand if it were like Marketplace Premium or something. Stories?</p>
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<p>I think this is a good point: this is what they're <i>letting</i> us on.</p>
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<p>You've got the good guys and the bad guys mixed up. No Meta "engineer" knows what morals or ethics even are, much less actually apply them in real life.</p>
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<p>Regarding Rwanda, I think we're forgetting that a large part of their success comes from their plundering of the Congo's resources, mineral and otherwise.<p>There have been two gigantic continent-wide wars over the Congo, for fuck's sake.</p>
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<p>Is it really scamming if it was all theirs from the start? We're all their property, you know.<p>G-d said so.</p>
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<p>>You’re paying to be surrounded by smart kids that will ensmarten you too and for access to the school’s career networks.<p>If you're <i>paying</i> and it isn't for a new campus building with your family's name on it, then you're not going to have access to those things at <i>all</i>.<p>Suuuuure, you're going to be able to access some sort of 'career' network. You'll be able to find amazing and high-paying jobs such as... um... uh...</p>
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<p>>is American EVs are all giant bloated vehicles (SUV brained)<p>I don't exactly disagree with that assertion, but foreign EVs aren't really any better. Chinese EVs aren't meaningfully smaller, as a general rule. It's crossover hell all the time.<p>For whatever it's worth, the US has a <i>better</i> selection of non-SUV EVs than most other countries in the world.</p>
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<p>>I think you hate life in general more than just your job.<p>Well, yeah, I do. I don't even have a good reason to, I'm just fundamentally incomplete and wrong.<p>>Anyway statistician, accountant, teacher, are indeed jobs, and I assure you they aren't found living on the streets.<p>That's true, I suppose. It's too late now, though. I'd have to start from scratch and probably go to college again, which I fucking <i>despised</i> and I wanted everyone around me dead.<p>I like to whine, but this career was the least bad choice. I just wish there were good ones.</p>
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<p>Mostly to do the work that AI can't do just yet. I've got the feeling that, by the time AI can do those jobs, we'll be mired in bigger issues.</p>
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<p>Tell me where these mythical jobs that won't leave me broke as shit and that I'll enjoy are. I'm very much a humanities person, and it was already a sad tragicomedy of a sphere <i>before</i> AI hit the ground. It's probably even more dire now, let's be real.<p>And I don't have the personality for running a start-up or any company, unfortunately. I'm extremely risk-averse and withdrawn. If I really had no other choice, I'd probably have to budget in a ton of... <i>chemical helpers</i> (stimulants).</p>
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<p>Here's the question I want to posit and nobody who's against AI has managed to answer satisfactorily: what is it in for me if I were to acquire all those skills?<p>I don't give a shit about this career. I don't give a shit about engineering. I despise every second of it. There's nothing to aim for other than being a drone that does whatever is asked of it.<p>If AI can reduce my mental workload, why wouldn't I want to delegate everything over to it so I can save my faculties for what I truly enjoy? For the art of a worthless craft?</p>
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<p>It's all of those, yet none are the real root reason.<p>For that, you must look at the main beneficiary. Which country stands to gain the most from a completely dilapidated Iran? Which country stands to gain more when all the regional powers that could stand up to it have been destroyed?<p>I think the answer should be blindingly obvious.</p>
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<p>It is not. Precocious sexual drive is possibly amongst the worst things there is for gaining sexual maturity. Also known as 'thinking with your dick'. CSA aside, you can do a ton of damage to your life by just going along with your sexual drive.<p>I am a virgin at 27 years old. What am I missing about the sexual experience? Is it somehow locked out to me? Or… can I access it intellectually, and reason about it with its ups and downs?<p>There's a reason the consent age does not start at puberty.</p>
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<p>Hey, you aren't supposed to question our glorious metzitzah b'peh!</p>
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<p>The differences are marginal and mostly depend on the hormonal load present in each individual athlete.<p>Males are not scrutinized anywhere near as closely, so they always get away with higher levels of anabolic steroids/hGH/rhEPO/random peptides than women would. Women are subject to constant, consistent testing, while male doping testing is basically an honor system (just don't be too obvious about it).</p>
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<p>It doesn't seem very hard to implement in your own site, so it might gain some traction? It's not super-complex, I understand it is some sort of interconnected spin on webrings, which are still somewhat popular among small websites.<p>If anybody wants to find truly random small websites, I recommend using Wiby (search engine). It has some neat stuff.</p>
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<p>> Wow so you guys don't have ideological brain worms at all.<p>You have to remember that the supermajority of this site are ultra AnCaps who believe that anything which infringes upon the right of companies to kill people is Communist satanism and a significant minority agrees wholeheartedly with Peter Thiel's weird brand of techno-accelerationism and actively participates in NRx movements.<p>Like, I understand what you want to get at and I wholeheartedly agree! Just don't be too surprised at the pushback.</p>
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