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New comment by jaapz in "Leaded gas was a known poison the day it was invented (2016)"

jaapz — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 21:34:48 +0000

Yes, electric cars are better for the environment over their entire lifespan. And yes clean energy will be needed to power them.

ICE's are actually shockingly bad at efficiently converting fossil fuel into movement. They mostly produce waste heat and exhaust gasses.

New comment by jaapz in "Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest material (2015)"

jaapz — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 21:57:33 +0000

You think people are better at estimating what 3300 bags of sugar look like - as opposed to estimating the size of a car?

How often has anyone ever seen 3300 bags of sugar together in their lives, do you think?

New comment by jaapz in "Buried Apple feature turns an iPhone into the perfect kids' dumb phone"

jaapz — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 08:00:17 +0000

Interesting. But the list of apps on there is huge! Is it really still a dumbphone? Tha just looks like the apps I already have on my phone, and I still feel like I use my phone too much. What other apps do people have that are so addictive? Games, socials?

New comment by jaapz in "Buried Apple feature turns an iPhone into the perfect kids' dumb phone"

jaapz — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 07:54:33 +0000

This just makes no sense whatsoever. You can just step over dropped curbs like you can step over normal curbs?

Even if this is not the case for some weird reason - don't you agree that making the world a little bit more accessible for people who have a really hard time getting around is worth making the world just a tiny little bit less accessible for you - the person who can litterally run around?

If you have a considerable problem with tripping often though, maybe look at how you do running.

New comment by jaapz in "Road to Elm 1.0"

jaapz — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 07:38:52 +0000

> It forced the 3rd party package eco system to innovate and create things rather than just wrap existing Javscript libraries.

Writing everything yourself is not innovation. It's busy work.

Sure it's a good way to learn a language, but when you just want to build an app why would you build yet another searchable select when there are more than enough JS options already available....

New comment by jaapz in "Protect your right to run local AI"

jaapz — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 09:07:32 +0000

Have we seen this with CPU's being throttled only to have to pay a subscription for more performance? Or GPU's? Or memory? Or storage?

New comment by jaapz in "The bottleneck might be the air in the room"

jaapz — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 15:32:50 +0000

The comment was about the accuracy of the sensor, not about raising CO2 levels across the globe.

New comment by jaapz in "Half-Baked Product"

jaapz — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 10:45:45 +0000

It's fine, don't worry about it. It's hard for me to read long form on a computer and I read your entire story.

You can't please everyone

New comment by jaapz in "No LLM Code in Dependencies"

jaapz — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 21:14:45 +0000

I am unreasonably irritated by their use of kw instead of kW

New comment by jaapz in "Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

jaapz — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 09:22:04 +0000

> The damage is done. You cannot build a business critical function on top of American SOTA frontier model. Especially not with the current crew in charge.

I mean, this was already pretty clear before. But it surely didn't help!

New comment by jaapz in "Free the Icons"

jaapz — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 18:53:20 +0000

I have an ipad that I mainly use to open YouTube... If I had q nickel for every time some random gesture accidentally triggered some weird feature, I'd certainly have a few nickels.

New comment by jaapz in "Claude Sonnet 5"

jaapz — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 18:25:11 +0000

It was already released. US government is the only reason it's not available to us mere mortals anymore

New comment by jaapz in "Do Babies Dream of Baby Sheep?"

jaapz — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 17:15:25 +0000

This is the longest "you write like shit" I've ever read, congratulations

New comment by jaapz in "Asian AI startups launch Mythos-like models"

jaapz — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 16:53:27 +0000

And 4.8 on xhigh was/is already pretty impressive

New comment by jaapz in "Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model"

jaapz — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 08:57:12 +0000

This is how tools like claude code and chat prompts output their tokens, so I'd say it's actually a pretty good visualisation.

New comment by jaapz in "Lies, Damn Lies and Database Benchmarks"

jaapz — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 13:03:56 +0000

Anyone here using QuestDB in production? What is your use case? What is your experience?

We want to migrate away from InfluxDB eventually (because of their 180 on OSS, and their tendency to reinvent the product every major release), and QuestDB seems like an interesting option.

New comment by jaapz in ""Fix" MacBook Neo Cursor Lag: Record 1 Pixel of the Screen Every 10 Seconds"

jaapz — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 08:22:37 +0000

I've also had computers with nvidia, amd (even back when it was still ATI) and intel gpu's, at least since 2006, and can't remember ever having an issue like this.

Not saying it's not an issue, but there is such an incredible amount of hardware configurations that linux supports, so it's a bit weird to say that "linux" in general has suffered a bug like this.

New comment by jaapz in "GLM 5.2 vs. Opus"

jaapz — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 08:54:36 +0000

When the model produces reasonable results from one prompt, you could assume that it will also return reasonable results through the follow up prompts.

New comment by jaapz in "AURpocalypse now: a look at the recent AUR attacks"

jaapz — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 18:48:09 +0000

Installing anything from the AUR, it has always been the user's responsibility to check whatever they are installing. Has always been this way, and they have always been abundantly clear about this. It is also the reason why archlinux does not provide an official installer like yaourt or yay, they could've even built support for the AUR into pacman.

The AUR is just as safe as installing through a random shell script from github - that is to say: not safe at all.

New comment by jaapz in "Renting a sewing machine from the library"

jaapz — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 18:30:42 +0000

Wow wait, I basically live in bicycle land (the netherlands), but I've never heard of fluid breaks for bicycles. All I've ever seen are cable breaks. Fluid breaks on motorcycles, sure, but I'm pretty surprised they are used on regular cycles as well!